The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-20
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
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| mousse Will INC grip
Mrs. Frank Chapman is i'll at hel
home on Elm street.
Regular meeting of the w. r. C
Friday evening. Jan. Fl, at eigh
o'clock.
Dancing at the Y W. c. from s to
1890 Friday evening, admission 15c
ADV.
Mr.. Howard and family of Pownal
were the guests of his sister, Mrs. w
J. Hicks Sunday
On and after this date the rental
OF Foresters Hall will be in charge OF
J. Buss at Woods Printing office
Adv. 84t3
Oscar Eddy of East Wallingford is
| visiting his mother, Mrs. Elsie Eddy
who is spending the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. Charles Green of
School street.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Methodist church will serve clam
chowder supper at the church Friday
| evening, Jan. 81 Tickets 25 cents.
Supper served at C o'clock. ADV.
85t2
/ have just received my sample
books of high grade wall paper. also
| paints and varnishes and will be
pleased to show you same upon re-
quest VIM. Service, Bennington, r.
F, D., No. /. Prices reasonable.
II. d. Fillmore has returned from
Rutland where he was honorary
guest at recent installation and ban.
quet of Marble Lodge, N. L. O. p. Mr..
Fillmore is grand warden for this dis
trict. Following the visit in Rutland
he made short business trip.
Mrs. Fiske in motion pictures as
Becky Sharpe in Thackeray's Vanity
Fair, the Edison masterpiece with all
the incidents In the famous mover,
wildly picturized. The Battle OF
Waterloo, the ball at Brussels, Queens
Crawley, etc. Showing at the Harte
Theatre today only. Adv.
Miss Barbara Burt, who has been
employed as head Of the victrola de-
partment at Griswolds, has left her
position and went this morning to |
New York where she will live for a |
time with her brother, Curtis Burt. |
1t is undecided who will fill her place \
left vacant in the local store.
Persons desiring to see Mrs. Fiske
in motion pictures will take this OPP
portunity as It is improbable that she
ever will appear in another photo
play. Her desire to perpetuate her
greatest Characterization, that of
Becky Sharpe in Vanity Fair was her
chief reason for accepting the pro.
posal Of the Edison Co. See this
feature at the Harte Theatre. ADV.
The Young Woman's club at its an.
nual meeting Wednesday evening ell
ected the Following officers; Presi.
dent, Mrs. Emma l.. HARDWOOD; first
Mrs. Wills T, White; |
second vice-president. Mrs. Della
secretary. Miss Edna L.
LOOMS; assistant secretary, Miss
Grace Mae Cook; treasurer, Miss
Della Ames; assistant treasurer, Miss
Eta Streeter.
DR.. Samuel Alden Perrine Of New
York, will give his famous Illustrated
lecture on the "Glories OF India" in
the auditorium of the First Baptist
church, Friday evening, Jan. 81, at
3: Is. This will be treat for the
community to go through enchanted
India with one who lived In the midst
Of this bewildering environment for
10 years. Underwood & Underwood
say OF DR.. Perrines pictures, "You
have the finest scenes Of the tItmaia-
vas OF which we have any know
edge" The admission Is 35c Advil
The lecture on the "Glor.es O.
India" to be given by M 5. A. Per
inc in the First Baptist church on
Friday evening, is for octh young and
I'D. Or. tar7ine has an int.nseiy
lecture. somewhat diiler
mt from tie ordinary and stereo
.yped line of tr%elog los ana the adj
mission Of Sc pnys for an evenings
above the az erage.
He illustraias his desi ripuons with q
series of ;;ictlf4a which nGerwoodt
e underwood, the famous Internal
onal phptogl aphers, claim have lot
been equalled. The price is 35c to
both children and adults. Adv,
William H. Wills has received from
A friend in Burlington legal docu-
nent of much interest, discovered
while searching some old flies. II
consists of the patent papers cover
ing the Canadian rights on one Of the
first automatic horse shoe nail-mak-
ing machines ever constructed, al
lowed to Mr.. Wills grandfather short
ly after the civil war. Prior to the
invention of this machine, the shap-
ing and pointing of horseshoe nails
had been by hand, slow and labors.
Gus process. Mr. Wills grandfather,
H. a. Wills. drew up a machine in
Keeseville, n Y, for doing the work
automatically, which was patented in
this country and Canada, afterward
going into the manufacture OF the
nails in Burlington In the early