The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-06
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
he.ss of the Town and Village Told Briefly
Tor Busy Readers

Same price this week sc at the
Emory s. Harris went Monday to
Burlington on business
Mrs. Fred Hollis of Pittsfield is a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Shaksho-
Der.
Miss Myrtle Gardner of Pownal has
been a guest of friends at North Ben
nington.
The Democratic National conven-
ton in Baltimore at the Whitney
theatre today.
The playground will be open Tues
from $3.50 until dusk.
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Warren
and children will go this afternoon
to West Sand Lake.
James H. Shufelt and Miss Anna
J. Shufelt went this morning to Bos-
ton for a few days stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hacker of
Baltimore passed Sunday with Mr..
ana MIS-. 11lTdUl I1dlllSOH.
State Senator Gaylor of Wisconsin
will make an address on Socialism
in Bennington on August 10.
There will be band concert tomor-
row evening at the postoffice lot on
the corner of Union and South streets.
James Eddy of Old Bennington
went to Pittsfield Monday to be the
guests of his brother, Titus Eddy, of
that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell NJ. Hyde re-
turned Sunday to their home in
Pittsfield after spending a two weeks
vacation here.
There will be a regular monthly
meeting of the Bennington Aerie of
Fraternal Order of Eagles this even
ing at 8 o'clock
Miss Marian Crandell of Glens
Falls is visiting her relatives at the
home of Mrs. Clinton L. Russell of
Old Bennington.
Miss Fanny Aldrich is taking the
place of Miss Jane II. Burgess at the
office of Holden and Healy during
the latter's vacation.
Mrs. March will have on sale for
few days only, second hand articles
of every description, on North street,
! second house south of grist mill
Mrs A. NJ Edgerton has gone to
join her daughter, Lucretia. who is
visiting in Wallingford. VT They
will both go today farther north.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Hazeltine of
Cambridge, England, came Monday to
Bennington to be the guests of Mrs.
Hazeltine's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George F. Graves of Washington
street.
While digging this morning at the
southwestern testpit on the post.
Office lot at the corner of South and
Union street the men struck water at
depth of 10 feet. This will nee
essitate the draining Of the lot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Young and daugh-
ter of Greensboro are visiting at the
home of DR.. s. w. Goodall Mrs.
Young, who was formerly Miss Flor.
ence Wilson, is niece of DR.. Good
all, and was graduated from the local
high school in the class of 1897.
The ladies of Circle No. of the NJ.
r.. church will hold lawn social on
Friday evening at the home of Mrs.
f. E. Long. There will be instrumen.
tai and vocal music and ice cream
and cake served. Tickets, 10 cents.
A monument has been erected in
the Old Bennington cemetery by Mrs
George Prentice in honor of her faith.
er and mother, Nathaniel Brown and
wife, Sarah, and their son, Eugene
ii. Brown. This monument is the full
flllment of one of the last requests of
the late Eugene II. Brown.
Last Sunday the young men OF the
Bushnell District Sunday school or
ganized Baraca Glass with the fol-
lowing officers: President, Warren
Ostrander; vice-president, Allan Nor
gan; secretary, Albert Brown; treas
urer Walter Niles; teacher, A. S.
| Edison; hustlers committee. +. Edger-
ton; social committee, Walter Niles.
The class will meet each Sunday at
p. m. and all the young men in the
district are invited to attend