The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-29
THE EVENING BANNER |
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Monday, November 90, 1915.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

visiting his sister, Mrs. NJ. l.. White
Mrs. F. A. Nichols and Mrs. George
Stafford of Arlington spent the week
end in the village.
Mrs. .John H. Warren entertained
her son, George w. Warren of Rut-
land over Sunday.
Leon R. PERCY, the ice dealer, is
constructing an ice house, 40x80. on
his property at Bennington fats.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Graves
have returned after spending Thanks.
giving with their daughter in syria.
cuse.
Carl White has returned to his
home in Poughkeepsie after spending
Thanksgiving with his father, James
White.
Miss Catherine Carmody who at
tends school in New York is the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Thomas Hol-
loran, for a week.
Mrs. Charles r. Sanford of Old
Bennington spent the Thanksgiving
holidays with her daughter, Mrs. w.
B. Jennings in Wsllingford Lia
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel l.. Robinson
and Miss Kate j. Hubbell were the
Thanksgiving guests of Rev. Isaac
Jennings OF, Old Bennington. Mi%
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy B. Johnson and
Miss Helen Johnson OF Old Benning.
ton left this morning for New York
where they will spend the week.
Mrs. Carrie Goldsmith has return.
ed to Boston after spending the
Thanksgiving holidays with her
mother Mrs. John II. Warren ~
Miss Hazel Hufnagel, who has been
spending the Thanksgiving holidays
with relatives in New York state re.
sumed her school in Pownal this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. A NJ Torrance have
been entertaining several members
of the Tinkham family of SALISBURY
over the Thanksgiving holidays, at
their new bungalow on Weeks street
e. S. Loomis and John II. Powers
nave been appointed ticket commit
tee to supervise sales for the coming
Odd Fellows play to be given at the
opera house here Dec. II.
Mrs. William Costello of Mill
street has returned from visit in
North Adams where she attended the
reception given to William Costello
married last week to Miss Cora Bran.
Mere Of Burlington.
Several autoists from Bennington
who drove to Hoosick Falls by wayl
of the detour got badly stuck in the
mud Sunday afternoon and were
some time in getting extricated The
condition OF the road was such that
the chassis of the cars struck the bed
of the road
Miss Janet Morrison. the little
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nor.
rison suffered painful accident at
her home Saturday morning when
she fell on the stairs in the house
breaking her arm at the elbow. An
X-ray examination showed the elbow
to have been thrown out of Joint as
well as broken and it was necessary
to reset the broken bone again after
throwing the joint back into place.
Harrington Sears, director in the
Pittsfeld Y. NJ. c. A., who is visiting
his mother, Mrs. Harriet Sears
through the Thanksgiving holidays,
assisted in the musical program at
the Thanksgiving services of the Old
First church in Bennington Center
Thursday morning. Mr.. Sears pos
sesses fine tenor voice and memb-
ers of the congregation desire to ext
press their appreciation for his part
in the Thanksgiving choir. The ,serv-
ice at the Old First church was
very simple, the pastor, Rev. Isaac
Jennings preaching a short sermon
and reading the Thanksgiving pros
clamation. 49,,
While L. E. Bottum and John FL
well were on their recent return
trip from the San Diego exposition
they rode in car where Mexican
bandits, who had penetrated into the
United States territory fired shot
that went through a car window and
carried away the chin of a passenger
four seats ahead of that occupied by
Mr.. Bottum and Mr.. Elwell The
train got out OF range before their
shots did any more damage. 1t was
necessary, after the excitement had
passed to back the train into Gallup,
N. NJ, where the injured man was
left for treatment Passengers in the
car kept their READS well out of range
of the windows while re-passing
through the hostile territory.
Oscar Elwell OF Los Angeles is re-
ported on his way east to spend the
winter with Arthur Elwell Of the
Burgess Road Mr.. Elwells visit Is
an exceptionally rare case where a
resident of balmy Califor-
mia deigns to choose the wintry
blasts that blow through the valleys
of the Green Mountains as atmos-
phere for winter vacation Mr.. Eel.
well was a resident of Bennington
number OF years ago, going to Cali.
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