The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-09-16
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for cusy Readers

F. l.. Bottum is in New York on !
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. William e. Hawks |
were in Manchester Wednesday.
Mrs. e. T. Hart is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Arthur kehoe OF New
York.
Frank Center of North street has
resigned his position with the Bot
tum and Torrance Co.
Clara Kimball Young is appearing
in Hearts in Exile" at the Library
theatre today Adv
Mrs. George H. Shurtleif, who has
| been visiting her father, {. Ii. Sibley, |
! returned today to Waterbury, Conn.
Lano~a Gleason has returned to the
! Convent of the Sacred Heart in Ken
| wood, Albany, after spending her va
cation with her parents in Woodford
On account of holiday Satter's mar
| ket will close Friday $50 p. m. ana
| omen Saturday p. m. Please phone
your orders early. Adv.
Frank Norcross of North street,
! who has been laid up with an injury
to his knee, sustained while at work
at the Holden Leonard mill, is i'm
proving. d@
| desire to lease a nine or ten room
dwelling as centrally located as pos
sibe. Possession October LIST ii con
venient. Address J. II. Livingston
t0H Sltf
A regular meeting of Bennington
council Knights of Columbus will be
held Friday evening when arrange
ments will be made for the obserV-
ance of Columbus day All members
are requested to be present.
1t will be as cool in the Second
CONGREGATIONAL chapel as anywhere in
town tonight. The service Will be
short and interesting, beginning at
1870. A special meeting of Sunday
school teachers and officers will fol
low at SIS.
There will be a reception for the
Rev. VIM. F. Meyer tomorrow even
ing at o'clock in the social rooms OF
the First Baptist church All mem
bers of the church and congregation
and the friends of the pastor and
church are cordially invited to attend.
Arthur Henry Thompson of East
Chatham, n. Y, and Ethel Helen
| nnit-
ed in marriage last evening by Rev.
w. +. Meyer at the Baptist parson-
age. Mrs. Thompson was formerly OF
Bennington and has a host OF friends
here who wish her life of happiness.
Mr.. Thompson is young and sue
cessful farmer
Shortly after 10 o'clock this fore
noon the large light of plate glass IN
one of the doors entering the Putnam
House sample room fell out upon the
piazza with crash that was heard
for fully block The door was clos
ed at the time and so far as could be
ascertained nothing had touched the
window. The intense heat may have
contracted the door frame so as to
bring unusual pressure upon the
glass.
Twenty-one children of Jefferson
Avenue spent an enjoyable two hours
at a neighborhood party last evening,
held in the private hall of Frank A.
Remington at II Jefferson avenue.
The affair was sponsored by David
benjamin of 100 Jefferson avenue,
The evening was passed with games
and dancing and refreshments were
served. The affair was brought to
an untimely close by the severe
thunder-shower which passed over
the village around nine o'clock.
John r. Burton, an advertising
compositor in the office of the Even
| ing Banner observed his Goth birth
day anniversary Tuesday by report
ing on the Job at his usual early hour.
1t is not only remarkable crcumtance
that a man of Mr.. Burton's years
should be following the trade of a
compositor but a striking feature OF
his career is that he Is today work
ing in the office of the paper with
which he began learning the trade
over so years ago