The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-06
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Joseph A. Evans is in New York
4 on business trip.
4 Wanted-Women by H. T. Cushman
B Mfg, company Adv. Att
William Finlan has purchased a
4 house on Park street extension. The
sale was made by the H. N, Williams
Agency.
The water commissioners will hold
4 their October meeting at the village
headquarters this evening at the us
ual hour, 1870
DELINQUENT taxes due the town of
Woodford for the year 1919 have been
turned over to the Bennington Collee-
ton Agency for collection.
William II. Wills left today for st,
Adams to attend the annual meeting
of the state association of insurance
agents held in that city
The October meeting Of the board
Of village trustees will be held at 100
o'clock tomorrow evening. The regu-
lar appropriations will be made at the
meeting
y.
Charles A. Maurer left Sunday with |
a party of friends on an automobile |
trip through lower Canada and wen
ern New York.
w. b, Sheldon, James X Batchel-
der. Robert +. Healy and Henry |
Chase have left for Montpelier to at
tend the October term of the Vermont |
supreme court
George A. Mathers, general secre-
tary for the Y NJ. C. A. at Wakefield |
Mass, was at the home of his parents |
Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Mathers of
Pleasant street for the weekend.
H. NJ. Russell of South street fail !
while getting out of bed Sunday morn |
ing and fractured his left wrist. |
Philip Harris is taking care of Mr.. |
Russelps stock while the latter is
laid up.
For the remainder of the month of !
October the Old Academy library will /
be open ON Wednesday and Saturday /
mornings from 10 to r. Beginning /
November LIST II will be open only on
Saturday morning.
Mrs Edward L. Bates, who has
been visiting at the home of her son, |
William Leroy Bates at Rutherford, |
~ j., returned Sunday afternoon She |
was accompanied by Judge Bates who
went to Rutherford for that purpose. |
Miss Hazel Crossman chief opera
tor at the local telephone exchange, I
began a two weeks vacation this
morning. Miss Clara Pelerin senior
! operator, is at the chief operators
desk during the absence of Miss
! Crossman
Thomas j. Healy, who has been in
the Office Of his brother, Robert e.
Healy. during the summer vacation,
has returned TO Washington to re-
sumo his dutie5 az private secretary
! fer Judge 0. 81 Barber Of the United
States court eli customs appeals,
Quite a bunch of baseball enthusi-
asts went to Rutland Sunday to sea
the Boston Red Sox play an exhibit
/ ion game against a picked up team
representing Rutland. Babe Ruth
made his advertised home run with
/ two on bases and the Red Sox won
( 6 TO 2.
/ Francis Morrissey of the internal
revenue service, was at the home of
I his parents, MI and Mrs. j. p. Nor
Tisse, for the weekend He has re-
Gently been transferred from Ports
moutfA-N, H. to the new Vermont in
ternal revenue district with headquar-
tiers in Burlington.
The first regular meeting of the
Fortnightly club for the season 1919
1920, will be held on Saturday, Oct.
18th, at which time the annual must
Gale will be given. Members may OBJ
tain their tickets and year books at
the Free library on Thursday and Fri
day afternoons
Tho funeral OF the late Cornelius
NJ Lambert, who died Thursday
morning in Mantle Conn., was held
at o'clock Sunday afternoon from
the home of his son, f. L. Lambert, {
on School street Rev. j. Elmer Nc
kee. rector of St, Peters church, Of
ficiated The bearers. members of
Taft commandery, X. t., were T. A.
Davenport, Herbert A. Davenport,
Frank Burchard, Clarence l.. Holden,
C. f. Wentworth and j. c. Jensen.
The interment was at Park Lawn
cemetery where the Masonic order
had charge Of the service
Several automobile parties went to
Rutland Sunday to witness the base l
ball game between the Boston Ameri- l
can league team and the Rutland |
nine. The big leaguers won by a
score Of to .. Babe Ruth, the s
spectacular batsman for the Boston q
team who has made a specially of a
home runs during the season recently y
closed was on hand with a fourbase b
wallop Some Of the spectators de-
clared that Ruth batted the ball so
high in The air that he reached sec y
ond base before the sphere struck the !,
ground.
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