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premises on Elm and Washington street.
HARRY P. BURT, Fremont Barnes,
Robert Chapman and Edward Burgess
are camping at Lake Hancock in Wood
ford
LoRING D. BINGHAM, who has been
i'll several weeks, left Thursday fOra Wis
it to the Forest and Stream Club at Will.
mington.
THE Misses Marie Hester. Hudson, n.
Y, and Kate Healey, Washington, D. c.,
are visiting Miss Mamie Donovan, on
Dewey street.
Mrs. JUsTUs SILLIMAN of Easton, Pa,
and Rev. Thomas B. Boughton of Parker,
S. D., are visiting their mother, Mrs. E.
w. BoughtOn, at the Centre.
A COACHING party composed of eight
women and three men from Buskirks,
Hoosick, Troy and Oneonta, N. Y, were
at the Putnam for dinner, Wednesday.
A NUMBER of the younger bicycle rid
ers in the village have leased the old
race track on the fiat half way to North
Bennington, and are using it daily for
practice.
w. G. APPLEBY exhibited Wednesday
hens egg that measured eight inches
around the longest part and 81 inches
the other way. 1t weighed a tritle over
| four ounces.
Services will be held in the Methodist
church at the usual hours next Sunday.
Morning subject: "The Permanence of
Love-" Evening subject: 'Blasphemy
Against the Holy Spirit"
AN advance detail of five men from
Company X, left here Wednesday morn
ing on the way to Fairlee to prepare for
muster. The detail was in charge of
Quartermaster Sergt. II. i. HARDWOOD.
MONDAY Judge J. V. Carney will leave
for his old home in Newcastle, Me-, to
attend a family reunion, and will be alb
sent two weeks. During this time the
Probate Office will remain open for bust
ness.
HENRY KNAPP, of Spafford street, was
before the Municipal Court Wednesday,
for violation of the prohibitory laws.
He was declared guilty of keeping with
intent to sell and guilty of selling. His
fines and costs amounted to ST.
THE Rev. Booker T. Washington, who
was the founder of an industrial school,
at Tuskogee, Alabama, is here and will
speak at Union meeting in the COngre-
gational chapel, Sunday afternoon. Mr.
Washington is graduate of the Hamp-
ton. Va, institute.
COMPANY X, Vermont National Guard,
is making preparations for celebration
in camp, next week, of the 10th of Au
gust, now known as Bennington Battle
Day. The principal feature will be a
large display of fire works in the evening.
MRS. EUGENE GRAVES and Miss Jen.
ME Graves gave card party at their
home in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday even
ing, in Honor of Miss Ella Bingham of
this village, Miss Bessie Brainard and
Mrs. Geo. E. Armstrong of New York,
who are visiting them.
IT is expected that large number of
the members of the local F. NJ. T. A.
B. Society as well as many others, will
attend the grand Field Day of Springfield
diocesan Union at North Adams, Mass,
on Labor Day, September End. The big
attractions are advertised in another
column.
ELICTA, wife of the late Elisha Wads.
worth, died at her home on School street
Thursday morning. She had second
stroke of paralysis about week ago and
never rallied from it. She was s. years
of age and had been resident of this
village large portion of her life. Her
funeral will be attended from the house,
Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
THE Bennington branch of the Granite
State Provident Association will meet at
c. P. Niles Office next Monday evening
at S.o'clock and full attendance is de-
sired. j. G. Chandler, special agent,
will be here all next week and will be
pleased to meet any one interested and
explain fully the plan of the company
Particulars may be learned at Mr.. Niles
office.
THE Bennington IL Rutland Railway
Company will run an excursion to Sara
toga Saturday, August 18th. The fare
from Bennington and SALISBURY and in
termediates will be 81 for adults and 80
cents for children under twelve years of
age. Train will leave Bennington at
9:3S, North Bennington, 1856, and on re-
turn will arrive here at 6:40. This eX-
cursion will offer an excellent opportu-
nifty of seeing Americas famous water
ing place at an an extremely low price.
DON'T give a man a bill for a lot of
small change unless you are acquainted
with him. A number of people in places
not far from here, have accommodated
strangers in this way and have found
themselves victims of the film fam game.
The stranger enters with a pocketful of
silver coins. Wishing, so he says, to
transmit through the mails, an amount of
money equal to what he claims to be the