The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-23
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spending lew days III new Iork.
The family of George Rife moved
Tuesday from Depot to Stafford
street.
Mrs. r. NJ Paddock, who under
went an operation at the Samaritan
hospital, returned Tuesday.
james f. Cone of Dewey street,
who has been seriously i'll for some
time, is rapidly recovering. r y
Miss Doris Carpenter of Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, has returned
home for the summer vacation,
Lester H. Nichols leaves tonight
for New York to return with Mrs.
Nichols who has been spending sew
eral weeks.
The choir boys of st. Peters
church enjoyed an all-day hike Tues
day to North Bennington, SALISBURY
and Green Mountain Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sheldon have
moved to Bennington from North
Adams and are located III the Levin
house on Pleasant street.
Just received at Joe Levin's store
rs ladies and misses summer dresses
sizes "a to 4S which we will sell at
reasonable prices. Adv.
Eel Centre, California, which was
shaken by an earthquake, Tuesday is
the home of Robert p. Moore. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. E. Moore of Benning-
ton
Miss Mary Pond of Pleasant street
who has been confined to the house.
for several weeks on account of i'll
ness is able to be out again.
Miss Orissa Parker, daughter of
George A. Parker, proprietor of the
Walbridge store, graduated Tues
day evening from the Hoosick Falls
high school.
Miss Helena Morell, who has been
spending the past ten days here as a
guest of DR.. and Mrs. Il. b. Daley, re-
turned this morning to her home in
New York city.
Miss Edna Waibridge, a student at
the Pratt institute. Brooklyn, arrived
Tuesday at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. j. Ed Walbridge, for
the summer vacation
Joseph J. Daley of New York city,
who has been spending the past two
weeks at the home of his parents,
Or. and Mrs. E. B. Daley Of Adams
street, has returned to the, city.
The funeral OF Mrs. Alonzo Bent
was held from her late home on
East Main street at 2.30 this after
noon. Rev. P. l.. Dow. pastor of the
Methodist church, officiated and the
burial was in the village cemetery.
Mrs. S. b. Hall of Old Bennington,
who has been stopping for some time
at the w. B. Sheldon house, has rent
ed and occupies one of the Claire w.
Soule tenements on West Main
street.
Mrs. Charles T. Patterson and
Mrs. Robert H. Merrill as guests Of
Mrs. Charles T.. Welles Of Old Ben
nington motored Tuesday to Williams
town where they attended the COM
menccment exercises and President
Garfelds reception in the evening.
A social will be given Thursday
evening by the ladies of st. John the
Baptist society for its members in
their rooms on South street. Each
member is asked to attend and ling
lunch that general snrea1 NJ" he
enjoyed.
The remains OF William r. Dodds,
who enlisted from North Hero May
%, 1863 as a landsman for service on
the United States gunboat Fawn
and who died at the Vermont soldiers
home here, were sent this morning to
North Hero for burial. He was born
in 1916 and was admitted to the
home in October 1908. fo
The water department, under the
direction Of Superintendent John
Mahan, is putting in a section of
main on County street. Excavation
on this thoroughfare is especially ar
duous. At the time of the big freshet
the washout was repaired by drawing
in big hardheads from the bed Of the
river and filing in around them
with earth.
The Daughters of Isabel society
gave their first card party Tuesday
evening at the Knights of Columbus
rooms on North street, The first
prize awarded to the ladies was won
by Mrs. John Hayes and John Nor
rissey won the first prize awarded to
the gentlemen. The BOBBY prizes
were won by Miss Agnes Harris aud
Joseph Lee respectively.
Earl w. Stegmayer, secretary-treas
urer of the American Paper Clay com
pany of this city, who has lived at
No 124 North Main street, has sold
his household goods and yesterday
left for New York city where he ex-
poets to take position with Gimbel
& Co. concern. Mrs. Stegmayer will
visit her parents in Bennington be-
fore joining her husband in New
York citV Rutland Herald