The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11

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Santvoord's party.-TrOy Telegram.
THE board of civil authority held its
last meeting before election Saturday.
| Thirty-one additions were made to the
check list, % of which were from the
| Soldiers Home. Five took the fTeoman's
oath.
AT the card party given by Mr.. and
Mrs. E. E. Hart, last Friday evening,
nine tables were provided. The first
prize for men went to w. G. Hitchcock,
and the first prize for ladies was given
to his wife.
FREAR's annual catalogue of fall and
winter cloaks, boys suits, ETC., has ap-
peared and is handy thing to have in
the house for reference-mailed free
upon receipt of three cents in stamps to
pay postage.
JOHN II. WARREN and wife are in
Poultney to-day attending the funeral of
Mrs. Warren's brother, Mr.. George Kins-
man. Mrs. Warren went up few days
ago but arrived too late to see her
brother alive.
GEO. E. HATHAWAY of Bennington,
and Miss Minnie Christopher of Water
ford, N. Y, were married in Bennington
on Friday evening, October 14th. Mr..
Hathaway has charge of the main room
in the Aldine mill.
AN alarm of fire last evening called
out the fire department quickly, but
their services were not needed. The fire
started in the picker-room of the Valen-
tine mill but was quickly e1tinguished
with small damage.
GEO. H. BURCH, train dispatcher,
took the election returns in Library Hall
last Tuesday evening. A large crowd
were out and the hall was packed to hear
the reports, which, from the outset, were
favorable to Cleveland.
AT the chrysanthemum show given in
the Madison Square Garden in New
York last week, one of the largest col
lections was that of j. B. Colgate of
Yonkers, whose son spends his summers
here at the Tibbits place, Ben Veu
CARDS are out for the marriage of VIM.
L. Hawks, Jr., and Miss Jessie L.,
daughter of VIM. II. Blanchard. The
ceremony will take place at the residence
of the brides parents Wednesday after
noon, Nov. 10Th, al three o'clock. Con-
CALCULATIONS.
The Fortnightly Club will hold its
-''lar meetin~ on SATURDAY. of this
next reA~;~- o., .,
week. The programme is in charge Of
the Committee on Social Science, Mrs.
j. NJ. Burt, chairman, Miss Julia White
and Mrs. FL. l.. Hover, assistants. There
will be papers and debates upon the
Race Question and Immigration.
NEWS was received here the latter
part of last week of the accidental death
near Orange, Mass, of Mary Dunn, a
fnrp, raciHant of fhia uillana In
pany with few others she had been at a
party, and on their return home the car
riage was struck by the locomotive of
passenger train. She was badly injured
and lived only short time.
THIs trick is being played in the West.
A man appears in town on a tirst-class
bicycle and claiming to be hard up sells
the machine at very low price and dis
appears. Then another comes along and
the bicycle as one that was
stolen from him, giving full description,
proving property, and departs with it.
The third act closes when the two sharp
ers meet and divide the swag.
THE VALLEY Neps of North Adams,
Mass, says: edward Rand, seventeen
years old a son of Fernand Rand, and
Mary Fletcher, sixteen years old, who
WeIo pupllS III CuO grammar SCuOOl az
Drury academy, went to Hoosick Falls,
RED They kept it uiet until yesterday
when the young bridegroom notified his
teacher that he would not return to
school and the facts became known"
LAST week, Z. II. Mcintyre, who deals
in teas and coffees, engaged a young
man to travel with horse and wagon to
sell goods. The young man had refer
euces which were considered good.
Tuesday he started on his trip. Moth
ing was heard from him until Friday
noon, when Mr.. Mcintyre received let
ter from Cambridge, saying that the
rig was there and that he could get it 10y
going fol it. He did so and on reach
ing there found that about $50 worth of
goods were gone. The whereabouts of
the young IN IN are not known as yet
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
has recently issued an order to the post
of free delivery cities which
means great Increase lii tile conven-
lence Of the postal service to the citizens.
1t is for nothing less than the putting up
of house letter boxes, for the collection
as well as the delivery of mail, whenever
two thirds of the householders on a
given route request such double service
These letter boxes have been already
tested in st. Louis and Washington, and
the care taken by the postmaster-general
to get exactly the right kind of box is
shown by the fact that che boxes chosen
were selected from 1000 different
models. A little disk in full view indi-
Gates when there is mail in the box to be
collected, and the st. Louis officials state
that the experiment has induced larger
use of the mails.
THERE has just been issued from the
BANNER job rooms the Proceedings of
the Third Convention of the State Fire
mans Association, held at Middlebury,
July 9th and 2Sth, last. 1t makes a
pamphlet of 4S pages, and is illustrated
by half-tone engravings of the President,
Secretary, Treasurer, the chief engineers
of Burlington, st. Adams, Rutland,
Middlebury, Fair Haven, and the Chief
and Assistants of the Bennington depart
ment. 1t is altogether creditable pro-
duction and is quite complimentary to
the literary skill of E. d. Moore, the
efficient secretary. An edition of 500
was printed. The BANNER office is
specially equipped for this class of work,
and has been cOmplimented upon the
excellence of its taste in that cur style is
copied from one end Of the land to the
other.
THE County court dockets for the De-
cember term are out. The presiding
judge will be the Hon. Henry r. Start
and the court house will be in charge of
the new Sheriff Henry S. Wilson of
Arlington. The civil calendar contains