The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-09
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Tuesday, October 9, 1917.
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village TeIe
Briefly for Busy Readers


live near Camp Comfort.
Mrs. George r. Albro is confined to |
her room as the result OF a severe |
fall sustained Saturday.
Miss Luras NJ Morse has been i'll |
for the past week at the home of her
aunt on Division street.
Frank L. Gage Of Schenectady W
in the village Monday to visit his sis |
ter, Mrs. George 7. Albro.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Wilmarrh of
Stamford are guests at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. e. G. Bennett.
The monthly meeting of the board
of directors of the Y. NJ G.. A. will be
held at eight o'clock tonight
Mrs. e. ]. Hawley and Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. J. Hawley of Manchester were
guests yesterday of Dr. and Mrs. VIM.
E, Walker.
Miss Georgiana Christie of New
! Bedford, Mass, is visiting her uncle,
Rev. C. e. Provost, pastor of the
! Sacred Heart church.
Rev. T. H. Thornton of Brooklyn
will give a lecture at the Guideboard
| chapel Wednesday evening, Oct. 10th,
| 1890 All welcome. No collection
| A meeting of the Sons of Veterans
will be held Wednesday evening at S
| o'clock. Important business win be
transacted and all members are re-
quested to be present.
Frank e. Howe met with the En-
ployed Boys Brotherhood at the Y. NJ.
c. A. last evening and instructed them
in the proper parliamentary practice
in conducting meeting.
Invitations have been issued by Mr.
and Mrs William G. Clark for din.
ner and reception to he given at G. A.
r. hall Saturday evening. October Is,
in observance of their 25th marriage
anniversary.
| Recent births in the village are
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick j.
Devlin of County street; daughter
to Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernest Marcoux of
Mill street and son to Mr.. and Mrs
John K. Wilbur of Depot street.
Rev. Geo. s. Mills left this after
noon for Columbus, Ohio. to attend
the biennial meeting of the national
council of congregational churches.
! Oct. 1917 Mrs. Mills will spend the
week at the home of Mrs. John s. Hol
den.
Work on the Henry w Putnam
Memorial hospital is being delayed
to some extent by the slow arrival of
plumbing fixtures. The interior fin
ish of the second floor Is now oomplet-
ed and the painters are at work on
this part OF the building.
Regular meeting of Walloomcas
Lodge tonight MilI the members
TRY to be present to arrange for the
initiating work that we are to do Oil
Tuesday night in North Adams.
Hoosac Lodge win pay the carfare
for the degree team.
| The concrete forms for the con
stluction OF the foundation a. the new
hatchery building are nearly com
plotted and workmen will soon begin
to pour the mixture. Once the found
alton is completed the construction of
the building should proceed rapidly.
| Ccrporals Edward Flynn, August
kelson and Harold Cone Priyates
Fred Bartlett and Marvin White, who
| came to bennington for a week end
visit at their home here were the mo-
tor party guests of Sergeant William
e. Hawks, making the trip from here
| to Westfield in the sergeant's car
Mrs. Julius r. Bates went to Aver.
Mass, Sunday to visit her son. Julius
| who went to Camp Devens with the
| first contingent of drafted men from
| Bennington county She found that
! julius was getting fat on camp fare
and outdoor exercise and was much
+, more contented than on the day he
left Bennington.
| The funeral of Mrs Catherine Ry
an was largely attended from St
| Francis de Sales church Sunday after
noon, Rev Thomas r. Carly, the pas
! tor, officiating. The bearers were
William, John, Michael and Joseph
| Costello, Francis Mahar and Edward
| Cummings, nephews, grandnephews
of the deceased Among those from
out of town. who attended the sery-
ice were Mrs. Margaret Morrissey.
Mrs. Margaret Edgerton and James
| Walsh of Cohoes. Miss Minnie Mahar
and Hazel Thompson of Glens Falls
and relatives from North Adams,
Hartford, Conn. and Burlington.
{ Mr.. and Mrs. William Kelley. who
were the over Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Wobd of Gage street
| have returned to their home in Hamp-
ton, n. Y Mr. and Mrs. Kelley arc
cousins of Mr.. Wood.
At Harte Theatre today Nothing
so remarkable, so overwhelmingly
tremendous SO vital in the worlds
history has ever been seen as the OIL
cial British war pictures of ''Ghe
| Tanks in Action at the Battle of the
Ancre, which are being shown all
this week at the Circle Theatre as part
OF the double feature program, which
also includes Douglas Fairbanks in
"Wild and Woolly' The Tanks" are
the marvels of a war killing of men,
huge and colossal size, ponderous, al
most uncanny in appearance and
movement. They resemble nothing
so much as giant fre-breathing
dragon of childish fancy with their
great treadmills that move along the
| ground and DropeI the nowarful fight