The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-06
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Friday, October g, 1916.
BENNINGTON BkIEFS
News Of che Town and Village Toi
Briefly for Busy Readers

are you gutter Inlnk III over ana
wait. ADV,
You should see yourself as others
see YOU Adv. ~
Hight Flyers Night at the opera
house. ADV.
Mrs. C. e. Welles and Mrs. Robert
H. Merrill motored to Wilmington to-
Mrs. Grace Pelley of Newburyport
is visiting relatives on Putnam street.
day.
There will be benefit concert at
the Harte Theatre Sunday afternoon
and evening by the Bennington City
band.
The childrens room at the library
is being tastefully decorated by the IL
brarian with Mother Goose ryhmes
and pictures.
Do not purchase your winter fur
nishings until you visit the rummage
sale to be held at the Old Academy
Library, October 1913.
The officers and members of the W.
IL y. diG lNAuC6lGu W lltdht a SbCNidl
effort to be present at the regular
meeting to J held this evening at 8
o'clock
Frank Fisk, we'll known in Benning
ton and formerly of Troy, who is now
with his cousin. Judge Daniel p Bates
of Pownal. was in town recently re-
newing old acquaintance.
Through the kindness of Mrs. +. w.
Bradford. a picture, entitled THE Ho-
ly Grail has been presented to the
high school and has been hung in Miss
Cutters room.
Is Marriage A Failure?' Don't fail
to see Mike Sacks and the Marcus
Musical Comedy Co. solve this quest
ion in funny musical farce at the OPP
era house today. ADV.
The senior class of the high school
recently elected the following officers:
president, Raymond Percy, vice presi-
dent, Dorothy Patchin, secretary, Beul-
all Whitley. treasurer, Walton Har-
wood.
Mrs. Hattie Holbrook. whose hus-
band passed away in Jacksonville
short time ago, has arrived to make
her permanent home with her daugh
ter, Mrs. w. ID. Pelley on Putnam
stree;
beginning "Wednesday, October 4.
there will be an administrator sale
of household goods at the residence of
the late Henry l.. Field on Imperial
avenue. The hours will be $50 to
11.SO a. m. and . to 8 p. m. Adv
The services at the White Chapel
church Sunday as follows, Sunday
school 3 p. M, Earl Harrington sup
erintendent. At 8 o'clock baptism
and communion service administered
by the pastor Rev. p. l.. Dow. 7.30
prayer meeting led by Smith STRAIT
ton.
Mr. and Mrs Fred W. Whitney with
their son and daughter, Ralph Whit
ney and Miss Mildred Whitney Of East
Templeton. Mass, motored to Ben
nington Wednesday and spent the
night with Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Pelley
of Putnam Street on their way to
Oneonta. n. Y.
Myrtle Gozales in the Blue Bird pho
toplay The Secret of the Swamp"
Filled with sensations. bubbling with
mirth, replete with emotions at the
opera house today. This picture viii
be repeated after the musical comedy
tonight for the benefit of patrons ar
irving late. ADV.
Mr. and Mrs Albert NJ. Downs have
returned from a trip to northern New
York and points in Canada They
visited at Mrs. Downs former home
in the Dominion and also took in the
city of Montreal. While at ChaZy,
N. Y, they visited the Miner stock
farm, one of the largest estates of its
kind in the country.
Autoists, who have taken the old
Bennington road to Troy, via the
Pleasant Valley detour have encount
cred rough travelling. Work on lay
ing the new street has been brought
up as far as the Anthony railroad flag
station and to reach the detour it is
necessary to drive over a considerable
stretch of uncovered trap-rock.
Speedometer measurement of the
way through North Bennington makes
the trip into Troy Al miles instead
of the 81 through Old Bennington.
Avoidance of injury to tires and cars
makes the North Bennington route at