The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-10
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Mrs. ]. W. Martin is in Troy today.
Harry C. Roster is in New York Oh
a business trip.
Arthur j. Holden goes today to
| New York on a business trip.
All pie supper at st. Peters Parish
House Thursday, Nov. II, at o'clock.
IS cents. 1918
Five dollar membership for the ore
who can read the sign in front of the
Y. NJ. C. A.
Conrad Schwartz, Claire Soule and
Tarrant Sibley are partridge hunt
ing today in Pownal.
A new stock of Wallace Nuttings
pictures and Christmas calendars at
| Mrs. w. B. Shedons 1916
James ]. Nevis is in the Albany
City hospital where he underwent a
serious operation Sunday.
Albert G. Purdy and his mother,
Mrs. Ruth T. Purdy of Manchester are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. II. l.. Stillson.
Frank Z. Parsons. business mana
ger of the Montpelier Morning Journal
| Mdo q NioilOi III bennington ANNohtls
AT s o'clock this evening there will
be a meeting OF the French Canadian
club at Foresters hall. All are invit-
| ed.
A. Robinson the local tea and cot
fee merchant of North street left for
short business trip to New York to-
day
The local chapter of the Daughters
of the Revolution was pleasantly en-
tertained Tuesday afternoon by Mrs.
H. G. Root.
Regular meeting of the Knights of
Pythias this evening at o'clock at
their rooms in the Norton building
opposite Library hall
Misses Helen Donaher and Helen
| Fitzgerald of Troy are in town today
to attend the jubilee service at St
Francis de Sales church.
William VanSleet. the Pittsfeld
aeronaut, is in the villageg today. He
is arranging for an ascension to be
made at Rutland early next week.
Miss Nellie Dryer is helping out
for few days at Robinson 4 Steb-
bins tea and coffee store in the alb
sence of Mr.. Robinson who is in New
York
The employees of the A. X. Richie
& Co store were guests last Friday
evening at yenison supper given by
j. w Martin at his home on Main
street
There is a prospect that when all
returns have been made the society
of the local methodist church will be
able to turn in more than $1,000
from its recent fair toward paying
for the new house of worship.
There was an unusually large at
tendance at the dancing class of the
Young Womans club under the di-
rection OF Mrs. 7. 2. Gregg last eve
ming. Goldsmith's orchestra furnish
ed music and tn party was an enjoy
able one.
Misses Kathryn Jenney Dorothy
Norton and Fanny Fillmore acted as
substitute teachers in the grades OF
the public schools today while the
regular teachers were In attendance
upon the jubilee service at St Franc
es de Sales church.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Macdonald
have moved to North Bennington,
where Mr.. Macdonald is employed as
custodian of f. b. Jennings property
for the winter In the spring he will
resume his duties as professional in
charge OF Mt. Anthony country club
golf course
The members of the Epsilon Kappa
held smoker at their rooms in the
Bennington County Savings bank
building last evening in honor of
| Clarence n. Sweet who leaves soon
to take up his residence in Denver,
Col. In behalf of the society Clar-
ence Daley presented Mr.. Sweet an
| appropriately engraved gold Howard
watch and gold and silk fob
Work has begun by j. II. Whitney
to extend the rear of his theatre
building back 30 feet Mr.. Whitney
had this idea in mind when the build
ing was first put up but did not think
it best to make the structure so large
until after he mad made a test of the
! amount of business that would come
to the theatre The experiment thus
far has demonstrated that the add
tional room is a necessity and the
work will be completed as rapidly as