The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-31
THE EVENING BANNER
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BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of tho Town and village Tel
Briefly for Busy Rsadsrs

All hats at cost or less at the Bon
net Shop. Adv
See the $19S sale of hats at the
Bonnet Shop. Adv.
Dainty Marguerite Clark in "The
Fortunes of Fifi". Harte Theatre to-
morrow. Adv
Born, Saturday, May &c, daughter
to Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond La Flamme
of County street.
Robert Mantell supports Genevleve
| Hamper in Tangled Lives" Harte
Theatre today. Adv
Dancing from $3.50 to 1880 at the
Young Woman's club rooms tonight.
Admission rs cents. ADV.
Mid-week service tonight at 73O in
the First Baptist church. The study
in the Book of Acts will be continued.
A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Regular convocation of Temple
chapter will be held this evening.
Royal Arch Degree will be conferred
All members are requested to be pres
ent.
For the small investor, who is not
in the habit of owning bonds, there
is real value in the offer of the banks
to keep the bonds in safety vaults
without charge.
Mrs. John Purcell Of School street
has developed painful case of blood
poisoning which She presumes original
ed on a thumb from slight cut sus-
tanned while sharpening lead pencil.
Manager John b. Harte OF the Harte
theatre and Bennington opera house.
who has been confined to his rooms
by illness for some weeks, was able
to be out for the first time Wednes-
dag.
On account Of the rain last Sunday
Rev. p, l.. Dow did not preach at
Woodford, but will do so next Sunday
at p. m Cordial invitation extend
ed to the people Of that community to
attend.
Frank f. Howe left this afternoon
Gibson and others to speak at a SER
les of patriotic meetings in Windham
county. They are to be at South Lon
donderry tonight and at Wilmington
tomorrow night.
Work is being rushed on the
grounds of the Henry w. Putnam
memorial hospital under the direction
of Charles Close, the landscape gar
dener The work has been delayed
by poor weather but is now being hur-
ried as rapidly as possible.
The funeral of Mrs Harriet Spra-
que. widow of the late Herbert Spra-
que, was held from her late home in
the eastern section of the village We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock. Rev.
G. w Towart. pastor of the Baptist
church, officiated and the burial was
in the village cemetery.
The funeral of Leon Bushee, the
young man who was taken from the |
American house to the Samaritan i
hospital at Troy, where he !
died of pneumonia, was held from
st. Francis de Sales church Wednes- |
day forenoon. The remains were TAX.
en- to Sunderland for burial
Miss Ruth Hicks, who has been
visiting her parents for a few days, |
left this morning for Scranton, Pa, |
where she will become manager of a |
cafeteria connected with Y. w. C. A. |
Miss Hicks has been employed the |
past year as assistant dietician at
the Michigan state college.
Two carloads of Italian sailors pass
ed through North Bennington Wednes- |
day on their way to some place in |
Canada" 1t is understood that the |
men. who belong to the Italian navy |
were making the journey for the pur-
pose of taking across the Atlantic a |
number of submarines that have been |
made at some Canadian ship plant.
The Tahkoneac Camp Fire girls |
will hold a ceremonial on Friday eve
ming. If the day is pleasant the group |
will meet at the Library at $50 for an |
outdoor ceremonial. Each girl is !
asked to bring her own lunch. If it is
stormy the meeting will be held in the
Library hall at 7.30. Please leave lists
of honors and the money for the
same at the Library by Friday noon.
OhC VI INC 5Col aSSi C5otAChS Va
women seen in Bennington in many
days gathered in front of the NJ. Lurie
Co. store this morning for the formal
opening under the new management.
The store recently purchased from the
A. X. Richie estate has been thorough
ly remodeled and stocked with the
varied lines carried by the Lurie
stores. A large force of extra clerks
had been hired for the opening, but it
was insufficient to care for the bust
ness. The store was filled with PED
nle during the entire forenoon