The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-19
TELEPHONE GIRLS
ENTERTAIN AT
ANNUAL BALL
Nearly 125 Couples Make Bril-
o.. liant Social Event
SIXTEEN NUMBERS ON PROGRAM
Many out-of.town Visitors in Crowd
of Young People at Foresters'
Hall Last Evening.
SIXTEEN NUMBERS ON PROGRAM
Was the whole town" there?

Was the whole town" there?
1t was!
1t was there because the telephone
girls gave one of the most enjoyable
dances of the season at Foresters'
hall last evening with an attendance
of about 125 couples.
There are dances-and dances! But
it takes the bewildering crew of local
"Hello-Girls" to put on a dance event
that packs the local hall and yet re-
ceives the honest endorsement that
"a good time was had by all"
To begin with: The committee on
decorations, consisting of Miss Della
Camp, Miss Cecile Dorion, Miss Mary
Ryan and Thomas Fitzgerald
decorated the hall with pine boughs
and evergreen and decorated 1t
right" The orchestra was hidden
behind bank OF spruce trees at the
northeast corner of the main hall and
the walls were pannelled in large
squares of evergreen that made one
of the prettiest trimming schemes
carried out in the hall for several
seasons.
Then the music committee, COM
posed of Miss Bessie Shea, Miss Lena
Thompson, Miss Ida Pellerin and
Miss Julia Connolly arranged with
Bennington's sturdy wielder of the
fiddle-bow, George Donnelly, for
program of catchy and up-tothe-
minute music. The orchestra, with
Miss Mary l.. McGurk at the piano.
lived up to their previous reputation
as pleasing purveyors of tuneful per-
mutations and in return for continued
applause gave two and three encores
to several of the numbers. The
dances were as follows:
One Step Circus Day in Dixie
Waltz When | Was Dreamer
Two-Step My Sweet Adair
Kaleidoscope Medley
One Step America, Love You
Waltz Chin Chin
Fox Trot
I'm Going to Bring Wedding Ring
One-Step Little Gray Mother
Intermission
One-Step
When l Leave the World Behind
Waltz Little Bit Of Heaven
Two-Step My Little Girl
Waltz Geraldine
Five-Step
Goodbye Girls, I'm Through
One-Step Tulip Time in Holland
Rye Waltz Comm Through the Rye
One-Step Jane
Dainty folders, giving the order of
the dances with cut of telephone
instrument on the cover containing
the words appended: "Out of Order"
(for the evening" were distributed.
Nearly all of the younger set of the
town were present in sleek dress
suits and a dazzling assortment of
gowns, some exceptionally pretty
costumes being worn by many of the
| ladies'.
The affair began about 9 o'clock,
| but it was past ten o'clock before the
floor was filed, and the repeated en-
cores carried the final one-step well
| into the morning.
This is the 10th annual affair that
| the phone girls have held and both
| from social and financial standpoint
| it was good success 1t is improving
| increasingly popular from year to
year and as attendants are mostly
by direct invitation the girls have
| succeeded in providing an attractive
| annual function.
Beside the above mentioned com.
mittees, the success for the affair of
1916 goes to Mr. and Mrs. w. z. Bis
sell, general chairman, Miss Mary
Butler, Miss Louise Burns, Miss Eliz.
abeth Nealon and Miss Clara Pellerin
Following is a partial list of some
of the out-of-town guests: Miss Mary
Ryan, chief operator at Rutland; Rob
ert Foley and Arthur Bassallion OF
North Adams; Harry Jones of vii
Jamestown; Miss Hazel Alexander
Miss Avis Babcock, Miss Freelove
Baker, Miss Ruth Stevens, and Miss
Genevieve Nealon, Forrest White
Howard Wright, Roy Campbell, Jean
Shea, Herbert Hamilton, Wallace
Neuchwander, Miss Margaret Flood
and Miss Lena Flood of Hoosick
Falls; Harry Roebuck OF Troy Mar
garet Battles of Norwich, onn, and
others.
Manager Bissell reported this morn