The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-30
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Briefly TOR busy Read8re
Remember there is treat for you
at the opera house tonight Adv.
| Miss Lucy Barber of Scott street
is spending the Thanksgiving recess
at her home in; Berlin. s
4 iii H.iNichols has gone! to Boston
sl,and New York for the purpose of
buying Christmas merchandise. W
4 theodore. Carpenter, jr, left We'd
nesdays for Brooklyn to visit his
sister. Miss Doris Carpenter for a
few days. ,ssss..g, .,,4a
s4Peggys Hyland and Marc MacDer-
mott diII "Babette' and Burton
Holmes Travelogne at Harte Theatre
today, Ady. ss @9
II Nominations for officers for the
a Foresters of America will be held
Monday evening, Dec. 3, at 8 o'clock.
All members are requested to be
present. 57t3
Edward Knapp of Gage street ex-
tension entertained large party OF
relatives at Thanksgiving dinner
yesterday.
Stunts of an Mexican raid only
few features of Honor System"
showing at opera house tonight only.
Just one show 1t begins at eight
o'clock. Adv.
Miss Catherine Murphy OF Gage
street, who has been spending a few
days with her aunt, Mrs. Richard
Purcell of Pittsfeld returned home
Ethis morning.
I The Baptist churches of Benning
ton and North Bennington will meet
at the Y. NJ c. A. week from to-
night instead of tonight as an
Inotinced in Wednesdays Banner.
! r.. A. .Walsh's famous drama 1.-THE
4 Honor System" featuring George
Walsh. Miriam Cooper, Gladys brock
we'll. supported by an ALI star cast
at opera house tonight. One show
only at eight o'clock. Adv.
| Harry Hayes Walker and Miss
Myrtle b. Phillputt both of Benning-
ton were united in marriage at the
Baptist parsonage Wednesday even
ing. They were attended by Mabel
l.. Crawford and Fred Crawford.
l Ellis Edison Maxon- of Pownal,
member of the 800 Field Artillery.
Battery c. Camp Devens, Aver and
Miss Florence Elizabeth Crawford of
Pownal we're united in marriage at
the Baptist Parsonage Wednesday
evening.
/ Miss Eva Dano of Scott street and
Miss Louise Larin OF Park street left
today for Hartford and New Britain,
! Comm where they rAl, be the guests
| Of Miss Larin's sister, Margaret, who
Is training thetGenerai Hospital in
4 New Britain, ~ 81 gs ss1ggsG
DR.. and Mrs. L. II. Ross Went
! Thursday morning to Poultneyl to-
enjoy their Thanksgiving dinner
With 90 members OF the Ross family.
| The party diaedl atrthe, hotel in Peult,
| ney as has been their custom for a
number OF years.
| Mr.. and Mrs. A w Haff enter
| tained.a party OF twelve al a Thanks
| giving dinner yesterday. Among the
out OF town guests We're Ms.f Harriet
| A. Barber of North Adams, ~ r. Ts'
| Bayhan of Cleveland and. W. II. Arm
stlung who is a student at the Uni
versity of Vermont
p Miss Maude Lydia Bates, daughter
| of Mrs Flora Bates of Main street
and living Hawks of New Haven,
Conn, were quietly married Wednes;
day afternoon, Nov rs at the
Methodist parsonage by the Rev p.
L. Dow The bride wore taupe
velour suit with hat to match There
were no attendants. After we'd
ding tour TO New York they will re-
side at S95 Blobin street, West Ha-
ven. Conn. where furnished apart
ment awaits them.
" William E. Hawks, bennington's
well-known ex.Wyoming cowboy, has
Second Congregational church to tell
the story of old time days on the
plains at the chapel of the church |
next Tuesday evening. Mr. Hawks |
doesn't Claim to be an orator but he 4
has aayast fund OF interesting Incl
dents and "reminiscences and has been |
selected by his associates OF the old |
days as the Historian of the Plains |
Tickets for the lecture will be sold |
at 20 cents.
Corporal Edmund p. Tfowe of com
pany l, First Vermont Infantry, has |
been designated by the war depart
ment as one gof the non-commission- |,
ed officers to take the examinations |
for West Point in March. A few non
CONS have been picked out by the |
officers of the various regiments as |
fitted to enter West Point if they can (
pass the examinations and young |
Howe is in this list. He is now sick
with typhoid fever at his home here
but is more comfortable today and |
thought to be improving.
If you lived elsewhere than in
Bennington you would cheerfuIly-
perhaps eagerly-pay a sizeable adj
mission TO hear lecture by John
Spargo in the stirring time of today
when history is making so fast that
the linotypes of theEfation are warm
in their bearings, Keeping UP. Thati
the speaker is a local man should
not detract from his message nor
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