Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-07-19

MRS. JOHN DENLEY has returned from
two weeks visit to friends in Massa-
chusetts.
G. N. POWERS has been spending the
greater part of the week with his mother
in Middlebury.
THE home of George Dakin, Sr, on
Union street is greatly improved by the
addition of handsome piazza.
MRS. ARCHIE NORTON of New York,
formerly of Bennington, is spending the
summer months with Mr.. Norton's par
ents.
MRS. j. H. POTTER of Ballston Spa,
N. Y, with her daughter Edith, is visit.
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester
Plank on Depot street.
The North Bennington Driving Club
are talking of having matinee at their
track, August 10th. Bicycle races and
horse races will take up a good share of
the day.
CLEMENT MITCHELL of Montpelier is
spending few days in the village visit
ing with former comrades of the first
Vermont Battery in which he served a
full enlistment.
Mr.. WILSON, Postmaster General, ex-
poets to take a run into New England
sometime during the summer and will
probably visit Brattleboro on his way to
Wilmington, where he will be the guest
of the Forest and Stream Club.
EDWARD G. O'DoNNELL of the Tampa,
Fla, fire department, has been appoint
ed captain in charge of Station No. 2, in
that city. Mr.. O'Donnell, who went to
that city but a short time ago, was for a
long time, a member of the local fire de-
partment.
FOLLOWING is verbatim copy of a
notice that is posted in fruit yard and
facing one of the leading streets in the
village: Any Boys or Boy SeeiN in
This LOT SHALL PAY Fine So Keep
Out. The owners of the place are out of
the village for the summer.
A HORSE belonging to Samuel Lyons
and hitched in front of LeMarre's grocery
store on South street, Tuesday afternoon,
became frightened and in its antics over
turned the carriage, which was consid-
erably damaged. The horse did not sue
coed in getting loose.
CHART HASTINGS of South Salisbury
was arrested Wednesday evening by Con-
stable G. E. Corey, of that village, for
being drunk. He was brought here and
locked up in Jail over night. Thursday
morning he was before the Municipal
Court, plead guilty, and was fined So and
costs, which he paid
THE committee on Subjects has invit-
ed DR.. F. W. Goodall to read his paper
on the cure of decorations of the uterine
neck without the use of the knife, at the
meeting of the Northern Berkshire Med
ical Association at the Wilson House,
North Adams, July 23d.
w. r. PIERsoN, wife and son of Or
ange, Mass, are here visiting her father,
G. B. Sibley. To-day the entire party
accompanied by A. Buel Sibley, wife
and daughter, are at the Summit House
in Woodford, where they are enjoying n
trout dinner. Mrs. Pierson will remain
here several weeks.
MRS. ISABEL SPENsER FREELAND of
Philadelphia, will lecture before the la
dies of the village at the residence of A.
B. Valentine, next Tuesday afternoon,
the Esd, and on the Tuesday following,
the 30th. Her subject will be Concern
ing Altruism and Sociology" Mrs.
Freeland has been at the Walloomsac for
some time and has delivered two of her
lectures at the residence of Mrs. Merrill,
at the Centre, and has been engaged to
deliver two more; one at Mrs. Daniel
Roblnson's and the other at Miss Mat
thew's. During her stay here she has
been filling engagements in North
Adams, Wilmington and Pittsfield
OfflOEh JOhN NASh WSuI W w lllldLlS-
town Tuesday and served subpGnas on a
number of persons to appear before
the United States Court now in session
at Montpelier to give evidence in the case
of the United States VS.. Ed. Fisher in
dicted for selling liquor without a gov
eminent license. The trial is set for to-
day, the 10Th. Fisher was proprietor of
what has long been known as the dug
way house near the State line, in Pownal
and was arrested several months ago by
U. S. Marshal Harris, of this village.
Since then he has been in Jail in Bur-
lington awaiting trial.
JOHN A. CONNOLLY, until recently
employed in the Town Clerks office here,
as copyist, was arrested in Troy, We'd
nesday on complaint of his parents, of
the Farmers inn on charge of assault
and battery. Connolly, who is cripple,
going around with the aid of crutches, pre-
sented a pitable spectacle about Troy
the past week, where he has been
imbibing too freely. He was committed
tothe Troy Jail for medical examination.
His mind is believed to be unsound.
While here Connolly was known as a
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