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sister, Mrs, Frank Edgerton, on Park
street.
ELLA BINGHAM left Monday for Cleve-
land, Ohio, to visit the family of Eugene
Graves.
The Rev. G.. D. Gould, of Huntington,
Macs, will occupy the Baptist pulpit
next Sunday.
MRS. JOHN BAlLLIE and daughter and
Mrs. Ed. Atkins of Troy, N. Y, are
spending the week with Mrs. G. NJ.
Wood.
THE Rev. Geo. 7. BERRY and wife of
Troy, N. Y, have been visiting in town
the past week, the guests of Mrs. Berry's
aunt, Mrs. David Carpenter.
A. BUEL SHELLEY has removed the old
plank walk on Hillside street and sub
stituted in its place well built one of
coal ashes and gravel.
THE warrants have not yet been served
upon those who created the disturbance
at the Casino, last Sunday. The hearing
will probably take place in Woodford to-
morrow or Monday.
WORK on the new house of VIM. Moore,
on South street, is progressing rapidly.
He expects to occupy it about the first of
September, when he will rent the one In
which he now lives.
EDWARD EARLE, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Fales, died Tuesday from cholera
infautum. 1t was three months old the
day that it died. The remains were TAX
en- to Manchester for burial
MISS NELLIE CoFFEY, who has been
visiting in Lansingburgh, has been quite
ill while there, but is reported much bet.
ter. She arrived home yesterday, but is
still confined to the house.
HIS. BINGHAM has laid a concrete
walk across Hillside street to his drive
way. He has also put in new roadway
and has terraced and sodded his grounds
fronting on Silver and Hillside streets.
THE second fire alarm this week was
given last night about 1890 o'clock.
The fire was in the store of Frank Guilt
iHan and was extinguished before the
hose companies were obliged to use wa
ter.
CHAs. SWEET, son of Arthur Sweet,
left Monday morning for visit to an I'M
Gle and other relatives in Chicago and
vicinity. At Albany he took the New
York State express, the fastest train in
the United States
JOHN RYAN and Nellie Gibney were
married in St. Francis de Sales church,
Tuesday evening, Rev. A. j. Barron per-
forming the ceremony. The attendants
were Maggie Gibney, a sister of the
bride, and Joseph Murphy. The couple
is residing with the groom's mother.
DIR. AND MRS. FRANK ABBOTT, Jr., of
New York, who are making a trip
through this section in their own convey
ance, were here Wednesday. They were
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ.
Hodge of North Adams. The party were
on their way to Manchester.
JOHN HIGGINS of Middlebury, propri-
etor of the Pierce House, is called the
champion fisher of Addison county. He
added to his laurels, few days ago,
when he took trout from Lake Dun
more that weighed 121 pounds. Mr.. Hig-
gins formerly lived here and in Airing
ton, and is brother of Mrs. George
Green, of this village.
DEPUTY SHERIFF GODFREY went to
Rutland yesterday, and arrested George
Mccain upon charge of burglary at the
residence of Aaron Hill of Sunderland
few months since. Mccain had just
finished three months sentence in the
Work House, for stealing suit of clothes
etc., and now is wanted for the theft of
a watch chain and ring at the same time.
He was locked up in Jail here to await
trial
HENRY DIETEL, the car starter on the
Electric railway, met with quite an acct
dent yesterday afternoon. He was going
to the Casino with push car loaded
with ice and which was attached to the
regular car by chain. He was standing
on the push car with his hands on the
electric car which suddenly starting
ahead pulled him from the car in which
he was standing. He fell between the
rails and in such shape that the car
wheels did not pass over him. He was
pushed along some distance before the
car could be stopped, and considerably
bruised but it is thought that the injur.
les are not very serious.
Miss KATIE E. GRIFFIN, one of Ben
nington's brightest, most accomplished
and most successful teachers, has re-
ceived from our State Superintendent of
Education, NJ. S. Stone, a life certificate
to teach in the public schools of the
State of Vermont. Miss Griffin has held
two first grade certificates and has been
a successful teacher in both our graded
and ungraded schools for number of
years, and this recognition from our
State Superintendent of her superior
qualifications and services as faithful
teacher in our public schools, is a we'll
deserved compliment. Her sweetness of