The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-22
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Rows Of the Town and Village Told
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Rev. C. 8. f. Crathen will preach
in the old first church Sunday morn.
Inc.
Clark Tomasi caught seven fine
day.
Raymond Thompson is working on
the Everett estate during the summer
vacation.
Special values in mems straw hats
for Saturday at NJ, Shimlntzky's, 1l5
North street. ADV.
Mr. and Mrs L. j. Eddington and
daughter. Ruth were in Troy Thurs
day on business.
Mems athletic union suits at 45c.
at J. Leyins corner store on Friday
and Saturday. Adv.
Ladies' white shoes and pumps at
astonishing prices at NJ. Shimlintzky's,
Ills North street. Adv.
Thomas Keenan, has returned from
Cleveland Ohio where he has been
employed for the past year.
John ID. V. s. Merrill was in Man
leicester Thursday on business connect
ed with the June term Of county court
Moonlight confetti dance. Temper
lance A. c. Friday, % in Foresters hall
Admission 20 cents. Hurleys' orches-
ira. 21tS
Miss Hazel Hufnagel has accepted
la position in the office of the II. T.
Cushman Mfg. Co. in North Benning
ton.
| James r. Lovett, clerk in the house
furnishing department of the Dry s'iale
store, is confined to his home with the |
grir.
Mrs. A. J. Hufnagel of Gage street |
| is spending the week with her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Ezra Tiffany in Hoosick
Falls.
| w. T. Barrett and c. s. Kehoe have
put fine concrete sidewalk in front
Of their residence on Grandyiew
street.
Ladies' $3.50 silk and crepe de
chine waists will be sold at S1.S9 at j.
Levin's corner store on Friday and
Saturday. Adv
Mrs Grace Godfrey has accepted
position as bookkeeper and stenogra-
pher in the office of postmaster, End
DRY S. Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. w. J. Randles and
family of Dewey street, extension, left
today for Lake Cossayuna, where they
will spend the week end
Hiram l.. Hall, superintendent of the
f. u Waist company, was in Green
wich Thursday transaeting business
at the branch factory in that place.
j. A. Evans motored to Troy today
where he met his daughter Miss Doro-
thy of New York, who will spend the
summer vacation with her parents.
Miss Grace LOCKER, who has been in
town to learn the system of the u
Waist company Office has returned to
Greenwich, where she has a position
in their branch factory,
Miss Grace A. Buck of Arlington is
In town to attend the annual alumni
reception of the North Bennington
high school this evening and is the
guest Of Miss Edna Waldron.
Miss Sarah Sherman of New York,
for number of years summer visi-
tor at Old Bennington, writes to
friends here that she will arrive
about the first of July.
All Odd Fellows are requested to
meet at their lodge room, Sunday
evening, June oath, at seven o'clock,
o attend the annual memorial service
It the Second Congregational church
All other branches of the order are in
,ited to attend.
The Red Cross committee is Offend
ID at the advertisement on the front
lage of the Banner Thursday
md desire the public to UNI
Ierstand that it was inserted
Without the authorization of
he committee and that the committee
S not responsible for the statements
made.
Elmer +. lockwood and G.. =. End
ess went fishing on the Lake branch
thursday and each secured over TWEEN
Y good trout Phil today looks as
hough he ought to be quarantined for
hicken pox, but says he stood the
rip better than Elmer, who was so
ably bitten by the black flies that he
asn't made his appearance in pub
Z.
r. A. Davenport and +. B. Pope
'ent fishing on the Saltwater Thurs
ay. They reached home about 10
clock at night with few small trout
nd some of the boys are telling the
tory that the two fishermen got lost.
ccording to the story by the boys the
xo members of the Bennington Hosi-
ry company made their way out of
ne woods after dark in the vicinity
( Lon Bishops about four miles from
lie point where they had left their
utomobile. Four miles is a long way
, walk in rubber boots especially af-
II one has been fighting the misqui
,es, black flies and punkies of the
tillwater all day and the two fisher
zen engaged Lon to harness his horse
I'd take them to Hagars where they
ad left the automobile.
Lyman c. Butler, the young attor-
sy, who was fatally injured by falling
front of train in the Grand Cen
al station in New York Wednesday,