The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-07-11

News Of the Town and Village fold Briefly
fcy B0sy Readers-

Joseph B. Bingham is in Albany
today on business.
Miss Agnes Stowell of Manchester
Is visiting in the village.
Jerome B. Stearns of Hoosick is
spending the day in the village.
Mrs. John Hopt of New York is
visiting her sister, Miss Katherine
Barrett.
Prof Russell of Williamstown will
preach in the Old First church next
Sunday.
Simeon Crosier, who was kicked on
the knee by horse few days ago
while working for Hiland Fay, is able
to be out again.
Miss Sophia Goldsmith went to St.
Adams this afternoon for a visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. George b. Butler, form
er residents of Bennington.
Alexander II. Dunnett of st.
Johnsbury, U. S. District Attorney
for the District of Vermont, and
wife visited in Bennington Thurs.
day,
Mr. and Mrs. John Nash and Jo-
seph and John Nash, Jr., are In Co
hoes today attending the funeral of
Thomas .Morrlssey, former resident
of this village.
Nathan and Murphy those clever
roller skate artists . arrived last
night from New York. They are to
fill two days engagement at the
library theatre.
A. T. Brown and family of Rutland
are moving to the Graves house on
Washington avenue. Mr.. Brown is
the superintendent of the Benning
ton Scale company.
Mrs. John Flynn, accompanied by
her sister, Mrs. Patrick Shea of Ea
gle Bridge, went to Cohoes this morn
ing to attend the funeral of their cou
sin, Thomas Morrissey
Twenty-Five members of the Har-
rison Pleasure club are spending 10
days at the residence of Mrs. John
Mould, Locust Shade farm. 1t is ex-
pected that the members of the club
Will leave for Jersey Saturday, July
II, at 3.15 p. m.
H. Wilson Hoyt of New York is
visiting in town. His boyhood was
spent here but he left Bennington 80
years ago. Mr.. Hoyt is a son OF
the late Howard NJ. Hoyt, who was
cashier for the S. B. Hunt Co.,
when that company operated the big
mill. Mr.. Hoyts grandfather was at
one time rector of st. Peters
church. q
Lifts of letters remaining uncalled
| for at the postofiice for the week end
ing July 7, 1913: Mr.. Sumner w.
Gushing, Mr. George Dawson, Al Sig
nor francesca Moscotiello. Mr..
Ralph B. Mason. F. o. Box 594; Mr..
Geo. H. Pierce, Mrs Emily Buroy,
Miss Alice NJ. Holt, Mrs. Margaret
Mann, Miss Emily p. Nichols, Miss
Ethel Savard, Mrs. Martin Traverse.
Bennington is to be congratulated
upon the announcement from Sena-
tor c S. Page that the contract for
the new post office building in that
town had been let and that work
on the same would be commenced
Immediately. This building and
that of the new high school build.
ing will make things lively in the
building line in Bennington for some
time to e.-Mancheste Journal
The funeral of Stephen E. Gleason
an inmate of the soldiers home
whose death occurred Wednesday
was held from the Woodford City
church this afternoon at / o'clock
Rev George NJ. Gerrich of NORTH
Adams officiated. A delegation from
the C. A. r. attended, The bearers
were William Knapp, William Bow
les, Hiram and Jessie Bugbee. TIL,
burial was in the Woodford City cen
etery,
The 1914 season of the Benning
ton Opera house will open August
with George Evans Honeyboy Min
strels. Among the long list of al
, fractions for the season, some o
the most important bookings are a
follows: Little Miss Fix-It," Fin
Feathers, What Happened t
Mary" 'Dingbat Family" 9TH
Spring Maid" The Newlyweds an
Their Baby" Stop Thief" With
: the Law, Aborn opera company /
Chimes of Normandy" Chauncey c
colt, Officer &C.,, AL G. Fields mil
strels. Two well known repertoir
companies and high class movin
pictures will be interspersed durin
the season.