The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-04
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Tod
Briefly for Busy Readers


States Attorney F. C. Archibald is
in town today on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Firth are spend
ing the day in Troy and Albany.
All ladies' and misses spring suits
at greatly reduced prices at No
weeks. ADV. t.
Miss Helen Johnson is expected at
her Old Bennington home on Tuesday,
to open the place for the summer.
Growing Queen, Norma Make, and
Boston school shoes for misses, girls
and children at Novecks. ADV. II
B. s. Loomis, who recently closed
his Main street grocery store, has
opened smaller place of business on
Gage street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip B. Jennings are
| expected at their home in Old Ben.
nington Saturday to remain for the
| summer season.
Don't fail to see the V. l.. S. E. Vita
graph feature with Edith Storey and
Antonio Moreno in "A Price for Folly"
! at Harte Theatre today. ADV.
Miss Martha Hackett, who is in
training for a nurse in Troy, is visit
ing for few days with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Hackett of Acade-
my Place.
| All the girls who volunteered to
help make favors and programmes for
the reception are asked to meet at Ii
brary hall at o'clock tomorrow af-
ternoon. Please bring scissors, il
| possible. e1i1 ase. 81 EvtgsgbIlf
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Cultivate,
who have been spending the past year
in California, are to arrive in Old
Bennington in the near future to
spend some time With Mrs. '0uthwaits
mother, Mrs. z. b.. Jennings.
DR.. l.. II. Ross is driving new Oak
land car about the village, recently
purchased of VIM NJ. Marshall The
doctors Ford runabout has been pur-
chased by William H. Sibley of Depot
street, the Rutland railroad engineer.
Rev. George ]. Sturgis of East Had
dam, Conn. has arrived in town and
assumed his duties as curate of St
Peters parish. He is making his
home at the Scott house on Pleasant
street kept by Miss Harriet Twitchell
The popular screen star, Jane Gail
in Rupert of Hentzau'. This great
play by Anthony Hope, has appealed
to millions in play and story form
and registered an even greater sue
cess on the screen. Opera House to
morrow. Adv.
Supt. A. W. Varney is particularly
anxious that the public should under
stand the lecture at high school hal
tonight is for Bennington people as
much as for the 100 teachers who are
in attendance on the County Educa
tional Association convention. Rev
A. w Hewitt is an entertaining speak
er and 1t is hoped the auditorium viii
be filled There is no admission. His
subject is to be: Things that Loom.
The funeral of Mrs. Gabriel Monettt
who died at her home on Brancl
street extention Monday evening a
the age OF "a, were held from tn,
church Of the Sacred Heart this morn
ing at o'clock, Rev Chas. +. Prevos
D officiating. The bearers were: Cor
| nelius f. Sullivan, John Kerrigan
John p. Morrissey. Peter MCGUIRE
John Ryan and Henry Lynch. Their,
were many beautiful floral pieces. Il
:, terment was in the village cemetery.
The students of the high school hel,
4 most successful dance in the higl
school auditorium Wednesday even
ing, the attendance being around z
couples. An admission of loo wa
n assessed each member of the schoc
regardless of whether or not they a
a. tended. AS a result there was a SUI
:. plus over expenses which will be ut
q lized to purchase books for the schoc
g library or additional furniture for tn
rooms. The high school orchestr
6 provided music
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