The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-23
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Monday, July %, 1917.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and village Told
Strictly for Busy Readers

Miss Carrie Sigworth has gone to
Catsknl to visit her sister and other
relatives.
Misses Bibiane and jeanette Houle
are visiting relatives in Wilder VI,
and Lebanon, \. ii.
Mrs. T. O'Brien of Pittsfeld, Mass,
is spending the week with her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. E. Shea.
David Colburn and Chauncy Mann
teachers in New York for the sum-
mer, were weekend guests in town
Ii. b. Hutchins, who has been held
up at home for a week with the grip
was able to be at his Office this morn
ms
A dozen or more of the Ttakhonec
girls went today to Woodford city
where they will be in camp for a
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Green Brimner of
Pownal were guests of Mrs Brim-
ner's mother, Mrs. George Aldrich,
Sunday.
Eugene Shea, Jr., of East Main
street left this morning for Scranton,
Penn, where he will visit friends for
q week.
Miss Beatrice McConn of New
Britain, Conn, is passing a vacation
CT week with her aunt, Mrs. John
Pudcell of School street.
| NJ. F. Walker of Castleton and
Sherman Coonradt Of Hoosick Falls
| are guests today at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. George A. Parker,
| Miss Laura Rogers. who is teach
er in the High school at West War
wick. r. l., has returned to Benning-
ton fer the summer months.
Mrs. Edward Dickey and children
have returned to their home in Woon
socket, r. l., after spending a month
with her sister, Mrs. Charles Jepson.
Hubert Ray Hart has enlisted at
Newport, X. l., in n. c. d, r. F., for
term of four years. He was regis
tered in precinct A, Bennington, Vt
Mr. and Mrs. Croswell Wilson
Miss Phillips and Edwin Van Kleeck
motored from Troy Sunday and were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. c. J. Kinsley
]. Ed. Walbridge is converting the
large barn on Imperial avenue into q
four apartment tenement. The lath
ing is nearly completed ready for The
plasterers. Even before the first mai
was driven in the work OF remodelins
there were dozens of applicants TO
tn tenements indicating the scarcit.
Of rentable property in the village.
Through the courtesy OF the librar
ian. Miss Adds, Miss Grace A. Milla
has placed a box in the librar
e marked Smokes for our soldiers.
i | Anyone having stray coins or bills !
e asked to place them in the box. Thi
q money from time to time will be sen
to the New York Sun. This paper
trying to raise a million dollar tobat
8 &C fund as Uncle Sam furnishe
smokes" for our navy but not for tn
army Visit the box often, please.
Residents l. the vicinity OF Gag
|. and School streets have lately bee
greatly annoyed by the large numbe
of cats that have apparently cor
- gregated this year in that vicinit
For a number Of nights it has bee
almost impossible to sleep because {
the continual racket kept up in Ii
p yards and on the porches by the figh
p ing and yowling cat. If the ownel
- of the feline pets do not take stel
to abate the nuisance it is likely tn.
70 some of the residen, who have bee
in robbed of their nightly rest will tai
Or steps to reduce the cat colony.
Two Ford cars, one owned
Perry b. Gardner and driven by Pet
Reeves, a colored chauffeur in Il
employ of Mr.. Gardner. and the 9th
owned and driven by Brattlebo
r woman came together at the crossi.
OF Main and North streets eaI
- Sunday evening. None Of the ocC
pants were hurt and the cars were Il
seriously damaged The Brattlebo
car which was going north oy
North street when the Benningt
in. car struck it amidships The B,
al nington car sustained twisted a,
81. and the Brattleboro automobile
ceiyed some damage to its upI
ECU works. Both were able to proce
ole from the scene Of the collision unt
their own power,