The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-02
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers

Mrs. f. s. Rice of Grant street Is
visiting friends in Pittsfield.
Edward Thomas of Gage street has
entered the employ of the Bennington
Gas Light company.
A regular meeting of the Putnam
Hose company will be held in their
rooms at the usual hour this evening.
A regular meeting of Bennington
Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, viii
be held in their rooms in the Ayres
block tonight All members should
be present to transact important bus
mess.
Manager c. A. Wood of the opera
house has booked the Buster Brown"
comic opera for a date in January,
Clyde Fitch's comedy Girls" is an
other early booking at the opera
house.
The Young Womans Club dancing
class will be held in Foresters' hall
this evening. After the class the
members are asked to adjourn to the
meeting
Miss Agnes Quinlan returned Mon
day evening from weeks visit in
Boston and Clinton, Mass. While in
Boston she acted as bridesmaid at the
marriage of Catherine Halligan, who
is well known mere where she has Wis
tied.
There will be a meeting of Mt. An
thony chapter No. /, o. n. S. tomor-
row evening. a short entertainment
arranged by the entertainment com
mittee of which Mrs. Puffer is Chair
man, will be given after the regular
meeting
The Burlington Free Press report
of the football game at Winoosh
Saturday when st. Michales college
defeated Goddard seminary Il to 3,
says that the feature OF the contest
was the splendid quarterback runs of
Mahar of this town.
A party of members of Stark Lodge
II. o. o. f. left this afternoon at o.
clock for Readsboro by auto to at
tend district meeting. Among
those who made the trip were Dr. J.
II. Cole, II. W. Myres, +. j. Stratton,
w. J. Galipin, John II. Powers, Reu-
ben Sanbourn, MI. Clarke and Calvin
Endress.
Among those recently admitted to
the Soldiers home are Charles Bovia
of Readsboro, who served in Co. II,
It'll Vermont regiment during the
Civil war and Harmon WHEELER a
member of company +, 18th Vermont
David Mahan returned this morning
from three months furlough in
Worcester. VT.
During the summer all the build
| ;ngs of the Soldiers home have been
painted and the entire roof of the
main building slated. The repairs of
various sorts which have been in the
course of construction about the
home for nearly two years are now
completed. During this period a
storehouse and addition to the hospi-
tai have been built.
| A blaze was discovered in a couch
| in the home OF Morris Levin on Riv-
er street this morning. The fire was
| rapidly spreading when first seen and
required quick work on the part of
the occupants of the house to exiting
uish the blaze before it got beyond
control. One of the neighbors was
| preparing to ring in an alarm when
ne was notified that the fire was out.
A team belonging to Lewis V. ~
Potter of the Pownal road became
| frightened near the corner Monday
and dashed down North street at a
high rate of speed After reaching
the Soldiers Home they continued on
run along the North Bennington
road. They finally came to a halt in
the yard of John j. Kinney in the ore
bed district about four miles from
/ this village. The horses were attach
ed to a heavy wagon. Strange to say
neither the vehicle or the horses
were In any way injured.
The famous Brothers Byrne will
appear at the opera house next Mon
day evening presenting their success
! full pantomimic comedy Eight Bells"
The Brothers Byrne have always kept
faith with the public and are recog-
nized as acrobats of considerable
skill and pantomimists of unlimited
resources. In THE New Eight Bells"
| the surprises in the way of sneXpect-
ed disappearances, somersaults into
third story windows, vaulting over
walls and through walls where there
is apparently no opening and innum-
cradle other tricks of the nimble per
formers, keep the audience wondering
and laughing without cessation.
! Reports to Bradstreet's from Vari-
Gus Vermont towns for the month of
October show marked improvement
in amount of business on hand among
manufacturing interests over what
/ they had year ago. Labor is better
employed and more rush orders are
received. The necessity is again aris-
! ing of notifying customers of the inn
possibility of immediate delivery but
a promise to fill at some future date
This is noticeable among machine
manufacturing interests where in
some cases output has been sold up
into May of next year while others
report they have all they can possib-
ly do during the remainder of the