The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-29
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for 5usy Readers


Pittsfield.
Miss Mabel Snow is visiting friends !
in New York.
William Snow will spend Memorial
day in Wilmington.
The school street green houses will |
be closed at noon tomorrow.
Stop! Look! Read!-The Castles !
are coming to the Harte Theatre
| Adv.
Ernest Moon was among those who |
attended the circus in Pittsfieid Satur-
day.
Arthur Denley and wife are spend
ing several days on visit to New
York city.
Mrs. H. A. Davenport and Mrs, Car
RE Abel will go to Hartford, Conn,
for Memorial day.
A meeting of the official board of
the Methodist church will be held this
evening in the church.
Benjamin Waldron motored to Pitts
field Saturday where he attended Barn
UNI and Baileys circus.
The Misses Shields and Fongart
have arrived at the Shields summer
home at Furnace Grove.
Ralph Norman of Park street will
leave tonight for Cohoes to pass
Memorial day with relatives.
Dancing Foresters hall Tuesday, 8
until II augmented orchestra, Moon
light dance, tickets 80 cents. Adv
Don't miss the big Triangle show
| with two features accompanied by
Hurley's six piece orchestra at Harte
One of the features Of the dance at
Foresters hall tonight will be a prize
waltz. Goldsmiths' orchestra, tickets
% cents. Adv.
Bennington Grange will hold an Off
GERS night meeting next week, when
each officer is to arrange something
for the lecturers hour.
Remember those who come early
will get the best seats to see Olga Pc
trova in the Soul Market at Harte
Theatre today, Adv.
Barrett Wellington, who practises
law in New York City, is the guest for
few days of his father, George b.
Wellington in Old Bennington.
Misses Irene La Fortune and Cor.
della Tetreault and Archie King and
Clarence Coomar made an automobile
trip over the Mohawk Trail Sunday.
There will be an informal opening
pf 10 lot
urday June 3. from until p. IN. Any
one interested is cordially invited
ADV.
Edward Nicholas Galpin of Pittsfield
Mass. and Melvina May Ducharme OF
Dalton, Mass, were united in mar
riage Saturday May q, 1916 at the
Methodist parsonage by Rev. p. l.
Dow.
John w. Harper and family of New
York together with Mrs. Harper's
father, Mr. Taintor, have arrived fol
the summer at the Robinson house III
Old Bennington which they have rent
ed for the season.
# There will be business meeting Of
NJ the Parent Teachers association
of Wednesday afternoon at AIS in The
NJ graded school building. There will be
Nj election of officers and the reports Of
% all officers Of the past year will be
read
The home of Mrs Charles E. Welles
in Old Bennington, which has recently
been painted and repaired outside. il
DC now being cleaned and altered in the
ID interior in preparation for summer oc
, cupancy by Mrs. Weles and household
l. next week.:
BE sure not to forget the strawberry
festival at the Baptist church Wednes
day evening from to s o'clock
Menu, veal croquettes, creamed pota
toes, rolls, pickles. jelly, home mad,
ice cream with strawberries, cake
}. coffee. Tickets soc. ADV.
Prof w, T. Lawrence motored t
Bennington from Troy this Afternoon
and returned with his sisters-in,law
!. Miss Jessie Loomis and Miss Edni
Of Loomis and Miss Fannie LOOMS o
y New York. They will spend Memoria
IS Day with Prof and Mrs. Lawrence il
50 Troy, after which Miss Jessie Looms
o. is going on to New York for two
~ weeks vacation in that city and Wei
81 nifty. @
% 4 local person interested in the Sun
day auto traffic through Bennington
made the statement this morning tina
y. over 250 automobiles went over the
Id highway between the upper and lowe
village between ten o'clock Sunday
morning and twilight. This statemen
y was preface to decided protes
90 against the condition of the roadwa.
a. between the two places. The summe
70 traffic is becoming so heavy Chat tn,
"a street is becoming well cut up and di
so concerning bumps mark the motorist
40 advent into Bennington from the hill
IA A little leveling of the bumps and de
" post of the material in the low spot
would go far toward alleviating, thi
unDleaSant recontiou and N has hoo,