The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-14
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

NeWs OF the Town ana village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers
Chief of Police Patrick Brazel is In
Troy today.
Conductor w. ID. McGurn left this
morning for Berlin where he will
spend the day catching trout for Mr..
Hoag.
Joseph Pinsonneault and wife OF
Montreal are In town this week to at.
tend the funeral OF his brother-in.law,
Philip Ahearn.
Frank Armstrong of Union street
has resigned his position at the Coo
per mill and has gone to work for L.
g. Holton OF School street.
Joseph O'Donnell. travelling passen-
ger agent for the Rutland railroad, re-
turned to Burlington this morning af-
ter spending few days at his home
here.
The athletic leagues of the local
high school will hold dance Friday
evening in the Foresters hall. Gold.
smiths orchestra will furnish the
music.
Louis G. Holton who was seriously
injured short time ago In the Cooper
mill, is recovering rapidly and II Is
expected that he will soon be able to
be out.
The corner club will meet at the
home of Misses Agnes and Irene
Corey Of Grove street Friday evening
at eight o'clock. All members should
be present.
Mrs. William Noyes, accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. George Phelps,
left this morning for Troy where she
will undergo an operation on her knee
In the Samaritan hospital.
Forty.seven years ago today Com
pany A. Second Vermont Volunteers,
commanded by Captain Walbridge,
was accepted by the state of Yer
mont for service in the Civil war.
Herbert A. Harmon of the North
Bennington road, has purchased ClO-
yer hall which he will turn into a
tenement house. II Is expected that
II will be ready for occupancy In the
course OF a few weeks.
The Y. NJ. c. A. baseball team met
after practice Wednesday evening on
the grand stand on the athletic field
and elected the following officers:
Captain. Edward Nevils and manager
u. A. Asphalt. The assistant manager
has not yet been elected.
There was an excellent attendance
at the social given in the chapel of
The Baptist church Wednesday even
ing. The program printed In yester-
days Banner was carried out. As a
result a neat sum was realized and
a very pleasant evening spent by all
present.
\ Lucius Hunt OF the Soldiers Home
Is confined to his bed by a broken leg
Sustained In fall near the Cottage
hotel. He slipped. probably upon a
banana peeling lying upon the walk
and fell so that the limb was doubled
beneath him and the bone broken
close to the hip.
A party consisting of Z. B. Patter
son. DIR. F. s. Pratt, Sheldon II
lockwood, Collins NJ. Graves, DIR. A
u. Cutler. T. A. Davenport and Thomas
Holt OF Troy left this afternoon for
Patterson's evergreen valley cottage
in Bickford hollow where they will
celebrate the opening Of the trout fish
ing season tomorrow by drowning
angle worms.
The advance sale of reserved sea,
tickets for The Red Mill' which will
, appear at the opera house next Sat
urday evening started exceptionally
well Wednesday evening All the 81
and rs cent seats are already sold
The feature Of the sale was the large
proportion OF out OF town people who
have purchased tickets. There are
many from Cambridge, Manchester
! and all the nearby towns.
Over thirty friends OF Miss Esther
Mattison gave her surprise birthda!
; party at her home on East Main stree
, Wednesday evening. The creates
! surprise however. for Miss MattisoI
was the presentation OF new piano
as birthday present by her parents
Dancing furnished the evenings en-
tertainment and refreshments wer,
served. The happy gathering brok'
up in the early hours this morning
each one declaring they had enjoye,
a most pleasant time.
}, There was very large attendanc,
at the social in Academy hall Wednes
day evening. The famous Larin emil
dren scored another hit by their pleas
ing songs. Misses Eliza McGurp
Minnie McCue and Mary Meagher rem
dered vocal selections. There wer,
piano and violin solos by Miss Mar,
Semilitzsky and Eugene Shea respec,
fully. The music of the social hou
was In charge Of James McCue. Mucl
of the credit of the social was due tn
ladies who had the affair In charge.