The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-04
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Berwick cakes Estes market. Adv.
Good potatoes-Es. es' Market. Adv.
f. G. Atkins of Grant street is i'll
of the grip.
Fresh fish of all kinds every day at
Public Fruit Market. Adv.
Leo Burns returned Wednesday to
Hoosick Falls after a brief visit with
friends in town.
Halibut, haddock, cod, herring,
smelts, cusk, Boston Blue, finnan had
die, oysters and cams at Estes. ADV.
We want to give you the earliest
possible delivery. Leave your fish
order at Estes market tonight. Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Rudd of Wash
ington street are today quietly .cele-
brating the 57th anniversary of their
marriage.
Miss Bertha Atkins of Grant street
has recovered from the grip and re-
sumed work the first of the week in
the Nichols store.
Calvin Moore, u student at the
Michigan Agricultural School, Lans-
ing. Mich, is spending the spring va
cation with his paren s, Mr.. and Mrs.
George II. Moore of Weeks street.
Mrs. Fred Harmon, Mrs. Murray
Hathaway and Mrs. Foster will enter
tain in the social rooms of the Bap-
fist church Friday afternoon. The
Red and Blue teams of the church are
invited.
Mrs. Harold Hazeltine of Cambridge
Eng. and, with her infant daughter,
left the Putnam Memorial hospital
Monday and are at the home Of Mrs.
Hazeltine's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George F. Graves.
Mrs. e. A. Marsden, treasurer of the
Woman's Relief Corps, will give a
card party at her home on Union
street Thursday evening to raise
money for flags for Bennington Post
American Legion. The public is invit-
ed.
Wynanda X. Buckley, 3 year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan
Buckley of Rye. N. Y, who died sud
deny February 20. was a granddaugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F. Board
man, summer residents of Old Ben
nington.
Mrs. Cara Ray Reynolds, wife of
Marcus 7. Reynolds, who died Febru-
airy % at her home in Hoosick was
formerly of North Adams and has
many acquaintances in Bennington.
The funeral was held this afternoon at
2 o'clock from her late home.
Through an error in reporting the
returns at the annual town election
Tuesday, William E. Sears, the candi-
date for first constable, was recorded
as heading the ticket. This was in
correct. Town Clerk E. A. Both,
who has been given this distinction
at previous elections, was the tickle,
leader this year receiving 965 votes
to 957 for Mr. Sears.
Miss Kathryn Duplis of Pittsheld
who has completed her duties with
the Black Cat Textiles company. was
lgiven farewell party Wednesday
afternoon. In behalf of her many
friends and associates she was pre-
sen.ed a beautiful ring as token of
remembrance. Miss Duplis will leave
Friday for Pittsfield and will resume
her former work with the General
Electric company.
Stearns H. White, superintendent
of the Troy Foundry Machine com
pany, who died at the Samaritan hos
pital in Troy as the result of burns
received from molten metal in an ex-
plosion at the foundry, was well
known in Benning on and has rela-
tives living in this village. The ex-
plosion took place while a cast was
being made and four employees We're
severely burned. Mr.. White was
about 81 years old and was presumab-
ly native of Hoosick where his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William P. White,
reside. He had been in the employ
of the foundry machine company dur
ing the past II years.
Miss Evelyn Schwartz of Weston,
Mass, who is connected with the Y.
w. c. A. of Albany was married in
that city March / to Martin S. Villas
of this city by the Rev William Her
man Hopkins, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church of Albany, in the
presence of a few friends of the par
ties. Mrs. Villas, who is largely OF
English ancestry, is a gradua e Of tn .
Weston high school and the Emerson
College of Oratory in 1905 She
taught English. elocution and physi.
cal culture in girls schools for a mum
Der of years. Last year she had
charge of the Patriotic League of this
city and of the camp for girls at Oak
Ledge during the summer. Mr.. and
Mrs. Villas will return to Burlington
in few days to make their home
here.-Burlington Free Press.