The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-14
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF Ire Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.


Big dance. big music, Foresters hall
Saturday night.
T. Hoxie Hall of Pownal was bus
mess visitor in town today
Shirt waist sale at Rosters means
a saving of 41c in a $1.25 waist.
The usual social dance will be held
at Foresters' hall Saturday night.
Devotions for the month of May
will be held in st. Francis de Sales
church this evening at 1880.
Goldsmith's full orchestra will be
in attendance at the mems banquet at
the Methodist church this evening.
A big crowd is expected at the band
dance tonight at Foresters hall. The
concert will commence at S:3O-Dan-
cling at 8. Woods orchestra.
Strawberries are retailing in some
of the stores today for is cents
quart. This is the lowest price they
have been sold here for so far this
year.
Mrs. Dabelle of Park street was Ia
ken to the Troy City hospital Thurs
day evening to undergo an operation
for appendicitis. Her daughter, Miss
Kitty Dabelle accompanied her.
Summer weight knit underwear for
women, silk, Isle or cotton, 10c to
S1.5O-broad variety of all popular
garments Special lot of fine Isle
vests at 19c worth 25c. Also every
thing in the children's sizes at the
Drysdale underwear department.
All the newest fads of the season
in ladies' trimmed hats in black,
| champagne, navy, brown, green, alice
blue and old rose. All our own make.
Prices from s2.9S up. At the New
York millinery parlors, Library build
ing.
Louis Goodng of Brattleboro for
merly resident of this town and well
known here. is acting as chauffeur for
Thomas Halloran. Mrs. Gooding is
connected with The same firm by
wi1Um Joseph Martin, another Ben
nington man, is employed
Mrs. Bennett, widow OF the late
John w. Bennett for some time pre-
siding elder of the Burlington district
of the Methodist church, who has
been a guest of her brother in law, r..
d. Bennett for several days, returned
to her home in Round Lake, y. Y,
this morning.
II. II. Shields of Troy prominent
summer resident of this town will sail
tofndfrow morning on the Berlin of
the North German Lloyd line for Ma
-. ,,.t.a 10 xrfI fnfn his family
VINO have been touring in Italy for
some time Mr. Shields will be alb
sent all summer.
The b. H. S. baseball team has
cancelled their baseball game for to-
morrow with Williamstown and will
play instead the Tibbetts school in
Hoosick. The Hoosick boys have de-
| feated the Williams Freshmen this
year and are said to be one of the
fastest academic teams in this vicin-
ity.
Sale and exhibit of Merridors toll
let articles, greaseless cold cream,
lavender flowers for shirt waist box
es and German oil. All can try sam
pies. For church building fund.
Every Saturday afternoon and even
ing and Wednesday evenings.-Mrs.
|. E. Gibson, 500 Main street. All are
welcome.
Miss May Clark has arrived here
for the summer and is at present liv
ing with her sister Mrs. Wells l..
Field before opening her home for
the summer Miss Clark spent the
winter in Washington. d. c.. and New
York Miss Anna Clark, her sister,
| is still abroad and is not expected to
return until next month.
Social dance Saturday night and an
| invitation has been extended to the
members OF Williams and Bennington
baseball teams TO attend Owing to
the opening OF the baseball season a
large number of visitors are expected
and the attendance will be unusually
large Goldsmiths orchestra of six
pieces will rende rthe music
The Rev. w. A. Plamondon of Bur
| liHgton, formerly assistant pastor OF
! st. Francis de Sales church, will leave
I next week for Rome, to be gone two
months. The occasion is the celebra-
ton of the 50th anniversary of the
founding of the American college of
North America of which Father Pla-
mondon is a graduate. Papal Dele
gate Falconie of Washington, d. c.,
will go to Rome at the same time.
Hen fanciers in Berkshire county
cannot account for the fact that a hen
after living several months while bur
led under a load of hay, should die
the next day after being taken from
under the hay. At the farm of Pat
rick Brennan in Mill river, when hay
was being put in last fall, one of the
hens which had been watching the
proceedings got too close and was
covered up. Just recently the bird
was found and was alive but it died
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