The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-17
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Saturday, June II, 1916.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Moves Of the Town and Village ToA
Briefly for Busy Readers

Theberge's music. Adm. 70 cents.
Adv.
In the Free Library flower contest
anyone under twenty years of age may
compete.
Miss Jessie Loomis has returned
from a three weeks vacation III New
York
If you desire an hour and a half of
real fun see Excuse Me at IIarte Thea
TIE today Adv
Mrs. William Hicks spent Thursday
with her mother, Mrs. Howard in
South Salisbury.
Miss Elizabeth Hamilton of Main
street has accepted position as opera
tor in the local telephone exchange.
Don't miss Excuse Me enc Of the
greatest laugh makers on the Ameri-
can stage showing at Harte Theatre
today. ADV.
Coming Monday to Harte Theatre
Jim Dougherty supported by his Co.,
of twelve clever artists presenting
Irish songs and Scotch dances ADV.
Coming to Harte Theatre Monday,
The Typhoon, a Paramount feature in
5 Parts. Also The Girl and the Game.
ADV.
Walfrid H. Wahlquist a student at
Hebron (Me.) academy, is at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank A. Wahlquist for the summer
vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clark left
Wednesday morning for Lyndon Cen
ter where they will attend the gradual
ing exercises of their son, Leslie Clark
at the Vail school of Agriculture.
Judge O. NJ. Barber of the United
States court of customs appeals, and
family have arrived in Bennington for
the summer and are stopping for the
present at the Walloomsac at Old Ben
nington.
The ladies of st. Peters church will
open a rummage sale in the vacant
store OF the Putnam house block We'd
nesday morning June u. Those who
| W III Gbllll iuutt al NlNlto al lNluNoANh
to send them to the store or if Mrs.
Chisholm is notified will be called for
George NJ. Hawks is dividing the
store recently occupied by b. 5,
I.oomis into two apartments similar
to the changes recently made in the
store that was formerly occupied by
| the Evans News Agency Mr. Hawks
states that there appears to be de-
mand for the smaller business places
| on Main street.
Most of the high school faculty left
this morning for their homes outside
the state to spend the summer recess.
Miss Vera Suter went to Swanton and
Miss Cora Parker left for Northamp
ton. Miss Anna NJ Wallace will spend
the summer in Orange, Mass. Miss
| Margaret Mclean has already left for
her home in Rockville, Conn. She
went week ago on account OF trouble
with her eyes.
What are you going to read over
| Sunday? The Free Library has added
a number of interesting books to its
shelves this week, among them
| Highways and Byways OF New Eng
land, Under the Red Cross Flag We
Discover New England, Communit!
| Development, The HARM and the
Purdah, Woodrow Wilson, Bancroft's
Handbook of Athletic Games, and My
Year of the Great War
Railroad excursion tickets for tho
| third annual county picnic will be
placed on sale today in every school in
the county and the range OF prices fol
tickets is lower than last year. The
| pageant alone will be worth the price
of a ticket from the most distant point
in the county and the fun of eating
a picnic dinner under the shade of the
big trees in Nichols grove, Arlington
is worth far more. From all over the
county come reports of intense inter
est in the coming everybodys day.
Attorney Collins NJ Graves is draw
ing up the papers for the transfer o
the property in Pownal known as tn,
Bushnell place to the state for the es
adjustment of trout hatchery to tax,
the place OF the one abandoned in Ar
lington recently. The papers have t
90 to LyndonVille and be acted upol
by the state commission, John W
Titcomb. The so.called Bushnell
stream seems to provide every featur
necessary for a successful trout hatch
cry including ample flow OF water
amounting to about eight barrels pc
minute
John Williams of North Adams, dsi
ing in the Battenkill this week lande
the champion catch of the season. II
hooked brown trout weighing
pounds. This is not an eXtraordinar
weight for trout of this species, but
is exceptionally large for the ifs
which have been taken lately from th
l}attenkill. Edward S. Higgins. tn
game warden, has known of brow
trout pulled out of the waters furthC
west into New York state, which hay
weighed 10 pounds, but the catch
rare. The brown trout of this weigl
are considered coarse fish and not {
good eating as the native variety.
A great honor has come to one of Il
graduates of the class of 1916, Mi
Anna Finlan, in tho gift of a two.yei
course in the Normal School at Cast
ton The Vermont Federation of W
mems clubs, as has been their CT
tom since 1906 each year at their a
= nual meeting in June, vote two to 70
years free scholarships to worthy gil
whose names are sent in by differe
clubs throughout the state. This We