The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-26
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers
Isador Weaver is on the sick list.

Henry Ross of SALISBURY spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ser
vice.
| Mrs. Edward Osborne of Stafford
street is housed with an attack OF
grip.
Regular meeting of the w. r. c. on
Friday evening, January % at eight
o'clock.
Mrs. John Friedman, who has been
| ill, has recovered and is able to be
about.
Daniel B. Keller has resumed his
duties at Bradford's mill after an at
tack of grip.
Gilbert f. Robinson has returned to
his work in the Richie store after a
weeks illness.
Mrs. f. A. Nichols and Mrs. Alfred
Buck Of Arlington were visitors in the
| village Tuesday.
Miss Marie Wesley OF Beacon, n.
Y. is the guest of the Misses Loomis
of School street.
Oscar Eddy of East Wallingford
has accepted a position with the H. 4.
Bradford Company.
Mrs b. L. Mahoney of North Adams
is the guest for few days of Mr..
and Mrs. James McGurk.
Mary Pickford, the nations sweet
heart in "A Girl Of Yesterday" acts
Harte theatre today. ADV.
Mary Pickford supported by Marsh
all Neilan, Jack Pickford and DON
aid Crisp. Harte theatre today. Ad
Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. Jepson are re-
joicing over the birth OF a son. Char
les Henry, born Sunday, Jan. %.
Miss Mary Healy, who is attending
school in Rutland. returned yesterday
after spending the weekend with her
mother
Thomas E. Mann of East Arlington
and daughter, Miss Theresa Mann,
were guests of friends in the village
Tuesday.
Wallace Irish of Bradford place,
who has been ill with grip. is recover
ed and has resumed his duties at the
Bradford mill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Happelle
have returned from their wedding
trip and have begun housekeeping in
one of VIM. j. Hicks tenements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Evans were in
Hoosick Falls today, attending the
funeral of Miss Alice Bannon, who
died in that town Monday morning.
VIM. H. Loomis, who is travelling
in the interest OF the White Enter
tainment Bureau of Boston. Mass. is
with his sisters, Misses Jessie and
Edna Loomis for few days
A card party was held at the home
OF Marshall Bellemare on Dewey
street Tuesday evening. Prizes were
awarded to Mrs. Joseph Talbot Of
Mill street and Mrs. John LaFlamme
of South street.
Charles w. Thompson. who recently
resigned his position at Gokay's drug
store, has been spending the past two
weeks in New York, attending the
furniture show. He will leave short
~ on a sale trip in the interest of
the II. r. Cushman Co. with whom he
has accepted position.
A three-foot English hedge is to be
planted on the north and east sides of
the postoffice grounds, a trench about
the property having been dug the past
two days. The hedge will take the
place Of a curbing about the two sides
of the postojce lawn not so bordered
at present and will be planted full
grown, ready for trimming in the
spring.
George Cox, who years ago was
boss spinner in the Valentine MILL
and who is now visiting in the vii
lage from New York, gave a dinner
party in the Putnam House Tuesday
evening to several relatives and inyit-
ed friends. His daughter. Miss Bes-
sic Cox. is also visiting here with him
Music was furnished by Donneilys
oiSHSotid uui ms tuc uiihSi.
Manager Buss of the local Y. NJ c.
A. team received a telephone call
from Manager Powers OF the Mohi-
cans of Cambridge yesterday that
they would be on hand tonight with
the same fast quintet of the two pre-
vious contests, to play the third
game of a series of three in which
each has one game. The game will
be played at Library hall. This is
because each team has met the other
on its own floor, and they wish to set
tie it on a neutral floor and Library
hall is better fitted.
Dartmouth College, which recently
withdrew its membership in the New
England College Entrance Examina-
ton Board. has sent to the faculty of
the local high school Il letter which
states that graduates of the local
high school are eligible for entrance
at Dartmouth without examination.
Both Dartmouth and the University of
Maine withdrew from the New Eng
land Entrance Examination Board
and since that time all schools and
colleges have had to secure individual
permission to send students to these