The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-13
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
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The Young Woman's club viii
hold dance Thursday evening from
$50 to 1880 90t2
James f. Burke OF the Black Cat
Textiles company has gone to Utica
ON a business trip.
Wanted--Brick layers at New
Black Cat Building. Turner Con-
struction company. soft
Dr. Z. NJ Gardiner will leave town
Sunday with the intention Of being
absent for a week.
Mrs. Joseph b. Lyman has closed
her cottage for the season and has re-
turned to Orono. Maine.
Tarrant Sibley is at the Samaritan
hospital in Troy recovering from an
operation for appendicitis.
The public is cordially invited to
the midweek service this evening at
7.S0 in the First Baptist church
f. l.. Bottum of the firm of Bottum
& Torrance has returned from Boston
with new Peerless automobile.
There will be a special business
meeting Of the W. c. T. U. Friday at
3 p. m. at Mrs w. r. Mattison's-
The usual Old Academy autumn
sale will take place the first week in
October. Be sure to wait for it,
S9ti
Mclean Stakeholder has gone to
Syracuse on business trip for the
Turner Construction company, con
tractors for the new Black Cat Tex,
tiles company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Stratton and Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Harvey were recent
Troy and Albany visitors. The trip
was made in Mr. and Mrs Asa STRAIT
tons new Maxwell car.
The family of James II. Caldwell,
head OF the Ludlow Valve works, who
have been at Old Bennington during
the summer and who have had quart
ers at the home OF Mrs. S. B. Hall,
have returned to Troy.
T. p. Gregg caught a black bass
the first of the week in Sucker pond
that weighed over three pounds. The
bass fishing in the pond this season
has been better than for number
OF years .dost of the fish are small
but occasionally large specimen
has been taken.
The Baptist State Convention will
be held this year Sept "a, rs and 20
at Richford. Delegates will be
chosen tonight at the service TO rep
resent our church. We are entitled
TO seven. Let every one be on hand
as we will also take vote relative to
inviting the convention to meet with
us in 1918.
Mrs Charles Il. Welles Wednesday
evening gave one of the series OF
dancing parties that have been fea-
ture OF the social season at Old Ben
nington. The accession was in honor
OF her son, Charles Welles, jr.. and
was attended by about dozen
couples of young people. Mrs. r. c.
Reynolds OF Troy, Mrs. Welles' sister,
motored TO Old Bennington for the
festivities. Refreshments were sery-
ed late In the evening.
Wilma, the fouryear-old daughter
: OF Mr. and Mrs Edward Surdam Of
North Hoosick who was injured by a
| tall while the family was visiting
here on Labor day, has left the Sa-
marian hospital in Troy and has
gone to her home. The child is
! able to walk to some extent, but sew
eral weeks must elapse before she
entirely RECEIVERS from her injuries.
! While playing on the second story
of the piazza at the home OF her
aunt, Mrs. Winnie Bixby on School
street, the little girl fell to The
ground distance of between Is and
Is feet.
A very choice lot of truly charm
ing coats arrived at the Drysdale
Garment section this morning. Elk
quisite models in delightful colorings
-crisply new as freshly mlnted
gold piece-direct from enc OF New
York's foremost coat specialist
Visit the department and view the
collection-they will not be displayed
in show windows or otherwise con
spicuously. We are confident al
lovers of the beautiful and refined il
women's outer apparel, will be capt.
waited. Twenty-Five models adapted
for motoring, dress or general utility
purposes. No two alike and positive
ly no duplicate. Prices range s29.5t
to $3.50,
Sewer Commissioner Grover Lyons
is making good progress on the exten
sion being put in on Mckinley an,
Holden streets In order to attain
the necessary grade the excavation q
some points must be put down Il
depth Of Is ami II feet The digging
is all in clay, however. and there i
no lost time for the blasting Of ledge
or the removal of large stone. Tn
pipe being put in is Is inches in d
ameter, larger than the mail sewe
through the village and once tn
work is completed there will be n
necessity for changes in future years
The extension on Mckinley and HO
den streets will exhaust the sewe
appropriation made by the village 70
the present season and tho work O