The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-06
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
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Briefly for Busy Readers
Harold Moon of Troy is spending |
his vacation in town.
Frank Ryan of Schenectady is Wis
iting at his home In town.
Thomas Lyons went this morning to
Saratoga to attend the races.
The degree drill of the Rebekah
will be held next Thursday evening,
Aug 18th.
Municipal Judge f. L. Bates leaves
today for Thompsons Point on Lake
Champlain.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. T. Burt left this
morning for visit in Manchester
and Dorset.
Miss Eunice Lyons and her friend
Miss Alice Stafford, have been visit
ing in South SALISBURY,
Miss B. Belle Kingsley, who has
been the guest of Miss Mary Wells,
returned this morning to her home
in Glens Falls.
Sister Wilhelmina and Sister Jer-
laldine of St. Josephs academy at
Watervliet have been visiting at the
formers home here.
Mrs. Cusick and daughters Anna
May and Julia of New York, are
stopping, at the home of Mrs. Barbara
Moore on South street.
The regular quarterly meeting of
lSt. Marys Guild will be held tomorrow
levening after service at st. Peters
Ichuroh. Quarterly reports will be
read and large attendance is desired.
Mrs. Samuel Hawks and son, Sam
uel, left this morning for Batavia,
where Mrs. Hawks will visit during
the next two weeks. Mr.. Hawks will
proceed to Wichita, Kas,, where he
has a situation in drug store.
Two young women cousins of Miss
: Mary Carey have recently come to
Bennington from Carrick-On-Suir
County Tipperary, Ireland. One Mrs.
Margaret Thompson, is living at W.
B. Sheldns, the other Miss Statia
Kiersey, at Mrs. Albert Harwood's.
Friends in town have begun to re-
ceive postcards from the Bennington
delegation in attendance upon the
Knights of Pythias convention at
Boston. The party from Bennington
+ consisted of ]. T. Remington, II. c.
, Roster, w. c. Firth. p. G. Cornell,
Bernie Mattison and Grover Lyons
Harry Mattison, who has been Wis
iting his mother, Mrs. h. ID. Bennett
went this morning to Rutland where
he is to umpire the baseball game
between the Pittsfield and Ludlow
teams. The two towns are this year
Represented by unusually strong
mines and the rivalry is intense Mr..
Mattison was accompanied by Luther
Graves.
A party of sixteen spent last week
at Coornash cabin. Sucker pond
The party were Misses Florence and
Pauline Noel, Alice I.angdon, Lena
and Cordelia LaF'ranchise, Mary Lon
dergan. Nellie Grady and Mary Pot
ter. Chaperoned by Cecilia La Fran
chise. AS guards, Henry Thamayer
Wilfred Plomondon of Lebanon,N. H..
Camille Houle of Cohoes, n. Y, Ed
ward Fred and Louis La Franchise
and Guy Harbour. The party had d
very pleasant time.
The annual reunion and basket Pic
mic of the Bennington County Veter
D ans will be held Saturday, August 18th
on the Soldiers Home grounds al
Bennington. 1t is expected that &
d large delegation of Veterans and theil
ladies will be present from Berkshire
Q County Massachusetts. The indica
: tions are that there will be the largest
gathering of old Soldiers that the
county has known for some years
! Remember Bennington Battle day Il
3 Vermonts holiday and all come.
!. The village trustees Tuesday even
!. ing made an inspection in a body o
the highway in front of the resi-
dences of f. l.. Bottum, c. H. Masor
a ana Charles Adams on South stree
, where a new cement sidewalk has re
Gently been constructed The cut
q ting down the grade of the walk t
4 lput in the new work brought tn,
n path below the level of the quite
and the water from the recent show
ers naturally ran down the walk. Al
n ter looking over the conditions tn,
y trustees decided that 1t would be bes
g to put in a cobblestone gutter a
once and leave the reduction of tn,
4 grade of the roadway until next sea
son There is so much clay in tn
Il locality that considerable eXcavatinj
will be necessary to put in perma
nent highway.