The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-06-12
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II. II. Barney of Putnam street is
confined to the house by illness.
There will be band concert at the
Soldiers Home tomorrow afternoon.
Stark lodge |. o. o. F., will hold
memorial service Sunday at o'clock.
John Cook has purchased nice
carriage horse of his brother George
Cook
Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay at the social hop to-
night. Goldsmith's orchestra of six
pieces.
A special meeting of the F. NJ. T. A.
B. society will be held Sunday at II
o'clock.
George C. Wood has been engaged
to play violin solo at the Baptist
church tomorrow.
Miss velma Elwell of the Burgess
road has been suffering from an at
tack of tonsilitis.
John Houran and family have NOV
ed from Dewey street to the Chandler
house on North street.
Miss Mary Cutting entertained the
members of her school at Bennington
Center Friday at a picnic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Riley who
were married Monday have returned
I, from their wedding trip to New York.
Miss Cornelia Gordon, who has been
1 the guest of Miss Hilda Pratt left
Wednesday for ner home in Ken
lucky.
Mrs. Philip b. Jennings and son
Leonard Cultivate have returned from
Europe and are at their summer home
at Bennington Center.
At the Noveck Shoe Store a dis
count of 10 cents on the dollar will be
given on all mems and ladies' shoes
and oxfords today only.
The contract for building sc foot
addition to the grandstand at the
Morgan park has been let to NJ. Snow
and will soon be started.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Clark and
Stephen Bradley of Syracuse and Mrs
Susie Lawson Of Johnstown. ~ Y, are
| guests OF Mrs. Irving Bum who is
| The Boston Globe tomorrow will
contain, besides the regular Benning
| ton items, an extended account of the
| play William Warren's Welcome"
Mrs. Warren De Lano, who nas
been a guest of her brother Andrew
! Maurer for a couple weeks. returned
this morning to Schenectady.
| Miss Katherine Stewart of York
| n. Y, is the guest of Miss Martha
Pratt. The two were classmates at
the Emma Willard school in Troy from
which they grauated this week
| General admission to the William
| Warren's Welcome" performance will
be fifty cents. Tnis announcement Is
made in case there should be many
who were unable to secure seats.
TIE funeral of Mary Elizabeth. the
10 months old child of Mr. and Mrs
| Thomas Griffin who died Thursday
was held this morning. The burial
! was in the new Catholic cemetery
The childs death was caused by con,
gestion of the brain.
The teachers of the high school and
grades held a delightful informal tea
in room 10 at the close of school on
Friday afternoon. Mrs Harriet X. II
: Sears poured the tea and Misses Eunice
Lyons, Florence Hollister and Ger
trude Carney served.
Mr.. and Mrs L. S. Norton, Mr. and
Mrs W. c. Bull, and Hon. and Mrs.
Charles H. Darling of Burlington have
gone to Northampton, Mass, to at
tend the commencement exercises of
SMITH college. Among the graduates
this year are Miss Vera Bull and Miss
Dorothy Norton of this town.
The foundation stone for the Hol-
den mausoleum was token from the
freight yards this morning to the
Park Lawn cemetery. The stone
weighed 16 tons and required sixteen
horses to draw it up South street hill.
The affair had the appearance of a
circus street parade and many lined
the streets en- route to watch the band
wagon go by.
Mrs: Harrison |. Norton and Miss
Hope Graves are to leave Monday for
Spokane, Wash, and will be absent all
lsummer. Mrs. Norton, whose former
home was in Spokane, will spend the
summer there and at Seattle while
Miss Graves will be joined later by
her brother Luther and the two are
to be members of houseboat party on
kootenay lake in British Columbia dur
ing the hot weather. Later in the
summer Mr.. Norton will join his wife
FOR a short visit to Seattle exposition.
The social after the business meet
ing of the Woman Relief Corps at G.
A. r hall on Friday evening, June II.
was in every way very successful af
fair. The members were entertained
by the following young ladies' and
young gentlemen with plano selec-
tons. Rotations, singing, and solos on
comets. Masters Philip Schuyler and
Wilbur Lambert, Misses Nellie and
Eliza Mcclure, Misses Margaretta and
Phyllis Schuyler. Miss Ethel Daven.
port, Miss Tillie Hervey and Miss Mil
dred Haynes Widow was played,
Mrs. Marsden winning the first prize
land Miss Haynes the consolation IA.
vor Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Lima Morse, Miss Lucy Cutting.
l-drs. Laura Harmon, Mrs Nettie Ran
tsom ard Mrs. Laura Lambert. There
were 80 present.
MINISTER lDE PRESENTED
CONVEYED to Spanish ROYAL Palace in