The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-26
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

c. L. Hudson has returned from a
trip to Schenectady.
benjamin J. Brooks is seriously i'll
at his home on Gage street extension.
There will be a regular meeting of
Walloomsac lodge, N. E. o. p. this
evening.
There will be a meeting of St
Agnes Guild in the parish house this
evening at 7.45.
Mrs. X. o. Chisholm gave recep-
ton Monday afternoon at her home
in Old Bennington.
Charles N. Powers and Charles N.
Powers, Jr., are spending a few days
in Manchester, N. II.
D. A. Guiltinan went this afternoon
to Schenectady to remain a few days
at the home OF his brother.
Branch No''S of st. Mary's Guild
viii meet with Mrs. Charles Kehoe
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
A meeting of~the sons of Veterans
will be held in G. A. Il. hall Thursday
evening at s O'clock, All members
will please attend.
Miss Cecil Powers, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C.
n. Powers, for the past few weeks,
returned to New York on Monday.
The ladies of the Baptist church
will be entertained at the home OF
Mrs. Harris on Weeks street Wednes
day afternoon Sept q from to 5.
The public service commission
hearing tomorrow on the elimination
of the grade crossing on Town Hill
will open at the Putnam house at
csc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac p Walker NO.
tored through the Berkshires last
Saturday to Kent, Conn, where Mrs.
Walker is to visit relatives. Mr..
Walker went on to New York.
Joseph Welch returned to the Uni
versity of Vermont this afternoon. He
was accompanied by G. II. Bosfield of
North Adams, a classmate, who has
been visiting him since Sunday
Owing to unexpected absence from
town of Michael Shoemaker the travel
talk which was to have been given
Thursday evening at the Mt An
thony Club, has been postponed until
further notice.
A blonde vampire is the startling
novelty offered by Triangle in THE
Children in the House Jewel Car
men is her name and she has all kinds
of sirenic clothes Showing at Harte
Theatre today. Adv
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w. Tirrell are
to move soon to Quincy, Mass, where
they will make their residence in the
future, more central point from
which Mr.. Tirrell will continue to
travel for the Bottum and Torrance
company.
AT the recent marriage Of the daugh
ter of George W. Perkins, formerly OF
the firm of J. p. Morgan and Co, at
the Perkins summer residence on the
Hudson. the name of James c. Col
gate of Old Bennington was men,
toned as being among the guests.
Mrs. Emma Brooks, former resi-
dent of South SALISBURY, died at her
home in Hoosick Falls on September
"a. The funeral vii be held We'd
nesday at one o'clock from the resi-
dence and at o'clock at the Metho-
dist church in North Hoosick. Burial
will be in the South SALISBURY Gene
terry.
The directors of the board of trade
will hold an important meeting Thurs
day evening at the Office of the sec
rotary to consider some action to in
crease the number of houses in Ben
nington. Scores OF families are try
ing to come here to live. but can find
no tenement and a factory waiting To
locate in town is delaying to see II
houses will be provided. All persons
interested are invited to attend the
meeting.