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now, and hopes to be out again soon
This has delayed Mr.. and Mrs. Roots de-
parture for California.
THERE will be foot ball game here
tomorrow between the Y. NJ. c. AS
and the HoOsick Falls High School
eleven, at $50 p. IN. The game advertised
| for Poultney tomorrow is declared off.
MISS MARY II. LOOMS went to Boston
Mass, Wednesday morning, where she
will take vocal lessons in music. She
has fine voice and sings well now. He1
friends anticipate much success for her.
'THE Engineer" new comedy drama
was played last night The plot of the
play is laid in Missouri and it is hrimtul
of interesting anecdotes cleverly told,
realistic scenes and fine comedy.-N. Y.
Recorder.
AN exchange gets off the following
tale of Three Cities:
A ward.room boss. popping cork
Vote as you're trested-that's New York.
A little pull with some big gum
No vote, no treat-that's Washington.
A monocle. Browning Club,
Mugwump discussions-that's the Hub.
THE Vermont Society of Colonial Wars
was organized at Montpelier Tuesday.
Its charter members are composed of
those prominent in the'Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution, and Col. E. A. Chitten-
den is the Deputy Governor General for
Vermont.
THERE was large attendance at the
chowder and dance of Walloomsac Lodge,
n. E. o. P, Tuesday evening. Twenty
one members of Company X, Vermont
National Guard, were present, under COM
mand of Capt. Fillmore and had a com
petitive drill for silver.plated navy re-
Volver 1t was won by Corporal D. P.
Hurlburt. The judges were Major Evans,
Lleuts. Davis and Burnham.
The many friends of Frederick God
frey, one of our most competent officers
and collector of taxes, are congratula-
ting him upon his marriage, which o.
CURED the 10th, inst, as per another no.
tlce. Mr.. Godfrey and wife reached
here Monday, after a short wedding
trip, and will board during the winter.
Mrs. GOdfrey's people live in Cornwall,
this State, and she receives the congrat-
ulatiOns of large circle of friends in
that town. She will be welcomed to So
ciety here.
THE December term of the County
Court cOnvenes.here the 18th, inst JUS
tice Rowell will preside with A. E. Bur-
ton and Myron Woodward as associate
judges Other officers of the Court are
clerk, Harry T. Cushman; sheriff, Henry
S. Wilson: States atUorney,E. L. Bates
court reporter Chas. S. Chase. For the
first time in years there are no really
prominent cases to come up before the
court. Considerable speculation is be-
ing INDUCED in as to who will be- ap.
pointed deputy sheriffs. The general ex.
preston being that there will be no
change in the present staff.
THROUGH the advertisement in our
columns, recently, for a relic of the Rev.
olutiOn, the knowledge is revived that
Clark Stone of Salisbury, had an an
cestor in the Battle of Bennington, and
that a gun in the hands of Job Leonard,
killing "A Hessian, is preserved in the
Stone family. Col. Job Leonard, a
great grandfather of the writer, was the
officer who sliced this gun from the
hands of its MORALLY wounded owner,
and shot the Hessian, probably saving
the life of General Stark. Leonard was
capital shot, and brought off the field
the Queens Arm" carried by the Hes.
sian. 1t remained in the family many
years, but was finally lost.
RAILROAD people claim that both in
coming and outgoing freIghts are unusu-
ally large for this time of the year. Dur
ing the four days ending Thursday, sixty.
one car loads of freight for this village
were received at the freight depot here.
During the same time Ghlrty-two loaded
cars were sent out. The average num-
Der of cases shipped from the various
mills in that time has been eight from
each one. All the mills are working on
full time except one, and carpenters
enough cannot be found to do the work
needed. Thus far this season over ), 200
barrels of apples have been shipped from
this station by freight
AGAIN have the citizens of Bennington
demonstrated that home talent, and a
popular cause, calls forth their hearty CO.
operation. With but one or two excep.
tons since the opening of the Opera
House, has larger audience assembled
than was present to listen to the musical
drama of Esther" To the ladies and
gentlemen who sang in sOlo and chorus,
to all the children who participated, to
the pianist, and cornet player, to DR.. c.
O.. Payne, who So faithfully managed
the rehearsals and made possible the
evenings pleasure, to the entertainment
committee who assumed the RESPONSE,
bilities, and assisted in the numerous de-
tails. to the press for their courtesies,
an5 IN oil who pOntrihutaH Of thair