The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-09-26
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
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Tor Busy Readers

HOuldS DuHH Vi udSS ST., 10 III.
George Bruno of Mill street is i'll.
John H. Moore was in Troy Thurs
day on business.
F. NJ Paddock has sold his Pope
Hartford car to L. j. Percy.
Edward Connors and Edward Green
are in Boston on a business trip.
The w. X. C. will hold a fair in
the II. A. ID. rooms Nov. u, %. Adv.
Mrs. Lutz of River street left this
morning for few days visit in New
York.
Night robes for men % cents at
the 25-cent store, Saturday at 3
o'clock. ADV.
Surveyors are here today working
out lines for location of the proposed
new scale works.
Mrs. E. A. Booth and Miss Rather
inc Gibbons of North Bennington
spent Thursday in Pittsfeld.
Miss Agnes Meagher of Mill street
an employee at Cooper's needle shop,
is taking a vacation of two weeks.
Joseph Meagher of Mill street left
this morning for visit of two weeks
with his aunt at Great harrington.
A son was born Sept. 25th to Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Stratton of Branch
street extension. Weight 10 pounds.
Mrs. Geo. f. Green of North Ben
nington was a guest Thursday of her
mother, Mrs. Amelia Buss of Park
street.
St. Marys Guild of st, Peters
Episcopal church was entertained
Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Quack-
enbush McCandliss.
Dewey Jenny, Alden Graves and
Stephen Robinson returned Thursday
from New York city, where they had
been since Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Potter left
Thursday for Detroit Mich. where
they will reside. Mr.. Potter has a po-
sition in Detroit as street railway con
duetor.
Miss Ethel Bratton of New York,
who has been the guest of her sister,
Mrs Frank Thompson of Beech
street, left this morning to resume
her duties as teacher in Columbia uni
versity.
Some one removed Archie Kings
bicycle last night from Gage street
and Chief of Police Brazil found 1t
this morning on Pleasant street
Looks like some one took the wheel
TO- joke.
The funeral OF Eva Babcock, the
fourmonths daughter of M and
Mrs. Guy Is. Babcock of North Ben
nington was held FROM the house this
morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. j. c.
Clark officiating. Burial was in
White Creek.
c NJ. Lambert and son have com
pleted 1880 feet OF cement sidewalk
at Old Bennington and are now ex-
tending the sidewalk which was re-
Gently laid in this village from North
TO Stafford street, and from the latter
street to Grove street. A cement
Walk VIII StCu Dc ldlu III lAbhN VI NV
store of T ~ Carpenter & son, ana
this will complete the sidewalk
jobs for the season. More than $500
running feet of public sidewalk has
been laid during the summer.
On a recent Monday a telegram
was received in Bennington, VT, for
Mr.. S.. but when his house was call
ed the operator was told that he had
left for Boston by automobile, but II
was thought he would stop over night
at Brookfeld Mass. The message
was important as it demanded his
presence in New York on the follow
ing Wednesday to attend a directors
meeting. The operator turned the
message over to the manager who
later in the evening called the hotel
in Brookheld and got Mr.. s, the call
being charged to Mr. SIS telephone
in Bennington. Mr.. S. went to Bos
ton. whence he took train TO New
York in time TO attend the meeting
On his return he called at the cen
trail office and expressed his apprecia-
ton 70. the servic rendered. He said
IL was very important that he should
be at the meeting and that If he had
not called him at Brookfield he prob
ably would have missed it. -Tele-
phone Topics.