The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-12-21
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Nsws OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

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Miss Esse Noyeck Of New York is
the holiday guest of Mr.. and Mrs. No
week OF Union street.
Edward Bergeron of County street
is absent from his employment at the
Scott Machine Works, through i'll
ness
ASK for and save the checks given
with every purchase at the New York
store, handsome premiums given free
with checks Adv
Wallace Venable is spending the
Christmas holidays at his home here
from Waitsfeld, where he is principal
OF the high school.
Mrs F.. w. Tillson left Monday af
ternoon to spend the Christmas hoh-
days with her sister Mrs. NJ. S.
Childs OF Manchester.
Mrs. Calvin Endress leaves tomor-
row morning for Hartford. Conn,
where she will spend the Christmas
holidays with relatives.
Edward Reil. who has been employ
ed at the Bennington garage, has left
his employment there temporarily
and returned to his former home In
Cohoes.
Miss Bessie NJ Kline, musical in
structor in the public schools left
yesterday for her home in Littleton,
N. H., to remain until after the first
of the new year.
Miss Margaret Pilling, who is in
training for recreation and summer
civic vacation work has arrived TO
spend the holidays with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Pilling Of SAT-
ford street.
Among the Christmas shoppers
from Arlington and East Arlington in
town yesterday were Mr.. and Mrs.
William Z. Webb, Mr.. and Mrs l.. H.
billiard Mrs. Truman Martin and
sister, Miss Nichols and Guy Nc
Keen.
All goods for the last wash of the
week for the Bennington Sanitary
Laundry must be in by o'clock
Thursday morning for delivery this
week. Office will be open Friday eve
ming and closed all days Saturday.
ADV.
Miss Mary Parker entertained
party Of friends at her home on Pleas
ant street Monday evening, a social
hour being spent in music games and
ending with light refreshments, \
feature of the occasion was Christ
mas tree.
Skating on Benton pond is reported
excellent, the ice being about 10 in
ches in thickness. Not enough ice has
yet been removed to make it danger
Gus and the youngsters out OF school
this week are improving the oppor-
tunit.. 9r
Cards bearing particles Of glass,
metal mica, sand, tinsel or other
similar substances, shall not be &C
cepted for mailing, except when in
closed in envelopes tightly sealed to
prevent the escape of such particles,
or when treated in such manner as
will prevent the Objectionable sub
stances from being rubbed off or in
juring persons handling the mails
Mrs. Gala Norris of this village
and Edwin Mitchell of Toronto, p
O., were married in the home city of
the bridegroom Thursday evening,
December l6. Rev. S. l.. Mcdowell of
he University Baptist church was the
officiating Clergyman, the ceremony
being performed in the presence of a
few immediate friends Following the
service refreshments We're served
with the usual toasts. Mr. and Mrs.
Mitchell will reside at 20 Baldwin
street, Toronto.
Z, Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Walker of
Pleasant street, who with Mr. and
Mrs, Harold Joy of Schenectady,
lett a week ago for Florida. have
sent word to friends that they arrived
at their destination safely but had
many adventures making trains be.
fore they put the snow zone behind
NIlCIl lOl Vic tlSy ittl
Bennington in the midst of the driy-
ing storm Of last Tuesday morning
and missed connections in Troy
They should have reached New York
at O'Clock in the afternoon but did
not get there until o'clock. They
missed connection with Mr.. and Mrs
Joy at Albnay and met them later in
New York. On their trip from Troy
to New York they passed four ex-
press trains stalled in the vicinity
of Poughkeepsie. They arrived in
St Petersburg on Friday.
The January issue of the Ladies
Home Journal contains an interest
ing write up with photographs of the
work which IL being done in Benning
ton by the Civic league The object
Of the editors is to interest other
towns in community welfare work
and a page OF interesting snapshots
by local photographer L. DeForest
Cone is accompanied by some snappy
text matter giving description of the
work with the view of inducing 9th
er towns to copy. There are three
snapshots of children on the play
ground during the past summer, a