The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-19
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

| ing at j. Z. JenSens.
Miss Edna Masterton of Cohoes is
visiting friends in town.
Frank McDermott of Pittsfeld spent
Sunday with his parents.
Russell Hyde of Pittsfield spent
Sunday with his parents.
Miss Victoria Temple visited Miss
Catherine Scott in Adams Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Jensen and
guests visited in North Adams Sunday.
There will be special meeting of
the village trustees tonight at 1880.
Miner Clark is spending the sum-
mer with his grandparents in Windsor
Mass
Carolyn Clark is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Marcus Stebbins OF Erying.
Mass.
Seymour Merrill of Plttsfield spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Mary
Merrill.
Arthur Penn and Lew Shields of
New York visited Thomas Cummings
recently.
Miss Carrie Bridges OF Williams
town spent Sunday with Miss Adel-
aide Merrill.
Mr.. and Mrs James Mahoney of
North Adams are visiting her mother
Mrs. Ellen Fay.
Misses Edythe Rice and Sara Logan
have returned from a visit to Troy
and Schenectady.
Charles Houghton of Albany is
spending a weeks vacation in Ben
nington and vicinity.
Miss Nellie Cummings is i'll again
with throat trouble at her home on
the Bennington flats.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Freeman of
Troy visited Mr. and Mrs. G. Louis
Harwood over Sunday.
w. l.. Bates and Miss Beulah Bates
are spending few days at Thomp-
sons Point on Lake Cnamplain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Townsend
have returned from a weeks trip to
Great harrington and Pittsfield.
Mrs. Minnie Schauman who has
been visiting relatives in town re-
turned to ner home in New York to-
day.
Mr.. and Ms. c. T. Christensen and
children of Chatham. N. Y, are visit
ing at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. c.
Jensen.
In the absence of the pastor, Rev.
F. r. Morris, Secretary Davis of the
Y NJ. c. A. supplied the pulpit of the
Baptist church Sunday.
Mrs. Leon Lamarre is entertaining
her two sisters, Mrs. William Taillon
of Hudson, Mass, and Mrs. j. b. Bre-
ault of st. Johns, p. @.
Miss Helen File of Perth Amboy, n.
j.. and Miss Lena Collins of Totem
vile. Staten Island, are visiting Miss
Ethel Davenport of Gage street.
Mrs. Irving E. Bum who has been
confined to the Gibson hospital eight
weeks returned home Sunday. .SHer
health at present is much improved.
Mrs. Frank Lever of Schenectady
and Miss Ward of Hoosick Falls were
recently the guests of Miss Nellie
Cummings of the North Bennington
road
Mr.. and Mrs William Macdonald
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Barron took
an auto trip to Salem and Rexley, n.
Y, Sunday but stopped at White
Creek.
Mrs. Waters has returned to her
home in Easton, n. Y, after three
weeks visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Rose of the North Ben
nington road.
This was a disagreeable morning
At six o'clock thermometers register
I'd but 45 and a drizzling rain was
falling Showers occurred frequently
all the morning.
John Frier of New York City who
has been spending some time with |
friends in town left this morning to
spend the remainder of his vacation |
n the Adirondacks.
Miss Esther Mccullough youngest |
daughter of ex-Gov J. G Mccullough |
s sojourning near Brattleboro Miss |
has quite recovered from |
he typhoid fever with which she was |
attacked some weeks ago in New
York.
DR. Wright, specialist at North Ad-
ans, will be in his office only Mon
lays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays un-
Ill August l. Office open daily for ,
making appointments and repairing
plasses Telennone Sand Springs
1924
Miss Agnes Lamarre of Dillingham;,
Wash, who has been attending Yer
mont University and visiting friends |
in Bennington started for ner home
this morning. She will remain for
few days in Chicago. She was accom-
panied as far as Rochester by Misses |
May and Catherine LaMarre.
The next regular business meeting |
Of Bennington Grange will be held at |
their hall Thursday evening, August |
g. The charts of Vermont grasses to |
be presented at the meeting Ceres |
night, September 10. to be perfect |
snould contain specimen OF the fol |
lowing % varieties and more If pos
sible. In securing specimens get the |
root, stalk and head. If any trouble |
is found in Identifying specimens, in
may be obtained by writing |
to Experiment Station at Burlington
Alfalfa, black Medick, Timothy or
Herds grass, orchard grass, meadow
fascue, Kentucky blue grass or June |
grass, Canadian blue grass, fowl mead
ow grass. red top, blue joint, reed can
g. AL