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morrow at 4.30 p. m. It is open to all.
JUDsoN KELLOGG a d family, who
have been spending the Nlmmer at the
Centre, have returned to heir home in
Troy, N V
THE regular Royal Arch Chapter con-
vocation will be held in Masonic hall,
next Monday evening, and AS there will
be work in the degrees good attend
ance is assured.
CONDUCTOR WICKHAM is taking his
leave of absence, during which
time Conductor Morrissey is running his
train. George Green has charge of the
early morning freight out of here.
S. NJ. BowLEs of Woodford is one of
the committee on joint rules on the part
of the House of Representatives of the
| present Legislature. He is our regular
correspondent at Montpelier, during the
session of the Legislature.
THE Lebanon Springs railroad took
out of Bennington, Wednesday, 100 pas
sengers for the Wilmington fair. This
excursion was handy way of getting to
that noted town and at cheap rate.
AT the Rutland County fair in Rut.
land, Tuesday, the half-mile bicycle race
was won by H. D. Madison of North
Bennington. Time, lis. Madison also
won the two mile race. Time 5:54.
j. WESLEY WooD. teacher in Troy,
N. Y, and Prof. D. H. Snyder of Hoo
sick Falls, who were in attendance at the
teachers convention in Hoosick Falls,
drove to this village, Wednesday evening,
and called on friends.
MAJ. JOHN B. FAssETr Of New York
City, who has occupied John II. Ba-
hans cottage during the summer, leaves
for home to-day. He is so we'll pleased
with the town that he will return to Ben
nington next season.
ERNEST SWIFT of Bennington Centre
left yesterday for Asheville, N. c., where
he has been at intervals for some time
for the benefit of his health. He is &C
companied by his mother and his sister,
Mrs. Waldo Sibley.
GROVE street takes to itself the idea,
that in one respect, at least, it is the ban
ner street in the village. Since April LIST
there have been ten babies born on that
short street, and the residents of it, are
proud of the fact.
S. B. HAWKS leaves this afternoon for
Monroe, La, on trip connected with
improvements which are to be made to
the water and electric light company, in
that place, of which he is secretary. tie
will be gone about six weeks. On his
return Mr.. Hawks will meet his wife at
Chicago. She has been in Illinois sew
eral weeks.
APPLES and potatoes appear to be
plenty enough this year, and load after
load are daily seen in the village. The
fOrrno % 81 a
barrel, for the best hand picked, and the
latter at so cents a bushel. All the cider
mills in town are rushed to their full ca
pacity.
AMONG the bills which will be intro
duced of special interest to the people of
Bennington will be one enabling the vii.
lage to pay for the sewer put in last year
by raising the money wholly on the
grand list, and one asking for a charter
for an electric railroad or amending ex-
listing statutes so that electric roads will
have the same rights as steam roads.
THE superintendent of the mill of
North Adams Manufacturing Company,
Wednesday, sent for a committee of
striking employees and tried to persuade
them to return to work, trusting to the
company to restore the ten per cent. re-
duction as soon as the condition of trade
will permit, but the committee replied
that the help would not return unless the
ten per cent. is restored at once. The
strikers say it is impossible to earn a
living at the present scale of wages, so it
is useless for them to go to work.
The plans of the new building on Main
street "a part of which is the Hawks
homestead), call for very ornamental
front. The large building is of wood,
three stories in height and the two up
per floors will be made into a double
boarding house of twenty rooms each.
There is to be spacious entrance and
hall, large dining room, parlors in
front, baths, etc, all in first class style.
Some such building has been needed for
several years, and no doubt will be occu-
pied as soon as completed. 1t is a pity
the materials are not brick.
THE new musical comedy, "The Gil
hoolyS Abroad, will be the attraction at
the Opera House tomorrow evening.
The company is headed by those popular
and clever producers, The Germans,
John. James and George, of minstrel
fame. The company is strong one,
made up of pretty girls, good singers and
comedians. The comedy is original
clean, and said to be very funny. Num-
erous odd and quaint specialties will be
introduced, also many mechanical effects
invented especially for this production
All our theatre goers who enjoy laugh
should not fail TO see 'The Gilhoolys
Abroad"
WHILE chatting with a well known
business man of Main street, the other
day, he called the attention of the BAN
NER man to the absence of the popcorn
and 'Frankfort' wagon from the corner,
and told the following story: One night
when he had some work to do at his of
flee in which the Office boy was also en-
gagged, he told the youngster to $50
down to the postofice and get me sand
wich." The Office boy always obeys Or
ders, but lately, probably on account of
early love, has grown somewhat eccen-
trio. When he failed to return in half
hour his employer put on his coat and
went after him. He found him in the
corridor of the postoffice trying to get in
the money order department. "What in
the world are you trying to doP' asked
the astOnished man. "Trying to find
out where they sell sandwiches in this
building" said the boy.
A BRILLIANT social event occurred at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Elon Per-
cey on Hoosick street, Hoosick Falls, N.
T., at II o'clock Wednesday morning,
when Miss Blanche, their daughter, was
united in marriage to Victor Maxon AL
of fin I,,l1 srI,s e