The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-07

BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and vlIlaa> Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Regular meellnS OF Miriam keDek
ah lodge this evening at s o'clock
Mrs. Charles Frazer of North street
is spending month in Norwich,
Conn
Mrs. Albert Ward of Hoosick Falls
is spending a few days with friends in
town.
Robert McKeon of Pratt street is
working in the Schwartz market on
Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Selby. former
residents, now of Boston, are visiting
relatives in town.
ForSale-One Columbus Buggy
company ,phaeton. First class condi-
tion. Can Tel. 261. Cliff
Miss Nellie Murphy of Jefferson
avenue is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Holden in Detroit, Mich.
Wilfred Brosseau, Fred Jones and
Frank Jones of North Adams visited
friends in town yesterday.
Mrs. Robert Gardner, whose health
is impaired is with her daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Wilcox, in North Pownal
s. Lord Of Pittsfeld, Mass, started
this afternoon on a hike over the Ben.
nington section of the Long Trail.
Children, don't forget the picture
tomorrow at II o'clock at the Com.
munity gardens. Bring hoes or rakes.
Plans are being made by the Green
Mountain club for an excursion to
Glastonbury mountain, the 10th of
August.
Mrs. Edward L. Bates and Miss
Beulah Bates have returned from
three days auto trip to southern New
/ Hampshire.
Mrs. Ellen Burt and daughter, Mrs.
william Scott Of Amsterdam are the
guests of her son Sidney A. Burt and
family on Gage street.
Mrs. Irene Friedman and daught-
ers. Ruth and Martha of Waterbury
Conn. are the guests of her nephew,
Abe Satter of Union street.
The Folk dancing class will be con-
tlnued on the playground tomorrow
afternoon at 8 o'clock. Several pop
ular new dances will be taught
Miss Kate West Batcheller enter
tanned a number of Bennington young
people at her summer home, Skybur-
row, near Williamstown Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. p. Haskins and
three children of Chicopee, Mass,
who were in town TO attend the
Tompkins- Wood wedding, returned
home Monday.
Miss Florence Center, who has been
in i'll health for some time at the
home of her aunt Mrs. c. B. Hunt, on
North street, is much improved and
was able to return to her home in
SALISBURY Sunday.
Misses Mary and Helen Cutting re-
turned to their home on Union street
Sunday from a two weeks stay in
Hartford. Miss Helen Cutting re-
sumed her duties as stenographer in
the Nichols and Warren Office Monday
morning.
The attention is called to the
Tahkoneac camp fire girls to be pres.
ent at the demonstration of canning
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at
the High school hall ANY member
who is interested in forming spec
| ial demonstration meet Thursday
morning with demonstrator
Napoleon Chicoine OF Park street
has received word that his brother,
who has been at the front in France
for four months, is dead. Mr.. Chi
| coine wrote a letter number of weeks
ago to his brother which has been re-
turned to him with the statement that
his brother Is dead The young man
was member of Canadian regi-
| ment
The members of the North Ben
nington Baptist Missionary society
and their friends will be the guests OF
| the Baptist society Of this village on
| Wednesday afternoon, August Sth Of
| 3 O'Clock in the church parlors A
most interesting program Is being
prepared and all ladies' of the com
munity interested, are cordially inyit
ed to be present,
| Among the out of town guests pres
ent at the Tompkins-Wood wedding
were Mr.. and Mrs. Il. l.. Hasklns ant
daughter Bertha, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Il
Adams OF Pawlet, Hiram Wood anC
wife of Rutland, Mrs. Cassie Jones
and daughter, Ruth of Pittshold
Mass, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Parker o
Middletown and Mr.. and Mrs. Ernes
Bebee of West Rupert.
| The Company | baseball team wen
from Fort Ethan Allen to Brattlebor,
| Sunday and played st, Michaols Ath
letic association teams The Com
pany boys won to in Is innings
one of the most exciting games eve
seen in Brattleboro. The playing wa
loose enough so that every inning wa
dangerous for both teams. Anon
the players on the Company tear
were Toomey, Greenwood, Goodell an
Sayery Of Bennington.
Among those here today for exam
nation by the exemption board /
Stewart Bennett of Manchester, VIII
is already In service and wearing III
uniform of the First Vermont A
he understands Il, all the Benningto
boys In the regiment, who have bee
drafted Will have to appear her