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Manchester Centre.

Regular meeting of the w. G. T. U.
with Mrs. j. G. Blackmer, October goth,
at 8 p. m.
Col. Colburn has returned from the
North Woods somewhat improved in
health. He and w. H. Bradford of Ben
nington, had fine sport hunting, killing
five deer in one day,
Mrs. E. L. Wyman, Mrs. Geo. O.
Woodcock, Mrs. j. g. Flanders and Miss
Mary Parsons are this week in Burling-
ton, attending the annual meeting of the
Vermont Branch af the Womens Auxil-
larry from Zion church in this village.
All those who are interested in the
Rev. and Mrs. Shoemaker, formerly of
this place, will be glad to learn that they
are, and have been for year and more
past, residents of Mound City in South
ern Illinois, where Mr.. Shoemaker is
rector of a church.
The old factory in this village has
sheltered as many different industries
under its roof as almost any other one
building almost ever did. At different
times it has been knitting mill, a weav-
ing mill, a shingle mill, stable, black
smith shop, store house, and it has
this season been fitted up as lodging
and tenement houses for two separate
gangs of Italians, who are engaged ON
the water works system.
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Henry Cutler has moved from Dover
here, into one of F. A. Gleason's houses.
IF. Smith and Geo. w. Bickford
spent three days in Cambridge, N. Y.
Miss Clarie Gleason has just returned
from weeks visit to her brother in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
The work on VIM. Bowles' new barn
is being pushed rapidly forward.
Miss Blanche Thrasher of North
Adams, Mass, has visited her uncles,
Chas. and Albert Wood, the past week.
Mrs. A. E. Fuller of Mortified, Mimi,
sister of Mrs. l. F. Smith, is very sick
and not expected to live.
Mr.. Hurd of Hoosck Falls, N. Y, is
in town, experimenting the work of
getting the boiler of his steam mill into
the woods. 1t is being taken some three
miles back from the turnpike. Five
pairs of oxen are engaged in doing the
work.
Mrs. James Dinwiddie and four child.
rem from Nebraska, arrived here Tues,
day. Mrs. Dinwiddie is a daughter OF
Elmer Gleason. Mr. Dinwiddie will be
here with his stock and goods in a few
weeks. They will make Woodford theil
home.
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Stamford.

Mr.. Frame, who has bought the Daniels
farm, is in town seeing to the repairing
of his future home.
Mrs. Houghton, who has been visiting
her daughter in Boston, and Miss Foster,
who has been visiting friends in Albany,
are home gain.
Sunday last services were held in the
basement of the NJ. Z. church. Next
Sunday it is expected that services will
be held in the improved and beautiful
audience room.
The Epworth League held praise and
promice service in the Methodist church
Sunday evening and the pastor gave an
address on THE influence of our young
people in the church of to-day"
Mr.. and Mrs. Fuller, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clough, Mr.. and Mrs. Landry, Mrs. NJ.
Sanford, Miss Hall and Mrs. Whitney at,
tended the Epworth League convention
in Pittsfeld last Friday. They thorough.
ly enjoyed the day.
A Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
circle has been started in Stamford, AT
present there are four members, viz: Mrs.
Wilmarth, Miss Houghton, Miss Hall and
Rev. John Landry. The members will
be glad to welcome any others who may
wish to join.
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East Dorset.

Mrs. j. NJ. Beebe is in quite poor health.
Repairs are being made on the Wilson
House.
The ladies of the Congregational
church have been very busy sewing the
carpet and cushions for the church.
Little Clifford Coping was thrown from
wagon recently and the wheels passed
over him, but fortunately he was not Sc
riously hurt.
A quiet wedding took place in our
village Thursday evening, the contract
ing parties being Gilman Wilson and
Miss Emily Griffith. None but the i'm
mediate relatives were invited.
Two boys, being in the right mood,
entered John Hooters grocery store
Saturday night and made great deal of
noise. He put them out of doors and
one of them not relishing the treatment
threw stone, hitting Mr.. Hector, max
ing painful wound.
Burglars entered the store of H. A.
Brophy by breaking a window one night
last week. They took quite number of
small articles and carried off the money
drawer containing Mr.. Brophy's bank
book and insurance papers, but found
only few pennies in money.
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North PoMnaI.

