The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-07-01
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Briefly for Busy Readers.
News Of the Town and Village Toll

Alfred Barnes Of jefferson avenue
lis i'll.
Mrs. c. Fremont Barnes Is in Ar
lington for four weeks.
Mrs. George II. Moore is in VIII
Jamestown today visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. d. Bennett have
returned from their honeymoon
Miss Hazel Mcleod is assisting in
Griswold's store during the 4th of
July rush.
Lincoln Hall Of Bennington Center
left this morning for visit in Ayerlll
Park, N. Y.
J. A. Proctor, travelling freight
agent on the Rutland railroad was in
town Tuesday
Mrs. s. Huling Blackmer and son
Howard and Mrs William Bradford
are in Troy today.
Henry Root, Russell Hyde and
Stephen Robinson are I'm Sucker
Pond opening the camp
Charles Nolan of Cambridge is Wis
iting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Nolan Sr., of Gage street.
Roy Hathaway of Boston is visit.
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hathaway of the south part of the
town.
William Harwood who has been
visiting at his former home here for
the past few days, returned TUESDAY
evening TO Troy.
A number of the Y. NJ. G. A. boys
lexpect to enter the contests in the
celebration to be held at South Shafts
bury Saturday, July 4.
Smith j. Daley, district passenger
agent for the Chicago Great Western
railway called on Ticket Agent C. Il.
Roberts this morning.
Mrs. John Kelso and Mrs. Frank
Bradford are the guests OF Mrs. c.
II. Dewey at the Dewey lodge, Wood
ford City, for week.
One of the guests to recently ar.
rive at the Walloomsac Inn is Mad
emoiselle Augustine Aulimeri of Par.
rs. She will remain until Septem-
Der.
Jesse Dwyer who was formerly en-
Iployed on the Colgate estate. has ac-
cepted position on the farm of T.
Mcclure Peters In the east part of
the town.
Benjamin Cook of Superior Mich.
who has been visiting his sister, Mrs.
George II. Moore of Weeks street for
the past few days, has returned to
his home.
Among the fifty graduates of Bliss
business college at North Adams
during the past year are: Frank Nc
iGurk and Guy Edison OF this town.
Both pupils took course in short.
hand.
Mrs. John Leahy of Spring street
lis in Troy today visiting Miss lima
Leahy who is an inmate OF the Troy
City hospital. The latter is conval-
lescing and expects TO be able TO re-
turn home in few days.
The employees of Rockwood's mill
presented Mr. and Mrs. Elijah How
ard with q wedding present consist
ing OF fine dining room set and sill
lverware. Mr.. and Mrs. Howard were
both employed in this mill.
A new Pullman. No. 253, has been
added to the rear end of the Chatham
mixed train. II is combination pas
isenger and baggage car and will seat
about 30 passengers. w. ID. McGurn
is captain on this train at present.
Mrs. Erstine KimbaIl of Woodford
! is spending a few days with friends
in this village.
Mrs. S. w. Rankin who has been
the guest of Mrs. Charles A. Maurer
of Imperial avenue has returned to
her home in Troy.
Mrs. James Martin who was injur.
ed in the trolley accident near Wall
loomsac several days ago, had a shock
last Friday at the home of her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Percy in North HoosiolS,
and since that time her condition has
been very critical.
Owing TO engagements at Lake
lSunapee, / will be Obliged to leave
Bennington this week but will return
in a month. II those who will not
find II convenient to wait until !
come again will telephone or leave
word at Hudsons ! will arrange to
tune their pianos before Saturday,
Lewis ]. Carpenter. 99ts
The following Y NJ. c. A. boys &C
companied by the physical director
-. A. Asphalt, left Tuesday for q
hike to Dunville Arthur Denley, Har
odd Clements, Martin Madigan. Chas
MacLaren, Roy Holton. Wallace Ven
liable, Archie Camp, Sumner Holt, Rob
ert lloughton. They will return to
morrow via Sucker pond,
About 20 members of the Parthenoi
society of the Baptist church surprls
ed Miss Maude Kennon of Weeks st.
Tuesday evening, the event being heI
18th birthday. Games furnished the
amusement OF the evening and re
freshments were served. The happy
gathering broke up early this morn
Ing all wishing the hostess many hap
Ply returns.
A barn social will be given by thu
matrons of Bennington Grange at thu
residence of William J. Hicks Wed
nesday evening. July s. A suppe
will be served at o'clock and a goo'
time assured to all for the remainde
of the evening. Members of tn,
Grange are requested to invite thei
friends, Tickets for supper and en-
tertainment 25c each; children unde
fourteen loo.
Several sketches and photograph
have already been taken of the beau
tiful spot formed by the depot pond
the Dewey house, the Oldest In Ben
nngton and the St. Francis de Sale
church. None however. can compar