The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-12
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visit in Schenectady.
Fred Bevis is passing week at
his home in SALISBURY.
Mrs. E. C. Hamilton of Main street
| is visiting in Dorset briefly.
Nicholas Morrissey. jr.. OF Troy is
passing few days at his home here.
Gaby Deslys is being shown in
"Her Triumph" at the Library
| Theatre TODAY. Adv.
Mrs. c. L. Gardner went to Troy
this afternoon to enter the Samarit
an hospital for an operation.
The famous Gaby Deslys is playing
| in a four-reel drama at the Library
| Theatre today. Adv.
H. D. Fillmore has gone to Boston
to attend the grand lodge meeting OF
the N. f. o. P.
Collins NJ. Graves has recovered
from an attack of lumbago and is
| again at his Office.
Branch No. will meet with Mrs.
| Stakeholder on South street Thurs
day afternoon from to 5.
Don't forget the social time at the
Y. w. C. this evening. Miss Collins
is going to help entertain.
Repairs and improvements are be-
| ing made on the Van Santvoord
| house at Furnace Grove occupied by
Eugene Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Howard who
have been visiting his father, Edgar
Howard of the Woodford Road have
returned to Salisbury
| Miss Ann r. Clark, who has aNsum-
! mer home in Old Bennington is
| guest of Miss Helen Johnson Of Old
Bennington for a few days.
| Mrs. A. B. Simmonds, who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
George Wadsworth. returned this
| morning to her home in Johnsonville.
Regular dinners, % cents at Car
rolls restaurant. North street. ADV.
Card party to 10, dancing 10 to
| 70 at Foresters hall Thursday even
ing. Admission Is cents ADV.
A party of members of the Ben
nington Board of Trade Will go by
auto to Brattleboro Thursday to at
tend the annual meeting and dinner
| of the Greater Vermont association.
David Murray OF School street has
purchased the Murtha house on the
| corner of Spring and Maple streets
James c. Colgate is expected to ar
rive at his home in Old Bennington
| next week.
The condition of John Nash, jr,
who has been confined to the house
several weeks by illness, is improved
and he is now able to sit up por-
ton of the day.
Mrs Anna S. Carpenter, Mrs. War
wick Carpenter, Miss Mabel Patter
son and Mrs. L. f. c. Mosher attend
ed the funeral of Dr. S. +. Baker in
North Adams yesterday.
Edward NJ Whitney, an employe
of the Drysdale store, who has been
| i'll at his home on South street dur
ing the past five weeks, has shown
no improvement during the past As
| hours and his condition is reported
to be serious.
The copy for the docket for the
coming June term of county court to
be held at Manchester has been
sent to the printer. Judge f. l..
Waterman of ,Brattleboro is to pre-
side The docket is still open for di-
vorce cases OF which 81 have already
been filed
Seventeen years ago the first of
this month the First Vermont regi-
ment was mustered into service for
the war with Spain. Members of
Company X, which included the re.
cruits In Bennington and nearby
towns will honor the anniversary in
G. A. r. hall Saturday evening. Sup
per will be served, followed by brief
remarks, smoker and social hour. |
At a meeting of the municipal |
judges held at Montpelier yesterday
committee composed of Judge S. H. |
b. Cushman of Newport, +. II. Hol- |
den of Bennington and T. E. O'Brien |
of Bellows Falls was appointed to |
draft set of rules under which the |
municipal courts will getin accord
ance with the general law governing |
municipal courts and passed by the |
recent legislature
Hereafter the large package mail |
box at the corner of Main and South |
streets may be used for both letters |
and packages. The box will be col |
lected previously to nearly all out
going mails. The box on the post |
just north of the postoffice building |
will also be retained for the use of |
patrons The latter box it is of
course understood is mainly for the
reception of mail deposited after the
postofioe is closed at night.
The Parent-Teacher association
will hold mothers circle Friday af-
ternoon, in the sewing room of the
new high school at O'Clock. This
will be an informal meeting and the
last one of the season and large at
tendance would be gratifying to the