Mrs. Lizzie White, formerly Miss
Lizzie Wells, is threatened with typhoid
fever.
At a o'clock Monday morning the
house known as the Anthony Blanchard
house was burned down.
The Hon. Orrin Chamberlin of Pitts
field, Mass, paid his annual visit to his
old home in our village last week.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Ryan October Il. He tipped the
scales at at little over ten pounds.
Hens are fast disappearing on River
street. Some families, it is thought by
the sufferers, will soon be Growing owing
to constant rooster diet.
Sunday afternoon or evening, while
Joseph Tatro was away from home his
house was burglarized. Forty dollars in
gold, watch chain and razor are miss
ing. From all appearances it was some
one who was familiar with the premises.
Congregational church services are as
follows: Morning service, 10:45, Rev. E.
L. Arnold pastor; Immediately after
morning service, Sunday school; Sunday
evening at O'Clock, prayer meeting in
the vestry of the church; Wednesday
evening,at 7 o'clock. Christian Endeavor
in the vestry of the church.
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OUR MONTPELIER LETTERS.
Concluded from page Five.

in and near Barre, cutting and polishing
granite. These vary all the way from the
poor and needy one-horse concerns, to
that of corporations employing hun
dreds. Some 5000 men find employment
as a rule, but the past two years have
been very hard for any and all connected
with cemetery work, as it comes under
the head of luxury, and is COTTON along
without, while the actual necessities of
life must be had. The granite is quarried
some three miles from Barre, reached by
railroad rising 1000 feet from the vii.
lage and uses engines adapted to noun
tain grades and curves. The engine first
pushes the car, then pulls the same, and
one hardly knows where he will bring
up. The quarries are simply openings in
the granite which crops out everywhere,
and are not deep like marble. The top
layers are full of sap not unlike wood,
and if used for monumental work, will
soon rust.
We are sorry to admit while there is
cheat in all trades but ours, this cheap
sap" granite finds its way into many q
job and the cheapest monument is by no
means the best. Better pay your granite
producer a fair profit and receive "a
bllluS VI DCdulJ duNl Joy IOlCNOls ONilbi
wise you may have an eye-sOre for all
coming generations. Granite costs in
the rough IS cents to $3.50 per cubic foot
at the quarry, as to size and quality, the
large pieces costing more per foot than
the smaller, the stock being of same
quality. 1t is cut and polished by the
surface foot. Here again comes the quail
ity, as to dressing the surface. 1t Is
L. l,aY In vi
bands of steel about one-siXteenth in
Ches in thickness by three long, or less,
these banded together within the space
of one inch, and vary from six to twelve
cut as it is called going by two's 6S-l0-12.
For each surface foot cut on a basis of
six cut, the workmen receive twenty
cents, thus six cut say sixty cents, eight
cut eighty cents and so on up, the finer
the dressing, the more costly the work.
This to the novice may mean little, to
the producer who looks at it from a fl
nancial standpoint, twenty cents per sur
face foot. Then again polishing at an
even dollar per foot, represents quite a
cost as can be readily ascertained by run
ming up the feet. This refers to the
which Immediately adds to increase in
COSb VI pIOuuCJlOl, NulCu Cdu Only 10
ascertained after careful figuring.
Machines have been patented to cut
the work, and have materially lessened
cost. A pneumatic tool now in use will
do the work several men and reduce cost
to that degree, but with this comes in,
creased mouldings and work, conse.
quently little reduction in the whole.
Undoubtedly the business is yet in its
infancy and one cannot predict as to fl
nal results, suffice it to say any of your
readers who purchase cemetery work,
furnished by an honorable party and who
are willing to pay fair price for an A i
job are reasonably certain to receive in
return the worth of his money, at least
this has been the life long experience of
II. Il. EATON.
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Very Valuable and Free to All.

