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MRS. BETsEY DoLAN of Rutland, is
visiting here.
DONALD p. HURLBURT left to-day for
Middlebury College.
THE work of putting in sewers on
Beach street has been commenced.
Mr.. AND Mrs. VIM HALL of Troy, n.
Y, are guests of Mrs A. P. Childs.
JUDGE DARLING and Mrs. Darling are
at Bar Harbor for couple of weeks.
MRS. c. E. CovEY and son are visiting
in Chatham and Undertook, n. Y.
Miss CANDAcE simpson from New
York, IS visiting Miss Alice Mabel Nor
ton.
Wv. Z. HAWKS has begun the erection
OF ., ..v tenement house ON Union
sire,
Mis- =, z. RAwsoN returned Saturday
from a iuur weeks visit to her old home
in Barton.
THE Forest and Stream Club at Will
mington, closed yesterday, after a pros
porous season.
Miss LIZZIE MOTION, of Worcester,
Mass, daughter of the late j. c. Norton,
is visiting in town.
MRS. AND Mrs. RoB'T ELLIOT, of
Salisbury, Conn, are visiting relatives
and friends in town.
THE members of the Young Women's
Club enjoyed a ride to Barber's Pond,
Pownal, Saturday afternoon.
ALADY was knocked down by a rap
idly going bicycle on Main street, Satur-
day evening, but escaped injury.
Mrs. OTTO r. BENNETT and two child
rem of Rutherford, n. j., are visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. NJ W. Stewart,
STARK HOSE Company will serve one
of their clam chowders at their rooms,
Saturday evening. The public is invited.
ABOUT a dozen bicyclsts from Green
Island took run to this village Sunday,
where they spent three or four hours,
taking dinner.
THE Rev. J. j. Noe, presiding elder of
the Burlington district of the Troy con-
ference, preached in the Methodist
church Sunday,
THE Lebanon Springs Railroad sold
sos tickets along the line for their excur-
sion to Cambridge the last two days of
the fair, last week.
A NUMBER of friends witnessed the
opening of night blooming cereas with
Mrs. Enos adams, Saturday evening.
The plant had four blossoms.
THE Chatham Fair begins to-day and
as usual quite number from here will
attend. The L. S. r. R. run a special
train each day leaving here at 10 a, m.
Miss AMY NJ. BENNETT, daughter of
Rev. J. W. Bennett, pastor of Grace
Methodist church, Albany, n. Y, is Wis
iting the family of her uncle, f. D. Ben
nett.
A. P. CHILDs and Loring Bingham
drove to the Forest and Stream Club at
Wilmington Sunday, passing the day
and night there, remaining through the
closing of the season yesterday.
Mrs. GEO. w. STEARNs of Brooklyn,
n. Y, is visiting friends and relatives in
town. Mrs. Stearns is a sister of the late
Il. S. Armstrong and the only surviving
member of the family.
On account of the serious illness of
Mrs. S. H. Brown, VIM. E. Hawks was
obliged to give up his trip to Louisville
Business engagements also prevented A.
P. Childs attending, as was his intention
Mrs. MARY E. WILLS, whose death oc-
CURED at West RoXbury, Mass, August
25d, was for a number of years a resi-
dent of India, and was in Calcutta dur
ing the Sepoy rebellion. She will be re-
membered as a sister of Mrs. j. T. Shurt-
left.
PROF. Z. j. COLCoRD, formerly princi-
pal of The Rutland High school, and well
known by most of those engaged in edu-
cational work in this vicinity, has accept
ed a professorship in history IN the Penn
sylvania State College. He will begin
his duties this fall.
Mr.. YATES, the subject of the follow
ing sketch in the Saturdays New York
Tribune, is son of Geo W. Yates, for
merly of Yates Seminary, at the Centre
John B. Yates,a popular member of the
New York Athletic Club, and one of the
most enthusiastic wheelmen of the city,
has captured the mileage record of the
neighborhood to date. Mr.. Yates COW
cred his 10000 miles early this week,
and he went then to Saratoga to take
part in the Floral Fete held there on
Thursday. Yates's wheel was decorated
with particularly artistic effect, and the
judges awarded him first prize for hav.
ing the best decorated wheel, without a
dissenting vote. In point of mileage
Yates leads his fellow club members by
nearly five thousand miles. In spite OF
the distance that he has covered this
year he says that he has no idea of stop