The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-22
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Nswc OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers


Mrs. l. III White of Gage street
spent Tue ~ in Troy with friends.
Carl Viii who has been visiting
his father il IS White, has returned
to Poughkeeps-e.
i Robert Taylor has secured posi-
ton as driver for the Bennington
Paper Box company.
Miss Mary MCGUIRE has returned
from Shushan after being the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Sarah Merrill
The Y. w, C. will hold food sale at
their rooms over the Banner Office
I Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5.
i Mrs. Minnie Levin and son Samuel
are in New York where the boy is I'm.
dergoing treatment in hospital.
Miss Agnes Houran, who has been
assisting In the office of Probate Judge
e. c. Bennett, is detained at home by
Illness
4 Mrs. P. C. Cornell is spending the
! week with her daughter. Miss Pauline
Cornell at The Academy of the Sacred
Heart in Albany.
Rev. II. f. Pike of Hoosick Falls
will be the preacher at the Friday
evening Lenten services of the St.
Peter church this week.
The degree of master mason was
conferred on class Of six candidates
at a regular convocation OF Mt. An
thony lodge Tuesday evening.
The Bennington Ministers associa-
ton held meeting Monday afternoon
at which the principal paper was read
by DR.. Isaac Jennings of the Old First
church.
The great screen favorite, Cleo
Madison in fve-part gripping drama
OF life "a Soul Enslaved." Played by
brilliant cast, opera house, tomor-
row. ADV.
Due to arrive tonight, the Y, NJ. c.
A. social for senior and intermediate
members, ladies and friends. There
will be something going on for every.
body all of the time.
Ethel Clayton and House Peters in
THE Great Divide" produced at Grand
Canyon, Colorado Harte Theater to-
morrow. Reserved seats now on sale
at Is cents each, Secure your seats
early. Adv.
Mclean Stakeholder, who recently
returned from Vermont academy at
Saxton's River i'll of measles and who
has been at the home of his parents,
County Clerk and Mrs. j. ]. Shakshob-
er, was out of doors for the first time
Tuesday
S. &. Wilson, who recently held an
auction on his former farm, the Bur-
den place ON the White Creek road,
has taken possession of the farm pur-
chased by him in Hoosick known as
the Eldred property and is moving his
family there this week.
A father and son supper is to be CIV
en- at the Y. NJ. c. A. March 20, at
which speaking will be by father
and then son. Souvenirs of the &C.
casion win be distributed during the
supper. a. J. Pierce, secretary Of
boys work in Troy is to be the princi-
pal speaker of the evening and the
meal will be served under auspices of
the Women's auxiliary
Mr.. and Mrs. Collins NJ. Graves and
their four sons are in New York where
they will pass the remainder of the
week. The younger boys. George and
/. Vanvechten accompanied their parents
to the city where they were Joined by
1 Cobra and William who have weeks
vacation from their studies at the
Westminster school at Simsbury. Conn.
What Stephen w Bush motion pic
[ ture critic says of 1.-The Cheat
Features like this one put the whole
= industry under obligations to the
Lasky company. On every conceiv-
able test this picture shows hundred
per cent. Indeed, the feature is OF
such extraordinary merit as to call for
d the highest term of praise 1t is
:. showing at the Harte theatre today at
4 the regular and loo admission. Adv.
i Notwithstanding the inclement
weather that has prevailed for num-
e Der OF weeks, the waterfowl are be-
S ginning to return to their nesting
grounds in the far north. A pair of
/. black ducks were seen Tuesday in the
t swift water of the Hoosac river just
south of the Dugway in the town of
Pownal The ducks refused to move
/ even when trolley car passed over
the Bennington and North Adams cleo
trio road and were observed by num-
Der Of passengers.
A party of dozen snowshoe enthusi-
+ asts, mostly G. NJ G. members, got to-
4 gether informally last evening with on
ly an hours notice and had delight
\ full snowshoe trip with ideal conditions
= The party left ON the 7:45 trolley for
: Jackson's crossing and liked from
there to the top of Carpenter Hill and
home. The condition of the snow for
snowshoeing was the best of the seas
on and made easy travelling. Numerous
tumbles (Which only one or two mem
r bers Of the party escaped) caused con-
tinuous amusement and the daring ski
4 stunts of one member created several
n thrills which helped in making a very
= enjoyable trip. Practically all of the
trip was made by moonlight. The par
ty arrived home at---well-perhap some
n would prefer In not being published.
Several friends in town OF Walter
= HOLSTER, the 16-year-old boy who lost
his eyesight from gunshot charge
I last fall have heard from him since his
o entrance at the Austine Institution for
{ the Blind at Brattleboro. According to
young HOLSTERS letters he is highly
y pleased with his life at the school.
: All of his letters home have been
y>,, Tine WITTY, tha ct nc