The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-05
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Flower day at the Y. NJ. c. A. June
l12.
Fancy late Valencia oranges at
Estes market. Adv.
For good shoes and slippers at low.
est prices visit the New York stores
shoe department Adv.
Dainty Marguerite Clark IS appear
ing in the Paramount Feature Wild
flow Ell" at the Library Theatre to-
day
II is important that every member
of the Second Congregational Sunday
| school be present tomorrow. Final
arrangements will be made for the
special service of Childrens Day.
Sunday morning. June 49,
The First Baptist church invites
the public to its services tomorrow.
The pastor, Rev. w. F. Meyer will
preach at 1870 a. IN. on Loyalty.
The Bible school will meet at the
noon hour as usual. In the evening
at 730 o'clock a union service will
be held at which Miss Lillian NJ.
Phelps, a National w. C. r. IT, work
er, will make the address. The
friends of temperance will all desire
to hear this earnest speaker.
Service at the Methodist church
Sunday morning 1890 preaching by
the pastor Rev. p. H. Dow Bible
Bible school at 11.45. Epworth
League $50 conducted by Burt
Waite There will be no evening SER
vice. the congregation uniting with
the Congregational and Baptist
churhes in a union service at the Bap
fist church, at which time Miss Lii
liam NJ Phelps of Niagara Falls, n. Y
will speak Brotherhood meeting
Monday night.
The Fortnightly consignment of
The Vermonter, which is edited by
the state Federation of Woman
clubs, is ready for distribution and
bundles of ten copies each will be de-
livered to the list OF twenty sales
women, which was read at the last
club meeting The magazine con
tains articles by the leaders of al
most every woman's organization in
the state. including the parent-Teach
er Suffrage aul ApriSu;ira2e Cc,on.
al Danes, G. y. Rs, Daughters of
lSi2, Order of The Eastern Star, the
l,ebekah Assembly, Relief Corps and
number OF clubs There arc many
photographs o.. the lead IS Of these
organizations sld much valuable |
data concerning their work. Alto |
gether it is very creditable publ
cation and should sell on sight.
The people of Bennington viii
have the rare opportunity of hearing |
woman of national reputation to- |
morrow evening in the Baptist
church Miss Lillian NJ Phelps of |
Niagara Falls. one of the abest |
speakers of the National w c. r. u, |
will be the speaker The press of |
the nation is lavish in its praise of |
her platform ability She has a
strong personality and is clear, loei- |
cal and convincing. She comes of
New England ancestory-those who
came TO America in Pilgrim and Puri-
tan days, and were the early settlers
of Massachusetts and Connecticut
those men and women who gave New
England its character and consci-
ence, Miss Phelps graduated from
the National School of oratory in
the days when DR.. Edward Brooks
was president, and at her graduation
as orator for her class chose the
temperance question. She has been
before the public in Women's Chris
tion Temperance Unions. Conven-
tions, Chautauquas, Womens Clubs,
etc, A student by nature, of histori-
cal and sociological questions, she
comes with study and travel. an in
teresting lecturer. Has crossed the
continent four times, as well as extern
sive European travel