The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-09-29
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for cusy Readers

New vaudeville at the opera house
today. Adv.
Walter Bronson of Albany is visit
| ing in the village
Opening day at A. Nolan's hat shop
| Saturday. Oct. 2. Adv. 91t3
Miss Elizabeth Morrissey of Troy
| is visiting her mother, Mrs. e. j..
Morrissey.
Two acts of first class vaudeville
and the best in photoplays at opera
| house today. Adv.
At Satters market, Tel $50. finest
| liberia freestone peaches today 60
cents per basket. All guaranteed.
| b Adv.
| Mrs. Charles e. Wells and son of
| Old Bennington are expected to re-
| turn Thursday from trip to New
| York.
| The Vermont State Christian En-
! deavor convention will be held at
/ Poultney October 4-6 Among the
| speakers will be Miss Beulah Bates
Walter A. Wood president of the
| Wood company of Hoosick Falls, is
seriously i'll at his home in Hoosick
Falls.
I Steamed clans for members and
their ladies will be served by the Can
! adian club Saturday night, Oct 2.
| The clans will be served at O'Clock
and following there will be a social.
| Adv.
| Miss Eleanor H. Sibley, a graduate
| in the class of 1915 at Smith college,
left this week for Pittsburgh, Pa, to
enter upon a one years course in the
Carnegie Training School for chill
dren's librarian.
/ An important meeting of the teach
| ers of the Second Congregational
/ Sunday school will be held in the
| chapel this Wednesday evening at
1 1870 o'clock 1t is desirable that
! every one OF the seventeen teachers.
be present.
Admiral and Mrs Charles e. Clark
and granddaughter, Miss Louisa
Hughes left this morning for Wash
ington where they will spend the
winter They have been at the home
| of Mrs. Wells L. Field for the past
| four weeks.
The exhibits from Bennington
which. formed part of the Greater
Vermont Association exhibit at the
State Fair this year are now in Girls
wold's window They include charts
representing the activities of the
Civic League Green Mountain Club
and County picnic ,... ;.
Wayne Albert Saunders, 10 months
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Saund-
ers, died at St Margaret's hospital
for babies in Albany, Tuesday morn
ing. The funera! service win be held
from the house Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, Rev. ]. c. Mitchell of
White Creek will officiate Burial in
Park La wn cemetery. n
I Only three more days and then
Rally Sunday. Is there'a boy or girl, 1
or adult person who doesn't know it
Is there any one who knows it, yet
has not made up his mind to go to J
Sunday school that day? If there are
any such, behold this notice. Select
the school of your choiee. Methodist,
Baptist or Second Congregational
and then join the chain-gang and
work to have your own school win
out in the contest next Sunday. II a
link doesn't reach you by mail. one
will be handed you Sunday noon at
whichever school you are found,
News has been received here of the |
death in Pittsburg, Pa, of w. c.
Shaw, aged about As years. His
wife, who was before marriage, Miss
Fannie Patchin, daughter of the late
Henry Patchin and granddaughter of
the late Lyman Patchin, one of the |
leading merchants in Bennington in
the early part of the last century,
died four years ago. Five daughters |
survive Mr. Patchin, who owned the |
house at Old Bennington occupied by |
Mr.. and Mrs. l. p Walker, visited in |
Bennington for few days last
spring. Mr.. Patchin was a graduate |
of the Rensselaer, Polytechnic lnsti- |
tute in the engineering department |
and had followed that profession.
Rev. M. j. Carnody, pastor of st. 1
Michael's Roman Catholic church at |
Brattleboro, read his resignation at
the $50 and 1890 masses Sunday
morning. Although it was generally
known that he had been obliged to
spend a part of the winter in the |
south, his resignation owing to i'll
health came as a surprise. He was |
appointed to the parish in October,
1904, to succeed the late Rev, Patrick |
Cunningham. Before coming to |
Brattleboro he was pastor for five |
years in Ludlow where he was also a |
trustee of Black River academy and |
a member of the school board. He |
was ordained SO years ago Rev. Mr.. |
CarmOdy has taken an active part in 1