The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-06
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

from visit in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Lyons and
daughter, are visiting in Hartford, Ct
Mrs. F. w Spear is attending the
Hudson-Fulton celebration in Albany
this week
Splendor hour makes splendid
bread Hart says everyone who has
tried it praises it.
Don't forget to attend the big SOC
ial dance at the Canadian club Friday
evening. All welcome
w. J. Burritt, clerk at the Putnam
House has returned from an extend
ed vacation in Burlington and Bristol.
If you want some oysters to fry,
escallop, stew or serve raw, you
should try some of those Seal Shipt
oysters Hart sells.
An election of first lieutenant and
all other vacancies among the officers
of c. K, V. n. G., will be held Thurs
day evening at 1880 sharp.
Mrs. w. b. Sheldon has returned
from Troy, where she has been with
her husband at the Samaritan hospi-
tai Mr.. Sheldon is now improving
rapidly.
Word has been received here by
friends of the death of F. H. Esta-
brook a prominent resident of Hoos-
ick Falls.
w. ID. Newton returned Tuesday
from Brattleboro with a Ford taxicab.
The new car will carry five passen-
gers besides the driver and is design
ed for local use.
Mrs. A. Boyd of Readsboro and
her daughter, Mrs. William Cooley of
Buffalo, accompanied by the latters
young son, we're in town Tuesday Wis
iting Miss Katherine Pike.
Mrs. INLAND Ray and daughter
Jessie of Auburn, n. Y, who have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Barney of the Burgess road, return
ed to Auburn, n. " this morning.
DR. j. r. Wilson will leave the last
of this month 10 study diseases of the
eye, ear, nose and throat in New York
City He will study at the New York
post graduate school and the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
The receipts of the local postoffice
for the quarter ending September 80,
were S392.5S in excess of the cores
ponding quarter of last year. The re-
ceipts of the Office are steadily in
! creasing. showing a normal growth.
Manager c. A Wood of the opera
house is so confident that "A Gentle
man from Mississippi will please the
local theatre-going public that he has
made an offer to repay the price of
admission TO anyone after the first
act who does not like the show.
MANCHESTER
Miss Anna Young spent Sunday in
| Bennington.
o. G. Felt is spending a short va
cation in New York
Mrs. G. c. Phelps and son orwell
are visiting Mrs. Phelps sister, Mrs.
! Edward II. hemenway.
Mrs. l.. II. Hemenway has returned
from attending the Woman's Board
meeting in st. Johnsbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. George l.. Towsley left
Monday for a trip to New York, Pro,
idence and other points.
g. NJ. Cooke. clerk in the postoffice
has returned from spending a few
days at his home in Orwell
Yesterday was observed as Noun
tain day at Burr and Burton seminary
and nearly the entire school climbed
Mount Equinox
Mrs. Charles F. Steel and Miss Mar
garet L. Steel who have been spend
ing the summer at the home of Mrs.
Minnie Cross, have returned to Brook
Ign.
Rev. Vincent Raw, pastor of the
Congregational church, preached in
North Cambridge. Mass. Sunday. DR..
Norman Seaver of Rutland preached
in the local church.
John J. Riker of New York, who
with Mrs. Riker arrived by motor at
the Equinox House late in the week,
had not visited Manchester in thirty
eight years. He was surprised at be-
ing shown a photograph of himself
and State Senator Edward c. Orvis
taken when they were boys during a
sojourn of Mr.. Riker in Manchester.
Leo j. Abbott who has been work
ing at the Equinox House during the
summer, left today for his home in
Hartland Mr.. Abbott, who has at
tended the academic department of
the University of Vermont one year,
will enter the medical department of
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