The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-18
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
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A social dance in Remngtons hall
Friday evening given by Albert Bur-
CESS. ADV.
Edward Knapp reports that he Sc
cured a 200 ID buck near Deerview
camp on Harmon mountain Tuesday.
Hunters who have returned to the
village report that there are five deer
already dressed in the Lyons camp.
Vincint King, Herbert Booth and
John Lane OF Salisbury each secur-
ed good-sized does in Strstton Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs, j. G. Campbell of Old
Bennington, who have been visiting
at Mr.. Campbell's home at Stowe,
have returned.
Mr.. and Mrs, l.. H. Mayo of Brook
lyn, Me-. are spending several days
in town as guests Of their daughter
Mrs. E. V. Morgan of Morgan street,
The public school OF the town will
close Wednesday afternoon for the
annual THANKSGIVING vacation. pupils
resuming their studies the following
Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs James Garfield left
this morning Tor Waterbury, Conn,
where they will spend the Thanksgiv-
ing holidays with Mrs Canhelds par.
ents.
The county judges, Hons. Crosby
a. Perry of Readsboro and II. n.
Shaw OF Manchester. will be in. the
village tomorrow for the purpose OF
drawing the jury for the December
term OF county court.
Orren & Drew, man and woman, in.
Producing their novelty idea of Chan
tecleer,' rooster singing to the tune
OF music is part of the vaudeville
program at the Harte Theatre Fri
day and Saturday Adv
AS sweet as the southern magnolia
-charmingly smple-simply charm.
INCLINED in 5 great acts of fascin-
ating photo-play, Under Southern
Skies featuring the beloved Mary
Fuller, opera house, today. Adv
Chas. LaFountain Is employed at
the Harte theater reconstructing and
charging the dressing rooms for the
vaudeville artists, which John 4.
Harte will add to his picture pro-
gram Friday and Saturday evenings
for the next few weeks.
Stamford contributed a successful
woman hunter to the list of those Sc
curing deer thus far when a buck
weighing at least 200 lbs was
brought down by Mrs. Louis Booth
Wednesday morning Mrs. Booth
got but one shot at the animal that
dropped it in its tracks
The many friends OF Fred The
barge claim that too much praise can
not be given him for his work in ar
ranging the music in the recent Mt.
Anthony minstrels. Arranging music
for either soloists or an orchestra
where the director has but sheet of
popular music which must be adapt
ed for all instruments and voices is
"i' w y - "AiNh iCN pOoPiV oio pio-
ficient Mr. Thebarge not only ar
ranged the songs by Mr.. Patterson
and Mr.. Clum. but those rendered by
the chorus in the overture and
finale
An interesting item in connection
with the removal Of the Evans News
agency to the former w, l., Gokay
store next week is the improved ia
cilities for handling the daily bust
ness in New York and Boston pap
ers, for which Mr. Evans is repre-
sentative in the village. The Evans
agency handles nearly 1000 out-of
town papers daily, most of which
are New York papers. In addition,
Mr.. Evans sells several hundred cop
les of the Evening Banner bringing
his daily newspaper sales up to near
ly 1900 copies. He also superin-
tends the delivery Of several hundred
New York and Boston papers to. regu-
lar customers each morning. The
Sunday papers are likewise an i'm
portant factor, Sunday sales exceed
ing daily totals. 1t has been claimed
by outside news-dealers that Beis
nington reads more newspapers and
magazines in proportion to its popu-
lation than any other Vermont town.