The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-30
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Friday, March 80, 1917.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village TOLD
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Rama-zaIn? Is it the river OF
doubt? Rama-zam?
Mrs. William Green is the guest OF
relatives in Berlin, N. Y.
For Mems Easter suits, at a saving
to you, visit the New York store.
Adv.
Miss Lura Morse and Mrs Eleanor
Houghton spent the day with Mrs
Fred Harrington in North Benning-
ton.
There will be free lecture on
Christian Science Friday evening by
Willis +. Gross in high school hall at
O'clock. Adv 51t2
Next Sunday is April Fools Day.
1t has been suggested that Benning-
ton folks keep out of the jokers'
clutches by going TO church.
Dainty Marguerite Clark in Snow
White. Burton Holmes Travelogue
and a Pathe comedy at the Harte
Theatre today. Regular admission
and 10 cents. Adv
Thrifty shoppers, who are looking
to save money on new Easter clothes
and shoes for the whole family will
find such at the New York store on
North street. ADV.
An unusually splendid lot of wo.
men coats-a charming bunch OF
pretty dresses and many more suits
and waists were received at the Drys
dale store today f ADV.
| The new style pinch back and belt
back suits for young men at d saving
See them at the New York store. Adv
| Ladies chamois color gloves spec.
ial zoe. at the New York Store. Adv
| Special for Saturday only! Al 7sc
each one hundred good gingham
house dresses in all sizes &c to Al
Neat clean stripes and checks with
white embroidery trim. Adv
Don't fail to send the children to
see Marguerite Clark in Snow
White" The price of admission will
be only five cents for children under
ten at Harte Theatre today. Adv
"Arms and the Woman" one Of the
best pictures ever made and chapter
No. 6 OF the great international ser
lal .Patria" with Mrs. Vernon Castle
at Harte Theatre tomorrow. Adv.
The reniodeled md bettered Drysr
dale shoe store has this week receiy-
ed no end of handsome. new .colors
and combination in women's boots and
slippers suitable for all OCCASION
IAdv. $500 ~ y &4.s4 gs
| The beautiful pastel and sports
colors now the vogue IN womenss
smart neckwear are broadly displayed
at the Drysdale store. BonntifuL
choice assortments Of both the colors
and white in collars and sets arrived
this morning. Adv
l There are seven real dwarfs in the
Famous Players adaptation OF Snow
| White in which Marguerite Clark is
= starred II Is the Paramount Picture
at the Harte Theatre today where
Creighton Hale. Dorothy Cumming,
Lionel Braham and Alice Washburn
appear in support of Miss Clark
Adv.
| Ernest 7. Griswold, who recently
purchased new six-cylinder Saxon
with which to supply the Methodist
Brotherhood with transportation be.
tween Bennington and SALISBURY
started the construction of garage
in the rear of his Weeks street home
the first of the week. The workmen
dug down about eighteen inches and
had to give up the job until milder
weather. The ground at that depth
was frozen as hard as in the bleak.
est December Those who imagine
that summer has come because they
heard robin on Tuesday morning,
should start the construction OF a
garage and become disilusionized.
The street department is doing
some good work in the hospital dis
trict, filing various mudholes on Elm,
Weeks and Dewey street with ashes.
After sufficient amount OF travel has
passed over this surfacing, this mater
ial makes an excellent roadbed. No.
where in town is the mud worse than
on the several approaches to the hos
pital. 1t is a black ugly material that
mixes easily with water and forms
q bottomless pit for the adventurous
horse or automobile After heavy
Buick car had churned its course of
devastation through Weeks street re-
Gently some practical-minded person
suggested cutting out several rods OF
the roadbed and shipping it to Alsace
Lorraine as a model from which the
British soldiers might dig effective
trenches.
In connection with the work OF the
new savings and loan association,
which Is planning to aid in the con-
struction of over 100 new homes for
prospective Bennington residents, the
men behind the idea are planning the
| organization of another society which
is to be called the Bennington Devel-
| opement company. This last will
have charge Of the actual construction
of these new homes and it will come
into existence Immediately upon the
close of the prospective $4,000 initial
| stock sale Of the Savings and Loan
| Assn. Property owners and bust
| ness men are invited out to the meet
ing Of the promoters of the latter at
the Board Of Trade rooms tonight
where particulars will be forthcoming
on the proposed activities of the sec
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