The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-04-28
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Nows Of the Town and Village Tod
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pany mill.
Mrs. Charles Rider of Walloomsac
visited her daughter, Miss Anna Rider
here Wednesday.
There Is to be a regular meeting OF
the Woman's Relief corps this even.
ing at 7.30 o'clock.
Russell Jewell has moved from the
Slade tenement to the B. T. Henry
house at Hinsdillville.
Special for Saturday only so dozen
Of roses at so cents per dozen. School
street Greenhouses, L. c. Holton.
ADV. 40 .-,. 70t2
William Moran has given up his
| work at the Bradford mill and taken a
| job with the Cooper manufacturing
| company.
Minstrel show by twenty-five young
ladies tonight and dancing until one
o'clock all for a quarter. Foresters
hall at SIS. ADV.
New spring shoes, pumps and OK
| fords. Queen Quality for ladies, Emer-
son and Beacon for men, $500 to $500
at Noveck's. ADV.
Just received large shipment Of
ladies', misses and children's trim
med hats, very low priced at No
weeks. ADV.
Special Friday and Saturday $500
to $500 reduction on ladies' and
misses tailored spring suits at No
'oNA D. 4Ap'' .IwOgs. 2uNGs'. -K47
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs Daniel ROD
inson are expecting them at their Old
Bennington summer home, Under
wood" in about two weeks. qg-nt,
Mrs. Charles e. Patterson has arriy-
ed to superintend the openings of the
| Patterson summer home in Old lBept
nington for the coming season. goI
Ostrich feather neck rufus are quite
the vogue. The Drysdale store offers
good sort as low as 1915. The now
white fur scarfs for summer in gar
ment store. Adv.
Clifford Atkins, engraver and watch
| repairer at the Wood jewelry store,
returned today from visit with his
parents in Lancaster, n. H. He has
been away about two weeks.
George r. Grant of the Winslow
hardware store will move next week
into the tenement on Main street
which is being vacated by the removal
of Charles w. Lockwood and family
/ TO Boston.
Dr. and Mrs. Grey, Hugh Webb,
Michael Morrissey, Miss Marie Buck
and Chief Ranger Duchanes were
among the Arlington people who made
a special trip to the village Thursday
| evening to attend the Foresters' fair.
The cellar has been completed for
the cottage house being erected on the
Anna Clark property on Monument
avenue, in Old Bennington. The car
| penter work will begin at once, under
| the direction OF Walter Durham.
A biggish shipment of fine new coats
| arrived at the Drysdale garment store
| this morning. Smart street and sport
models and quiet dressy styles in abun
| dance Also some splendid values in
| silk. net, wolfe and evening dresses.
| ADV.
Several local friends of the Deming
| family of Arlington are in receipt OF
| invitations to the forthcoming marriage
of Sylvester C. Deming of that town to
Miss Elma X. Follett of Adams. The
ceremony is to take place at the
brides home in Adams, Wednesday,
| May 3.
Charles w. Wickham. former yard
master at the local Rutland station, is
spending a few days in the village,
| called here by the death Of relative,
Mrs. Bridget Dowd Mr. Wickham' 8
family is living at present in Boston.
1 He Is travelling for New York firm
who manufacture an appliance for in
creasing the heating efficiency Of To-
comotives. One hundred of these
have recently been installed on the
New York Central system.
The cast OF characters for the play,
"As You Like It, which is to be given
by the high school pupils, is as fol
lows: "Banished Duker Kenneth
Fauley: Frederick" Wilbur Lambert;
"Amiens,' Spencer fLeea "Jaques.'
Howard Estes; Orlando" Edward
Jenney; oliver" Theodore Csrpen
ter; Adam William Armstrong;
Tombstone" Edward Healyni|C CORN
Winchester Emmons; "Silvius," Ray
mond Percy; William, Roger Burt;
First Lord" Channfng Hare; "Set
ond Lord" Carl Chase; "Rosalind
Eleanor Murphy; Cecilia" Esther
Thompson; Audrey" Irene Buss;
"Phebe,' Ruth Mason.
| The patronage or the Foresters' fail
continued last evening, the entertain
ment being boxing exhibition be
tween Kid Foster of Bennington ant
Young Dempsey, well-known to loca
admirers of the sport, There was al
so an interesting drill by the Wood
men. This evening the ladies' min
strels is to be repeated with sopl'
new local hits, the performance OF
Wednesday evening proving so popu
lar that many who missed that per
formance asked for a second chance t
attend.u A1deers head is to be pre-
scented to the most popular lodge ant
representatives OF the three loca
orders interested in getting it for thei
rooms, are as follows: For the *. o
c., Miss Margaret Mcclure; and Mis-
! Agnes Goldman; for the Elks, Mis-
| Anna Costello and Miss Veronica Ma