The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-01
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Naws Of the Town and Village Tod
Briefly for Busy Readers

News Of the Town and Village Tod
Briefly for Busy Readers
Miss Alice Houran is confined to
the house by illness.
Clara Kimball Young in "The Yellow
Passport" at opera house tomorrow.
Adv.
Miss May Morrissey of the Richie
store is confined to the house by i'll
ness.
Deputy Sheriff II. X, Wilson of
Readsboro spent the day in the viii
lage on business.
There will be a regular monthly
meeting of the board of water commits
sioners this evening.
Miss Barbara Burt, who has been in
New York for some time, has returned
and has resumed her position in the
Griswold store.
Mrs. VIM. H. Kingman of Spring
field Mass, is visiting for few days
with her nephew, H. A. Wilkinson OF
Putnam street.
The ladies aid society of the Baptist
church will hold a business meeting in
the church parlors Tuesday afternoon
at o'clock.
Dorothy Bernard and Thurlow Ber-
gen can be seen at their best in The
Little Minister in parts at Harte
Theatre tomorrow. ADV.
J. A. Mckee, a horticulturist EN-
| ployed at The Orchards, has been
called to his home in Virginia by the
serious illness Of his mother.
The incorporators of the Henry w
Putnam Memorial hospital association
are in session this afternoon at the
town headquarters in the Richie
block m ..o
The annual parish meeting of St
Peters church will be held this even
ing at 1880. At $50 a flapiack dinner
will be served to the men of the
church.
Sword play and intrigue, adventure
and love-making all play part in The
Madcap Queen Of Crona" featuring
Francis Ford and Grace Cunard at OPP
era house today. ADV.
THE Powder Trust and War" a
timely complete story of Graft" based
on the ativities of certain manufac-
lures of munitions and high explosives
at opera house today. ADV.
From its first scenes departing a
massacre at Kiev, Russia, by the dread
BLACK Hundreds the story of "The
Yellow Passport featuring Clara Kim.
ball Young grips the spectator with
tense fingers at opera house tomorrow.
ADV.
Edmund Breese. the eminent drama
tic star, who was seen in "The Song
of the Wage Slave, The Shooting OF
J Dan McGrew," two recent Metro
screen masterpieces. will again make
his bow on the screen under Metro
auspices, when he is seen here at the
Harte Theatre in THE Lure of Heart $
Desire. ADV.
The proceeds of the play "In Old
Vermont" being put on Tuesday even.
ing in Library hall, are to be Iscd for
the work of the Welfare Association
this summer. The members of the
cast have held several rehearsals and
things are in shape for an interesting
and instructive entertainment tenor
row night,
A secondhand sale of clothing I'll
other articles will begin tomorrow
morning at the Second Congregations
chaIol and will continue all day anC
on Wednesday This will be an op
portlnity to get mems suits and othei
furnishings. \ considerable variet!
of things has been got together, and /
will be worth while to look them over
The annual meeting of st. Mary
Guild was held Saturday afternoon a
the Parish House at o'clock. Re
ports were read from the officers ant
chairmen OF the various committees
The following officers were elected 70
the coming year: President, Mrs G
| p. Endress; LIST vice President. Mrs
II. |. Norton; 2nd vice president, Mrs
A. S. NJ. Chisholm; treasurer, Mrs.
NJ. Ayres; secretary Mrs. +. Il. Howe
| Capt. Preston s. Chamberlain. VIII
died at Bradford on Thursday, was
member of the board OF trustees of til
| Vermont soldiers home. He was
veteran of the civil war, serving tN
enlistments, the last as captain 81,
| company H OF the 18th regiment. II
represented the town of Bradford
the legislature of 1890. The Survivor
are widow and two daughters, Mr.
! George Grant of this village and Mi
] Edith Chamberlain of Bradford. lo