The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-05
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
aews of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers

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Sunday.
Henry Mars of ST. Adams is pass
ing the day with Mr.. and Mrs. H. H.
Stillson.
James A. Eddy went to Pittsfield
this morning to visit his brother, IL
tus Eddy.
Michael Toomey and Maurice Muir
ply returned Sunday from a visit In
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Burns OF Spring
street have returned from short
stay in Troy.
Joseph and Harry Hufnagle and
Harold Bottum were at Hedges Lake
over Sunday.
James Flanagan OF Cambridge, who
was formerly employed here, spent
Sunday in town.
Miss Mary Clark of Albany has
been a guest of Miss Eliza Burns
during the past few days.
A son was born Sunday morning
August 4, to Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene A
Wattles of Union street.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fealey of New
York are the guests of William Nc
Carthy of Old Bennington.
C. ]. Kinsley of the Banner staff
has gone to Johnson, this state, to
| visit relatives for few days.
Mrs. Frank e. Howe and children
are to return this afternoon from
two weeks stay at York Beach, Me.
There will be a regular meeting of
the village board of trustees Tuesday
evening at 7.30 in the village rooms.
Miss Virginia King is in town.
She can be heard at the Library thea.
ire during the first three days of this
week.
Miss Edith Barratt and A. S. Nut
ting of Rutland passed Sunday here
as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Andrews
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl H. Marsden,
who have been housekeeping on
Union street, have returned to the
putnam House.
Mrs. William Andrews and her
guests, Miss Harriet Barrett and Wal
ter Buck of Rutland are spending the
day in Pittsfeld
Mr.. and Mrs. Towsend X. yelling
ton and son of Troy are visiting at
the home of George B. Wellington of
Old Bennington.
Miss Jane H. Burgess, who is EN-
ployed as a stenographer at the office
of Holden and Healy, began a weeks
vacation this morning.
Word was received this morning of
the death of Mrs. Harriet Ashton OF
Cambridge, n. Y, mother of Mrs. +.
Ashton, formerly of Bennington.
Miss Kate Baker and Miss Annie
Abersman of Brooklyn, N. Y, are
spending their vacation with Mrs.
Minnie Levin on Gage and Park
streets.
Howard II. Shields went to Sarato-
ga this morning to accompany home
his daughter who has been passing
some time with Prof. and Mrs.
Ricketts,.
Mrs. f. J. Cummings of North
street returned Saturday from a
weeks visit at the home of her father,
Thomas Kinney of the west part OF
the town.
Mr. and Mrs. John Spargo of Old
Bennington went to Silver Bay, Lake
George, Friday where Mr.. Spargo is
to make a series of addresses before
the school of Y. NJ. c. A. secreta-
ries there.
Miss Margaret Dryer, formerly OF
Bennington, who has been living in
Boulder, Colo, for the past few
months, recently entered the training
school for nurses at St. Josephs
Hospital, Denver.
Misses Barbara Burt, Polly Har-
bour, Ruth Burt, Gladys Fauley. Jane
II. Burgess, Bertha Lambert, and Ger
trude Valpey of Lawrence, Mass,
went. Saturday to BARRIERS Pines to
spend Sunday, returning last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Almon c. Brown of
New York with their daughter. Mar
CARAT, and son, Almon, Mrs. Henry c.
Babcock and daughter, Hazel of Hoo
sick, were guests Sunday of Mrs.
Henrietta Adams of Grandview street.
Miss Abbie Kinney of Attleboro,
Mass. and Miss Hilda Foland, who is
employed there, returned to that city
Sunday after having been the guest
of the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. POLAND during the past
week.
Adele Pratt Smith, who has been
employed at the Banner Office as
linotype operator, has finished work
there after a service of over nine
years. Before that she was employed
for some time by Perry & Keeseman.
She was one of the most competent
and faithful young women every EN-
ployed in a printing Office and The
Banner exceedingly regrets her resig-
nation though he circumstances are
such that the paper expects later to
extend congratulations. Her place in
this Office is temporarily filled by
Miss Mary /. Mcmahon OF Montpelier.