The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-12
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Monday, June 12, 1916.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

lulS ef SuiHS at luS pdInoHdSS.'
Miss Mathilde Vossler, the recrea-
tion instructor, who has been visiting
at her home, Wellsyille, n. Y, returned
Saturday,
The ladies of Gage street circle No.
8 of the Methodist church will be en-
tertained Wednesday evening by Mrs.
B. W. Vickery at her home on west
Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Long of Man
chester Depot are rejoicing over the
birth of nine pound daughter, Min
ME Edith, born May 31st They were
formerly residents of this village.
]. II. Ayres, a civil engineer in the
employ of the United States govern
ment in the Philippine Islands, arrived
here Saturday to visit his mother, Mrs.
Anna H. Ayres and other relatives.
Mr.. Ayres last visited his home here
six years ago.
Jamiel Racheed Farra and Esther
Isabelle Bennett of North Adams,
Mass, were united in marriage Satur-
day, June 10 at the Methodist parson-
age by Rev. p. l.. Dow They were ac
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Basher E.
Sahadi of North Adams.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist church will
meet at the parsonage this evening at
745 o'clock Mrs. p. l.. Dow will tell
of the day she spent at General confer
ence. Miss Mary p. Hitchcock will
read the paper she gave at the conven-
ton at Middlebury. Another member
will speak OF DR.. Mary Stone, the noted
Chinese surgeon whom she recently
| met. All the women of the church and
congregation are urged to attend.
Word has been received of the death
in the Pittsfeld hospital Saturday OF
Miss Rhoda Mason, aged As, u native
of Pownal Miss Mason first entered
| the North Adams hospital for treat.
ment, but was afterward moved to the
| institution in Pittsheld. She leaves
three brothers, two sisters and her
mother The funeral will bye held at .
o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the
Methodist church in Pownal and inter
mcnt will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery
The Children's Day program at the
Methodist church was carried out in
full as printed. The pulpit platform
and altar were beautifully and elabor
ately decorated with flowers as was al
so all the windows and when the pulpit
| nlaffnrrn t1taI with ltYioht raga1
children, the picture was attractive
| Cages containing canary birds hung in
| four of the windows whose voices
sweetly harmonized during the musical
| periods of the service Bibles were
| given to the class graduating from the
primary department, who answered
one hundred questions, the last one be
| ing a recital of the books of the Bible
| The collection taken by the school was
ior the Children's Day Loan Fund
which last year gave aid to 22SS stud
| entS
Charles Clapp, former Bennington
boy, is pending q short vacation in
| town, stopping at the Putnam house
| Mr.. Clapp is at present an engineer on
the New Jersey Central railroad and
handles the throttle on one of the best
trains of that line. making daily trips
between Jersey City and Philadelphia
The camel-backed engines used on this
road are acknowledged to be the fast
est machines used on any road in The
country and they beat by several minu
ties the time made by the ordinary en-
gines in use on the competing Pen
nsylvania line. Mr.. Clapp is the
youngest brother OF the late Marsha
Clapp, who for many years drove the
famous Long Branch special into New
| York and was one OF the best known
engineers on the road His father, the
late Charles Clapp was an old.time en-
| gineer on the Western Vermont Rail
road, driving between Troy and Rut
land. In his later years he was mas
ter-mechanic with charge of the rounC
house here. His son Charles. who il
now spending a few days renewing ole
acquaintance, has been in the rail
road business 40 years.
| Attorney Collins NJ. Graves returned
Sunday evening from the Chicago con
vention and brings back many goot
stories Of the lively time which he eX
perienced as delegate there the pas
five days. Mr. Graves reached Chicago
Tuesday and left Saturday. He did his
share toward the demonstration fo
Hughes. OF which the Chicago Tribune
remarked: 1T was marvellous to SET
the delegation Of staid and venerable
Vermont Yankees standing in theii
chairs, yelling for Hughes at the tol
OF their lungs and twirling their noise
machines" Mr. Graves declares tina
the country never held such an "un
bossed" convention as the Republican,
have Just closed. The sentiment fo
Hughes was overwhelming. even from
the far western states and it wa
claimed that delegations from fa
western states such as Kansas ant
Nebraska are more intimate will
Hughes and his record than man!
from New York state. Mr.. Graves hat
a good seat In the convention where h,
heard all of the nominating speeches
and declares that at the big session OF
Friday he entered the hall at II
o'clock and did not get out until nea
midnight. during which time he di,
his best to sustain life on two meage
sandwiches.