The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-12
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Saturday. June ~ 1915.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Tolo
Briefly for Busy Readers

chased new eight cyllluer Saulllac.
Miss Bessie Kellogg, who has been
visiting in town, has returned to Rut-
land
n. e. Murphy and Miss Agnes Muir
ply are passing the day in Troy and
Schenectady.
Miss Agnes Murphy was given a
tin shower Friday evening in honor
of her approaching marriage.
Miss Barbara Hall of Albany is
visiting in town as a guest of Miss
Martha Dewey.
Paul Jewett and Henry Manning
are spending couple of days visiting
in Arlington.
Mrs. Louville Newton was taken
Friday evening to the Samaritan hos
pital in Troy for treatment.
Frank Boeckel of Poughkeepsie,
n Y, who formerly resided in town,
is visiting here for few days.
Francis Morrissey OF Washington
avenue has accepted a position in
Williams Garage for the summer
The f. Nj. T. A. B. picnic committee
will meet in the X of C rooms Sunday
after late mass. All are requested
to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy b. Johnson, who
have been at Seabright, n. j., for a
brief stay, are expected to return this
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Noble Hayes of
New York arrived Friday evening to
open their summer residence on
Main street.
William e. Hawks, 2nd of Point
Huron, Michigan is visiting here
with his Grandmother, Mrs. William
Il. Hawks OF North street.
Buel d. Miller. reporter for the
Evening Banner, was called to Brook
lyn Friday by the serious illness of
his mother who resides in that city.
Douglas A. Hawks of Point Huron,
Michigan is spending few days
here visiting his grandmother, Mrs.
William E. Hawks of North street.
Mrs. Roy NJ Paddock went to Troy
Friday night and it was expected
that she would undergo an operation
at the Samaritan hospital this fore
noon.
Arthur Currier. who is employed
by the Cooper Manufacturing com
pany, has moved his household goods
from New Hampshire into one Of the
Hawkins-Bronson tenements at the
corner OF School and County streets.
The date for the Vermont state
golf tournament which is to be held
on the grounds OF the Mount Anthony
Country club, will not be fixed until
the dates for the different events by
| the Ekwanok club of Manchester
have been decided upon.
All Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are
| invited To meet at the Odd Fellows
rooms at us Sunday evening, June
IS, to attend in body the 730 ser
vices at ST. Peters church in obser
vance of their annual memorial.
Roy b. Perry who has been work
ing in Bridgeport, Conn, has return
ed and will take his former job in the
plant of the Charles Cooper Estate
| Monday morning. He is about the
last 0 fthe machinists who left town
during the temporary reduction of
force at the Copper plant some
months age.
The annual meeting of the Daught-
ers OF the American Revolution will
be held Monday afternoon, June a.,
at $50 o'clock at the Parish house Of
ST Peters church. The officers for
the coming year will be elected and
as Monday will be flag day an appro-
pirate program will be given. A large
attendance is desired
The hiking telephone operators
from the local exchange. Miss Mary
f. Doran and Miss Clara NJ Pellerin,
who are putting in their vacation on
walking trip, reported to their chief
operator, Miss Mary Butler, yester-
day that they had reached Shelburne
| Il ans, MASS, anu IlidJ iuCg WOulu
continue their trip today toward Ben
nington by the way of the Mohawk
trail.
Two openings were made in the
permanent highway recently built on
West Main street The "hardhead'
crushed stone which was used in the
construction was found to have been
powdered to fine sand by the crusher
when the road was first put down and
I presumably by the constant pounding
of horses feet on the surface.
DR.. b. o. Barber of Pownal is in
the village today.
Work on the new highway construc
ton on South street was suspended
today because of the wedding this
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
William A. Root, when their only
daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Root
will become the bride of Oscar W.
Kohn of New York. The grounds
about the house have been inclosed
with canvas, system of electric
illumination has been installed and a
canopy erected leading from the side