The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-09-20
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Aews of the Town and Village Told Briefly
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Saturday night. Frazier's orchestra.
Goodall Hutton left this week to
enter Williams College at Williams
| town.
Miss Salfie Graves left today to
spend a week in Albany and Science
tady.
Miss Helen Chassett of Troy is the
geust of Mr.. and Mrs. John Madden
of Old Bennington.
Leave your measure for an SIS sui
| at c.. w. Peterson's. All cleaning
and pressing neatly done. S4to
Hiram White, who is with jewel
nv firm in Albany, is at his home III
North Bennington for few days.
John Earle. an inmate of the SOL
diers home, has returned from Wis
| II at his former home in Fair Haven
VT.
Carbon Southall entertained about
a dozen of his young friends this al
ternoon in honor of his ninth birth
day.
Miss Katherine Lyons, who mas
been visiting her brother in Schenec-
tady, is visiting il~ptica for a rev
days.
Comrade William Deitchman of the
Soldiers home, has been placed IN
charge of the chicken house oil that
institution.
C Thornton of Boston is expected
here 10 pass the week end with ms
mother. Mrs. Guy B. Johnson OF Ola
Bennington.
John Collins, who until recently
conducted a fruit market on North
street. is employed at Wheeler's mar
ket on Main street.
John A. Robinson, Jr of Boston, a
frequent summer visitor to Old Ben
nington, is expected here to pass the
week end with relatives.
Frederick Holton, son of L. c. Hol-
ton has returned home from Whlte
Creek. where he has been employed
on a farm during the summer.
Miss Esther Merrill entertained
two tables informally at cards Thurs.
dav afternoon, few additional
guests coming in for tea at O'CLOCK.
Miss Leila Percy who has been
spending a part of her vacation III
Springfield and other cities in Massa-
chusetts. has returned home.
HI Livingston returned Thursday
evening from White River Junction,
where he has been visiting his sen,
]. Guy Livingston, and attending me
fair.
Joseph NJ. Ayres, Fred Grover OF
Fall River, Mass, and Edward Lewis
of New York City are spending
few DAYS at Mr.. Ayres' cabin in Dun
vile.
Sumner Holt of Pittsfeld, a for
mer resident and son OF Samuel
Holt of this village, has entered Hill
crest hospital in Pittsield for treat
ment.
Miss Eugene McCandless will
leave tomorrow for Kenosha, WIS.
Miss McCandless is TO have charge oil
the French department OF girls
school in that city.
Fred ]. Kennedy left today for the
Pacific coast. Mr.. Kennedy Will 10
cate in San Diego, Cal, where he re
Gently acquired an interest in a NOV
ing picture concern
Miss Ethel Sulkirk of New York
has been engaged as trimmer at MISS
Nolan's millinery shop. Miss Sulkirk
is accompanied by her mother, who
viii remain here for some time.
Miss Helen Burghardt will leave
tomorrow for Raleigh, n. C., where
she will enter St Augustine's school.
After an eightmonths course there,
Miss Burghardt will teach in the
south.
In spite Of the rainy day, several
from here attended the Manchester
fair on Thursday. Among them,
we're Mr.. and Mrs. o. Partenope, Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Lyons and John
Leahy.
DIN Harwood, who has been spend
ing week at Lowell Lake, near
Chester. is expected home tomorrow.
William +. Hurley has been acting as
substitute mail carrier during Mr..
Harwood's absence.
The steamship France. on which
Mrs +. ID. Bennett was passenger
arrived at Havre, Wednesday the
18th. From Havre. Mrs. Bennett will
90 to Paris where she will be the
guest of MIR. and Mrs. Geo. Durand.
Herbert w. Smith, of Manchester
Centre, who has been employed at
times for several years by c. NJ.
Lambert G. Son. of this village, is EN-
ployed on a job in the Blackmer lot
in the cemetery at Old Bennington.
DR.. F. S. Pratt and two daughters,
Misses Martha and Hilda Pratt, and
Z. A. Booth, returned last night from
White River Junction, where they
have been attending the State Fair q.
The trip was made in DR.. Pratt's
auto.
At a business session, in Saratoga
Springs. Thursday. the New York
State Historical association adopted a
resolution favoring the purchase, by
the states of Vermont and New York.
of the battlefelds of Bennington and
Saratoga.
Mrs. Burnett, president of the Ad-
ans Relief Corps will be the guest of
the local corps this evening. After
the regular business meeting. there