The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-16
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News or the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

The apron sale is Thursday. Come
prepared to buy. st. Peters Parish
house. ADV.
Five deer were reported today shot
in Arlington before II O'Clock yester-
day forenoon.
Don't miss the New England sup
per at St. Peters Thursday at 6.
Tickets 80 cents. ADV.
Card party and dance in Foreste.'s
hall Friday evening. Cards to 10.
dancing 10 to IL. Admission Is cents.
Adv.
Thanksgiving dance, evening Of the
oath in Library hall for the benefit of
he Bennington band. Remember the
date and get tickets in advance at
Gokay's. Adv1t3
Mrs Forgue in the rear of No
204 IL Gage street will sell all of her
household furniture Wednesday
night. Nov. 18th at 7.30 o'clock.
ADV 23t2
The regular " l.. S. e. feature will
| be shown at the opera house on We'd
nesday instead of Tuesday as usual
| owing to~the appearance of the Mas
onic Minstrels at this theatre. Adv.
On account of other meetings to be
held on Wednesday of this week the
w. c. r. q. meeting will be held on
Thursday afternoon at 3.3c O'clock.
at the Congregational chapel All
women are earnestly urged to attend
Roy Woods of Hoosick Falls, who
| furnished the entertainment at the
Methodist Brotherhood meeting Mon
day night, was the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs Il. I. Griswold. returning home
Tuesday.
Jesse l.. Lasky presents the inter
nationally famous comedienne, Fan
ME Ward in THE Marriage of Kitty
at the Harte Treatre tomorrow Miss
Ward is supported by the beautiful
Cleo Ridgeley, Tom Forman and Jack
Dean. Adv
Edmund Howe who is member of
| the entering class at Dartmouth col
lege has been selected as one of the
members of the freshman track
team. The first contest is against the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
oey freshman at Boston tomorrow.
George MacNamar, who is the
guest this week at the home of Mr..
and Mrs Calvin Endress, came to
Bennington from a years stay in Ell
Paso, Tex, where he was employed
as a chemist Mr. MacNamar was a
former resident of North Benning-
ton
Branch No s.. ST. Marys Guild will
meet with Mrs. Collins Graves Wed
nesday afternoon from to o'clock
Edward Green OF Dewey street was
taken severely i'll Monday afternoon
and is confined to his bed, His Illness
is aggravated by his advanced age,
and is considered serious.
There was shot in the night; Wis
it to a lonely graveyard brave
woman's battle with desperate vii
lain in secret ROOM and two dead
bodies lay huddled in horrid gro
tesqueness at the foot of The Circu
lar Staircase" before the tangled
threads OF destiny, woven by the
fate were finally unravelled. Opera
House, tomorrow. ADV.
Austin Gilman. aged ST. veteran
of the Civil War, passed away Nov. |
18th at the Soldiers home and the
funeral was held from that institu-
tion at 2.30 Monday. Death was due
to old age and natural causes. He
had been an inmate Of the home for
about 10 years, entering from Derby.
During the rebellion he served as a
private in Company G, 18th New
Hampshire regiment. The G. A. r. |
burial service was used and the inter
ment was made in the Soldiers home |
cemetery
Everything is in readiness for the |
Masonic minstrel entertainment this |
evening and the fact that the house is
practically sold out, assures the fin
ancial success of the enterprise |
There are still few tickets remain |
ing which may be secured at the box |
Office this evening. In the final re-
hearsal the complete entertainment |
passed off smoothly. The curtain !
will rise promptly at S,15 and there |
will be II features in the first section |
of the entertainment and seven in the |
second. Those holding reserved seat |
tickets are requested to take their |
places as early as convenient that no
delay may be occasional in getting |
the evening of fun under way
The Y. NJ. C. A. is mailing this |
week to Bennington people
letter describing the activities plan
ned for the ensuing year under its
secretary Fl. A. Wilkinson and the |
new board of directors, enclosing a
financial statement of the past year
and prospectus of the fiscal year be-
ginning November l. In order to do a
larger work in the community than
it has done in the past, the officers |
have planned an initial outlay OF
about $1,000 over and above the pres