The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-16
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AU1c r. lOWuc WAS III lut Nllld6c
from Thursday until Monday.
Born, Saturday, a son, Arthur, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Blanchard.
Miss Alice Potter of Hoosick Falls
is visiting her uncle, Fred Potter.
Miss NJ. E. Parker was guest last
week of Miss p. M. Whipple in Pitts
field, Mass.
The Misses Lincoln, who have
been quite I'll OF the grip, are again
able to be out.
Mrs. John O0ons, who has been Ill
for week With stomach trouble, is
again able to be out, but is Still very
weak.
Road Commissioner VIM. Russell
is working the main road between
the Massachusetts and New York
state lines.
S. M. Nutting and granddaughter,
Harriet of Westminster, VT, who
have been visiting Daniel F. Gardner
have returned home
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Snow have
returned from their wedding trip and
ARE at the home of Mrs. Shows par
ents on Church street.
Edward Alcombright has recently
added four men to his force. They
are Richmond and Jay Stockwell,
Earl Niles and F. C. Pratt.
Joseph Proud and Ralph Wright
have resigned their positions with
the C. E. at Pittsfeld The former
has taken a position with A. G. Par
ker & Son and the latter with Geo. H.
Dunn.
Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Green have re-
turned from conference. Their par
ishioners are all pleased that they
are to be in town for another year.
Mr.. Mitchell is also returned TO
White Creek.
The play Miss Fearless CO. pre-
sented last Friday evening by the
young women of the Baptist church
was an unqualified success. The ca
pacity of the social room of the
church was taxed to the uttermost,
there being about 1000 present, and
as it turned out it was probably for
tunate that the evening was a
stormy one as 1t would have been
impossible to have taken care of any
larger crowd. This was the first
time the stage had ever been used
and it looked very attractive, the
walls being made of brown burlap.
The drop curtain, which was the
work of the White studio in North
Adams, showed a lake and country
scene and was much admired. The
play, itself, hinged on the attempt of
four girls to show themselves indie
pendent of the stronger sex. They go
to Spook Island accompanied by two
old maids as chaperones. The four
girls parts were taken by Mrs. Abner
F. Towne and Misses Maude Grady
Pauline Barber and Ruth Gardner.
who took their parts splendidly
When Miss Grady waltzed with the
scarecrow it pleased the crowd inn
mensely. The matter of fact old
maid was taken by Miss Jannette NJ.
Gardner and the high strung hysteri-
cal old maid by Miss Elizabeth Bur
rington, both of whom got the most
possible out of their parts and kept
the audience amused. Katie O'Con-
nor the maid, as interpretated by
Miss Lodieska Gardner was the fun
niest character in the play, her
brogue was excellent and as her
part required considerable action,
all Of which was amusing, the au-
dience was in a roar every time
she appeared. The "spook" or Liz
zie, taken by Miss Lelah Lewis, the
youngest member of the cast, was
exceedingly we'll carried out. She
was supposed to be dare devil, har-
UNI scarum child, and the verdict of
all present was that she succeeded
wonderfully in portraying this part.
The Silent Sisters, supposed to be
John Eggleston and James Reading.
who visited the island in disguise to
see how their sweethearts were fare
ing, were done by Miss Constance
Potter and Miss Mabel Thompson.
While this was not speaking part,
their makeups were SO funny and
their pantomine so good that their
appearance on the stage was one of
the best features of the play. The
play ends happily as the girls are re-
conciled to their fellows and Lizzie
Is adopted by Miss Loyejoy miss
Gardner). Between the acts Misses
Constance Potter and Frances Miner
rendered some piano selections and
Miss Elizabeth Paddock showed
much talent on the violin. The pro-
ceeds of the evening were $500.
The young women have received
many requests to repeat the play