The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-26
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village TsIs
Briefly for Rusy Readers

Henry hlce is IN springfield, Mass,
today on business.
w. H. Myers has purchased a new
Studebaker touring car,
A concrete sidewalk Is being put in
for Joseph Perrott on Putnam street.
The Misses Sara Burt and Mar
garet Kelley are spending a week in
New York city.
John Squires and family of Old Ben
nington left by automobile today for
Skeneatles. ~ Y.
Charles Galloway of North Ben
nington has purchased a Ford car of
the R. F. Niles agency.
The frame is being put up for the
new house being built by Fred S.
Rice ON Putnam street.
Louis ii. Nelson of the Black Cat
Textiles company, has leased the
Knight house on Valentine street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Hall and child
of Pittsburg have been recent guests
of Mrs. Samuel B. Hall of Old Ben
nington.
Rev VIM. G. Towart is attending
the Baptist State convention in Rich.
ford this week. He will return
Thursday.
Wanted at once girl as helper in
rough dry department, also one or
two hand ironers at Bennington SAM
tary Laundry. O0tG
E. i. Bottum and John Elwell Jeff
this morning for Boston on business
trip. They are making the journey in
Mr.. Bottums car.
The first football game of the sea
| son at Williams will be played Satur
day afternoon with the Rensselaer,
Polytechnic Institute team,
Roger N. Kimball of Kenosha, Wis.
vice president of the Black Cat Tex
| tiles company, is in town for a brief
stay, leaving for New York this eve
ning.
Thursday evening, the 9th. at the
Catholic Foresters' hall, will be held
a whist party for the benefit of the
Sacred Heart church, Admission 10c
All welcome. it,
Thursday evening, the 9th, at the
Catholic Foresters' hall, will be held
. whist party for the benefit of the
Sacred Heart church. Admission 1Oc
All welcome. 1tS
A great surprise will be disclosed
the 18th and 18th of October. If you
want to get in on it" find your way
to the Old Academy. The usual au
tumn sale will be held on these dates
Tarrant Sibley. superintendent OF
the L. L. Sibley Manufacturing com
pany's plant, who recently underwent
an operation for appendicitis at one
OF the Troy hospitals has returned
, home.
Fred N. Austin, formerly with the
First National bank of Bennington, is
now in France His address is com
!. panyC, 18th railroad engineers, Ameri
can eNpeditionary forces, Paris
France.
The Twin State Gas and Electric
company is putting in new penstock
at its plant on the Woodford road.
The conduit is 1900 feet long and six
feet in diameter and Oregon timber
is being used in the construction.
Sheriff Frederick Godfrey and
Mrs, Godfrey have returned from
| Queen City park, Burlington. where
they passed the summer. Their son
Bradford Godfrey, has returned to
Cambridge, Mass, and resumed his
studies at the Harvard dental school
Mrs. w. d. Pelley, who recently un
derwent an operation for appended
It's at the Brooklyn city hospital, Is
expected to arrive home today. With
Mr.. Policy. who has been stopping In
New York during her recovery she
came as far as Greenfield, Mass, yes
terday.
Edward Scully, who recently broke
his leg in descending from a tree, il
still retained at the Samaritan hos
pital in Troy. The x.ray photograph
! disclosed that both bones were brok
en- and splintered and the surgeons
thought it best that the patient re
main at the hospital for at least two
weeks.