The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-21
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wills and fam
lily are at Hedges Lake for week.
Miss Rose Harbour and Mrs. Grace
Townsend are at BARRIERS Pines for
g week.
Mr. and Mrs. r. E. Healy left this
morning for an outing Of week 10
be pa sed at Lake st. Catherine.
Mrs. Percy Field Comstock of Wash
ington, is spending a few days with
her niece Mrs. James e. Burke OF
Grandview street,
Mrs. C. B. Coleman OF Cambridge
y SIS. has arrived at the home of
w. b. Sheldon to remain the rest
9. the season.
Coming to the Harte Theatre to-
morrow the great emotional star,
Pauline Frederick in 1.-The Woman on
The Index" and Pathe News.-Adv.
Nh. and Mrs. s Fl. Percy and Mr.
and Mrs. William Robinson have re-
turned from a weekend visit with
friends at Lake George and Sarato-
81.
The Thursday evening prayer ser
vice of the First Baptist church VIII
be held at the regular hour this even
ing The leader will be l.. Fl. Mic
hol,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Hurley, Miss
Helen Hurley, Miss Rose Thoymeyer
and Patrick Dunn left early this
morning on an automobile tfp 20
New York.
All members of the Sons of Vet
Grams are reque tea 10 meet al Grand
Army hall Friday evening at $50
sharp for the purpose of attending a
gathering at the home of w. II. Serv-
ice. Automobiles will be furnished.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Endress OF
this village and Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Rose and daughter Marion of Hart
ford, Conn, left this morning by auto
mobile for a trip through the White
Mountain country and the western
section of Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles B, Wall, Mr.
and Mrs Wendell r. Wall and Miss
Dorothy Wall of Winsted Conn, are
in Bennington and are making visit
OF a week which will be passed at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Swift
and w. A. Wall.
Miss Thelma Aver, who has been
resident of Bennington during the
past few years has gone to Troy
where she will enter nurses train
ing school connected with one of the
hospitals in that city. Miss Aver
has a large number CT friends in
Bennington who will wish her sue
cess.
One of the sections of iron fence
fronting the property of Miss Jennie
Valentine on Pleasant street was
found twisted from its fastenings and
standing directly across the sidewalk
this morning. The fence Is anchor
ed in marble but it was probably not
substantial enough to withstand a
collision with an auto truck
Probably the first airplane to sail
over the town of Bennington maze
it's appearance Wednesday afternoon.
The plane did not come as far as this
village but was seen over Norm
Bennington. Later it became known
that the aviator was on his way TO
Cambridge where he and his machine
are to be one Of the attractions at IN
fair in progress this week. On his
way from New York he had missed
his course and came too far east.
An Essex roadster and an Essex
sedan car have been received a. the
Bennington garage and are attracting
considerable attention on the part
automobile experts. When the Essex
car first appeared on tA5 fJdd .he
past spring il was not expected thar
any model other than the touring car
would be sold during the present sea
sons The demand for the single
scatter and the inclosed car has I'M
doubtedly induced the company TO
make departure from its original
plans.