The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-23
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

| QOllos
visit D. A Ward for your Christ
mas gifts.
Thousands OF different Christmas
| post cards at Evans. 34tf
doll carriages and go-carts % cents
to 81. so at Ramsdel's.
r5Mrs Walter Townsend is very i'll at
her nome on Union street.
Buel VanVleck has taken a position |
at II NJ. Ramsdell's store.
Don Emerton Of Peabody, Mass, Is I,
the guest of Rollin Jenney.
An endless variety OF novelties rang
ing from 10 cents 10 fifty at Evans.
Miss Florence Madison of Elm st.
is confined TO the house by illness.
Miss Kate Knapp Of Stafford street
spent Sunday with friends in Pittsheld
Maurice and Shelly Wall are spend
ing few days camping at Walllngs'
pond.
Fred S. Morrison of Saxtons River
is in town to spend Christmas with his
family.
Miss Dorothy Norton is home from
Smith college to spend the Christmas
vacation.
d Mrs Lucy Durham of Main street
has gone to Hoosick Falls to spend
Christmas.
An accepted gift is box Of Eaton
& Hurlburt's paper. For a full line
visit Wards.
Miss Mary B. Welles left this morn.
ing to spend Christmas at her home in
Schenectady.
G. j. Kinsley is confined to his home
on School street by an attack of grip
and lumbago.
Alfred w. Smith of Chicago is the
guest of his sister, Mrs John Temple
of Gage street.
Leroy Strange has resigned his pos
ition as janitor at the Y NJ Q A and
will leave soon for his home in North
Adams.
Mr. and Mrs Charles A. Carpenter
of the Lyons district returned home
Saturday from visit with relatives
in Albany.
! Mrs j. w. Calkins of Cobbleskill
who Is visiting at the Methodist par.
sonage is quite i'll and under the doc.
| tor IS care.
, Mrs W. s. Rowley of Seward, N.
Y, and Mrs j. w. Calkins of Cobbles.
kill, N. Y :, are the guests of Rev and
Mrs c. w. Rowley.
The contest for the gold watch now
on at Rush's Bijou will close Tuesday
evening at 9 O'Clock. Be sure and get
your votes in before it closes.
Mr. and Mrs Philip B. Jennings
New York arrived in town Saturday
to spend Christmas at their summer
home at Bennington Center.
II G. Hoover, student at River
:, view academy in Poughkeepsie is
spending the Christmas vacation with
his classmate, Archie Madison.
HI Mrs Richard Boyce is in Troy, the
! guest of Mrs Edward Locklin, remain.
ing there so as to be near her husband
who is in the hospital for treatment.
Christmas day hours at the postofflce
will be from Ito 10 in the morning and
| from to s in the evening. The car
riers will make the morning delivery
only.
Hand decorated china painted by
Mrs. A. o. Cummins of Montpelier is
on sale at the Womans Exchange.
| This makes very acceptable Christ
mas gift. 31t2
III Young lady, are you in doubt as to
what you can give him for Christmas!
| A membership Ia. the Y NJ CA would
| be appreciated and enjoyed for the
whole year. Think 1t over.
II Miss Florence, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Moses Wilson is seriously i'll
with grip and threatened with typhoid
fever. A trained nurse from Albany
Is caring for her.
| Revs P. L. Dow and F. L. Decker
who assisted She pastor at the opening
OF the M f church yesterday left this
morning or Troy where they will at.
tend the ministers meeting.
| The repairs on the gas plant are
completed and the work of filling the
big tank Is In progress Gas will be
! made tonight or early tomorrow All
users OF gas are warned TO see that all
gas cocks and burners are closed,
otherwise lives will be endangered
when the gas is turned on.
III Arthur B. Robinson and Miss Eliz-
abeth Gaffney came to town this morn
ing and proceeded to the town clerk S
| office and secured marriage license
after which they we're married by
| Judge Bates in municipal court. They
will live 10 Troy The only bad sign
connected with the ceremony was that
the court clock stopped while it was n
. progress.