The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-12-02
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News IT the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

i Charlotte Walker IN out OF Dark
| ness'-Harte Theatre today Ad
Election of officers at the G. A. R.
Saturday Comrades take notice.
The Kings Daughters will meet
with Mrs. f. w. Goodall Friday after
noon at O'Clock
| Patrick Garfield, the distinguished
fly fisherman from Arlington, spent
1 today in the village
/ DR.. NJ. J.. Keough has returned to
| Cohoes after spending a few days Wis
! iting relatives in the village.
| Mrs Davis millinery opening will
be tonight in her new store in the
| Brewster building on North street
Adv
DR.. G. H. Thompson. oculist and
aurist, North Adams, has returned
| from New York and resumed his-prac-
ticc.
Robert Hart, son of Mrs, e. E. Hart
slipped on the steps OF the Y. NJ. C..
A yesterday afternoon and spraihed
| his ankle.
| Mrs S. Everett Harwood under
went successful operation for APP
4 pendicitis at the Samaritan hospital
| Troy Wednesday afternoon
/ The ladies of the Congregational
church are reported to have cleared
about $l75 at their sale in the church
parlors Wednesday afternoon.
Il The rule has been made at the Y
M. c. A. building that junior mem
| bers must be out OF the building at
IA o'clock and will not be admitted lat
e.;
High school girls! Don't forget
/ the. basket ball practice tonight at
| O'Clock. This will be the only chance
for team work before the game tomor
| row night
The annual election OF officers Of
the W. R. c. win take place Friday
evening at the weekly business meet
ing of the corps All members are
earnestly urged to attend
Miss Helen Cone trained nurse
from the Troy City hospital is spend
! ing some time caring for her father
who is confined to his home in Old
| Bennington with pneumonia
| AT T30 Friday might will, be called
| the first basket ball games of the seas
I on in Bennington. Tickets may. be
obtained from the high school stud
| ents or at the box Office at Library
Hall for twenty cents. 4 t
The first load of lumber for the re.
building OF the new Payne brush fac
tory was drawn yesterday afternoon
The foundations have been dug and
the pattern.work put up for the cell
ment walls. Work in the temporary
Main street plant is going full force. 4
practically alt the men employed inI
the finishing department being att
work H ~
George Stratton, OF the firm of
Stratton & Aldrich, has been in the3
village today, contracting for men
and teams to draw pulp wood which
has been accommodating during the
summer. He says they have over
900 cords of pulp wood oD the mount
ain to the northeast Of Bennington
which they will begin hauling as soon
as there is enough snow TO permit
shedding.
Advantage is being generally tax
en- of the privilege of insuring par
GELS post packages. An increasing
number OF packages, both those go
ing out from the local postoffice and
those that are being received have
the insurance tags attached. The
fee is small for the nearby zones and
the public evidently is becoming CON
WINGED that the protection is worth
all that it costs.
j w. Hurlburt of the Bennington
Waxed Paper Co. is moving his fam
| lily this week into the residence own
ed by him on Union street near the
corner of Silver street. Since vacat-,
ing the property sold to John B.
fIarte on Main street next to the
ltartc theatre, Mr.. and Mrs. Hurlburt
and daughter have made their home
With Mr.. and Mrs. John Norton pend
ing completion of repairs to their
Union street property
The capacity of the Bennington
opera house was again taxed last
night, it being the third appearance
of the Marcus Comedy Co. 1t looks
| as though house double the capac-
ity could be used if the attendance
| increases according to the three first
nights. An entire change of pro
gram each night. Hobart Bosworth
in 4-reel Broadway feature, entitled
"Fatherhood" Come early and don't
! be disappointed. Adv
| There is one man in Bennington
who doesn't need ready money. As
sistant Postmaster H. f. Robinson
can tell you who he is but he won't
as it is one Of the assistant p. Ms
duties to assist patrons of the post
Office in keeping their business to
themselves. The man who doesn't
need ready cash recently appeared at
the postoffice with nine different
money orders which he had carefully
pigeopholed and allowed to remain in
obscurity for period of more than
II months. The conditions under
Il