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Miss MAY DAVIS of Rutland is visit
ing friends here.
IT will pay you to read our advertising
columns, each issue.
E.E. VALENTINE is sick at his home
in the Adirondacks.
SMITH, the North street tailor, an
nounces to-day sale of straw hats.
COLLINS GRAVES has been home for a
few days from Brown University.
MEssRs. CAMPBELL and Hitchcock,
with their wives, spent Sunday at Wood
ford.
REGULAR business meeting of the
Kings Daughters at their rooms, Friday
June LIST.
MRS. E. A. ROBINSON of Everett,
Mass, has come to the Centre for the
summer.
WIN. O'DoNNELL has been spending
several days with friends in Mechanic
vile, N. Y.
JOHN W. KEMP enters the bicycle field,
with the ''Swan," as will be seen in an
other place.
ALFRED HARBOUR has been afflicted
with the mumps three weeks, and is now
getting better.
The rains of Wednesday and Thursday
have done mnch good, as the ground was
getting very dry.
Mr.. AND MRS. LYMAN EVANS have
visited friends in HartwellYille and
Stamford, this week.
JARED HOWARD is quite ill with rheu-
matism. The seat of the disease is about
his breast and heart.
DIR. GooDALL's Office hours will be 10
to II a. M, and to p. M, for time
longer. See business column.
THE Sunday evening subject at the
Second Congregational church, will be:
'Lincoln, Davis and Reconstruction"
DIR. F. S. PRATT has been making con-
siderable improvements and additions to
the inside of the homestead, on South
street.
HOLDEN, LEONARD & COMPANY have
resumed work on their new house on
West Main street. About two years ago,
the work on this house was discon-
tinued.
THoMPsoN's steam laundry is adver-
tised in to-day's issue. It's delivery and
collection wagon is familiar figure on
our streets.
Mrs. w. j. KENNEDY and young son,
Keith, of Everett, Mass, are visiting
relatives in town. Mrs. Kennedy is Hi
ram Evans daughter.
A WELL known weather prophet in the
village prophesied, few days ago, that
for the next forty days, three-quarters of
them would be rainy.
THE home of Hiland Fay. just south
of this village, is undergoing great i'm
proponents, and when finished, will be
one of the finest farm houses we know
of.
GEO. B. SEARS will pass his vacation
of two weeks, next month, in Benning-
ton and Woodford. Mrs. Sears will come
up from New York later and will remain
couple of months.
On Wednesday evening, Miss Sanford
of Troy, N. Y, addressed the Young
Woman's Club, giving most interest
ing account of the Club convention.
lately held in Boston.
J. ELMER AYREs is in Albany, N. Y,
this week, training for the Memorial
Day races of the Rome On. ~, Bicycle
Club, and in which he is entered to COM
pete in several of the contests.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont
Eclectic Medical Society will be held in
Montpelier, June 9th and It'll, next.
Among the papers to be read is one by
DR.. ii. j. Potter, on surgery.
Thus far there are three Memorial
Day orators announced for Bennington
county. Seymour Van Sanvoord here,
Ex-Governor John w. Stewart at Airing
ton and Rev. Mr.. Smyth at Manchester.
SEVERAL people have experienced
some falls on our streets by reason of
banana skins thrown upon sidewalks.
Some way should be contrived to stop
this pracUice of throwing down either
banana or orange rinds.
BEGINNING Monday, the 2Sth, the
train for Rutland that now leaves at els
a. M, will leave at 6.05 a. M, and the
morning train for Troy will leave at
7.37 instead of 7.55 as at present, and for
Rutland at 9.05 instead of 9.10 a. m.
MRS. VIM. p. HARDWOOD died in Cam
bridge, N. Y, last Friday aged 65 years.
She was cousin Of W. II. Norton of this
town, and removed from here to Cam
bridge some 25 years ago.
SOME of our manufacturers are receiv-
ing orders for goods that necessitate
their immediate shipment by express,
and cases weighing from $50 to 400
pounds are now being frequently shipped
that way.
CONDUCTOR KORAN, of the Bennlng-
ton and Rutland railroad, has been sick
for several days and his place has been
taken by Conductor Lee. Conductor
Morrissey has been running the latter's
train.
H. Fl. HARMON is suffering from a
fractured collar bone. Last week
Wednesday his horse ran down the Hen
derson hill, near Hinsdillville, throwing
him out and breaking his shoulder, as
stated. DR.. Rogers attends the case.
MRS. PETER VAN ScHAAcK, of Kin
derhook, N. Y, who is ninety-six years
of age, is very sick, and not expected to
recover. She is the grandmother of
Seymour Van Santvoord. Up to within
few days she had all her faculties and
was engaged in reading history for a
Pastime.
THE engagement of DR.. j. W. Racette
and Miss Dorila Amyot is announced.
The marriage will take place in Cohoes,
N. Y, next week, Tuesday. DIR. Racette
will be absent on the wedding trip for
about week. The bride is a sister of
Miss Fl. Y. Amyot, who will attend the
wedding.
TIE body of Mary Madaline, infant
child of Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Grandfleld,
was taken to their home in St. Adams,
Wednesday, and the funeral was held |