The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-09-18
BENNINGT ON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village ToIs
Briefly for Busy Readers

Charles Chaplin, opera house to-
day. ADV.
C. A. Maurer is in Arlington today
on business.
The children hard on shoes and
stockings? Try Harris. Adyt2
Bradford Godfrey has returned to
Vermont academy at Saxton's River
King Baggot in the dual role in
DIR. Je1yll and Mr.. Hyde, two-parts,
opera house today. ADV.
Mrs Frederick Godfrey has return
ed from a several weeks visit in Bur
lington and other places.
King Baggot in a two-part version
of the play that will never grow old,
Or. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde, opera
house today. ADV.
Former Governor and Mrs. A. NJ.
Fletcher of Cavendish were visitors
in Bennington today on their way
from Wilmington to Ludlow.
Ten boys and one girl were before
Justice L. c. Bennett Friday on Jul
venile court writs charging them
with disturbance and trespass.
Big double bill at the opera house
Monday. Two acts of high class Vau-
deville, people and six reels of first
class photo-plays. Adv.
Miss Zenobia Royce, who has been
spending the summer vacation with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Royce
returned this afternoon to Syracuse
university.
There will be regular meeting of
Miriam Rebekah lodge Monday eve
ming. Following the meeting there
will be a social hour, it being the Gath
anniversary of the lodge.
Miss Pauline Cornell student at
the Academy of the Sacred Heart,
Kenwood, Albany, returned Wednes
day. She was accompanied by a
classmate, Miss Isabel Lonergan of
North Adams.
Miss Minnie Il. Williams, who is
employed in the Office of the Harvard
club in Boston. is visiting her broth
er, Earl w. Williams. She recently
returned from Montpelier where she
has been passing portion of her va
cation and will leave for Boston to-
morrow
Kid Foster, the boxer who has been
making his home in Bennington for
several months, leaves tonight for
Chicopee Falls where on Monday
night he will meet Young Lajoie of
Easthampton in one of the main
will be ten round affair, three min
ute rounds.
Collins NJ. Graves, who has been re-
tanned by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Il. Hol-
lister, was in Troy Friday to make
an investigation of the circumstances
in the case OF MIR. and Mrs. Hollis
ter's 16-year7old son, Walter, who is in
the Samaritan hospital under treat
ment for injuries received last Tues
day night. While the boy was pilfer-
ing grapes from the garden of G. =.
Oatman charge of peas from shot
gun struck him in the face. The at
tending surgeon informed Mr.. Graves
that he had but little hope of saving
the sight OF the remaining eye.
States Attorney Frank G. Archi- |
bald on Friday brought proceedings
against Frank C.. Smith and others,
representing lIerrick Il Smith of Al
bany, and closed their temporary
place of business in the Putnam
house block The firm recently pur.
chased from the assignee, H. Harry
Sharpe, the stock formerly owned by
Benjamin Shimlintzky and transfer
red the goods TO the Putnam house
block with the intention of closing
them out at quick sale. The states
attorney finds that the firm should
take out a state license and while ne
matter is pending the store is closed
1t is understood that the firm will
make arrangements to resume bus
mess next week.