The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-28
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Miss Margaret Dagesse visited in
Pittsfield Sunday,
Paul R. Burt of Greenfield passed |
Saturday in town.
Frederick o. Coons of Albany Wis
tied in town Sunday.
Miss Regina Therin of Grove St,
visited in Pittsfield Sunday.
Frank Driscoll and Samuel Haynes
visited in Cambridge Sunday
Arthur Rodgers passed the week
end in Pittsfeld and Williamstown.
Mrs. ]. S. Clark of North Benning-
ton, who has been i'll, is recovering.
Miss Margaret Morris and Miss
Maria Burns spent Sunday in Pitts
field.
Miss Alfredo Merchant Of McKin- |
ley street is visiting in Hartford,
Conn.
Lester Vail Of Boston is visiting
his father Barker Vail, at Old Ben
nington.
Miss Martha Pratt and her Sunday
school class passed Saturday at Bar
ber's pond.
DR.. and Mrs. L. H. Ross were reg
istered at Hotel Woodstock, New
York, Saturday.
Howard H. Shields of Old Benning
ton returns today from a business
trip to st. Louis.
Frank Briggs has returned from
his home in Manchester where he
passed the week end
Miss Kathryn Jenney is working
at the telephone office in the place OF
| Miss Irene Davis, who is i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Russell of
Hoosick Falls were guests of Mrs.
Eliza Enright of Adams street Sun
day.
Frank Morgan of Lexington,
Mass, passed the week end with his
mother, Mrs. Martin Morgan of JEFF
| ferson avenue.
Miss Mary Shaw of Old Benning-
ton, who has been visiting in Bling
hampton, N. Y, will return the latter
part of this week.
Miss Elizabeth Shields and Hamil-
ton Shields of Old Bennington, who
have been visiting their aunt in Troy,
return home today.
Mrs. Charles E. Welles, who has
passed the winter at the Caldwell in
Troy, will open her summer home at
Old Bennington tomorrow.
Harry B. Hopkinson motored home
from Boston Saturday accompanied
by H. S. Hodge. in REQ automobile
which Mr.. Hopkinson secured in that
city.
The sewing circle of the ladies of
the o. E. S. will not hold a meeting
this week on Tuesday afternoon, as it
was necessary for the meeting to be
postponed
Frank White, who has been visit
| ing Mr. and Mrs. +. II. Ferguson and
his brother Lyman White of North
| Bennington, has returned TO his
home in Troy.
There will be an important meet
ing of the board of directors of the
Bennington Baseball association at
the Stark hose rooms at o'clock
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Robert Hall, who has been
travelling in Europe during the win
| ter will sail for New York tomorrow
and will arrive at her home in Old
Bennington May 10.
The Night-Hawks and Brush Shop
teams will bowl on the Y. NJ. c. A.
alleys tonight to decide a tie in the
standing of the respective teams in
the Second Bowling league.
The Baptist and Episcopal Sunday
school teams will play their game of
baseball this afternoon at 4 o'clock
in the series of games in the Sunday
school league on the Playground.
The young ladies' gym class of the
Y. M. c. A. will hold their closing
class next Monday evening. but the
gym will be open to members of the
class tonight without the regular
routine.
James NJ. Bourne has been recon-
mended by the selectmen of the town
of Manchester to take charge of high
way construction in that town, in
stead of Amos w. Brown, as previous
ly stated.
Miss Minnie Wyman was at her
home in Manchester over Sunday.
She was accompanied by Master Ar
thur Remington, who is TO join his
mother, Mrs. Ralph Remington who
is visiting in Manchester.
The taxpayers are not turning in
their lists so rapidly as the listers
would wish. 1t would seem that
there should be less delay than
usual this year for the reason that
there are no Offsets to be figured.
Clerk of the board of water com
missioners, William z. Hogan, states
that the water rents are being paid
into the treasury even more readily
than had been expected. There are
a few delinquents who have probab-
ly neglected the payments through
forgetfulness.
The section between the iron bridge
west of the Vermont soldiers home
and the Governor Robinson bridge has
been selected for the first piece of
state highway to be built in the
town OF Bennington this year. This
stretch of road runs between a thick
growth of shade trees and during
I fr4rs l.