The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-30
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Miss Edith Madison of Gage street
passed the weekend with Miss Grace
Turner of Cambridge, n. Y.
Miss Gabrielle Catnoir of the High
school faculty in Fair Haven is visit
ing friends in the village.
The regular weekly social of the
Young Woman's club will be held at
the usual hour Wednesday evening.
The regular Tuesday evening class
meeting, j. H. Evans. leader will be
held this evening in the Methodist
church.
Mrs. Hattie Loveland has returned
to her home in Schenectady after Wis
iting relatives in town for several
months
Miss Leone Vault has returned
from Arlington where she visited rel
atives during the Thanksgiving holt
days.
The auto bus has discontinued it's
trips to Bennington from Troy and
Pittstown, going only as far as Boyn-
tonyile and Potter Hill.
Miss Leone Vial and Miss Helen
Vial of East Dorset spent Thanksgiv-
ing in Bennington as the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Vial
1t is being debated by the ladies of
the Congregational church whether
the parish will hold this year what Is
All the ladies of the church who are
interested have been asked to meet
at the church Tuesday evening to de-
eide the question.
Work on the construction OF the
new Payne brush factory which was
burned a few days ago, has begun
and is progressing swiftly. All of the
charred timbers have been cleared
away, the new foundation laid out for
building 40xS0 and foundation
trenches for the wall already filled
with cement
The new dam which has been I'M
der construction at the electric light
station for the past autumn is near
ing completion and it is expected will
be finished within another week.
Three twenty-foot billboards on
Stafford street have been broken off at
their base and laid fat by the recent
gales of wind which have swept
across Morgan Park
Tn Marcus Musical comedy COM
pany opened a weeks engagement at
the opera house yesterday to capaci-
ty business The company is very
clever and judging from the rounds
of applause it pleased the audience
Immensely. 1t is all fun from start
TO finish Program changed daily.
Come early to get a good seat Gold
smiths orchestra. Adv.
DR.. ]. NJ. Hamilton of this city
and Dr. c. F. Dalton OF Burlington
representing the publication commit
tee of the Vermont State Medical 50.
ciety, met in this city this afternoon
and decided to name the new month
ly journal, of which the society is TO
begin the publication January Is,
The Vermont Medicine. The editor
will be DR.. A. S. NJ Chisholm of
Bennington Rutland News.
A band of gypsy fortune telers
have been about the village for the
past two days frightening the I'M
sophisticated with predictions of dire
events to come and prohphecying
pleasuring futures to those generous
in the amount of coin rendered in
payment. They are dressed in start
ling combinations OF color
and have no teams with them,
stopping at cheap lodging houses on
q tour of the state.
The annual sale concucted by the
Ladies Aid society of the Second
Congregational church at the church
parlors Wednesday December LIST,
will open in the afternoon at two o.
clock and continue through the even
ing. There will be an unusually at
tractive display of useful and fancy
Ice cream and cake will be
served both afternoon and evening
Large cakes of all kinds. half or
quarter section of cakes will be sold,
a rare opportunity to purchase some
of the best cake ever offered for sale.
Adv. 42t3
Work appears to be progressing
swiftly on the electric power trunk
line bringing the juice into Benning-
ton from the Power Construction
plant at Monroe Bridge
Teams have been driving through the
village for the past week carrying
poles to be used in stringing the cop
per strands over the mountains to
the east The Power Construction |
Company is reported to have a gang
of 60 men working on the forest land |
through which the wires will travel, |
clearing a passage way for the cables |
and planting the poles.
The Brotherhood meeting at the |
Methodist church last evening. was a |
very pleasing occasion, the devotion
al exercises and business transact |
ions were followed by an amusing
contest styled the Broad Jump" the
winners being respectively, Herbert
Allen, Edward Griffin, Fred Knapp, |
a fl ar which Ernoct Il Dottum was i'm |