The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-17
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Nsws OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

founders, haddOck, cod, cusk, nnnan
haddie, scalops, oysters and clans at
Estes market ADV.
Sale of household furniture at the
home of Mrs. Adeline Daley, III
Branch street Friday and Saturday,
Feb. Is and 10. ADV.
The roof on the new high school is
being rapidly laid and it is estimated
that three days more work will see
the job covered in
Souvenir Balloons at the new Bal
loon dance at Foresters hall Saturday
evening. A special prize for the best
Balloon burster." ADV.
Mrs. Percy P. Taylor of Hartford
will arrive this evening to spend few
days with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin Endress. Her son Will accom-
pany her.
Rev. P. l.. Dow left on the noon
train for Fultonville, N. Y, to assist
his son Rev. George H. Dow in spec
ial meetings tonight and tomorrow
evenings.
Don't miss THE Sentimental Larry"
It's founded on the play by Owen
Davis and told with beautiful Irene
Fenwick in the lead at the Harte The
atre today. ADV. MeI
The popular American star, Digly
Bell in a five-part film version of
Geo. AIDES greatest Broadway sue
cess, Father and the Boys, opera
house today. Adv.
At the Methodist parsonage We'd
nesday evening February 16, 1915,
| Robert Wilson Shankland and Laura
Evo. both Of Pittsfeld, Mass. were
united in marriage by Rev p. l., Dow.
Walter f. HOLSTER, who recently
| received from Gov Gates an appoint
| ment to the Austine Institute for the
Blind in Brattleboro, was accompani-
| ed by his mother to that school We'd
| nesday.
For the first time since the open
| ing of the Harte theatre every avail
| able seat in the house was taken last
| night to see Geraldine Farrer in Car.
| men, Several Bennington people
| saw Miss Farrer last summer, as she
| spent Sunday here while on motor
| trim through the Green Mountains.
| union service of the Baptist and
| Methodist Churches will be held this
evening in the Methodist Church Rev.
William Towart will have. charge, III
connection with the service Mr.. Gro
gan a temperance worker of much ex-
perience will speak, and Free VIII
offering will be taken for him.
High school classes which were
| held in St Peters parish house fol-
| lowing the damage of the high school
building by fire. have been moved. ny
new arrangement they are to be
! held in the School street building in
the rooms occupied by the kindergar-
ten, after dismissal OF the small
/ children. Yrs fM
+! George Temple, who has been an
overseer in the local hosiery mill, has
| gone to Toronto to accept a similar
| position instead of Montreal as an
nounced yesterday. Mrs. Temple
| has accompanied him and their house
hold goods from the McDermott tene-
| ment on Gage street, will also be
| moved later.
A shepherd dog belonging to George
Hummer, the market gardener who
lives in the western section OF the
| town, was found Monday night hang
ing to barbwire fence. The animal
had been missing since Saturday
night and when discovered had nearly
persisted from exhaustion. The ami
NAL had attempted to jump the fence
and one of it's legs caught in the wire.
1t is believed that the dog has suffer
ed no permanent injury.
About dozen former officers OF the
Civic League held party in Library
hall Wednesday evening with picnic
supper. The affair was private anu
| took the form of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
exercises. Various features OF col
lege commencement was presented,
prohesies and class wills read and
diplomas given. The diplomas were
written in Latin and were 'take-offs"
| on the various activities of each Of
| ficer during the administration just
| closed
| The February issue of The Cata-
mount, the high school paper, mas
been distributed. 1t contains stories
and verse by Kenneth Fauley Eleanor
Murphy, Marion Hathaway, irene
Bernard and Abbie Lille. There Is
also an interesting article on DART
mouth college by Charles S. Mills oil
the alumni, and timely editorial on
"More Enthusiasm in Sports" by
| Miss Dorothy Patchin OF the editorial
staff.
A large deer loped through the busi'
ness section of Main street Sunday
evening. 1t was impossible to deter
mine whether the animal was puck
or a doe for these animals have al
ready shed their horns for the pres
ent season. The deer did not appear
| to be much alarmed because OF III
unusual surroundings. 1t left the
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