The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-23
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Friday, June %, 1916.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Miss Sue Huntington left Tuesday
for a two weeks visit in Burlington.
Edward II. Everett and family have
arrived at their home in Old Benning-
ton for the summer.
Born, Thursday June %, daughter
to Mr.. and Mrs. c. n. Morse, jr., OF
North Branch street.
Calvin Endress is improving his prop
erty on Grandview street by the ad-
dition of an attractive veranda.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Marsden attend
ed the Playground Carnival and Wild
West show at North Adams Thursday
evening.
Mrs. Robert II. Merrill returned to
her home in Old Bennington Thursday
after an absence of three weeks spent
in Troy.
Charles A. Kennon OF Weeks street
who has been in poor health lately IS
somewhat improved and able to be
about town.
Arthur Ayres of the Pownal road has
given up his job in Cooper's needle
shop to take new one in the Payne
brush factory.
Trenor p. Gregg, who has been con-
fined to his home on Valentine street
the past week by illness is able to be
about town again.
Reports from the Samaritan hospital
where Edgar S. Buss recently under
went an operation for appendicitis
state that he is rapidly improving,
Mrs. Mary Cox, who has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs Mary Il. Bottum OF
Main street, for the past few days, has
returned to her home in Hoosick.
George r. Grant returned yesterday
from Middlebury where he ATTENDED
| the college commencement this week
His daughter, Miss Isabelle Grant was
graduate
John II. Norton OF Union street is
about town again. Mr.. Norton recently
underwent "A painful operation on his
face at the Samaritan hospital which
confined him there for several weeks,
William f. Hawks and w. d. Pelle!
attended the Wild West show at Nortl
Adams Thursday VIM. Hawks tool
the opportunity to review several OLE
acquaintance in the show business
also meeting some old timers he hat
known in the cow.country in years gon,
BY.
Miss Zenobia Royce, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lyman f. Royce of Valentino
street, who recently graduated iron
Syracuse University, is spending tn
summer with her parents She leave
the first of September for Kendell. n
Y, town near Rochester, where sh
has secured a position as teacher 0
I modern languages in the Kendell hlg
school
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs Chelsea /
Harrington of Stafford street are extenC
ing their sympathy in the death of thel
infant son who passed away last ever
ing at the age OF one month. The bi
by had not been strong and the con
bined aid of several physicians was ~
successful in saving the child's lii,
The funeral will be private at the HON
Saturday afternoon at . O'clock.
Miss Jessie Camp Ross of Troy ha
lately returned from New York wheI
she attended the wedding of her nepI
| ew, William Neeley Ross, prom
| inent clergyman of that city. Bot
] Miss Ross and her nephew are we
| known here, Miss Ross having fr
| quently appeared before Benningtc
| audiences as elocutionist and ente
tainer and both having many frienC
| among the summer colony at Old Be
ningtou.
j, +. Camp of Hartford, Conn, sc
of II. c. Camp norTowly escaped sc
| ious injury Monday morning when h
| sleeve caught in betting in the BacC
Steam Laundry where he is superi
tendent and broke the arm If Il
jumper had not given away the YOU
man might have been instantly kille
He was taken to the hospital whe
several X-rays were taken and he W
also. examined for internal mjurl,
Joe Camp is a native of Benningt
! and has been away about eight yea