The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-07-23
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

a visitor in town today
Whitney theatre this week after
noon, and evening cents.
+ w. ]. Meagher went to Albany
Monday afternoon on business.
Archie Camp has returned from a
visit in Rutland and vicinity.
Prentis Kent of Rutland is spend
ing the day in town on business.
Samuel Holt has returned from
Pittsfeld where he passed the week
end
Mr. and Mrs. Truman Martin of
Arlington were in the village yester-
day.
Mis- Della Dewmaw has returned
from a visit at her home in Claran-
den.
Judge Edward Griffith of Manches-
ter was in town yesterday on bust
ness.
Mrs. Andrew b Oatman and Miss
Lena Goldsmith are spending the day
in Albany.
Miss Kate a. Jordan of Hartford,
Conn., is visiting his sister, Mrs. G.
p Endress.
Earl CULVER has resigned his posi-
ton at the Garreau barber shop on
| Main street
George NJ Hawks has returned
Portland, Me.
Animated weekly and couple Of
good dramas with a. b. Cummings at
! the Whitney today.
Miss Beulah Bates has returned
from the Christian Endeayor conyen-
ton at Silver Bay
Mrs. George 7. Lane of Old Ben
nington, who has been seriously ill,
is rapidly recovering.
Miss Wilhemina Van Ow and Miss
Minnie Neher were week end guests
OF friends in Pittsfield.
William Peltier of Pittsfeld, a for
mer resident, spent Monday in town
as the guest of friends.
yelling Thatcher and Thatcher
Ayers went this morning to Mystic
Conn, for the summer.
The Bennington baseball team
went to North Adams this afternoon
to play an exhibition game With the
Tunnel City aggregation.
Miss Elizabeth Morrissey of the
Troy city hospital, Troy, N Y is
a guest at her home here.
Suren Gulian came this morning to
Bennington from New York He will
spend several days here on business.
Mrs. Hiram H. Allen and Mrs lisa
belle Rising are spending the day in
Hoosick Falls as the guests OF
| friends.
Clyde c. Bidwell, who has been Wis
iting his aunt, Mrs. q. p. Endress,
has returned to his home in Hart
ford, Conn.
Mrs. Alexander Dragon has return
ed from the Troy city hospital, where
she has been for treatment during
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester II. Nichols OF
Rochester, n. Y, are the guests of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs T. l.. Mic
| hols of Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ward of Col.
bleskill, n. Y, who have been visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. George Phelps
have returned home.
Miss Janet Shurtleff has returned
from a two weeks stay at Fortunes
| Rock, Me, where she was the guest
of Miss Phyllis Schuyler
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Houghton OF
Troy, who have been spending sever
al days in town returned yesterday
to their home in that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart Chidsey of Eas-
ton Penn, who have been the guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. e. Hollister OF
South street returned to that city
last evening.
Leon b. Parker was in Jacksonville
Sunday visiting Mrs. Parker who is
now making good progress toward a
complete recovery from an attack OF
typhoid fever.
An elm tree in front of the First
National bank on West Main street is
being cut down by force OF men
employed by the Twin State Gas and
Electric company.
Frederick G.. Peake. William Fitz
gerald. Harvey Colvin and Thomas
Powers went by automobile Sunday
to the dam at Somerset returning bS
way of North Adams
Mrs. +. H. Pratt invites the circle.
and friends OF the Ladies Aid society
OF the Baptist church to her home or
Washington Ave. on Wednesday at
ternoon from until o'clock
The condition of Mrs. Ida Bias
sett OF Gage. who is in the Samari
tan hospital, where she underwent an
operation for appendicitis and gal
stones, is thought to be improving.
Mrs John Norton of East Airing
ton and Miss Barbara Norton of Bos
ton, who has been visiting friends in
East Arlington. are passing today
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. b. Bingham
George 4. Mathers. a Troy attorney
and a son of Mr. and Mrs. George r
Mathers of this village. has recently
been appointed special guardian OF
one OF the sons of the late George 3
Cluett
William J. Warren has resigned his
position at the Frank A. Wahlquist
blacksmith shop and accepted EN-
pioyment as foreman with Walter II
Woodland at his shop on Washington
avenue.
Mr.. Frank Hoffman Of Chicago.
who last night spoke on Socialism
in front OF the Putnam House. will
speak tonight at the Bank corner in