The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-04-15
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

NEWS OF 1He lOWn anu FHlaSS WV
Briefly for Busy Readers
Bennington Grange will hold regu-
lar meeting next week.
Charles Harris of Weeks street is
adding piazza to his house
MIR. and Mrs. William II. Wills will
spend Sunday with friends in Pownal
Miner c. Clark. formerly of this
place, has employment in Springfield,
V.
Frank Bennett of White Creek spent |,
the day in the village on his way home
from Albany.
Mrs. L. j. Cummings has returned
from Troy where she has been spend
ing few days.
Trenor Gregg spent the first day of
the fishing season on the main stream
| OF the Roaring Branch.
Charles Clark and Leon Ostrander
opened the trout season by casting
their lines in the Battenkill.
G. Fhil Endress cast his frozen
worm this morning into the waters of
Warm brook in North Salisbury.
Mrs. William C. Clark and daughter,
Josephine, spent Thursday with her
sister, Mrs. D. Z. Burnett Of Adams,
Mass.
Miss Florence Kendall who has
| been visiting relatives on Union street
has returned to her home in Science
tady,
Mrs. George Grafton is expected to
return shortly to her home on Gage
street. She recently underwent a
successful operation in the Troy hospi-
| tai
Just received so ladies' and misses
suits and coats mall the latest make.
Suits range in sizes 16 TO so and prices
from 80 to S25; coats from 1898 to SIS
j. Levin. Adv.
| Wallace Venable, principal of the
| high school at Waltsfield, Vt, who has
been spending three-weeks vacation
with relatives here, will return to his
school the first of the week
Mrs. A. G. Sweet and daughter Miss
Mildred Sweet arrived in town last
night for the wedding OF Mrs Sweets
son, Harold, whose marriage to Miss
Hazel Hart took place this noon
Residents along the Furnace brook
road this morning brought reports into
town Of fishermen lined up along the
stream in red mittcns, fur gloves, over
coats and caps with ear lapets down.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Temple, former
residents when Mr.. Temple was con
nected with the hosiery company, who
recently moved to Toronto, Ont. have
been visiting in town the past few
days.
Miss Jennie Valentine has returned
from an extended trip south during
which she visited New York and Wash
ington. Miss Jeanette Perkins, her
niece, who accompanied her, is still in
New York
Miss Catherine Hope. who has been
at the home of her father w. w. Hope
on North street, since the recent death
of her mother. will return to her
school in St Adams and complete her
studies there.
Robert Cummings caught 10 trout
this morning in the Furnace Brook
one trout tipping the scales at one
half pound. Richard Mcclure Is also
reported among the successful fisher
meE.
One CT the earliest reports from the
local fishermen is that from Alexander
Drysdale who returned before nine
o'clock this morning from a fishing
trip on the Dewey brook with a IL
inch trout.
.. The regular annual banquet of the
Board OF Trade takes place next Tues
day evening and all local men who are
planning to attend are requested to see
President Nichols or Secretary Harris
as soon as possible.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Davenport re-.
I turned Thursday evening from a three
, weeks trip south, during which they
I visited New Orleans and points OF in
/. terest in Cuba. They went by boat
from New York and spent week in
! New Orleans, going from there ia
e Cuba and returning to New York also
a by water. Mr.. and Mrs Davenport en-
countered good weather on nearly the
Q entire trip
u The following Grange members from
S here attended the Pomona meeting
e held in Stamford Wednesday: Mr.
; and Mrs. Willard Rose, Mr. and Mrs
> b. w. Viokery, Miss Catherine Wick
G cry, Mrs. Henry Lyons, Mrs. Fam!
s Morgan Miss Belle Tomlinson, Mrs
VIM. c.. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. A. w
White, Charles b. Sherman, C. L
Knapp of North Bennington and Mrs
Edwin Green OF Pownal. After tn,
business meeting an excellent dime
was served by the Stamford ladies anC
in the afternoon an interesting SEES
sion with talks by Prof. Bradley o
p Burlington university and Count
Agent Shaw OF Manchester, discus
sion Of several agricultural topics, ant
n papers on Ideal Homes and Farms
/ was held under the direction of c. L