If you have not already accepted this
great free offer, dom lose another minute.
1t tells you how to be well and strong.
The most successful living specialist in
curing nervous and chronic diseases, is
Dr. Greene, of "a Temple Place, Boston,
Mass, who makes the following gener-
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plant, tell him just how you feel, and he
will answer your letter, describing your
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And think of it, all this costs you no.
thing. He makes a speciality of treating
patients through letter correspondence
and is having wonderful success. He is
the discoverer of that world-renowned
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thus saving the time and expense of a
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by other and less skillful physicians.
Write him at once, and the probabilities
are you will be made well and strong.
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CaStIeton.

Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. st John and son are
on carriage drive this week to Shafs-
bury and North Bennington.
Miss Amy Brown, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
has been visiting a few days at c. A..
Lincoln's.
Miss Appleton, teacher in the girls
school in Hawaii, gave three very inter
esting and instructive lectures on the
manners and customs of the people there
as we'll as of the school, at Normal Hall
last week, which were highly appreciated
by the pupils and others. Although
they are far behind other countries in ed
ucation they have horse cars, electric
lights and other modern appliances.
Such lectures interest the student in the
study of country far more than all the
text books could.
A severe thunder storm visited this
place yesterday and hail stones as large
as walnuts fell in large quantities.
There are no walnuts to be found in
this vicinity this year, the late frosts and
the drouth being the direct cause of the
failure.
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PownaI Centre.

Our town representative Arthur Mer-
chant spent the Sabbath at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thompson were
presented with fine boy last week.
William Harrington has moved into
the old Klmball house which has been
unOccupied for some time.
Work was begun last Monday on the
frame for the new addition to Mrs. Ellen
Towslee's house.
Fulton Sweet has been looking about
in this place for tenement intending to
move here from North Adams.
Rev NJ. V. Brown of this place has
commenced series of sermons on the
''Signs of the Times" showing by the
fifth chapter of James and other texts of
scripture that we have approached a
period in the history of the world where
the student of prophecy can clearly see
and discern the times in which we live
to be near the close of the Gentle times.
Do come and hear these sermons, for
prophecy is like light shining in dark
place by which we do we'll to take heed.
Preaching every Sabbath at the Union
church at IL O'Clock a. m.
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FOR ONLY
North BENNINGTON.

