The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-17
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end in Rutland.
Ernest Brown of Waterford has
been visiting James McCue.
Wilbur Kendall of Pittsfield for
mer resident, is visiting in town.
C. B. Simpson of Main street has
returned from brief stay in Boston.
Miss Louise Burns has returned
from two weeks vacation in New
York.
Miss Martha Holton, who has been
visiting in Rutland, has returned
home.
Miss Mary ODonnell and Miss
Katheleen Quinlan are at Nahant
Beach.
Miss Edna Marsh of Adams spent
Saturday here and returned home
Sunday.
Mrs. F. T. Hopkinson and Miss
Hazel Lasher have returned from
Revere Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. C. Nolan of Pitts
field have been visiting Mrs. Nolan's
| parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Briggs.
The main road to Pownal from a
| point on South street to the Fay
school house is closed for repairs.
John II. Daley, who has been visit
| ing his parents, DR.. and Mrs. Il. b.
Daley, returned Sunday to New York.
Miss Alfredo Mahnken of New
York, who has been guest of Miss
Winifred Adams, has returned home.
S. ID. Estes and family. who have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Hodge, have returned to Oneida, N.
Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Mcdonald
of st. Adams are guests OF Mr. and
Mrs. Edward M. Foshier of Dewey
| street.
Miss Eliza McCue and her guest
Miss Helen Kohler of Troy have
been visiting in Bellows Falls and
| Rutland.
Miss Mary Lewis, o. D., Registered
| Optometrist win be in charge of Or.
Lewis local Office while he is absent
on his vacation.
Mrs. Theresa Albro. who has been
spending a few weeks at her former
home here, returned Saturday to her
home in Brooklyn.
| Charles Clapp of Jersey City, N. j.,
for many years an engineer on the
| Pennsylvania railroad, is visiting at
his former home here.
Miss Fannie LoOmis, who has been
spending a vacation with her sisters,
Misses Jessie and Edna LOOMS, has
returned to New York.
J. Leve, who with his wife has
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Levin, has returned to New York.
Mrs. Leve will remain here for some
time.
DR.. Dewitt Lewis and family leave
on their vacation to Lake Cossayuna,
N. Y, Wednesday August 18th. His
office will be open as usual during
his absence of one week
Rev. w. w. Eaton, pastor of Lev
ings Methodist church In Troy, and
| Mrs. Eaton win deliver addresses ut
the Sweet picnic which will be held
at Battlefield park Wednesday.
About 40 members Of the local Sec
ton of the Green Mountain club left
this morning for trip over the trail
| TO Somerset dam. Probably very
| few will go the full distance, each
group going as far as they please.
| ]. p. Taylor of Burlington. president
of the Green Mountain club of Yer
mont came to Bennington this morn
ing TO Join the party.
Michael Saifey. a Syrian lad of II
| years, was arraigned before the jul
venile court Friday on the charge of
killing song birds. 1t was also
charged against the boy that he had
fired an air rifle on several occasions
without taking any pains to observe
where the shots struck. County
Fish and Game Warden Il. S. Hig-
gins took a hand in the case be-
cause of the alleged violation of the
fish and game laws relating to the
destruction of song birds. The war
den insists that he will prosecute to
the limit every violation of this par
| ticular statute that come to his at
! tention. The arrest was made by
| Officer Richard Hurley. The boy was
put on probation.
Mrs. S. II. Blackmer received word
Sunday from her son, Howard. who
| with his tutor, f. ID. Mabrey, mas
been stranded for some time in
Europe. They were in Cologne when
war was declared and experienced
difficulty in trying to get out of
Germany. Finally they went from
Cologne to tho Hook of Holland and
| from there sailed TO England, landing
at Harwick. From that seaport town
they proceeded further inland to
Norwich. They expect to sail from
Liverpool Thursday on the steamer
Adriatic landing at New York. This
was the ship on which they intended
To return when they left Bennington
foT their European trip.
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