The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-23
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Briefly TOR Busy heaoere
Coming to the opera house soon
Clara Kimball Young. Adv
Highest price paid for pigs and live
chickens at Eddington's market. Adv
est.
Wilson's novelty dance and singing
orchestra Wednesday night, Forest
ers hall. ADV.
Special sale on overcoats at ST.
and special sale on suits at $40 and
SIS. Mulligan & Roche. Adv.
John Meagher has recovered, from
his recent Illness and will soon re
sumo his duties in Drysdales' store
Last week for membership in the
| Indian Bicycle Club at Griswold
1 Join today and save regrets in the
| spring. Adv.
The bans of marriage were an
nounced Sunday at the Sacred Heart
! church between Miss Roselba Grafton
| and William Pinsonneault.
Word was received this morning of
| the death at Greenfield Mass, OF
Mrs. Caroline Whitney Hawkes.. An
nouncement of the funeral arrange
ments will be made later.
Look ahead This is pretty cold
weather to think of bicycle rang, but
this spring you will wish you had
your Indian. Join the club this
week at Griswold's and get the cash
nrica nj S1 no.. uyaoiy Adv
The new degree team of Stark
lodge, No. 3, |. o. O. f. will confer the
initiatory degree on a class Of candi-
dates Wednesday evening at 8
O'Clock. The degree team has been
practicing for some time,
Ray" Fisher, the New York Ameri-
can league pitcher whose home is at
Middlebury and who during the years
in which Bennington maintained a
professional baseball team helped the
hlub to win number of victories over
North Adams and Pittsfeld is coach
ing the pitching staff of the Spring
field Mass. college team.
The opera house has something UNI
usual in store for the patrons on to-
morrow when Ethel Clayton and
Carlyle Blackwell are scheduled to
appear in the latest Brady-Made pic
ture. The story is called THE Mad
ness OF Helen" and is one of the most
interesting and different" stories to
De seen here in many days. Adv.
Citizens of the village of Benning-
ton, you are to decide the issue. Shall
our schools be continued under the
management Of the incorporated dis
trict and town or be combined under
one management? Do not let any or
binary function or appointment keep
you from the school meeting to be
held at the High school Wednesday
evening, Jan. "a, 1917 at s O'Clock.
The Woman's Relief Corps held al
regular meeting last evening in honor
of McKinley's birthday 4 short
sketch Of him and an extract from
one OF his addresses was read by the
Patriotic instructor also humorous Sc
lections given. In short contest a
prize was awarded Mrs. Ella Cham
berlain for making the most words
from the word "Carnation."
The epidemic of munps which has
been in evidence In the village since
August is apparently decreasing.
When the schools opened in Septem-
Der the number Of cases increased
each week until In December a hun
dred were reported to Health Office
j. VI. Ayres, There were undoubted-
ly many cases which were not report
ed. The epidemic Is unusual in that
a number of adults have been victims
of the disease. There have been only
a few hard cases and in large num-
Der of instances the afflicted ones
have suffered nothing more than
slight inconvenience.
Mrs. Sophronia Fisher, aged So,
died this morning at the home OF her
daughter, Mrs. Mary Rogers in Shafts
bury Center. Besides Mrs. Rogers,
the deceased leaves another daughter,
Mrs. Noyes Bump of SALISBURY Val
ley and two sons, George of Shafts