The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-21
BEHtesNGTG1 BhiEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Christmas paper on sale at Wards
/ drug store
Full line of gold rosaries at
/ Wards drug store.
Emile Tatro of Pownal visited
+ friends in town Sunday.
/ Mrs. c. R. Sanford of Bennington
I Center is spending the day in Troy.
James Judge, conductor on the
/ branch local, is confined to the house
by illness.
Balance of heating stoves at cost
price to close out stock at II. p.
| Woodman's.
David Labombard Of Pittsfeld was
guest of his family on Park street
over Sunday
Valley Mccarthy of Division street
is conyalescing from his recent
severe illness.
Martin WEIGH of North Hoosick
has beaa a guest of his daughter,
Mrs. William Finland.
Mrs. }. Ed. Walbridge and daugh-
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visit in Newark, n. J.
Mrs. II. c. Harmon of Newark, n.
j., is the guest of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. Ed. Walbridge.
Russell Jewell of the Fillmore
farms has returned from a visit at
his former home in Ferrisburgh
Walter Olson, has completed his
duties at the Cooper machine shop
and has taken position in Syracuse,
N. Y.
Mrs. John A. Connolly and daugh-
ter Teresa of North street have
been visiting relatives in Troy for
few days.
H. p Woodman will sell large
/ shipment Of fancy rockers at great
price reductions from now until
Christmas.
( st. Catherine Court, Union of St
John the Baptist, will hold their cleo
/ ton of officers at their regular meet
ing in their rooms on South street
tonight
! Candidates will be initiated at
/ special meeting of Walloomsac lodge
| n. E. o. p. this evening. All mem
/ bers of the degree team are especial
ly requested to be present
4 Reports of the condition of William
/ J. Watson, who recently underwent
an operation in a Pittsfield hospital,
are very favorable and it is expected
that he will soon be able to return
home.
The Y NJ. c A. young ladies' gym
nasium class will be discontinued
until after the holidays The most
popular class of the season, the
clerks will hold its regular meeting
I tonight
Mrs. Brown Of Hartford, ~ Y. has
arrived here to spend Christmas
with Mr. and Mrs. d. j. Merriman.
After the holidays she will go TO Pit
tsfield to spend the winter with her
sister.
Newspaper man was called TO task
by local doctor last week for making
mistake in doctors name Poor fell
low doctor made mistake on week
previous, will never offer complaint
North Adams Herald.
Forefathers supper at the Second
Congregational church Wednesday
evening, December %, at go Tur-
key supper including ice cream and
cake, all for so cents Sale of fancy
articles and baskets commencing at
3 o'clock at the church parlor. 46t2
Turkeys promise to be rare birds
+ during the holidays Dealers are
asking as high as % cents a pound
in the wholesale markets The sup
ply in the local markets will not be
/ large and will sell from 80 to 80
cents a pound. In many families
/ chickens and ducks will have to be
/ substituted for the traditional bird
I An order has been issued by the
/ United States Postoffice authorities
stating that the Red Cross Christmas
stamps may pass through the mails
/ for Great Britain and Ireland as pre-
viously, but should be placed on the
unaddressed side of the parcel,
Great Britain having withdrawn the
prohibition on the stamps if they
are so placed
Homer r. Rudd for several years
well known farmer in the west
part OF the town, but who has work
ed for some time in Pittsfield, is
shipping his goods to California
where he is to reside in the future.
Mr.. Rudd while in California recent
ly purchased a ranch of DR.. Leland
l.. Fillmore, former resident of
this town. The farm is situated near
Gardena, Cal, where Dr. Fillmore re
sides.
Navigation on the Hudson will
close tonight with the down trip of
the steamer Rensselaer, The Tro-
jan will bid goodbye to Troy tonight
Coming up Saturday night she en-
countered considerable floating ice
This, with the low condition of the
river and prospects for continued
cold weather, caused the Hudson Ma
yigation company to officially an
nounce the end of its long and pros
J porous season. The season last year
closed December is. Quite nun.
Der of years ago the boats of the Cit
liens line ran until the New Year