The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-07
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Ssws Of the Town and Village fold Briefly
sOr Busy Readern-

1900 "~--~~
Mothers day post cards and letters
at Evans.
Mrs. Lyman Armstrong of Maple
street is i'll.
Martin Peckham has purchased a
Ford runabout.
Mrs. James A. Eddy of Troy is in
the village today.
E. L. Nichols has three or four
loads of ashes TO give away.
Deputy Sheriff John Nash was in
Greenwich Monday on business.
Samuel Holt has returned from
Pittsfeld where he has been visiting
his family.
The regular monthly meeting of
the board of village trustees will be
held this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs d. L. Dragon have
moved from Park street to the Day
tenement on School street
John Alard, the North street bar
Der, has installed two of the latest
model barber chairs in his shop
Mrs. Nanny and Miss Margaret Ry.
an of Adams street have returned
from a visit in Troy and Albany.
Hon. and Mrs. C. II. Darling of
Burlington left for New York today
after a brief visit in the village
Three pound Electric Iron for 1925
on Saturday, May 18th, at Twin
State Gas and Electric Co. See adj
vertisement. 71t4
A regular meeting Of Catamount
Commandery, L. o. G. c. will be held
this evening. All members are urged
to be present.
Miss Margaret Francis Of Troy is
being entertained by Miss Edith Van
Santyoord at the latter's home at
Furnace Grove.
Mrs Charles Glowser of Cambridge
Mass, former resident, who has
been visiting Mrs +. T. Griswold and
Mrs. ID. ]. Merriman, has returned
home
The local high school is trying the
experiment of solid session from :
to one o'clock instead Of two ses.
sions daily. This system is in use in
many places.
Mrs. j. a. Evans went to Pittsfeld
this morning to accompany home her
son, Francis, who has been passing
several days with his aunt, Mrs Hen
ry Mccormick.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs
G. W. Williams who is i'll OF typhoid
fever is reported to be improving.
The fever has entirely abated and il
is expected that the child will now
} rapidly regain her health.
. The painters who went out on
strike for eight hours on April l.
held a meeting Monday evening with
some of the contractors at the Stark
hose rooms but nothing looking tow
ard an adjustment of the difficulty
was reached.
II is not likely that a large amount
of business will be transacted at the
June term of county court which op
ems at Manchester on the 4th of mex
month. At the present time there is
but little work ahead for the states
attorney, and fewer civil cases thar
usual are being filed at the Office OF
the county clerk The grand and
petit iuries will not be drawn until
the 20th.
The Hon. J. Wilder Fairbank o
! Boston will lecture in the Secon,
Congregational church Friday even
e ing on Dickens as Recall Him
e with a visit to His Homes ant
Haunts' This lecture will be beau
tifully Illustrated with 1875 colCi
graph lantern slides. II is given IN
der the auspices of the Congregation
, al Brotherhood, which is selling tn
| tickets for twenty-five cents. Else
/ where they have sold for fifty cent
1 but the Brotherhood Is DESTROYS OF
very general patronage for the le,
y ture. and so has fixed this moderat
| price.
Probation officer John Nash ha
Z received notice from Secretary lie
5. Tillotson OF st. Adams that
meeting of the state probation OH
GERS will be held at Montpelier o
4 May u and %. It is expected this
4 the governor. the superior judges. III
1 superintendent OF the different peni
l institutions and the judges OF III
municipal courts will be In after
\ dance. The first days session wi
Il be devoted to instruction of the pr,
4 baton officers in the matter OF keel
| ing records and on the following da
some proposed legislation will |
D | discussed