The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-21
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers

WI ouSJ Nedodc-
Social dance in Foresters hall to
night.
Mrs. James Wood has gone to Co
hoes for a visit
Mrs. Hattie Albee is seriously i'll o.
nervous prostration.
Roy c. Denley has gone to Hunt
ington for a vacation.
G. H. Ransom recently sold a grey
horse to A. w. Varney.
Miss Isabelle Goldsmith spent
Friday in Williamstown.
Walter Evans of North Adams i.
in town today on business.
Miss Nellie Cummings visited IN
Schaghticoke one day last week
Mission Garden Ceylon tea in one
pound cans, Hart says, is selling fast
Rev w. w. Brunk will be in charge
of the services at Woodford Sunday
Social dance in Foresters hall to
night.
S. McVeigh of the Bliss Business
college of North Adams was in town
Friday.
! Miss Catherine Mitchell has gone
to North Adams to visit relatives and
friends.
Miss Irene Honiker and brother
Clarence have returned from a visit
in Boston.
Walfred Wanlquist has returned to
Walpole, n. H., after visiting his par
ents in town.
The new Brazil nuts Hart is offer
ing at 3 lbs for a quarter are the best
we have seen.
Miss Minnie Daley and sister of
Hoosick Falls are the guests OF
friends in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Waite who
have been visiting in town have re
turned to Greenfield.
Joseph H. Smith who has been the
guest of Walter W. Hayes has return
ed to his home in Waterbury.
Miss Helen Cutting was the guest
Wednesday and Thursday of Miss
Margaret Kelson at Bennington Cen
! ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Jepson visited
Mr.. Jepson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Jepson at the Bennington
Flats Monday
R. V. Kern of the board of coffee
directors of New York is the guest
of A. Robinson the local tea merchant
for few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sanburn and
Miss Millington of West Medford,
Mass, came this afternoon to visit
friends in town.
Edward Flynn and Daniel Keller
go to Arlington today where they will
play the team of that place on the
Hoosick Falls nine
Misses Mile James. May Johnson.
and Jack Martin of Chicago called to
see Miss Nellie Cummings at the Ben
Giugton Flats Monday.
Miss Bnelah Bates and Miss Flor
ence Walbridge are entertaining the
members of their Sunday school class
WITH picnic at Riverside Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. David A. Sayre. who
have been stopping at Mrs. Barbara
Moores of South street have returned
to their home in New York City.
There will be a special meeting of
the Elks tomorrow Aug. %, at ~
o'clock. Ii is for the purpose of max
ing arrangements for the funeral of
Brother r, b. Godfrey.
Mrs. George Houran, Mrs. William
Lewis and Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Lewis
WAC have been camping near the
town farm have broken camp and re-
turned to North Adams.
Miss Nellie F. Cummings received
word Monday that her brother Ed
ward J. wac has been very i'll in a
New York hospital is very much i'm
proved and will be soon able to re-
turn home.
All officers and members of Capt |
Ray camp, S. of ", are requested to
attend a special meeting to be held |
at o'clock Tuesday evening TO make |
for the observation of |
the 9TH anniversary of the founding |
of the camp.
Services in st. Peters church cor
ner of School and Pleasant streets to-
morrow, eleventh Sunday after Trini- |
ty. Holy Communion 1880 a. M,
prayer and sermon, 1920 a. |
m; evening prayer and address 3 p. |
m. All are cordially invited to these |
services. Seats are free.
The remains of the late Mrs. Ora |
cha Buss Elwell arrived tnis afternoon |
and was taken to the home of her son |
Lucius Buss. The funeral will take |
w W. Brunk officiating. The burial |
will be in Center SALISBURY Rev.
Mr.. Adams will ofilciate at the grave.
A local merchant brought into the |
Banner office this morning a floral |
freak. 1t was a sweet pea and was |
peculiar in the fact that it possessed |
two stems grown together and was
perfectly symmetrical, having two |
blossoms on eacn stem and two |
where the stems separated.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stafford and
son Robert of Melrose, Mass, spent |
the night with Mr.. and Mrs. Il. l.. |
Nichols en- route for Phelps, N. Y,
where they will attend the wedding |
of the eldest son, Roy Mr.. and Mrs. |
Roy Davis Stafford will embark Sept. |
IL for Shanghai, China to take up |
work. Mr.. Stafford will |
act in the CAPACITY of Financial sec |