The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-27
BENNING BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Prentiss Kent OF Rutland was in
town Monday on business.
Miss Margaret Hayes Of Gage street
has returned from a visit in Bridgeport.
Cordes Armstrong of Gage street is
employed in the Griswold store for
the summer months.
Social dance at Y. w. c. rooms
Thursday evening, June 20. Admis
sion % cents. Adv.
Mrs. Gardner Ruggles of Troy is
sI\Hding a week as the guest OF her
mother Mrs. Caroline Wilson.
Hazel Dawn in "The Saleslady" a
Paramount feature in five parts and
monk comedy at Harte's Theatre to-
morrow. ADV.
Eddy Foy and his family of seven lit
tie Toys in a "Favorite Fool" a Key
stone comedy full of laughs at Harte
Theatre today.
Miss Agnes Elmendorf who has been
visiting in town for several days left
this morning for a fe wday's visit in
Bellows Falls.
The elm trees in the yard Of the
bennington Graded school are being
sprayed this week to check the rayages
of the elm beetle.
4 meeting of the Sons of Veterans
will be held at Grand Army hall We'd
\ nesday evening at O'clock. All mem
bers please be present.
| Rev. p. L. Dow left on the morning
| train for Poutney to attend the an
| nual meeting of the Board of Trustees
Of Troy Conference Academy.
Michael Gilmore, who recently un-
derwent an operation at the Troy City
hospital has recovered and returned
to his home in North Bennington.
The graduating class of the St
Francis de Sales Academy had the
class picture taken by l.. De Forest
Cone at the Cone studio Sunday after
noon.
Tax Collector ]. George Hudgns,
who has been confined to the house for
several weeks with a sprained ankle,
is now able to attend to business with
the aid of crutches.
Mrs. w. D. Pclley left this morning
for Springfield. Mass, called there by
the illness of her stepfather who has
returned from spending the winter and
spring in North Carolina.
Isaac p. Walker was scorchinG
through Bennington streets yesterday
with a new Ford roadster recently de
liyered to him by the Bennington gar
age.
"Old Heidelberg" a Griffith fine art
Triangle production, featuring Dorothy
Gish and Wallace Reid, accompanied
by special music by lurley's six piece
orchestra at Iiartes Theatre today
ADV.
Calvin Moore, who received a severe
shaking-up when struck by Ford toul
, ing ear in Putnam Square ten day,
ago and who has since been confined
, to the house as result Of the accident
is able to be out again.
t Two of the most eminent stars ap
pearing on the screen, Robert Warwick
and Frances Nelson in a iiye.part hu
p man interest drama of the great out
= doors, Human Driftwood'. Oper;
| house today. (World Day. ADV.
Mrs. Mary Healy, Miss Katherin,
a Healy and Miss katherine Hope lef
S Sunday for Rutland to attend the Com
j. mencement exercises of Mount ST
:, Joseph's Academy. Miss Mary Heal,
a is member of this years graduatm
J. class.
, Marian Swayne, a true type of Jas
Montgomery Flaggs beauties will b
. seen in iour-part photomelodram
= suggested by his famous series of pic
lures that appeared in the New Yor
i World and other newspapers of Tn
= United States, The Adventures O
= Kitty Cobb" Opera house tomorrow
t ADV.
Y The cast appearing in the fve-par
:. story of the great outdoors, "tluma
Driftw0od' consists of Robert Wal
wick, Frances Nelson, Leonore IIarri.
: Alec b. Francis and Albert S. Hart an
are pronounced one OF the best on In
screen, Opera house, today, (Worl
Day.. Adv.
The members Of the +. NJ. r. A. /
society held a meeting in their room
Sunday afternoon and made plans fo
their annual picnic and field day tn
10th OF August. The following con
mittec was appointed to arrange In
| entertainment: Richard J. Hurley
| chairman; Patrick Dunn, Thomas NJ;
| loney, David Murray, Emmett Leah,
| Jos. }. Canning and George Hogan.
w. +. Bailey of Colona, Col, has bee
secured by the school trustees to teac
the Sth grade of the grammar schoC
1 another year, Mr.. Bailey is an expeI
fenced instructor Private affair
necessltate his remaining in the cas-
, for some time and the school director
have been fortunate in securing ma
| for the place they might not otherwis
| have done but for force of circun
| stances
III The water was turned on in Il. |
| Bates new fish preserve on the Lam
man place in Powna yesterday artel
noon. Considerable wagering too
| place among the owners friends as I
how long it would take the pond to I'll
| up. The water turned on in the middl
afternoon had not flooded the area b
night fall. A large amount of brus
and debris came to the surface as Tn
II ru.l..