The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-07
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
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Benjamin Waldron is confined to
the house by Illness.
Thomas Mclaughlin OF East Dorset
is spending few days here.
Miss Ethel Woodland has taken
position with Bottum & Torrance.
Miss Alta Cutler has returned from
two weeks trip to Berlin, N. Y
Basket ball practice tonight at the
Y. NJ c. A. at 7.SO. Everybody out.
Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis of West Main
street is confined to the house by i'll
ness.
Rev Isaac Jennings and Phillip
T. II. Pierson are passing the day in
Albany
Cholmondeley Thornton has return
ed to Springfield after visiting for
few days in town.
Mrs Phillip Jacobs and Miss Ger
trude Russell OF Old Bennington are
spending the day in Troy.
Just received complete line of
mems and young mems snappy style
hats at Joe Levin's. Adv.
w. J. Randles has improved from
an illness which confined him to the
house for the past five weeks.
Frank II. Scott of Peasant street
has taken a position with the General
Electric company in Pittsfield.
Eddie Bautin has moved from the
Hawks house on Depot street to the
Lamarre tenement on School street.
Don't forget the dance at the Gold
en- Cross hall Friday evening. Music
furnished by Donnelly's orchestra.
Adv.
Miss Nellie J. Higgins left this
morning for Meriden, Conn, where
she will stay the remainder of the
winte:.
The ladies of Gage street will hold
parcel post bazaar and serve sup
per at NJ. e. church Wednesday of
next week. ADV.
Miss Irene Berard has returned to
her home on Division street having
completed her course in st. AIMS
academy, Marlboro, Mass.
The village auditors today began
work on the accounts in preparation
for the annual village meeting on
March 90.
Miss Sara O'Connor of the Ryan &
O'Connor millinery shop is in New
York where she is purchasing her
spring stock.
The regular monthly business
meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of
the NJ f, church will be held Thugs
day afternoon at 3.45.
The basket ball game between the
independents and the high school
regulars will be played at Library
hall Friday at $50 The preliminary
will begin at s.
A new group of Camp Fire girls is
being found. Any girl over IL years
of age who s1shessto Join now is
asked TO send her name and age to
Miss Vossler at once.
Mrs. l.. J. Mclaughlin and little
daughter of Troy are visiting fer a
few days at the home of Mrs. Nc
Laughlin's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Me
holas Morrissey,
The officers and teachers of the
Second Congregational Sunday school
are kindly asked to come to the month
ly meeting tomorrow night. after the
chapel service. at SIS.
There will be a meeting of the suf-
rage study class at the Library Fri
day evening at 100 The program
will be in charge of the younger
members of the league. a large at
tendance is requested.
In recent issue of the rotograyure
sheet of the Sunday Ne wYork Times,
there was picture of Allen Chamber
lain. who after going over the long
Trail last summer. wrote an article
for the Boston Transcript, praisng
the Bennington section. He. in com
pany with a number Of ether mem
bers of the Appalachian mountain
club, was photographed at the top of
Mt Washington.
John Kasson Howe, whose death
occurred in Albany last Sunday, was
the son Of James II. Howe of Troy.
for many years a leading wholesale
hardware merchant The younger
Mr. Howe was graduated from Yale
and married Miss Anna Holland.
whose father, DR.. j. G. Holland, was
a famous author, writing under the
nom deplume of Timothy Titcomb
and was the founder and until his
death the editor of the Century maya
zine. Mr. Howes mother who was a
Burlington woman. was a sister of the
Hon. John A. Kasson, who was con-
gresham for many years from Iowa
and was regarded as one of the most
brilliant members of the lower house.
was later United States minister to
Austria. He, like his sister, was
from Burlington. /