Patrick Marley has moved on to the
Vermont mills grounds.
Miss Ida Bruffee is visiting her brother
Charles, at Turner's Falls, Mass.
Arthur Bassett occupies one of the
tenements on the Stone mill premises.
Mrs. NJ. c. Holt has been spending a
week in Albany, n. Y, with Mr.. and
Mrs. o. B, Holt.
The number of school pupils, which
regularly Tighten the morning train from
the north, suggests a Sunday school ex-
cursion, as they leave the depot for the
school building, having taken the cars at
Shaftsbray or Arlington.
George Atwood, who has been having a
severe run of typhoid fever at Saxton's
River, where he is at school, we are glad
to hear, is convaescing. His mother,
who has been from the first at his bed
side, has not yet returned.
Mrs. George James of Walloomsac,
N. Y, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary
Jane Colvin. Their aged mother Mrs.
Cox, who is an invalid, is of late in a
quite comfortable situation.
Richard Morrissey of Hoosick, N. Y,
has lately found relic of Bennington
Battle memory, in the unearthing of a
cannon ball on the battlefield while
ploughing. He is nephew of Michael
Keefe of SALISBURY, who first pulled
out the stumps and ploughed over the
same ground. The ball is about two aud
one half inches in diameter.
At the suggestion of the International
Sunday School Union, that next Sunday
be day of special interest and united
prayer in all Sunday school work, the
day will be appropriately recognized,
both at the morning service and at the
Sunday school hour, at the congregation
al church. Members of the home de-
partment and all former members, are
particularly invited to attend.
The unsightly steam engine, which has
been standing in front of the Ii. 7. Cush-
man Mfg. Co.'S. mill, and which has been
indispensable for keeping up the power
during the drouth of the past season,
has been removed, and is being put to
use in its legitimate business of thresh-
ing and saving of wood. 1t has been
the means of frightening many horses,
though no serious difficulty or accident
has resulted from it.
We understand that our fellow citizen,
Lieut.. II. T. Cushman, was made one of
the Vice Presidents of the Vermont Of
ficers' Association, at the late annual re-
union at Montpelier No better, and no
more deserved, appointment for services
rendered in the time of our Nations per-
il, could have been made, and no one
would receive the compliment with
greater modesty or with larger appre-
citation OF this mark of respect.
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Herbert Bourn is thinking of building
cottage in this village.
Mrs. j. A. Woods and Miss Woods are
spending few weeks in Manchester.
Mrs. Mixer of Buffalo and Mrs. Hurry
of Albany are guests of Mrs. Judge Bur
ton.
Mrs. W. B. Simonds of Peru has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Will. Bur
roughs.
Miss Fowler gave an interesting talk
on her tour in Egypt, at the Tuesday
evening prayer meeting.
Rev. w. j. Chapman is making his
Manchester friends a brief visit. He is
now stationed at Shelburne.
The top of Equinox mountain was COW
cred with show Monday morning re-
minder that winter is not very far away.
George L. Woodcock is making good
progress on his new house on North
street. II. A. Lawrence has charge of
the work.
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becomes rich and pure, sending renewed
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Physicians have always been in the
habit of prescribing poisons for this dis
ease, and the harm done by them is in
calcuable Such poisonous drugs do not
in the least build up and strengthen the
system, they only impOverish the blood,
weaken still more the already exhausted
nerves, and make the patient worse than
before taking them. Common sense will
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Thousands of unhappy sufferers all
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these remedies yourself and get well. For
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take them. His Office is at "a Temple
Place, Boston, Mass, where he consults
with all, free of charge.
Another great blessing to these patients
is the DOCTORS system of letter CORE
spondence This enables men all over
the United States, suffering from this
disease, to consult him without leaving
their homes, and absolutely free of
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the necessary medicines.
This system of treatment through let
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Rupert.
This offer is open only until Nov. 18th.

The Rev. Mr.. Campbell exchanged
with the Rev. Thomas Watson of Pawlet,
last Sunday.
Timothy Flower, lifelong and re-
spected resident of this place, died Octo-
Der 9Th, at the residence of his sister,
Mrs. W. Kline, aged SO years.
Miss Cora Guild has gone to New Mex
leo to spend the winter. Miss Guild has
become business woman of Mechanic
vile. She is one of the capitalists in
"The Best Brick Company" recently Or
ganized there. OF the new block which
she is building, the Mechanicville Mer-
curry says: 1.-The galvanized iron front
of the Guild Block on Park avenue, has
been painted to represent bluestone and
brOwnstOne, with iron columns, and is
highly attractive. Metal ceilings will be
placed in each of the three stores. The
interior of the block will now be rapidly
pushed to completion.
Prof. George w. Kennedy and wife,
nee Luella Fonda, left this week for Col
orado. Prof. Kennedy resigned his pos
ition as principal of the Fairhaven
graded school, owing to his wife's ill
health, to take her where she will have a
change of climate. The Fairhaven Rec
ord in mentioning his resignation, says:
professor Kennedy has been the most
successful principal that ever had charge
of our graded school. He has striven
! hard to bring the school up to a higher
standard and has been successful in an
eminent degree. The entire corps of
teachers, thirteen in number, and in fact
the whole school, regret exceedingly the
necessity for the Professors withdrawal
from the charge of the school.
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Sunderland.


