The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-06-21
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of .he Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers

News Of 'he Town and Village Tolc Briefly
fOr Busy Readers
Arthur Phillips of Troy is visiting
in town.
Miss Agnes Horton of North Adams
is spending the day here.
Joseph Nash of Burlington is visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs John
Nash
Miss Helen Leonard of Albany, for
merly of Bennington, is visiting reia-
tives here.
Miss Alice McDermott is visiting
her brother, James McDermott at
Schenectady.
Miss Eliza Hart has returned home
from Pittsford, VT, where she has
been teaching.
Joseph Nash who graduated from
st. Mlchaels college this week in the
business department, arrived at MS
home here this morning.
| Mrs. Thomas Cullion of Maple ST.,
has returned from visit in Troy
She was accompanied home by her
Ilniece, Miss Caroline Kelly.
L Edwin Il. King, we'll known attor-
. ney of Troy and former resident OF
| Old ennington observed his 55th
birthday anniversary yesterday
Born, this morning a son, to Mr..
| and Mrs. Theodore Thomas of Brook
!, lyn Mrs. Thomas was formerly Miss
Florence Holden of Bennington.
Harold e. Dow, student OF the
Troy Conference academy at Poult-
ney is with his parents, Rev. and Mrs
p. l.. Dow for the summer vacation
Mrs. Flora Harrington and Miss
Sarah Harrington of North Ferris
burg, this state, returned home today
after having been guests OF Mr. and
Mrs. A. p. Williams of Union street
|. h. Gibson has sold the double
tenement known as the Evans house
on Union street to Mrs. Mary A
Mack of North Bennington The con
sideration was $500,
The Sunday school in the Bushnell
| district will hold an opening session
on Sunday next at o'clock. All who
have been accustomed to attend anC
any others are urged to be present
at the opening of the school. Rev. W
+. Meyer will be present and make al
address.
The annual pilgrimage from Ben
nington to st. Anne de Beaupre, viii
leave July Is. The party will go b!
L Q.= -. tha In
The round trip tickets will be goot
for thirty days and this trip is annu
- ally taken advantage of by man!
- French residents for a visit TO thei
N former homes.
A meeting of the Bennington Fir
Department is called at the Starl
hose room at s O'Clock Saturday even
ms ing for the purpose of ascertaininl
- what part of the department will TAX
a. part in the Fourth of July celebra
ton. Some OF the members hay,
= been agitating the holding of tour
nament and this matter will also b.
taken up at the meeting.
r The office OF Dewitt Il. Lewis ha
recently been equipped with two new
n best trial case possible to procure
II The new case contains over 300 tria
lenses including complete bifoca
trial set which enables patients 4
try bifocals before ordering. Dr
20 Lewis has also added special test
- for German, French, Hebrew and II
literates.
no Bennington Grange held a regua
IN meeting at their hall Wednesday eve
nj ming. An excellent program was pre-
vlded by the lecturer as follows: Va
cal solo, The Songs My Mother Use,
to Sing" by Alexander Young: ora
- ton, THE Flag Day." by w c. Clark
= reading. Progress in the Last FIT
mn Years" by Mrs. Arthur Cutler; talk
wi Free Distribution of Seeds" by II
- NJ. Durham; song, Down by the OIL
~ Mill Stream" by Mrs. Young: read
= ing. THE First Captor OF the Histor
- of the Grange" by Miss Edith Rice
The Southern Vermont Pomon
Grange will meet here next Wedne,
day June &c.