The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-04-20
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for susy Readers

Miss. Florence Walbridge is assist
ing at the Free Library.
Gym" class will be held tonight in
Welfare hall All young women of
the village are eligible. Adv.
There will be card social in Gaia
mount commandry hall this evening.
The public is cordially invited. Adv.
Tomorrow Earle Williams in Cap
tain Smith and Chapter of ''Iightn-
ing Bryce Harte Theatre. ADV.
Mrs. James Mckee is the newly
elected treasurer of the Fortnightly
club, instead OF McKim as It was print.
ed in Mondays Banner.
Big Keith vaudeville act two wo-
men and one man in noverty dancing,
special scenery. One of the best acts
on the road. Harte Theatre today
land tomorrow Adv
The funeral of the late Luman s.
Norton Thursday will be private, but
during the hour before the services
his friends may call The family re.
quests that no flowers be sent.
New non-fictioh at the Free Library
includes the following: Second Book
lof Modern Verse, Rittenhouse;
Rhymes OF Vermont Rural Life, Dan.
lei Cady; Best Short Stories of 1919.
O'Brien.
The name of Mrs. w. E. Putnam
should have been included in the list
of delegates from the Fortnightly club.
to the State Federation meetings to be
held in Windsor in June, which was
printed in Mondays Banner.
Il C. Lincoln Hall of Old Bennington
spent Monday in Troy.
John Spargo has recently given to
the Free Library his new book, THE
Psychology OF Bolshevism,' and book
of fiction Poor Relations" by Mac
kenZie.
Miss Emma Lamarre left Monday
morning for Crown Point, N. Y. to
attend the wedding of Miss Ada Mar
CELL TO Eliery King. Miss Marceill
is former resident of Bennington
and the only daughter of Alfred Mar
lceEl OF ScD0Ol street,
William Farnum in sea story!
You have seen the eminent William
Fox star in other sea stories. No
doubt you remember his wonderful
characteristic When Man Sees
Red" a sea story that will live for
lever in the memories of those who
were fortunate enough to witness this
great photodrama at Harte Theatre
today. Adv.
Sgt. Roger Robins, who has been
spending a few days with Harold Bot
tum, recently returned from overseas,
has returned to his home in Lenoir
North Carolina. Sgt. Robins served
in France with the United States
army for two years and later was en-,
gagged in American Red Cross work
overseas where he met Bottum. The
two young men we're confined TO q
hospital in Paris at the same time
with pleurisy and were released &c
return home on the same steamer. Il
was because Of their recent Illness
that they came back via the Mediter
ranean sea which afforded them mucf
pleasure. They made stops at Naples
Italy; Palermo, Sicily; and Rock o
Gibraltar. Al Naples visits were
made to the ruins of Pompeii and L
the crater of Mt Vesuyius. A rail
road to the top of the volcano climbs
a So per cent grade. Happy" says tina
as the ship approached Gibrat,aI
about all the Americans on bcart
were on deck looking for the famous
insurance advertisement but failed Il
locate 1t. What they did find of mucl
interest was cement slide on on
side of the rock made for catching
rain water which is the only suppl,
for the small village on the oppcs sit
side At this place are stationed 600
English troops.