The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-31
BENNINGTON BRIEFS,
News Of, the Town and Village Told
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County street home with grip.
Walter Townsend, who has been i'll
of grip the past week, is able to be
Out. s
Born Friday son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Norris Levin of River street. Weight
II pounds.
Mrs. Lyman f. Royce of Valentine
street is recovered from her recent
case of grip
Mrs. Joseph Parsons of the west
road is listed among the sufferers
| from grip.
Mrs. julius E. Bates and daughter,
Miss Ruth Bates, spent Saturday in
North Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Walker return
ed tonight after spending a few days
i'll New York.
Harmon Sanders of the Colgate
road is confined to his home by the
prevailing illness.
Dwight Atwood of North street,
who has been confined to his home by
grip is recovered and able to be out
VIM H. LOOMS, who is travelling in
the interest of the White Entertain
ment Bureau, left for Boston, Mass,
this morning. ~
The attention of the trustees of the
End Congregational church is called
to thewarning given them in another
column of this paper.
There will be Prohibitionist rally
in Library hall this evening at s o.
clock. ex-governor Patterson of Ten
nessee win be the principal speaker.
Mrs. George u. Maeomber, who has
been spending the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. C. w. Lockwood OF
Main street, is confined to the house
as grip sufferer.
A three-foot wire fence has been
erected about the northern and east
ern sides of the post Office property
to protect the hedge which will
shortly be planted as soon as the
shrubbery arrives from the nursery.
Miss Mabel Livingston is spending
the week in Springfield, Mass, the
guest of her sister. Mrs. Leonard II.
Godfrey. On her return home. Mr..
and Mrs. Godfrey viii accompany
her and expect to spend several
months in this place.
George Cox and daughter, Miss Bes.
sic Cox. who have been visiting rela-
tiyes in theyillage after an absence OF
eight years. have returned TO their
home in New York. While here they
gave a dinner party In the Putnam
house 10 a dozen former friends.
Leander .Jewett OF the west end, is
in st. Luke's hospital, New York
where he underwent an operation on
his foot the past week. The opera
ton was reported successful and the
young man will have the use of the
foot which has been crippled for some
time.
Mr.. and Mrs Richard l.. Gerkin,
who have been living with Mrs. Ger
kin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Davenport on Pleasant street, will
move March 1st into the Corbett tene-
ment at 119 Jefferson avenue lately
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Pei
leg.
The store of the Imperial Cloak
and Suit company in Troy was dam
aged to the amount of $4,000 Sunday
morning by fire. The stock of the
Broughton Fur company in an adioin-
ing store was also slightly damaged
by water. The damage on the build
ing, which is owned by the Tibbetts
estate was about $4,000. The fire
started from an overheated furnace.
The benefit performances given in
the opera house for the Jewish war
sufferers Sunday afternoon and even
ing were fairly well attended and a
fair sum netted to swell Bennington
contribution to the Hebrews in want
in the war devastated districts of
Europe. The money will not be for
warded until the last OF the week,
however, giving the opportunity to
those who have not yet contributed to
make donations to the fund up to
Thursday noon. The cash may be
left with Fl. Harry Sharpe at the Ben
nington County National Bank.
The village street department be-
gan the work this morning of dredg-
ing the local sewers, starting with the
pipe lines on Main street The work
is done by placing bob with light
line attached in the manholes at the
upper end of the village, allowing the
bob to float through the pipe to the
next manhole carrying the line after
it. A heavy rope is then attached to
the line and drawn through the pipe
and scraping contrivance which
rests on the bottom of the sewer and
about fills the pipe, is thus drawn
from one manhole to the other, bring
ing out the dirt and refuse which the
flow of water has not dislodged.
Mrs Arthur Elliot is to read
Strife, one of John Galswortey's
most powerful plays, on Wednesday
evening, February 2. under the aus
pices of the Socialist Local of Ben
nington. The reading is to be given
at the home of Mrs. Marcus Arm