The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-29
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oyer'-Library Theatre today. Adv.
Mr. .ad Mrs. Elmer Lever are NOV
ing from the Leader House on Pleas
ant street.
Henry Lever. son of Elmer Lever,
cut his leg badly while cutting wood !
Tue sday.
Special program at Library Theatre |
Ire today Charlie Chaplin in Put
ting One Over, Dorothy Dalton in
Extravaganza" and Jack Dempsey I
in Daredevil jack episode 14. Con
tinuous to and $50 to II p. m. ADV. |
The Allen A Company has vacan
ces for boys and girls who may wish |
to earn money during the summer va
cation. File your application now
by !phoning No. AZ or calling at EN-
ployment Department. Adv. 3tf
On Sunday evening, May &c. all
members of Bennington post, Ameri
can Legion, are requested to assemble
lat the Methodist church at D. m. to
at end the memorial service in a body.
CivilisA dress is the order for the eve
Eins
The Bennington Sanitary Laundry
will be closed all day Monday May 81
in observance of Memorial Day. Regu-
lar collections will be made in Ben
ming on Tuesday and in North Ben
nington on Wednesday. Be sure to get
your call in Tuesday as only one col
lection viii be made next week.
Adv. 1872
All sons and grandsons Of veterans,
members of the Order or not, are re-
ouested to meet at Grand Army hall
at O'clock Sunday night. May so for
the purpose of attending the Memorial
service at the Methodist church and
I at u o'elcck, noon, Monday, May 81 to
( take part in the parade and the Mem
orial Day exercises.
The Second Congregational church
/ Rev. G. S. Mills minister, cordially in
ivltes the public to it's services tomor'
row. Morning worship at 1O:30,
4 Services. THE Greater Memorial
I Day. Adult classes in the auditor
ium Immediately following this sery-
ice. Chusch school at II O'Clock.
Young Peoples meeting in the chapel
parlor at G.30. The members Of this
church and congregation are invited
to Join in the union Memorial service
in the Methodist church at 1880 p. m.
1 The services in st. Peters church
tomorrow, Trinity Sunday, will be
Hely Communion at 1880; Morning
Prayer, Holy Communion and sermon
at 1920; church school at noon; Eve
In.ng Prayer at O'Clock. The confir
nation class will meet in the Parish
house tonight at O'Clock.
In the World of Industry
Canada is now producing some 10,
600 ton Of asbestos year.
Coal is being extensively mined ii
Manchuria both ,by Japanese and
lCMnest. btI ..f
Africa contains a smaller quantity
of coal than any ether OF the cont
nents.
Danish Government scientists ar,
experimenting with view to produc
ing a satisfactory cattle fo6r from
sawed. gpt
An exhibition to show the progress
Of the tex lie industry in the Missist
, ippi valley is 10 be held in st. Louis
mex August
The Fifth international Exhibition
. 'ef he Rubber and Allied Industries
is 10 be held at the Royal Agricultural
Hall, London, in June Of next year.
india, China, Egypt, South Americi
and the West Indies all produce cot
! ton, but the United States is still re
spoons Bile for bore than half the
] worlds crop.
, Ffom the earliest times fax has fui
: nished the raw material from which
linen is made. Linen mummy clothe.
: bear witness tor it's having been USED
in ancient Egypt
II is an almost universal custCn
o in Japan for workers, including gov
: eminent as well as private employees
u to receive a bonus of several months
r salary at New Year.
y A conference has been called t
{ NEE at Washington. d. c.. for the
purpose of organizing all the engineer
!. ing associa ions and societies in the
> United States into enc representative
. engineering body
! BILLIARD balls of hard rubber are now
, being used ms cad of the more exper
, sve ivory spheres. An infinite nun
s her of tests have proved them no, OF
3 ~ much livelier but also much mort
durable than the old-style composition
! lbulla
S In Egyp1 the peasantry are now pre-
r hibited under heavy penalties from
) gro wing cotton in the place of cereals
: Tho high pr ces Of cotton have led t
/ the reduction of cereal crops to sucl
a degree that the food supply is il
danger
One Of the finest natural dyes
gorgeous purple color-.s obtained
n from a shelfish found on the Pacifi,
coas CT Costa RIGA. 1t is uset
! chiefly for dyeing silk thread TIL,
4 natives take the thread to the shor,
whore the sheolfish abound and dy,
It here
The Canadian Department of Nava
4 Service has undertaken to use a mum
Der of the small fast submarine pa
trolls built during the war as hshnl
scouts during the mackeral and her
ring seasons this year Experiment,
are also under way with a view t.
utilizing aeroplanes for the same pu
posi-.
1 Asbestos is the queerest mineral il
the world, and is rapidly becoming
one Of the most important. It is i'm
4 nhrNinns To the fiercn4L hent and on