The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-27
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

WI III ANdhAo'
Sidney Jones of Pittsfield spent
Sunday at his home here.
George B. Sheldon of Rupert is in
town on business today.
A Barron Fitzgerald has returned
from a visit at his home in Troy.
Frank McDermott of Pittsfeld
spent Sunday at his home on Park ST.
William Mangan of Rutland recent
ly visited at his former home in this
town.
yelling Thatcher left this morning
for Ithaca, n. Y. to enter Cornell Uni
yersity
William l.. Bates leaves tomorrow
for New Haven to resume his studies
at Yale.
The baseball meeting will be held
at Foresters' hall at o'clock this
evening.
Archie d. Hayward, vocalist at the
New Whitney spent Sunday with
friends in Rutland.
William H. Woodward of South st
has been laid up by illness for several
days but is recovering.
Miss Hope Graves has gone to New
York and will be there during the
!iudson-Fulton celebration.
Miss Florence Mattison has accept
ed position in the local office of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company
Miss Julia Robinson returned to
her home in Boston Saturday after
passing some time with relatives in
this town.
James Davis of South Williamstown
is in town viewing the ruins of his
brothers home which was destroyed
by fire Friday.
The fourth edition of Sketches Of
Historic Bennington" by Caroline and
John V. ID S. Merrill will be issued
by the publishers in November
Earl Camp, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Camp of Pittsfeld is slowly
improving from an attack of acute an
| terror paralysis caused from menin-
gifts.
Rev. Frank r. Morris underwent an
other serious surgical operation az
Binghamton, n. Y, and is reported
improving, though his condition is
considered rather-serious.
Mrs Maryetta Brown, wife of Lor-
EMO Brown of North Bennington
died this morning in her 10th year
The funeral will be held from the
house Wednesday afternoon at o.
clock
Forrest w. Kehoe who graduated
from the University of Vermont last
June has gone to Great harrington.
| Mass. where he has a position as pro
fessor of chemistry in a preparatory
school in that town.
Hoosick Falls and North Adams
played nine innings TO tie Sunday
when the game was called with the
score and ?. 1t is reported that a
dispute between the players and the
umpire marred the ending of the
| game.
John C. Richters who has been EN-.
ployed in New York has received a
| promotion which compeIs him to live
in Syracuse. Mrs. Richters who has
been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George F. Graves, has now gone
to settle her new home.
George, or as he is more Familiarity
| known. JEFF" Davis, whose house
was burned late Friday afternoon, re-
quests that any resident possessing
any old furniture for which the own
er has no use TO donate the same to
enable him to establish 4 new home.
At the recent caucus of the voters
of the village of Bennington Center
the following ticket was named
| Trustees, A. j. Holden, W. L. Field.
| Guy b Johnson, r. Palmer Boughton.
and Hans Kelson; George A. Robin
son, clerk; George Worthington, treas
urer; John Baker, collector; and S.
II. Blackmer and John Baker. audi
tors. The meeting was largely at
tended and John Y. d. S. Merrill pre-.
sided The annual village meeting
will be held Tuesday. October 5, at s
p. m.
| One OF the usual wrangles was a
feature of the baseball game at Hoos-
ick Falls yesterday between the local
team and North Adams. Hoosick
Falls. according to the story as told
| by witnesses of the game from Ben.
nington, scored two runs in the fifth
inning and North Adams one in the
seventh. On an infield hit in the sew
enth with the score two to one in ia
vor of Hoosick a North Adams base
runner came in from third and was
| called safe by the umpire thus tying
the score. The Hoosick Falls players
and the usual mob of rooters at once
Hooked about the umpire and kept
up an argument over the decision I'M
til it became too dark to finish the
game. which was called off at tie OF
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