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Mrs. II. A. Knights is visiting her
sisters at Athol, Mass. Walter Wood
her brother, accompanied her and will
live there this winter.
Mrs. Harry Harbour and daughter
have visited relatives at Pownal.
George Towne of Hoosick Falls, N.
Y, has visited friends here.
M. S. Knights has good roadster for
colt and calls it 1.-THE Ben Franklin"
VIM, r. Cutler and wife have visited
three days in Dover and Searsburg.
VIM. S. Knapp spent last Sunday at
Wilmington. Mrs. Knapp visited at her
brothers, Jesse BugOee's, three days.
The iron bridge will be ready for traf-
iic i'll a. few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. st. Peters of Berlin, n.
Y, have visited rel ativcs here.
After an illness u two weeks, Clark
Breed Is out again.
Frank Myers says that when he was at
South Salisbury tne other day, he saw
two men lying with their hea squarely
on the railroad track. A train nearby
was rushing along aud Frank pulled the
men away. They were sound asleep and
filed with liquor.
An occasion of special importance will
occur at Woodford City next Monday
forenoon. 1t will be the dedication of
the new sGhOulhOuSe. Speaking and
singing and instrumental music are un
the programme. 1t is eX DeCted that the
Rev. g. X. Seymour of Bennington. will
make the dedicatOry address. The eX-
ercises will open at ten o'clock and close
at noon. 1t is sincerely hoped that there
will be q goOdIy attendance from all
parts OF the town. Any friends from
Bennington, or elsewhere, are cordially
invited TO be present.
Mr., and Mrs. Beck and DR.. States,
guests at the Summit House, enjoy
themselves hugely roaming in the deep
forests. From time to time they have
cuurtcd the thought that to see a black
bear would be Il grand sight. Monday
afternoon they selected the old Pine Val
ley as their wandering place. They
stayed in that desUlate domain until
nearly nightfall, trying to find Mr..
Knapp's bear traps, rs they had been
with HIM to them ut divers times. They
enjoyed moonlight walk, coming out
nearly three miles on the old horse rail
road track; first II rotten tie, then not
any. Arriving at the opening adjacent
to the turnpike, where there are arc
matte frs aud balsams, the silvery light
of luna now and then shining through
the bOughs thereof, MIR. Beck, the leader
of the party, exclaimed in accents wild
to Mrs. Beck ana the doctor: Look
out, there's a bear!" 1t was thought
that Mr.. Beck WIS ] king, as that is IL
habit of his, so Mrs. Beck laughed and
said: "All light. Good evening Mister
Bear, let me shake hands with y0u!"
Meantime Mr.. Beck was ''measuring dis
tancr." No sooner had Mrs Beck made
the utterance than, sure enough, not
rod away to one side, stood monster
bear, quietly looking at her with eyes
cleaning like balls of fire! Haste, great
haste, is the proper word now, and the
two miles to the City we're made about
quickly as a horse. The gentlemen
were quite composed, while telling the
story, but Mrs Beck declared that it was
her last jaunt in the forests; yet the trio
were on the Summit of Mt. Pleasant the
following evening in the duskish hour,
with Landlord Knapp setting another
trap for Bruin.
There were only one or two in town
who saw the total eclipse of the moon
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
There has been so much going on lately
that the heavens have not been thought
of