The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-27
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Miss Louise Buffum spent Christ
mas at her home in Arlington.
Joseph Meredith of New York is
visiting at his home in this town.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Maurer of Sill
yer street spent Christmas in Troy.
Loren Davis is spending the holt
days with his parents in Manchester.
J. T. Mccarthy of Burlington, VT,
spent Christmas with c. L. McCar-
thy.
Miss Anna Mcdonald of Main
street is at the home of her parents,
in Dorset.
Mrs. D. ]. Merriman and aunt, Mrs
Brown have gone to Pittsfield to visit
relatives.
Miss Alice Eagen of Burlington is
spending the holidays with Mrs. G. H.
Mccarthy.
Mrs. Thomas Hughes of Williams
town is visiting Miss Mary Hutton
of Main street.
Leon E. Story of North Adams, a
former resident, was in town Satur-
day and Sunday.
Miss Jessie Woods of Troy is the
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Leroy G..
Brant of South street.
Thomas Murphy of Schenectady
has been the guest of relatives in
town for a few days
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mackerney of
Averill Park, N. Y, spent Christmas
with Mrs. Charles Mccarthy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy G.. Brant have
returned from a visit with her moth
er, Mrs, ]. S. Paterson in Troy.
Michael Toomey OF Pittsfield has
been the guest of his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. John Toomey of Gage street.
E. H. Biddle has returned to Mt.
Kisco, n. Y, after spending Christ
mas with Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Roberts.
Miss Adelaide Merrill returned to
Brooklyn this noon after short visit
with her mother, Mrs. Mary Merrill.
George Sober and wife of Water
vliet spent Christmas in town as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward o.
Hare.
Peter O'Connor of Troy who is
well known in this town, has accept
ed a position in J. H. Whitney's Gig
ar store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry p. Hudson of
Schenectady were guests of his par
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Christmas.
Judge e. l.. Bates has secured the
opera house for Wednesday evening,
March 30th for the production of the
Bennington Club Minstrel show.
The Alpha chapter of the. Epsilon
Kappa fraternity will hold a private
dance in Foresters' hall tonight.
Goldsmith's full orchestra will render
the music.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Martin Of
Brattleboro are spending several days
in town as the guests of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Martin of Ben
nington Center
Miss Sara Carlich of New York and
Sam Stark of Saratoga have been
here over Christmas visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. B. Shimlintzky.
They left for North Adams today.
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Negotiations for the sale of the j.
NJ. Healy farm in the west part of the
town are now under way through the
Nash & Hutchins Real Estate Agen-
cy The parties who intend to pur-
chase the farm are from Malone, n.
Y. It is expected that the deal will
be closed early in January.
A Holiday social will be held in G.
A. R. hall by the ladies of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps on Tuesday eve
ming, Dec. 2Sth, each lady to bring
lunch and a present not exceeding
ten cents. This social is the same as
they have held the past four years.
and has proved to be very pleasant
entertainment. Games ana other
amusments will be provided.
The amount of Christmas business
handled by the local express and
postoffices this year was larger by
far than last year. All the mail
trains were late and arrived heavily
laden. Today the expressmen are de-
livering many packages which their
senders expected would arrive here
for Christmas. Expressmen state
that about % car loads of express
were tied up at Albany Christmas eve
for the want of sufficient men and
cars to handle it. Much of this
amount was disposed of Sunday and
the whole amount will probably be
cleared away today -
The usual observance of Christmas
by Taft Commandery, No. s. of this
village. was more ornate this year
than in prior seasons. The h. c.,
William H. Nichols, issued call,
which was published in the Evening
Banner and this called out a large
assembly of Knights Templar and
representatives from Connecticut
Valley Commandery of Greenfield,
Mass, and Apollo Commandery of
Troy, N. Y, were guests on this -oc-
casion. The exercises, which were
uniform throughout the world had
for an inspiration and presiding Off
Ger, Eminent Sir Edward L. Bates,
Grand Standard Bearer of the Grand
Commandery of Vermont. Altogeth-
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