The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-06
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News If the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Miss Hilda Lambert is passing two
weeks in Dandy.
See the new Walk-over shoes, just
in at Harris. Adv
Miss Anna Dakin and Miss Jessie
Loomis are at Hedges Lake.
States Attorney F. c. Archibald
of Manchester is in town today.
Prof. l.. P. Puffer of Troy is visit
ing his mother, Mrs. N. NJ. Puffer.
Miss Sophia Bebee of Manchester
is spending the week in the village.
John p Daley is confined to his
home in the Guideboard district by
illness.
An important meeting of the F. M.
I. A. b., society will be held this eve
ming at o'clock.
The new Walk-Over's are in at
Harris. You should see them if in
need of shoes. Adv.
Ladies' soc and 75c waists. white
and black petticoats, special 35c at
the New York store. Adv
Dancing Saturday night at Fores-
tiers hall Special music and special
price of rs cents admission. ADV.
A son was born this week to Mr..
and Mrs. William Van Sleet of North
Adams, who are well known in Ben
nington.
Miss Elsie and Miss Vera Hall of
North Adams after brief visit in
Bennington, have gone to Dorset to
visit relatives. -
Repairs and improvements are be-
/ ing made in the interior of the hall of
the Savings bank building under the
direction OF |. p. Walker.
Miss Pauline Cornell gave dinner
party at the Putnam house last even
ing i'll honor of her guest, Miss Isa-
bell Lonergan of North Adams.
Miss Gertrude Norton. daughter of
Frank E. Norton, president of the
Security Trust company of Troy, is
the guest of Miss Juliette and Miss
Hart Shields of Old Bennington.
A concrete walk is being laid from
the sidewalk to the district school
house in Old Bennington and the
grounds about the building are being
graded and otherwise improved.
Reverend Cyrus Townsend Brady
never wrote a more absorbing book
I,,u Tcl NJ inY1 =
And there was never a story written
byanyone that offered greater posi-
biIities to film-drama, V. l.. S. e. six
part feature, opera house today. ADV.
"Isand of Regeneration" played
two weeks in one of the most popular
picture houses in Cincinnati and then
moved to a theatre one block away
and played two weeks more thus
breaking all records of that city.
Opera house today. ADV.
There will be a special meeting of
the Father Mathew T. A. B. society
Sunday after late mass in the *. of
C. rooms. All members are request
ed to be present as the 18th of Au-
gust picnic committee will make
their last report. President, J.. p.
McGurn; secretary, George Hogan.
4St2
Today and tomorrow are the last
last days of the summer clearance
sale at the Joe Levin store Persons,
who are trying to make dollar so
as far as possible should carefully
read the prices quoted in Mr.. Levin's
advertisement on another page of
this paper. Adv.
Imagine how the Vitagraph COM
pany would handle the fire at sea,
the earthquake, the attempted rescue
the charming love scenes ON the trop-
zeal island, the girl bathing in the Sc
questered pond, the arrival of the u.
S. cruiser, the return to civilization
and then see 'Island of Regenera-
ton" at the opera house today. Adv.
The assistant judges of county
court, Crosby A. Perry Of Readsboro
and II. M, Shaw of Manchester were
in the village Thursday and held
meeting at the court house to consid
or the plans for the proposed chang
es in the structure. A recent act of