The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-30
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
sews OF the Town and Village Told Briefly
Tor B,as Raadess-

Miss Grace Adams of Troy is visit
ing in town.
Joe Levin returned today from a
business trip to New York.
| Miss Stella Van Gorder and Miss
Mary Hyde are in Troy today.
Samuel c. Lyons and son, Sanford,
left Saturday for Washington, d. C.
Don't forget the Glee club meeting
tonight at the Young Women's club.
Mrs. Mason Smith is moving to
Rowe. Mass, where she is to reside
in the future
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Burchard have
returned from a visit in Springfield
and Holyoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Townsend of
Pittsfeld are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Allen of County street.
New Glee club leader tonight at
Young Women's club. Meeting begins
at o'clock. Be sure and come.
Miss Ethel Davenport is home
from her school at West Bridge
water, Mass. for the Easter recess.
The Graduation club of the Baptist
church will meet at the home of Mrs.
| ID. Il. Lewis for the weekly reading
There will be a regular meeting of
the Bennington lodge OF Elks tomor
row March 80, night with initiation
t2
Miss Lillian Marsh is moving from
the Burnham house on Union street
to the Mallory house on Bradford
street.
John Gleason. who is attending
Worcester academy, is spending the
Easter vacation with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. d. NJ. Gleason.
The Brotherhood Bible class of the
Y. NJ. c. A. will meet as usual Tues
day at $50 p. m Mr. Austin will be
in charge of the lesson.
Miss Hawkins will direct the sing
ing this evening for the first time at
the Glee club meeting. Meeting opens
at O'clock in the Young Womens
club rooms
James O'Neil, in the Count of
Monte Cristo," in five parts. produc-
ed by the Famous Players Film com
pany. will be shown at the Library
theatre today, only.
Eighty friends and neighbors gath
cred at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Gardner Saturday evening
and gave them a very pleasant sur
prise. Dancing and cards were enjoy
ed and refreshments served.
Ladies' Missionary Reading Circle
of the First Baptist church will be en-
tertained ON Tuesday afternoon, Mar
31st. by Mrs. II. p. Woodman, in the
social rooms of the church. All the
ladies are cordially invited to be pres
ent.
Walter Cook severes his connec
tion with the Livingston Press next
Saturday and leaves town to seek pas
lures new. There are openings to be
found for good printers everywhere
at top-notch wages, and he will find
no difficulty in landing a position.
The Pirates and Tammanyites will
meet for a match game tonight on
the Y. NJ. c. A. bowling alleys. Tues
day evening the Hillsides and Big
Mill teams will bowl, this being a
change from the announced schedule,
the Hillsides changing places with
the Congregational Church team who
will bowl on Wednesday.
An exceptionally pretty display of
house plants, in bloom, is just now
occupying the broad window in the
office of f. l.. Bates on the second
floor of the opera house block Inter
spersed with some of the standard
varities of geraniums and other
plants are a blossoming japonica and !
4 lobster cactus. The cactus is a par
ticularly SNOWY specimen with its fire
red blossom.
Plans are being made to have
group of the boys in the Y. NJ. c. A.
membership take advantage of an
educational trip to several of the man
eAoNNbiAht pants III lit NliiuFt anu
to the telephone exchange. The boys
will be in charge of one of the associ-
alton officers. and il present plans
are carried out the party will start
Tuesday afternoon at 2.30 from the
association building. Any boy mem
bers interested should notify the Of
fee before noon tomorrow so the
group may be divided if too many
want to go.
William Watson. while driving ov-
er School street Saturday afternoon.
discovered a small hole in the sur
face of the highway directly over the
line of the power trunk which runs
through the village. He at once call
ed the attention of village Clerk Ho-
gan to the washout and Street Com
missioner Buss was summoned. The
commissioner no sooner began to in
vestigate than the surface of the
road for several feet fell into the
trunk. The roof of the trunk had rot
ted away and the earth except for
the thin crust OF macadam had been
washed down stream. II is fortunate
that the cave-in did not occur while