The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-12-26
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Btny Readers.

Louis Morse Of Brooklyn passed
Christmas at his home here.
George Towsend of Pittsfield was
at his home here over Christmas.
Miss Bertha Shippey of Conway,
Mass, is visiting at her home here
+. A. Howard and family passed
Christmas in SALISBURY with rela-
tives.
Robert McKennan of New York
passed Christmas with relatives in
town.
Leon Lamarre has been confined
to the house with the grip for two
weeks.
Mrs. Louis Rickart of Boston Is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
II. Sweet.
Irene E. White spent Christmas at
the home of James Dinwiddie OF
Woodford.
Mr. and Mrs. William +. Ashton Of
Pittsfeld passed Christmas with rel
atiyes in town.
DR.. j. II. Cole has purchased a
five passenger Buick touring car Of
the Ideal garage.
Clarence and George Daley OF New
York are visiting their parents, DR..
and Mrs. e. B. Daley.
Mrs. Mary Manning of Adams
street has returned from a visit at
| her former home in Rutland
Oliver Doucet OF Mecianicylle
spent Christmas with his uncle,
James Dinwiddie Of Woodford.
Mrs. n. r. Douglass of South
street spent Christmas at the home
of VIM. Cushman of North Benning-
| ton.
| Mr.. and Mrs p. ]. McMahan pass
| ed Christmas with Mrs. McMahan's
sister, Mrs. Walter Slocum of Pitts
I field.
A matinee for Howe's travel pic.
! lures will be held at the opera
I house Saturday afternoon at go o.
( clock.
l.. c. Holton and daughter, Doris.
are spending the day with Mr.. Hol-
toms sister, Mrs. c. c. Cook of Pitts
/ field.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Murphy of Sche
nectady are visiting Mrs. Martin
Murphy of the western part OF the
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sweet OF Rut
land passed Christmas with Mr..
Sweets parents, Mr.. and Mrs a. II.
| Sweet
Miss Edna Waldron returned this
morning from Pttsield where she
was called because OF the illness Of
her mother.
Charles Herlihy of Greenfield,
Mass, passed Christmas at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Corners
| of Main street.
The Misses Martha. Mayme and
Gertrude Carney. Patrick and ROB-
ert Carney passed Christmas with
relatives in Proctor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Endress are
spending Christmas with their daugh
ter Mr. and Mrs. Percy Taylor and
grandson in Hartford, Conn.
Frank G. Adams Of New Berlin, ~
Y. is visiting his mother Mrs. John
Eddington and sisters. Misses
Blanche and Winifred Adams.
The Community Christmas tree
will be lighted from until every
evening from now until New Years
owing to the kindness of the Twin
State Gas and Electric Co.
d. a. ODonell OF Duluth, Mimi,
came Tuesday to be the guest of lis
! mother, Mrs. Marie O'Donnell or
River street This is Mr.. ODon-
nell's first visit to Bennington in six
teen years.
Mr.. and Mrs II. n. Williams enter.
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. +. b. Patterson
and daughter Mabel, Mrs. c. B.
March and daughter Flossie. Mr.. and
Mrs. John NJ. Burt, and Mr. and Mrs.
G. p. Endress at a Christmas dinner.
The Christmas dance of the Civic
League will take place Tuesday eve
ming December 30th at nine o'clock
The receipts will be used to defray
the expenses of the Community
Christmas tree and the winter recre-
alton work OF the league which will
be resumed January first The af-
fair promises to be a great success
and all who have not yet obtained
tickets may get them OF any of the
following; Misses Mcleod Pratt.
Keller, Perkins. Shurtleff. Ernst
Healy. Harrington. Moses and Don
nelly.
The funeral OF The late Mrs. Hanna
Gabbett. who died very suddenly
Sunday evening of heart failure.
took place Wednesday morning at 9
o'clock from the home OF her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Charles Hodge. PA North
| street. services being held from st.
Francis de Sales church. Rev. Fr.
/ Dohoney officiating. The bearers
were Francis y. Gabbett Charles
Hodge. Frances Joseph Ryan OF this
/ village: Thomas Gabbett. Jr Of
/ North Adams. Mass. Robert Mason OF
] III.