The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-21
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Nsws 81 the Town ano Village Told
SstsfIy fer Busy Rsadsrs

Leroy Woodland, who has just recov.
cred from the measles, is i'll with
mumps.
Your last opportunity to see a first
class vaudeville show at the opera
house tonight. Adv.
Social dance Saturday night at For
esters' hall. Dancing s to II. Don
nelly's orchestra. ADV. 70t2
Patrons, who don't want to laugh
shouldn't see Charlie Chaplin in Easy
Street" at Harte Theatre today. Adv.
Branch Number / of st. Marys
Guild will meet at the Parish house
Monday afternoon with Mrs Nellie
Briggs,
Frank L. Howe is confined to his
home on South street with the
measles. This is his third attack in
40 years.
Miss Pauline Cornell a student at
the Skidmore school of art at Sarato
ga, is spending the week end with her
parents.
Mrs. Vernon Castle, the best dressed
woman in the world in Chapter No 8
of the great international serial
"Patria' at Harte Theatre today
ADV.
Rev c. II. Mead will preach in the
Methodist church Sunday morning.
Sunday school at u, Epworth League
$50 The evening service will be
omitted.
Comrades Joseph Clifford and G. w.
Royce have returned from Montpel-
Ter where they attended the state G.
\. Il, encampment, as delegates of the
Custer post
At the session of the Troy confer
ence held Friday, Rev. p. l.. Dow OF
this village was elected one OF two
ministerial trustees, receiving IS out
of 126 votes
Mrs Louise Hopkins Murray of
Williamstown, spent Friday here.
stopping on her way home from Troy,
where she attended the Francis-Mc.
Evan wedding
Misses Kathryn Fischer. Wilhel-
nina Hicks and Gertrude MCGUIRE
were graduated Friday from the Sa-
maritdn hospital training school for
nurses in Troy
Word has been received OF the death
in Los Angeles, Calf. of A. c. Thomp-
son. father Of DR. George f. Thompson
of North Adams Or. Thompson ex-
poets to return to North Adams about
April 80.
Misses Nash, Whiteley, Carpenter
Green and Brazil OF the high school
girls team left this morning for
Kingston, where they will play to-
night They viii be joined in Troy
by Miss Fischer.
The library has recently purchased
the following new books: Pip" by Ian
Hay; "Stingy Receiver" by Abbott
Cinderella Jane by Cooke; Road
to Understanding" by Porter and the
Thoroughbred" by Webster
The public is cordially welcome to
the Christian Science services, soc
Main St. Sunday II a. m, Wednes-
day evening 1870. The free reading
room is open from 8 to p. m. ex-
cept Saturday and Sunday. Here the
Bible and all authorized Christian
Science literature may be found.
+ George kid Rosch will clash with
Lefty Major OF North Adams at the
smoker Of the Twentieth Century A.
G. in Pittsfeld next Monday evening.
Major has never met defeat in the
ring and he has been pilng up a string
OF victories OF late The meeting
Monday will be the windup of an all
star show The rivals viii go 10
rounds
Locally the supply of seed potatoes
is short. but the state committee of
food production states that the supply
in the state IS ample The local coin
mittee is considering this question and
requests all who wish TO purchase seed
potatoes to communicate at once
with A. w Varney Seed will be OBJ
tanned at once at the lowest possible |
price. 69t4+
st. Peters church: Thornton f.
Turner, rector Services April 22nd
second Sunday after Easter: Holy |
Communion 100 a. m. Sunday school
$50 y. m. morning prayer 1890 a m,
sermon. Effective Service" Evening
Prayer at p m Service will also
be held at the Green Mountain Valley
school house at three O'clock
The Second congregational church
cordially invites the nublic to its SER