The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-03-30
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
flr Busy Reader

/ friends in Pownal.
Hiram B. Fassett Jr., is home from
the R, p l., Troy.
Easter post cards and booklets l |
cent to 25c at Evans
c. Lynn Wood went to Schuyleryille |
today to pass the week end.
Sheriff Frederick Godfrey went this
morning to Manchester on business.
Ray Gibson is home from Vermont
University for the spring vacation.
Miss Velma Elwell is visiting at the
home OF William Stockwell in Shafts
bury
Zebra Quackenbush of Hoosick is
visiting his daughters in the village
today.
Miss Sallie Graves of the Troy Con-
seryatory of Music is visiting at her
home here
Mrs. Royce Clum of Schenectady is
a guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Oscar Chandler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour Van SAINT
voord of Troy will spend Sunday at
Shadowbrook farm.
Mrs. Augusta Yates has returned
from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Mar
win Squires of Arlington.
The Rutland railroad has ordered
500 new freight cars from the Amer
lean Car and Foundry Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Moore, Jrp are
moving from Silver street to the
Moore tenement on Prospect street.
Miss Cora Van Surdam of North
Adams is passing the week end at
her home in North Bennington.
Mrs. l.. II. Davis and Mrs Eugene
Stratton will go to Washington ID. c.,
today for stay Of about ten days.
Miss Ella Cummings has been Wis
itng her grandfather Thomas Kin
ney in the western part of the town.
George DeLaurler who has been at
the Pittsford sanitarium for the treat
ment of tuberculosis is to return TO
his home here today
Rev. Isaac Jennings, pastor of the
Old First church at Old Bennington
has returned from Elmira, n. Y,
where he has been the guest OF his
brother.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Green, Jr.,
have returned from visiting friends in
Whits Creek, and went to Waterford
and Schenectady this afternoon to
spend few days.
John Nash Jr., has recently return
ed from the North Adams hospital
where he underwent an operation re-
Gently for a case of blood poisoning,
resulting from cut on one hand.
The great big showlngs of the new
est in dress trimmings embroideries
and laces at the Drysdale store are a
JOY and delight to the appreciators
of the beautiful.
News has been received here of the
birth of son Friday to
Mr. and Mrs Frank H. Beebe
or Toronto. Mrs Beebe was for
merly Miss Adelaide Merrill Of
, Bennington.
4 Mr.. and Mrs William II. Nichols
entertained a party of young people
Friday evening in honor of Miss Eu-
i lah Armstrong OF Chicago Maple SUI
a gar, cards and music were the feat
& ures OF the evening.
= The Elks Friday night at a largely
attended special meeting voted TO
move to the rooms in the Richie
e building recently occupied by the
e Masons provided satisfactory arrange
# ments can be made.
u Another lot of those remarkable
!, value night dresses at CSC, billowy
u piles OF combination undermuslins,
dainty princess slips and a score of
the newest corset models are conspic.
uous at the Drysdale store
) Miss Martha Pratt, a student at
o Bradford Academy at Bradford. Mass.
/ is spending the Easter vacation at
|. her home here. While here. she will
entertain as her guests, Miss Margar-
J. ct Holmes of Kansas City and Miss
y Florence Hart of Adrien, Mich
At the Methodist Episcopal church
| o'A NANNo app NHiAiAt W anu NhhNds
Will be held in the morning The pas
J. tor will preach morning and evening
Sunday school at Has; Junior Lea.
que at $3.50; Epworth League devo-
: tional service at 6 o'clock Special
services will be held Tuesday We'd
nesday Thursday and Friday even
ings. Seats free. Cordial welcome to
all.
d The bill in the New York legisla.
$ ture providing for the acquisition of
s the land in the town of Hoosick on
!. which the battle of Bennington was
d fought, for the purpose OF converting
n it into a state park, was among the
I. measures passed by the Senate Thurs
!. day night II was the only bill intro
o duced in the legislature by the late
.. Assemblyman Bradford h. Lansing OF
a the Second Rensselaer, district. An
r. appropriation OF $4,000 is provided
The bill has passed the Assembly
Z. and now goes to the governor.