The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-15
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

iOt 0uSy NcuuetSs
DR.. d. V. O'Donnell was in Troy on
Thursday.
John Boland of Troy is spending a
few days in town.
Ladies' $3.50 shoes $2.15; ladies' SO
shoes 50 at the closing out sale of A.
F. Loomis, 113 North street. 2t
At a meeting of the upper classes
of the high school Thursday evening
the reception for the Freshman class
which was to have been held tonight
was postponed until Friday, October
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1t is said that William Webb, who
plays the part of Bates" in The
House of a Thousand Candles, is the
nearest approach to f. NJ. Holland,
who created that enigmatic role, that
could possibly have been made The
play will shortly be presented here.
at opera house tonight
There are four great theatrical
drawing cards before the public this
season: The House of a Thousand
Candles, paid in Full" The Lion
anu tic AOuo0S anu lht man vi Tic
Hour" The first-named, which is
said to be a great novelty in the way
Of a drama, will soon be seen here.
AT opera house tonight.
The district meeting of the Womans
Relief Corps of District No. 2 will be
held in Bennington, October 20, Fri
day evening with Custer Sixth Corps
~ r,lff tho
ritual work There are three Corps
in this district: Skinner No. II, Man
chester Center; VIM. J. Fuller, No. %,
Dorset, and G. A. Custer Sixth Corps
No 2, Bennington. The visiting Off
Ger will be Mrs. Belle NJ. Hillard of
Wallingtord.
The fair of the Methodist church is
to start off with fine turkey dinner.
Do not forget the date. 1t is to be
one of those old time New England
turkey dinners. Then the second
night Well, that will be a close sec
ond with the men serving a royal
venison feast. Never mind about
where we will get the deer Remem-
Der what the darkey said when asked
where he got the fine watermelon:
Done you ak wha | gifts dis watermel-
on. You Jest eat dis watermelon
The supply of apples this winter
will probably be below the average.
I -.e trees were well covered with
blossoms last spring but during the
dry weather in July and August many
of the small apples fell off. The price
of apples this season will be high.
A city Wholesale dealer has purchased
the supply of several farmers in the
west part of the town for $3.50 bar
rel He paid that price, however only
for certain choice varieties. The APP
pies are to be loaded on the car at the
Summit crossing.
A large force of men are at work on
the main highway running west from
the Ben Venue" gatehouse. Crushed
stone from the Colgate quarries will
be used in building a piece of macad-
am roadbed extending some distance
west. The avenue leading to the res
idence of Mr.. Colgate was macadam-
lied along it's whole length since
spring and work will be continued on
the main highway as long as the
permits. Before the winter
sets in it will be safe to say that fully
a half a mile of the finest macadam
roadbed in town will have been built
by Mr.. Colgate both on his own pri-
vate road and the main highway since
early spring.
One of the early bookings at the To-
cal theatre is The House of Thous-
and Candles. This dramatization of
Meredith Nicholson's popular novel
has scored one of the most pro
successes OF recent years.
It's stage version is even more inter
esting than the book, while its many
weird and unusual scenes enchain the
as few plays are able TO do
these days. The House of a Thous-
and Candles is a remarkable drama
in every way and its decided origi-
nalty has been the chief factor in
scoring its tremendous hit. 1t will be
staged and most ca
pably enacted. At opera house to-
night