The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-15
AUTOMOBILE NEWS

John T. Cort of Bennington Center
is contemplating the purchase of a
car this summer.
Wayne Adams says tnat he made a
trip from Hoosick Falls to this town
one evening this week in 20 minutes
in his Ford touring car This is go
ing some for ~ miles
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Bottum. Mrs.
Helen Smith and A. +. Hollister went
to Pittsfeld this afternoon. They ex-
pect to visit the Shaker settlement in
Lebanon Springs on their return.
A. G. Parker of Pownal tried to
run his new Ford car without oil and
as a result was obliged to pay out
several dollars for repairs during the
few days it has been in his posses
sion.
f. l.. Bottum, Mrs. Helen Smith or
Easton, Pa, Miss Stella Van Gorder
and A. E. HOLSTER enjoyed an auto
mobile ride to Cambridge in Mr.. Bot
tums Pope Hartford car Tuesday
evening.
Harold Bottum took Charles Walk
er and James Il. Burke to Petersburg,
n. Y, Wednesday where Mr.. Walker
made repairs on the Pope-Tribune
roadster. The car was driven home
last night.
The Rambler touring car owned by
Kingcaid and Little and used TO
carry passengers between Hoosick
Falls and Lake Cossayuna is being
painted and repaired at the Newton
garage this week
The tourist season at the White
Crow Inn at Camp Comfort promises
to be the best in years. Tne hotel has
Accommodations for 40 guests which
are now all taken. In addition to
this many of the cottages are oc-
cupied
Seven automobile parties were
registered at the Putnam house We'd
nesday. Among the tourists were F.
w. Dunton, Miss Dunton and VIM.
Dunton of Jamaica, l.. l.; Misses Fl.
Il. Roberts, b. NJ. Chafield and NJ. I.
Stone of New Haven, Conn. and E.
c. Groesbeck of Grand Rapids, Mich.
A peculiar feature of the A. X. Rit-
chic accident near Pittsfield Sunday
was the fact that when the car went
over the embankment not one of the
occupants of the car shrieked or
tainted Soon afterwards A. j.
Cooper's car came along and the
ladies in the car made such a dis
turbance at the sight of the accident
that Senator Cranes team nearly ran
away. 1t is also stated that one of
Mr.. Coopers party tainted.
TIE Palmer-Singer six-cylinder car
owned by Robert Raynor, president
of the Quadrix color company OF
New York, who is spending a portion
Oh lle SedSOu dl inc w ultt OAON I'M
at Camp Comfort, is attracting con,
siderable attention about the village.
The machine is a powerful one and
makes q peculiar noise when running.
This is Mr.. Raynor's second season
at the Inn. He expects to leave with
his party the last of this week for
Cottage City, Mass.
A record run was made this week
between this town and Williamstown,
a distance of IA miles. Miss Van
Santvoord, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Seymour Van Santvoord missed the
9:45 trolley and being DESTROYS to
catcn a train at the Williamstown
station sought the aid of Mr.. Newton.
Miss Van Santvoord, w. D. Newton
and ]. r. Wilson started from here
about 1920 o'colck in a Ford touring
car and reached the station about 10
minutes before the train, which Miss
Van Santvoord desired to catch, was
scheduled to leave. The whole trip
was made in less than 80 minutes
or at the rate of about 80 miles an
hour.