The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-05
BENNINGTON aEi.zts
Ssws OF che Town snH Village Fold
Strictly for Busy assaese

The members of the Eastern Star
will hold social at their rooms on
Tuesday afternoon from to 5.
The w. r. c. will hold it's regular
meeting tonight. Trench candles
will be made after the meeting.
Henry c. Shields has closed his
summer residence at Old Bennington
and has returned to Troy for the win
tes
Miss Madge Tomlinson, who has
been visiting her aunt, Mrs. William
r. Morgan, has returned to Hoosick
Falls
James A. Eddy has closed his sum
mer residence at Old Bennington and
the family has returned to Troy for
the winter.
MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Jenkins OF
Hartford, Conn, motored here Sun
day for stay of few days at their
camp "Bide-a-Wee.'
Mrs. r. c. Reynolds of Troy and
Mrs. Charles e. Welles of East
Orange, NJ T., are visiting Mrs. Rob
ert H. Merrill at Old Bennington.
Among the Bennington boys who
were at their homes from Camp
Devens, Aver, Mass, Sunday were
Goodall Hutton and Merritt F.. Bur
ges.
Miss Dorothy Patchin and Miss
Beulah Whiteley. students at the
Bliss business college, North Adams,
were at their lomes for the week
end.
Mrs. Charles E. Patterson has clos
ed her home at Old Bennington for
the winter, and with her daughter,
Mrs. Guy T. Murray, has gone to New
York for the winter
Stark lodge No. 8, l. o. o. F.. will
drill tonight in the initiatory degree
to be exemplfied at South Shafts
bury tomorrow night Transporting
thereto in the Troy auto-bus.
TWO dozen boy scouts under the d.
reotion Of Scout Leader Isaiah Crea-
ser hiked to the Y. NJ c. A. camp on
the Burgess road Saturday evening
and passed the night there.
Rev. Thornton f. Turner, because
of i'll health, has been granted an in
definite leave OF absence and will
spend the winter in the south C. M
Graves and Harrison l. Norton are
committee on temporary supp
The ladies of the Eastern Star will
hold their postponed card party and
dance at the temple Friday evening,
November 9Th, Donnelley's orchestra
A port OF the proceeds Will be given
to the Red Cross, Tickets soc. Adv.
Misses Mary and Lulu Robinson,
who have been occupying the Mer.
ri,l cottage at Old Bennington during
the season. are at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w b. Sheldon for the Win
to.
Tho high school pool tournament at
the \. NJ c. A. is now on and viii
continue during the remainder of the
month. In the games SO far played,
Healy has beaten Barrett 90 to Is,
and Southall, % TO 5.
John ]. Hayes, foreman at the
spring needle department OF the
Charles Cooper estate machine shops
who has been Ill of acute indigestion,
had an uncomfortable night and his
condition this morning was reported
to be considerably worse
Mrs. Fritz Horst. Herbert Horst,
Miss Grace A. Millar and Mrs. Frank
Jewett made the trip Sunday to Camp
Devens. Aver, Mass, by automobile
with John Kennedy as driver. They
reported that the heat has not yet
been turned on at the camp and that
the boys are not enjoying the cold
night.
Letters and post cards from Ben
nington soldiers in France and Eng.
land are beginning to be received but
owing to the censorship do not tell
great deal except of their safe arriv-
al after o rather rough trip in which
quite lot of them were seasick
troubles but do not tell what the
were. IN some letters the censors
have blotted out certain parts.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Z. Hollister
of Buffalo are visiting in the village.
Mr. Hollister is former resident Of
the village and registered here when
war was declared with Germany. His
name was among those summoned In
the first call for examination but be-
cause Of delay in completing his pa
pers he was not among those who
went with the fret contingent to
Camp Devens. He has now been Ger
titled for service by the state district
beard
William H. Loomis, formerly OF
Bennington, is at present the manag
or for the Mikado company, one of
the famous Gilbert & Sullivan operas
that IS being produced under the di-
rection of the war department at the
different army camps for the benefit
of the soldiers. The company was at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ca, for week and
OF the production the Fort Oglethorpe
Trench and Camp says: THE com
pany which gave the three perfor-
mances for Chicamauga camp. under
the direction of William H. Loomis,
who is an old-timer at the show game
has the happy faculty OF injecting
plenty of what the men in khaki calls
pep into their work, and the produc
ton pleased everyone who saw it,"