The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-28
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

w. B. Sheldon of Main street is
quite ILL.,
John Boland of Troy is spending
few days in town.
C. S. Estey and wife are spending
the day in White Creek
]. NJ. Healy of the postofice force
is enjoying short vacation.
Walter Sharpe OF New Haven, CT,
is visiting at his home here for few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Cole and Mrs.
Laura B. Coe are spending the day in
Albany.
Joseph McDermott of Park street
is in Schenectady visiting his brother
fer few days.
st. Michaels and All Angels Day
Wednesday, there will be two ser
vices in st. Peters church. 1880 a. IN.
and a. m
Division F of the Second Congrega-
tional church will give a supper Wed
nesday evening, September 20, at $50
in the chapel. Tickets Csc.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Bahan return
I'd Monday from Schenectady where
hey have been spending a few days
with Mr. and Mrs. Robert GOff
David Labombard who has been
| employed by the Metropolitan Life In
5urance company as assistant super
intendent of the local office, has gone
to Pittsfeld to reside.
Miss Agnes McCabe a former resi-.
dent who has been residing in Coop
arstown, n. Y, was recently a guest
Of friends in town. From here she
went to her home in Rutland.
Mrs Frank r. Morris has received
word today from her husband who is
undergoing medical treatment in a
hospital at Binghamton, n. Y. He is
getting along well and an early and
complete recovery is promised.
George b. Brown of Riverside has
some Pan American strawberry plants
hat are now bearing their second
crop for this season. One plant has
eight large well developed berries
while other plants have a lesser mum
Der.
The remains Of Georgiana Louise
infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
| Atwood of Brooklyn will arrive here
his afternoon. The burial will take
place Immediately in the Atwood fam
ly lot in Park Lawn cemetery. Rev.
George s. Mills will ofiiciate.
The parlor car Bennington" made
is last regular trip of the season be-
ween this town and Great Barring
ton. Mass. today. Although traffic
from this end of the line was not
large the car carried many passengers
rom North Adams and other points
south.
Miss Catherine McGurn of North
street will return this afternoon from
Amsterdam She will be accompani-
ed by Mr.. and Mrs William Stearns.
who were married this morning and
will spend portion of their honey
| moon with Mr. and Mrs. John Nc
iurn.
| Walter Durham will have charge of
| ne extensive repairs to be made this
fall on the John Bahan property at
Bennington Center, which was recent
~ leased by Miss Mary r. Sanford
Miss Sanford will arrive here this
week to spend some time at her home
The Priory.'
The rainfall of the last SO hours
was the heaviest IN several months.
1t was a soaking rain and will do the
streams and springs an incalculable
amount of good In many instances,
the water supply of farmers has been
very low for several weeks. Pros
poets are that the line storm is now
nearly over and fair and cooler wealth
er is promised for tomorrow.
K. f. butcher returned Monday in
one of w. ID. Newton's Ford touring
cars from Greenwich, Conn, where he
took party Saturday who became
stranded in SALISBURY. Their car, a
llocomobile. broke down and was tow
ed to a nearby barn by yoke of oxen.
The chauffeur was sent to the factory
to secure duplicate part and on his
return will drive the car to Green
wich.
Extra heavy traffic over the Rut-
land road is responsible for the late
ness of the trains from Montreal and
New York. Almost every day for the
past two weeks, these trains have
been from 10 to 80 minutes late. The
return holiday passenger traffic is the
heaviest in years. Especially heavy
is me traffic to New York this week
while the Hudson-Fulton celebration
is on.
The wedding of Herbert Horace
Knapp and Miss Lillian May Hill was
solemnized by Rev. A. S. Davis at his
home on Union street Monday after
moon at 4:30. Only immediate Nrela
tives were present. Mr.. Knapp came
to this town from Pownal few
months ago and is employed in the
Cooper machine shop. Both young
people are popular among their ac-
tnuaintanppS