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Woodford.

have been drawn to serve as grand jurors
in the United States Court which con-
venes at Rutland next Tuesday.
Mrs. Hannah Burdick has eturned to
her home in Pawnee City, Neb. Her
sister-in-aw, Mrs. S. j. Bennett, is suf-
fering with hidden cancer.
Mrs. Geo. A. Knapp is visiting rela-
tives in SALISBURY, the first time for
twenty years.
Mrs. Abbie Smith is visiting in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.
Ten years ago the 23d of this month, it
showed all day in many Vermont towns,
Woodford being one. This year, 1895.
the thermometer indicated nearly ninety
degrees in the shade, little past mid
day, the 22d. The three preceding
days were also clear and ''scOrchers,"
making an unusual equinoctial time to
go on record.
Mrs. Wood returned to her home in
Bennington, last week, after having
passed pleasant summer at her cottage
here.
James Dinwiddie is visiting at Athol,
Mass.
Geo. Deane is afflicted with cutane-
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organs.
Thomas MCGEE of Rutland, has visited
his sister, Mrs. Charles Sawyer.
A party of men from Duchess County,
New York. have been in town, who have
for several months been digging for
gensing root in different parts of the
State. The price they get for the root is
four dollars a pound and it is shipped to
China. The party had fair success.
Geo. Holbritter of Wilmington, has
been in town and went on to Grafton,
N. Y, to visit his mother, who is i'll.
Harry Hagar of Hooslck Falls. N. Y,
who has lucrative position on the cleo
trio railway there, has spent two days of
a vacation he is taking, in town this
week.
Tell your friends that they can secure
the BANNER, twice a week, for three
months, by sending fifteen cents to tie
BANNER Office.
Postmaster Gleason has received let
ter from a man in Cambridge, N. Y, ask
ing him if there is any one in WoodfOrd
who can locate hidden treasure. He
writes that there are two and half mil
lions of dollars buried there and he will
give any one half who will help him
find it. Uncle Dan scratched his head
but hasn't answered the letter yet
Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Hall of North Ben
nington, and Miss Sophia Park came on
Wednesday to visit Miss Fanny Park
couple of days.
L. G. Easton read a very interesting
sermon at the Union church last Sunday
and another will be given next Lords
Day at II o'clock. Everybody invited.
The singing will be unusually good.
Mrs. Edward Estes is lying very ill at
her home, as the result of the bursting
of an artery in her stomach. There was
DR.. Rogers is the attending physician.
Mrs. John Bugbee and daughter, Mrs.
VIM. Bowles and the latters adopted
daughter, Ida, are visiting relatives and
friends in Greenfield, Mass, Whiting
ham and Halifax. They attended the
fair at Brattleboro, Wednesday and
Thursday.
The Hermit" D. ", intends to at
tend the Legislative reunion at the Capt.
tol next week.
Warren Harbour is now proprietor of
vegetable and fish wagon and is sue
cessful because he carries good things
and is good crier.
Asahel Hollister writes letter from
Mount Pleasant, Washington, in which
he says: II lived ill Woodford in my
school days and fished for trout in
Bowles' mill pond, and up the stream to
its head" Who remembers Uncle
Asahel?
G. +. and G. w. Wood, c. G. Easton
and Charles Bowles are making repairs
on their houses.
G. W. Cutler and wife are visiting Mrs.
Holbritter and family at Wilmington.
THE REV. W. F. BEAMAN's NARROW Es-
CAPE
With the human massacres that have
occurred amongst our missionaries in
far away China the past summer, our
people have had feelings of deep anxiety
for the Rev. W. F. Beaman, who was
pastor here in 1892, lest he was one of
the slain. This week your correspond
ent received a letter from him of thirty
two pages, giving an account of the
atrocities and butcheries of human be-
ings, and it seems that the newspapers
have not exaggerated in giving the hor-
rible details. Mr.. Beaman barely es-
capped with his life at midnight in boat,