The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-20
BERNiNGTOM BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers,

NJ H. McKeon, who has been iii, is
recovering
Mrs. Tudor of Stamford is visiting
in the village.
Clinton Smith visited in White
Creek Sunday
Peleg Mattison is assisting at d. A.
Wards drug store.
Miss Ada Brigham of Old Benning-
ton was in Troy today.
Robert Knight of Valentine street
is in New York on business.
Dr. James Donnelly of Hoosick has
purchased a Buick automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. George w. Knapp of
Woodford are in the village today
The condition of James Connolly,
who is seriously i'll, does not improve.
w. H. Nichols visited his wife at
the Samaritan hospital in Troy Sun
day.
Mrs. August Beecher of Pleasant
street is recovering from recent i'll
ness.
Edward S. Chandler of Old Ben
nington is passing the afternoon in
Troy.
Wallace Venable has accepted a
position with the Cooper Mfg, com
pany.
Charles Lockwood has finished
work at the Bennington Sanitary
laundry.
Mrs. Carrie Goldsmith of Boston is
passing her vacation with her mother
Mrs. j. H. Warren.
A regular meeting of the Cata-
mount Commandery, U. o. G. c. will
be held this evening.
Miss Rose Wheeler of Nottingham,
who has been visiting her brother,
F. T. Wheeler, has returned home.
Hugh Ellsworth has resigned his
position with Parker Cole and has ac-
cepted one as chauffeur for b. +. Bot
tum.
Mrs. Eliza Sanborn of Schenectady,
former resident is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Frank Whitman of Dewey
street.
Fred l.. Houghton has recovered
from his recent severe illness and is
employed at the Cooper Machine
works.
Mrs. Carrie Hawks and Miss Rose
Harbour have returned from several
weeks stay in Valley Falls and other
places.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel P. Barber have
been called to Portland, Me, because
of the illness of their daughter, Mrs.
Henry ID. Dill
Mrs. NJ. c. Huling and sister, Mrs.
5. +. HuIing of North Bennington
spent Sunday with Mrs j. II. Powers
of Grant street.
Mrs. S. b. Irving, who has been a
guest of Mr., and Mrs. f. II. Daven-
port, has returned to Pittsfield where
her husband is employed
Miss Luella Chase, a former resi-
dent, who until recently has been re-
siding at Akron, o., has taken a posi-
ton with the Bottum & Torrance com
pany.
Misses Agnes and Florence Quinlan
went to Burlington today where Miss
Agnes Quinlan will attend the meet
ing of the Vermont Board OF Phar.
macy.
The condition of Mrs. w. H.
Nichols, who is i'll in the Samaritan
hospital in Troy, where she recently
underwent an operation, is reported
as being much improved.
A. NJ. Torrance went to Pitts6eld to
day to visit his father who
is in the Hillcrest hospital where he
underwent an operation Friday. The
condition of Mr. Torrance is improy-
ing.
H. C. Lindloff recently had an op-
portunity for a short visit with a for
mer schoolmate, Chris Nelson, who
sailed on Saturday on the Lusitanla
for Europe on his way to Denmark,
his native land.
Miss Margaret Kelson of Old Ben
nington was taken to the Samaritan
hospital in Troy this afternoon for an
operation for appendicitis. She was
accompanied by her father Hans Kel-
son and Dr. w. h. Putnam.
William Prentice, aged "a years, an
inmate of the town farm died at
that institution Monday at $3.50 o.
clock. He had been an inmate about
eighteen months. The burial will be
in the Hinsdillville cemetery.
Referee in Bankruptcy Ernest IL.
lO'Brien of Rutland was in the village
yesterday, called here to attend a
final meeting in the case Of e. I. Girls
void, bankrupt. A small dividend
will be declared in the near future.
The entertainment committee Of
the N. f. 0. p. will hold a card party
and dance in N. e. o. p. hall Wed
nesday evening, June Il. Cards from
8 to 10 o'clock Dancing from to
I12. All are cordially invited. Ad-
mission 20 cents.
Because of the breaking of large
dynamo in the power house at Zylo-
mite, the trolley service between Ben
nington and North Adams was sus'
pended for some time this morning
The car due here at 7:45 o'clock did
not arrive until 1915 o'clock. The
cars are now running half an hour
late.
George NJ. Darlington of Winsted,
Conn, was in the village yesterday
coming from Williamstown where he
has been attending the 50th anniver-
sary reunion of his class at Williams
college. Mr.. Darlington, who has