The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-21
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town ard Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Mr.. and Mrs. G. ID. Gibson are spend
ing the day in Hoosick Falls.
Albert Schwartz of Troy is spend
ing a few days at his former home
here.
to spend a few days on business in AL
bany.
Miss Sara Allen of North Benning-
ton was in town yesterday visiting
friends
John Mccormick and Hal Hufnagle
are visiting relatives in Rutland for
few days.
H. B. Hutchins and ]. c. F. Gregg
went today to Pittsfield to attend the
ball game there.
Mrs. l.. M. Haskins of Philadelphia
is visiting her daughter Mrs. Frank
Wood of Gage street.
TIE Pennington Electric company
is wiring the new Whitney vaudeville
house on North street.
Miss Annie Forrestel of New York
came Tuesday to spend visit with
Miss Mary I4ondergan.
Miss Catherine Healy of Grove St,
is spending a few days with Effle
Halves of Pleasant Valley.
Mrs. Wayne s. Healy of Grove ST.,
is confined to the house with a seri-
Gus attack of muscular rheumatism.
The cement floor being installed in
the basement of the Savings bank
building is very nearly completed.
The regular weekly band concert OF
the Bennington city band will be neld
next Sunday at the Soldiers home.
Benjamin ]. Brooks of Gage street
went today to Troy with T. A. Daven-
port in the latter's new Stanley steam
err.
Mrs. Grant Harbour, Miss Bessie
Harbour and Miss Adelaide Merrill
are spending few days at Hunters
Rest.
Col. and Mrs. L. f. Abbott and Mrs.
]. M. Ayres have returned from va
cation spent at summer resorts in
Maine.
Mrs. Helen Smith who has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. +. L. Bottum
lOI SEVERAL uhyo haS ACNuihNu " ASeAS
ton, Pa.
A band of gypsies passed through
here yesterday and probably are
camping somewhere on the outskirts
of the town.
Misses May and Barbara Cronin
and Master Robert, children of d. f.
Cronin, left Tuesday for Rutland to
visit relatives.
The Misses ALA and Carey Newton
and Bradleigh Newton of Hartford,
VT, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID.
Newton OF Union street.
Tuesday was the first day since st.
Swithins day that rain did not fall.
The spell has been broken and per
haps the forty days rain will not oc-
cur
Mrs. Ethan Statia of Frankfort, n.
Y, is spending a few days with Mrs.
Frank Wood Mrs. Statia was for
merly Miss Anna Fleming of this
place.
A party of men composed of John
Green, Edward Green, Aldace Won
dette and John Skane have gone to
East Dorset to accept positions with
marble company there.
Mrs. A. w. Half and Mrs. Olive
Van Kleeck have returned from few
days outing in Readsboro where they
nad a delightful trip. On their return
they were joined by Gardner Haff' at
North Adams.
Miss Elizabeth McGurn of Benning-
ton and Misses Bessie, Mollie and
Nellie Manoney and Mamie Martin of
this city left yesterday for "a two
weeks outing at Lake Bomoseen.-
Rutland Herald.
The Bennington baseball team went
to Pittsfield this morning on the 9.45
car where they are to play at 1880.
Many local fans left later in the day
to witness the first game between
Bennington and Pittsfield in the shire
city.
Mrs. Eugene c. Packard who has
been in hospital in Pittsfield owing
to injuries received in the recent auto
mobile accident, returned last evening
in the car Bennington and was taken
to her home in the WalbridgeIambul
ance.
George B. Sears former resident,
who has been spending several weeks
at Camp Comfort has returned to
New York. Mr.. Sears has heen en-
ployed for twenty years ut the well
known dry goods house Of James
Durham & Co., of New York.
The Misses Lucretia Edgerton and
Bridge Mcclure left town Monday
morning to attend the summer school
at Rutland. Miss MCGUIRE has the
honor of being the only teacher in
the county who has been granted a
first grade certificate to teach during
the year.
The Baptist Sunday school will hold
basket picnic at Hoosick Valley
Park Saturday of this week. Cars
will leave the church at S:45. Chill
dren twelve and under will go free.
The church people generally are urg-
ed to join with the school in this out
ing.
Misses Henrietta Walbridge, Flor
ence Potter Irene Graves, Florence
Foster, Sallie Graves and Dorothy Mat
tison went to Sand Springs Tuesday
afternoon on a picnic given in honor
of Miss Florence Foster of Cuttings
vile, vt. After the picnic the party
took dinner at the Richmond in North
Adams returning in the evening by
trolley.
Edward G. Phillis, administrator of
the estate of George H. Phillips of