The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-16
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North Adams.
Everett Day spent a few days with
relatives in Ashfield.
DR.. F. A. Walsh has purchased a
new Buick-siX roadster.
Miss Aliva Scala was in North Ad-
ans on business Friday.
Leo Linsig of Pittsfeld is the guest
OF his brother, F. w. Linsig.
Miss Blanche E. Sprague spent Sun
day with friends in Nottingham.
J. B. Mahoney OF Shelburne Falls
was business guest here Sunday.
Mrs. W. e. Sturgiss of Brattleboro,
has been visiting relatives in town.
PeIley Sprague has had telephone
installed in his home on North Hill.
Mrs c. c. Barlow visited her
daughter Mrs. c. J. Maher, Saturday.
Miss Livia Franceschetti was
business guest in North Adams Fri
day
Mr.. and Mrs Osias Berard are the
parents Of a son, born Monday, May
ii
Miss Mary Dempsey spent the
weekend at her home in North Ad-
ans.
Louis Loisolle has moved into the
tenement formerly rented by Arthur
Day.
Arthur Day has moved into the
tenement recently vocated by Alfred
White.
Miss Nellie Ross has been spending
Q few days with relatives in North
Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Sawyer and
daughter, Eleanor, have moved to
Wilmington
Mrs Martin Lauf of Danbury, Conn
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs
Charles Pope.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w Kentdeld and
daughter, Doris, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. II. P. Billings.
DR.. c. L. Upton of Shelburne Falls
was called in consultation for George
Kennedy. who has been very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Henwood of
Fitchburg have been spending few
day with Mrs. Bertha Williams in
Heartwelville.
Mrs. Charles Pope entertained a
few friends at her home Wednesday
evening Musical selections were
much enjoyed
Mrs. Eva Bowler was rendered a
surprise party at her home We'd
nesday evening. A program of music
and games was carried out and re-
freshments served. She received
many useful gifts.
Miss Mary Dix OF Nottingham and
Charles H. Wellman of this town,
were quietly married Saturday even
ing by Rev. c. l.. EldTedge They will
reside at the home OF the groom's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. f. S. Wellman.
Next Sunday, May 10, the morning
topic at the BapIst church will be
"A Fragrant Church" and in the eve !
ming the subject will be: Miracles [,
Old and New" Miss Bailey's Sunday |
school will attend morning worship |
in body at 1o45. Last Sunday !
the Guards overlooked two
pews.
At the Baptist church last Sunday !
Rev Mr. Eldredge speaking /
upon The Prodigals Father as re-
corded in Luke XIV, asserted that for |
two thousand years people have put !
the emphasis in a different place |
from what Jesus intended. Not the |
lost boy and his escapades, nor yet |
the returning boy is the important |
thing shown us in this story, but the |
heart of the father. We know moth
ing of the mistress of that house. |
She may have been a good cook: she ,
may have been butterfly who, if liv-
ing today would have divided her
time between gossip and bridge. Her
heart may have suffered a twinge, /
when the boy left home, but it was
the fathers heart which was broken
and desolate. True you could not
have found the boy in the Fathers
house when he was burning red fire
in the tenderloin, but there was
never a moment you could not have
found him in the fathers heart. He.
it was, who daily, perhaps many