The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-16
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Tuesday, October IS, 1917.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Tsh
Briefly for Busy RsadsFs

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| Miss Margaret Riley, who has been
| i'll for three weeks, is able to be out
again.
| Mrs. Fred Hopkinson went Satur-
day to Bridgeport to spend a week
with her sister
/, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Delude have
been called here by the death of Mrs,
Napoleon Bergeron.
Mary Pickford in her greatest
photoplay. Harte Theatre and Opera
! House today only. Adv.
See Mary Pickford in THE Little
American" big patriotic picture to-
day in both theatres. Adv.
Miss Caroline Clark has returned
to Bernardston, Mass, after spend
| ing the week end at the home of her
! parents.
Coming to the Harte Theatre Lor-
raine Huling in THE Fall of Ma
ton" Thursday afternoon and even
ing. ADV.
matched to box Joe Dillon before the
| .Adams4Athletic club at Adams on
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Hattie Loveland of Science
tedy, N. Y, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs
A. R. Dunn of Springfield, Mass, for
merly of this place.
Miss Annie Frazier and Miss Lii
liam VanKleeck have gone to Detroit,
Mich, where they will be the guests
of Mrs. Frank Russell Miss Frazer's
siste.. sis s9@r G
Mr.. and Mrs, George Warrington
of Old Bennington. who have been
away for "a month have reopened
their Old Bennington home for the
winter d
Miss May Cunningham OF Newton
Lower Falls, Mass, and Miss May
Purcell Of Boston. Mass, are guests
at the home of Mrs. Anne McCue Of
School street.
Mrs. Otto E. Reimer of Orange. N.
j., son and. daughter are guests at
the Wallo6msac Inn. The household
effects of Mr.. and Mrs. Reimer are
\ Being packed for shipment
John Whitney, ST., John Whitney.
ir.. Edward Whitney. Leland Millar,
Fred Moran and Albert Green COM
posed an automobile party that made
the trip to Camp Devens, Aver, Mass.
Sunday.
Mrs. Martha Stebbins has returned
IF tue
grammar school in Millers Fails,
Mass, after a few days visit at the
home of her sister. Mrs. William G..
Clark
Misses Isabella Lombard and sister
Anna Kellogg, formerly residents OF
Old Bennington and who have been
spending the past three weeks at the
Walloomsac Inn. have returned TO
their apartments in Troy.
Among the Bennington people who
visited Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, on
Sunday we're. Mrs. julius l.. WEIGH
man, Miss Grace A. Millar, John
Scully, Morris Levin. John Kennedy,
Fritz Horst and Allie White.
The funeral of Mrs, Napoleon Ber-
geron vas largely attended from the
Sacred Heart church this forenoon
Rev. Charles e. Provost, the pastor,
: officiated at the high mass. The bur
ial was In the Park Lawn cemetery
Miner C. Clark of the United States
ship, Leviathan, has rejoined his ship
after a short ftrlough, being present
at the reception and dinner in OBJ
servance of the 25th anniversary of
the marriage of his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. William c. Clark
Bennington Grange will hold reg
ular meeting in ~ FL o. p hall to-
morrow evening. speaker will be
present to talk on Liberty bonds. The
meeting will be followed. by mis-
cellaneous shower for Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Ross. Refreshments vii, be
served with Miss Mary Ross, chair
man.
News has been received here Of
the death at Hartford. Conn, OF AL
bert Pitkin, curator of the Wads-
worth atheneum and Morgan memoir
ial in Hartford, aged 65 years. Mr.
SPitkin was frequent visitor to Ben
nington and only a few weeks ago
with. Mrs. Pitkin was guest at the
Walloomsac Inn at Old Bennington.
He was widely known in his profess
sion. The institution of which he
had charge possessed one of the fin
est collections of Bennington pottery
in the country and the curator was
considered an authority on matters
relative to these rare ceramics. 1t
is understood that he had recently
begun history of Re nnington pot
teries Mr.. Pitkin while on his visits
to Bennington had made large num-
Der of acquaintance who will regret