The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
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| Harold Bottum has left town for an
other months sales trip for Bottum &
Torrance.
Send in your fish order tonight at
Estes market and get 1t early to-
morrow ADV.
Mrs. William Morse OF Bradford
place is held at her home by the com
mon illness.
/ Mrs. Chas. Robinson OF Depot street
has secured work al the Holden K
Leonard mill.
Mrs. William Belrose is spending
the week as guest of her son and
daughter in Herkimer. N. Y.
Mrs. John j Mahan has returned
after a week spent as guest of friends
in Hoosick Falls.
Charles Ray, for the past year en-
| ployed at LaFortnnes restaurant, has
given up his position.
William II. Ryan, teamster for 4the
village, is held from his employment
by an attack of grip.
Graft on eve of great exposure,
| fifteen prominent men known TO be
involved. Watch, Adv.
The third quarterly meeting of St.
Mary's Guild OF st. Peters church
will be held Friday evening after SER
vice.
pronoLae, MI anl A re CT Aarv,s.
Guild will hold a food sale at the
Parish house Saturday afternoon.
Bread, pies, beans, cake, etc.
The district telephone crew which
attends to line aud pole work, with
headquarters in Rutland, is in town
this week installing new equipment
1.-THE Green Cloak story of an
innocent woman enmeshed in tanGl,
ed web OF suspicion and how fate I'M
rayels the llnotted skeins OF mystery.
Shown at Harte Theatre today. Adv.
Dainty Irene Fenwick with an all
star cast can be seen in The Green
Cloak, a great defective story at
the Harte Theatre today with other
first class pictures.
Miss Bessie Kennon, an operator at
the telephone office, is seriously i'll at
her home on Weeks streets and a
consultation or physicians was recent
NY held
Halibut haddock, cod Boston blue.
cusk. founders, salmon, smelt, bull
heads. scollolG. fnnan haddie, Massa-
chusetts bay and Chesapeake oysters
and cherry stone clans al Estes mar
ket. ADV
The dominating figure of the screen
world, Hobart Bosvorth, master pro-
Queer ard star OF the powerful five
part yiriis drama Of The Hudson Bay
country, gfhe White Scar opera
house today Adv.
PRINCIPAL y. y. Mahrey is again con
fined to his home by the same illness
which kept him from his high school
classes last week Mr.. Mabrey was
able to be around Monday but his
physician advised his return to bed. /
At the regular meeting OF the Unit
ed Order OF the Golden Cross held
Tuesday evening in Golden Cross hall.
Mrs. Merritt Burnham was installed
as financial secretary for the ensuing
year The remaining officers were III
stalled two weeks ago
The entire district about Albany
experienced a slight earthquake |
shock about lk3o Wednesday night
The vibration was sufficient TO shake |
buildings. rattle dishes on the shelves |
and so alarm some Albany residents
that they ran from their home in fear |
that the buildings were about to col
lapse.
About two dozen persons interested |
III sociological questions heard Mrs
Arthur Elliot give a reading OF john
play Strife at the
home Of AIRS Marcus Armstrong on
Gage street Wednesday evening
Mrs Elliot recently read Went
Horth's war Brides to an apprecia-
i've audience
When Professor McAllister and his
beautiful daughter Ruth return from
! trip TO the West, no one notes diff
erence in Ruth but her sweetheart,
Iohn Gilbert When he calls she re-
uses to marry him and while they
hat stranger arrives whom Ruth
introduces as friend from the
Vest An hour later the stranger
S found strangled to death with a
'iolin string bound tightly around his
ieck and his hand clutching cloak
asset from Ruth's green cloak she
5 charged with murder and admits
er marriage to the dead man Shown | |
t Harte's Theatre today in "The
'reen Cloak" !
The attendance at night school, |
ihich had kept up exceptionally we'll
! contrast with other years UP TO the
me OF the high school fire, is falling
# and some classes, because of i'll |
ess or poor attendance. have been
iscontinned, Just what effect the
rip epidemic and accident TO the high |
chool viii have on the ending Of
light school in the spring, is not yet
etermned. bus The faculty wish to
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