The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-18
PRETTY PICTURE
PRESENTED BY BIC.
CARNIVAL BALL
No Such Gathering Seen Here
in Many Years
PROGRAM ENDING TODAY
Concluding Events in Sport Con-
tests and Street Parade
This Evening

The arctic brand of weather that ar
rived in Bennington win the opening
OF the winter carnival failed to inter.
ere with one of the leading fatures.
the costume ball held Friday evening
at high school hall Perhaps those
Y;lo had been hugging the stoves and
steam radiators while the more cour.
ageous individuals had been gather.
Ing at the rink and the ski and tobog-
gan $ ides had reached the conclus-
ion that they we're not going to be
left out OF TIE carnival. At any rate
no better representative gathering
has been seen al social entertain.
ment in Benn .ngton IN many moons.
The ball was an exceptionally pret-
ty affair. There vas so much varie.
~ in the costumes that the whrling
throug presented a Kaleidoscope of
color and shade tAat was almost be-
wiIdering There were all kinds OF
charncterizations. swarthy bucca.
neers from off the Spanish Main,
II gh anders from the heather-clad
hills OF Scot and. Cinnamon with pig
tails and mandarins without. Dutch
girls. Italian girls and some who
would have looked the part In Cav
Paree The clowns were on hand
with polka dotted and yoluminous
garments and there were numerous
fancy costumes right from mothers
and sisters sewing machine which
compared well with the more pretent.
ious creations Of the professional cos
tuner.
The music By Murphy's orchestra
was all that could have been desired
and the fact that the musicians ap.
peared in costume added not a little
to the picture.
! The following awards we're made
by the committees. Most artistic
costumes, Mrs. c L. Holden and Ned
uealy; most original costumes. Mrs.
Walton Harwood and Mr. Harwood
prize fox trot. Miss Olga Kelson and
G Spencer Lee and Miss Marion
! Phil ips and William Scott best ap.
pearing couples, Mrs D. A. Sargent
and Mrs. Lee Warner and Mr.. and
Mrs Robert Dodge
The judges we're as follows: Cos.
tunes, Mrs. Irving c. Cobb, John J.
Hayes and Willard H. Lighthall; best
appearing couple, Mrs. Cobb and
Messrs. Hayes and Lghthall; dane.
Ing, Mrs Cobb j. Guy Livingston and
James McCue. The awards were an.
nounced by Or. H. H. Ross, general
chairman for the carnival.
II needs cold weather for winter
sports on the snow and ice. but many
remarks have been heard to the of.
feet t.at the supplications Of inter.
ested parties TO the weather powers
Inust have been oyerdone. In spite
Of weather. as hard to withstand as
any this winter. yesterday ter
noon shjumping was we'll attended
by both spectators and entrants. The
snow condition was faster than 1t
had been the day before and the
boys made much longer jumps. Wood.
hull Hall proved best OF all the
school boys and made several jumps
Of 50 feet which is as far as the CO.
lege men jumped the day before.
richard Hall made jumps of thirty
feet, Dean Elweil 25 feet. Roger
Thompson 90 feet and one of the
Shanahan boys 20 feet.
Few of the boys have proper fast.
enings on their skis and without the
SIX is securely fastened to the feet q
successful landing is almost impoS
I Sible. This was the cause Of Wood.
hull Halls making bad landing late
in the afternoon and getting the WIND
thoroughly knocked out OF him, he
sustained no serious injury In spite
OF appearances to the contrary this
sport o. ski-iump'ng seems to be as
safe as any of the less spectacular
sports as the percentage of injuries
from engegiug In II is very small and
serious injuries from this sport seem
almost never to occur. This is ex-
planned by the fact that tie landing
lis made on a steep slope
: The trap shoot had to be post
poned because Of the extreme wealth.
er ard takes place this afternoon
The afternoon win he filed with in.
teresting events. The wood chop.
y ng contest. the hockey game and
the finals for school championships
Yesterdays school ski contest .or
.the IL to l5 year old class resulted In
necessity for run off today be.
tween A. l.. Elwell. Roger Thompson
and j. Drohart. This takes place al
! o'clock,
Prizes won by school pupi's viii he
presented this evening at $50 i'm.
mediately following the parade be.
fore TIE coasting begins.