The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-01
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

0''Vtiy IoT Buoy neeoVsS
| Miss Jennie Clark is confined at he
home by grip.
Mrs. Carl of Westfield is visiting a
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Ailel
on Main street.
R. D. Tufts, of the firm of Sargen
& Tufts, visited in North Adams ant
Pittsheld over Sunday.
Miss Cone OF the Ryan & OCon
nor millinery store is in Boston attend
ing the spring millinery opening.
Don't forget-especially the socia
committeeman there will be bust
ness meeting at the Y. w. c. tonight
The Y. w. c. Leap Year dance will
take place Friday evening. March 3 in
stead of Saturday as previously an
nounced.
Mrs. Maude Coone, who has been
the guest of Mrs. r. A. Gavin in Rut-
land, returned to her home here Mon
day evening.
Coming-"The Price He Paid" he
most gripping drama ever written.
based on the famous poem by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. Adv.
The annual meeting of The Kings
Daughters will be held at the home OF
Mrs. f. w. Goodall Friday afternoon,
March Bird at o'clock. -,
Edmund p. Howe returned to, Dart
mouth college this noon after a three
day vacation spent with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. +. Howe.
The members of the Putnam hose
company are requested to meet In
their rooms at O'Clock tomorrow eve
ming in full uniform for parade. IVA.
Mary Pickford, queen of the screen,
can be seen at her best in Madam
Butterfly. accompanied by Hurley s
| six piece orchestra at Harte threatre
today. ADV.
VIM. Garwood in three-part film
version of the great Lord John story.
| Three Fingered Jenny" as published
in February McClures magazine, opera
| house today. Adv.
Mrs. Laura B. Cole has returned
from Readsboro where she paid an of
fetal visitation Monday to the East
! ern Star chapter. On her return she
| visited in North Adams.
Opera house tomorrow. Warren
Kerrigan in five-part dramatization
OF Meredith Nicholson's absorbing
story of fight for Peruvian mine
and peculiar Inheritance. Sandals
/, Legacy Adv.
Ray Bentley, who was formerly as
ISOLATED with Geo. A. Parker in the
purchase of the Walbridge store here,
was visitor in the village yesterday.
Mr. Bentley is now running farm in
Cambridge. geLIga ect a-e
With the closing OF the rabbit-hunt.
ing season yesterday the boys are
figuring up the number of rabbits &c,
cured. One off, the largest season
bags reported was by, two Sausville
boys OF Park street who figured up rs
A number of these were of the white
variety. va
A number of Bennington Young
people attended almasqnerade dance
in North. Adams last evening given b.
the Swanzy Creek Pleasure club at
Odd Fellows hall. Music was furnish
ed by Donnelly's orchestra and dele
CATION OF students from Williams
college
A New York firm is erecting large
mausaleum in the Park Lawn cemetery
on the lot owned by the late Charles
Cooper. Several large blocks of gran
lite used in it's construction were
drawn through the village yesterday
in six-horse trucks. Emehson Esta-
brook Is assisting in the work.
The "Justhesame Club" were enter
tanned by Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Endress
last evening at their home on Elm
street. Dinner was served lat $50
Mrs Endress' sister, Mrs, F. W. Bid
we'll of Hartford, Conn, was the guest
of honor. The card fayors were won
by Mrs. E. B. Patterson and A. w.
BraiSted.
Mr.. and Mrs A. J. Cooper and
daughter, Miss Mabel Cooper left
Monday for visit in New York, ,eX-
pecting to return Thursday. Upon
their return. Miss Cooper will resume
her studies at the Emma Willard
school in Troy from which she has
been absent with an attack of
measles.
Some one has said, Bennington vot
ers have made up their mind on the
question Of Local-Option VS.. State
wide Prohibition" That is all right
If you have heard both sides and are
an honest man. But some otherwise
intelligent men are talking ignOrantly
on the facts. Wouicn'i it be the fair
thing to hear Gov. Hanly on Friday
night and Clifford Smith on Sunday |
night? Adv
There were 10 Rutland, Addison |
and Bennington County Congregation
al ministers, who met Tuesday morn |
ing at the Congregational church in
Rutland for conference in regard to