There was a meeting at the Union
church Tuesday evening, to elect a pull
pit committee.
The wind of last Wednesday demol-
ished Wilcox's mill, which was, evident
ly, but temporary structure.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Madison of Shafts
bury, visited over Sunday with Mrs.
Mattison's cousin, Mrs. A. r. Stilson.
Mrs. Laura Hill, who has been visit
ing in South Dakota and Racine, Wis,
since April, returned home last week.
Mrs. Lewis Hill and Mrs. Carrie Bots
ford recently took a carriage drive lover
the mountain" Mrs. Hill visiting rela.
tives in Bondville, and Mrs. Botsford
with friends in Jamaica.
Apples, which were quite plenty in
this vicinity, have been nearly all bought
up by parties in Manchester.
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St. Johns church is closed for the sea-.
son. Services will be held at Mrs. E. B.
Burton's cottage next Sunday at $50 p.
m. Rev. j. G. Flanders officiating.
A force of Italians commenced on the
ditch for the water pipes, in the village,
Monday morning. With good weather
they will not be many days in complet-
ing the work in the village.
The name of the new street running
north from Seminary avenue has been
changed from Poplar street to Franklin
avenue, the sidewalk is being laid and
the road is being worked.
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Case of United States VS.. Ed. Potter is
said to have been nolle pressed.
Miss Florence Reynoldsis on the gain
and we hope will soon be among us
again.
Solomon Wright has been painting his
buildings on the factory ground, Richard
Evans doing the work.
George w. Houghtalingihas returned
from Boston where he saw many of his
old shipmates of the war.
Archie Lincoln was in town this week.
He is lately from the New York hospital
where he has been undergoing treatment.
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WoOdfOFd,
Mrs. Herman Bnghee is d

Mrs. Herman Bugbee is quite sick.
Mrs. r. d. Cutler visited her daughter
in Dover this week
A. G. Brooks of New York, spent
Monday in town.
Miss Anna Park of Bennington, is the
guest of her cousin, Fannie, for few
days.
Chas M. Bliss is here for two weeks,
on business and pleasure.
Fred Newell visited in North Benning-
ton and SALISBURY last week.
Representative Bowles reports an en-
joyable time at the Legislature.
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IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
Bennington Centre.

Geo. B. Wellington and family left on
Wednesday of this week for their home
IN Troy, N. Y.
William Frear of Troy, N. Y, and
Phillips Blagden of Billtown, Mass, Wis
tied this week at Mrs. Geo. W. Robin
sons.
John Wool Griswold, with his charac-
teristic generosity, is travelling the
highway leading by his premises on low
er Monument avenue, at his own ex-
pense.
Those of us who prophesied that the
village water would be extended ION to
the hill" now prophesy that in the near
future the electric cars will run up to the
Monument, and there is now discovered
ripple upon the peaceful waters, for
some fear the cars will run through Mon
ument avenue, thereby distiguring one
of the handsomest streets in New Eng
land. We shall ask to be heard upon
this matter later on.
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GUARDIAN NOTICE TO SELL REAL
ESTATE.

l.
District of Bennington, IS. held at Probate OF
fee in Bennington, within and for said district on
the 18th day of Oct, A. d. 1884,
Present, Hon, John V. Carney, Judge.
Mary E. Moore, guardian of Louis f. Moore
and Mabal W Moore makes application to said
court for license to sell the interest of said minors
in the following described real estate to wit: A
certain piece of land with buildings thereon stand
ing, situate in the village Of Bennington, and
bounded as follows, viz On the south by Gage
street. on the we st by lands of Edwin d. Moore
on the north by lands of May Chrystal, ct. all
and on the east by lands OF George Townsend
representing that the sale thereof for the pur
pose Of putting tho proceeds of such sale at in
terest or investing the same in stocks real es-
tate would be beneficial to said wards;
Whereupon it is ordered by said court that said
application be referred to a session thereof to oe
held at the Probate Office in Bennington in said
District on the Sd day Of Nov. A. D., 1884, fol
hearing and decision thereon; and, 1t is further
ordered, that all persons interested be notified
hereof. by publication ofnotice OF said applica
ton and order thereon hree weeks successfully
in the BENIN ton BANNER, newspaper pub
ished at Bennington, and which circulates In
he neighborhood of those Interested before
SAID time Of hearing, that they may appear at sait
time and place, and, il they see cause, objec
thereto.
BY the Court, Attest,
20 JOHN V. CARNEY. Judge