The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-23
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Briefly for Busy Readers
| Twenty boxes fancy Florida grape
fruit at Estes Market Adv39t2
The new, the best, the comfortable
in mems shoes at Harris. ADV
Charlie Chaplin in Shanghaied
Harte theatre today ADV.
White linen table cloth, special Csc
yd. at the New York store. Adv
Charles Mclaughlin will spend
Thanksgiving at his home in Rutland
A Mutual masterpiece, "The Last
Concert" Harte theatre today Adv
Mrs, c, o. Farrar of Troy, N. H., is
the guest of Mrs. A. 7. Shaw of North
street.
New mems suits and oyercoats
prices the lowest at the New York
store ADV.
| Charlie Chaplin in the 2 act Els
sany comedy, "Shanghaied" Harte
Theatre today. ADV.
Boys mackinaws, ages 2 to 8, spec
ial $l.9S; ages 8 to 16. special $2.95 at
the New York store. Adv
Mrs Walter Warren and daughter
Evelyn are spending the Thanksgiy-
ing holidays with relatives in Stowe.
Thanksgiving post cards, napkins,
place cards tallies, Dennison's decor
alive paper, greetings etc, at Evans
Adv
\ The library at Old Bennington will
be closed on Thursday for Thanksgiv
ing but will reopen on Friday at the
usual time
Mr., and Mrs. George Temple are
moving into the tenement house re-
emily completed by Frank McDermott
on Gage street.
Don't fail to see the thrilling fight
in a balloon in mid-air in the V. l.. S.
H. fivepart feature "The Great Ruby"
opera house today. ADV.
Bennington aerie of Eagles will
give a musical and literary entertain.
ment at its room on Main street
Wednesday evening for the members,
The H. A. Manning Directory com
pany of Springfield has a representa-
tive working in the town this week
compiling material for a 1916 drec-
tory.
Photographer Cone is exhibiting in
his show window an excellent picture
of the Payne brush factory destroyed
by fire Friday morning. The picture
happened to be taken a few days
prior to the confiagration
A five-part V, L. S. f. melodrama
which bristles with sensations, "The
Great Ruby" with an excellent cast
headed by Octavia Handworth, Walt
err Hitchcock and George Soule
Spencer. Opera house today. Ad
An automobile party consisting of
Or. and Mrs. e. NJ. GARDINER and
Miss Alice McDermott enjoyed trip
to Troy Monday afternoon, calling on
Mrs. GARDENERS parents there, Or.
and Mrs. Kinloch. They returned last
evening.
In addition to the tiye-part V. l.. S.
Il exceptional melodrama, The
Great Ruby Billie Richie, the fun
niest man on the screen. will be
shown in two-part farce comedy, |
Room and Board $3.50 Opera |
house today ADV, |
All members of st. Francis de
Sales choir are requested to meet at
the rooms of the Temperance society |
in the opera house block, Wednesday |
evening, Nov "a, 1915, at half past |
seven o'clock, for an important re-
hearsal on Christmas music.
Just as the world loves a lover so
does all the theatre-going world love |
a melodrama. London's Drury Lane
Theatre has been the home of melo- |
dramas for more than half century. |
And no melodrama ever presented on |
its famous stage has equalled the |
success scored by The |
Great Ruby" Opera house today. Ad |
The Mccullough Engine Co., of |
North Bennington will hold their 18TH |
annual dance tomorrow night. Ben |
people especially cared for !
Last year more than two car loads
attended from this village, double |
this number are looked for this year. |
Donnelly's orchestra will furnish |
their usual fine numbers for dancing |
until the wee hours.
The killing of three dogs recently, |
who had attacked and killed over |
dozen sheep to the north of the vii |
lage few weeks ago, makes interest |
ing the following statistics from New |
Hampshire which have been extern. |
sively copied by the anti-dog papers |
of the state. In 125 towns 12047 |
sheep are taxed, $3.50 dog licensed |
and $2S63 paid for sheep killed by |
dogs. The number of sheep in New |
Hampshire have dwindled from 31O,- |
342 in 1860 to 20,265 in 1915. The I
comparative figures for dogs were not |
given but they don't have as many |
cows there as they used to, the num-
Der falling from 110,327 to 1894 in |
the mast IL wears