The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-26
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Wednesday, December 20, 1917.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town ane Village TsH
Briefly fer susy ksAaars

RbtVtiy A~t SSS1 ssNSo
Bert Stockwell of Seymour, Conn,
is visiting Calvin Endress, So.
Charles H. Sibley of Hoosick Falls
was a Christmas day guest of Mr.
and Mrs. c. j. kinsley.
Mrs. Maude j. Gregg of Albany was
the Christmas day guest of her moth
er, Mrs. William E. Frost.
Mr.. and Mrs, Frank McGurk of Pro
violence, R. j., were Christmas guests
at Mr.. McGurk's former home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conley of Schenect-
ady were Christmas guests at the
home of Mrs. Conley's father, Martin
Coyle
Mr. and Mrs. w. d. Pelley have re-
turned from three weeks trip to
some of the winter resorts OF eastern
Florida.
Carl White and Miss Julia Awhile
of New York kere Christmas visi-
ors at the home of their father, James
Ii White.
Clifford Aldrich of Rotterdam
Junction. N. Y, and Amos Aldrich of
Northampton, Mass, were Christmas
guests of their mother, Mrs Carrie
Aldrich
John j. Hayes of the Charles
Cooper Estate machine shops, who
has been at the Samaritan hospital
for treatment for number of weeks
has returned home.
Harold W. Cole, a former Benning-
ton druggist but now in the federal
service with headquarters in Boston,
has been visiting here and at his for
mer home, SALISBURY
Edward Thomas, who is stationed
at Fort Jefferson and who is employed
in the shipyard there, has been visit
ing at his home here. He expects to
be transferred to Newport News, Va.
after the first of the year,
Supreme court at Montpelier will
open as usual on the first day of the
term, but Tuesday being New Year'
day an adjournment will be taken
to Wednesday morning at o'clock.
No business will be transacted on
Tuesday.
Miss Hilda POLAND, who has been
visiting at her home here has return
ed to Attleboro. Mass. She was ac-
companied by her sister, Miss Edith
POLAND, supervisor OF schools at
Whitehall, n Y. who will pass the
remainder OF her vacation at Attic,
bore
Residents of Bennington who were
in Troy Tuesday visited l.. II. Mel
SON. foreman for the Black Cat Tex
tiles company who is at the Samari-
tan hospital recovering from blood
poisoning resulting from an Tjnipry
end found him making good lprogress
Howard recovery. SHis .coIfiition vas
at one time considered serious but
he. is now able to walk about the cor
rfdors Of tiie hospital.
Mrs George a, Millar has received
q letter from her son Harold. Millar.
purchasing agent for the converted
Yacht Vieaee which @has-%beenv acting
as convoy for merchant ships and
Transports lie was here or Thanks
1giving day. but no. word had previous
ly been, heard from him. The Wv
ace, he writes, has since made long
\ trip for the purpose Of testing new
devices and has been TO Washington
with the board of officers detailed to
make the tests.
Michael Madden. a. veteran of the
civil war, died at 1.-THE Vermont
soldiers home on Christmas day
Last summer he suffered stroke of
paralysis and had since been in in
firm health. The funeral will be
held from the home of his only
sister, Mrs Anna Moony, at North
Bennington and from the St John
the Baptist church at o'clock He
was born in Ireland August 6, 1914.
enlisted in company G., first Vermont
cavalry, from Arlington Dec. "a.
1863, was taken prisoner March s,
1864, paroled April 80, 1864, and was
discharged for disability Oct 6,
1864. He had lived the larger por-
ton of his life since the close of the
civil war in California, coming east
about two years ago,