The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-13
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers

today.
Mrs. William Walden of Arlington
passed Monday in town.
Mr. and Mrs Charles Hover of Ar
lington visited here Monday.
Mrs. C. S. Buchanan will return
today from an outing in Woodford.
Alfred P. Williams went to Bur
lington Monday night on business.
Arvin French of the local express
Office is taking a two weeks vacation.
William Wills is enjoying a vaca-
ton from his duties at Drysdale's
store
Merritt o. Wood has returned
from weeks vacation spent at Lake
st Cathnr'~e
Miss Edna Walbridge has accepted
position as principal of the Han
cock, Mass, village school.
Rev. G. S. Mills expects to be
| home in time to conduct the chapel
service on Thursday evening of this
week
Mr.. and Mrs. William Warren and
children of School street, have re-
turned from an outing at West Sand
Lake.
Fred G. Sillars of Boston, who has
been the guest of his brother, Chas.
Sillars, returned today to his home
in that city.
Miss Helen Christie and Miss
Helen Alexander of Providence, r. l..
are spending a few weeks in town
with friends.
Joseph J. Daley of New York, who
has been the guest OF his parents, DR..
and Mrs. f. b. Daley, returned Mon
day to that city.
l.. b. Parker, who is acting as ex-
press messenger between Burlington
and New York during the summer,
returned to Burlington Monday after
spending Sunday in town.
Mrs. James Maloney, Jr., who was
! taken to the Troy city hospital last
Wednesday to be operated on for ap-
pendicitis is convalescing rapidly.
Mrs. Howard S. Mills and daughter
Mary Louise of Long Island City, n.
Y. are visiting Mrs Mills aunt, Miss
S. Jennie Muligan of Lincoln st.
Senator and Mrs. Henry T. Cush-
man will go tomorrow to st. Johns
bury to be the guests of Lieutenant
Governor and Mrs. Leighton p.
Slack
Mrs. l.. Benjamsohn and child of
New York, Mrs j. l.. Melhado and T.
D. Melhado of Poughkeepsie are
guests of NJ Margolin of North
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Burton came
home Monday from Greenwich, N. Y.
where they were called Saturday by
the serious illness of Mr.. Burton's
sister.
A rally will be held here by the Ma
tional Progressive Party on the eve
ming of August 16. The speakers of
the evening have not yet been an
nounced.
Mrs. James Townsend and Miss
Dunnebecq of Rochester, N. Y, and
Mrs +. NJ Lathrop of Arlington
were the guests yesterday of Mrs.
Mary Adams.
\ special meeting of Stark Lodge
tomorrow evening at Odd Fellows
Hall Business OF importance to be
transacted. All members requested
to be present.
The Junior Epworth League mem
bers of the Methodist church are
holding an outing today at the
Rooney grove. Miss Carrie Wood
having charge.
A. J. Delamter, who is to present
the play "Freckes" in the forth-com-
ing season, recently sent the library
a gift copy of this popular novel by
Gene Stratton-Porter.
Ex-Governor John G.. Mccullough
of North Bennington, who has been
seriously i'll was in Bennington yes
terday accompanied by his daughter
Miss Ella Mccullough of Poughkeep-
sic.
William Chase of New York city,
who is employed there by the Ameri-
can Express company. is the guest of
his son Arthur Chase. Mr.. Chase
was a former employee at the local
express Office.
The young women of the Bushnell
District Sunday school organized
Philathea elias Sunday with the fol
lowing officers: President. Miss
Myrtle Sweet, vice-president, Miss
Goldie Young. secretary. Miss Belle
Thompson, treasurer. Miss Harriet
Morgan. teacher. Miss Matte Hicks,
committees. Hustlers. Miss Dorothy
Hathaway; social. Miss Ella Potter