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lngs bank building is here to-day.
Miss MAGGIE HOGAN, of this village,
died at ten o'clock this morning.
THE Rev. A. Macgeorge will preach
his farewell sermon Sunday morning.
BISHOP MICHAUD will make his pas
toral visit to this parish on June 23d.
NEXT Sunday will be observed as
Trinity Sunday in st. Francis de Sales
church.
SOLOMON HOWARD of SALISBURY, has
sold his milk route in this village to Milk
man II. IL. Harmon,
DIR. HARVEY of Troy, n. Y, and Dr.
Rogers of this village, performed an OPP
Grafton for a serious disease on the per
son of Miss Candace Camp, who is now
with her sister, Mrs. Merritt Noyes.
They hope to have a favorable result
NEXT Sunday will be Children's Day
at the Second Congregational church.
A sermon to children, with Bible pre-.
sensations and baptisms will occur in the
morning, in the evening a concert by the
Sunday school.
DRYsDALE inaugurates another ten
days sale the 18th, which he says will be
the greatest of all his great ten days
sales. On this page will be found
his big two column advertisement,
crowded to OVERLOOKING with lists of bar.
gains in dress goods, linens, shoes, wash
goods, remnants, etc, etc.
BISHOP HALL will visit st. Peters
Parish on Sunday, July Itch. There will
be small class presented for Confirma
ton. Next Sunday will be Trinity Sun
day and the third anniversary of the or
dinaton of the rector to the priesthood.
There will be celebrations of the Holy
Communion at I and 1870 in the morn
ing.
THE sermon on Civic Virtue preached
last Sunday evening by the Rev. Geo. L.
Richardson was unusually suggestive.
Civic reform which is in the air, the re-
turn from excessive individualism to the
responsibilities of the citizen, and the
trio of giant evils which the man of the
future is bound TO overthrow, were WV
idly portrayed, and with dignity and
force which commanded the respect of
all. 1t is believed that this sermon will
prove the introduction of monthly Sc
ries by the clergymen which will prove
both educative and melting to the best
ends.
IN another column, we give the bene.
fit of Mr.. Whitcomb's judgment regard
ing the Bennington BANNER as an adver-
Using medium. The prompt payments
made in Bennington County by the Equit.
able this last spring, particularly in the
case of Geo. B. Rogers, whose death was
certainly involved in some degree of mys-
terry, and the prompt settlement of the
policy on the life of Fred B. Lake of Paw.
let, and the payment of matLred endow-
ments and Tontine Policies in Benning.
ton county, simply re-affirms the magnif-
its business, and explains the reason of
the popularity of the Society. 1t must
pay them to advertise.
THE Huntington correspondent of
the Springfield Union, of Monday, had
the following: &c. Hayden Day of Ben.
nington, who wandered into town last
Thursday, in search of his sister, but
without funds and apparently mentally
unbalanced, was taken to the Tewksbury
almshouse to-day by Deputy Sheriff E. A,
Allen of this town, under whose charge
he has been since he first made his APP
pearance. Days respectable, even pre-
possessing, appearance at first led the
town officials to believe that this was one
of those cases in which some well-known
and wealthy citizen mysteriously disap-
pears, and they made every effort to dis
cover who he was and what he was do
Ing in this section. Deputy Sheriff Allen
telegraphed to Bennington. He learned
that he had once been an inmate of the
lGWhSUplJ NOlu was oGuI
to his niece in Meriden, Ct, and she
came up and told Mr.. Allen his history.
AS his relatives manifested no especial
interest in his welfare. he was sent to
that place. 1t was learned here that
Mrs. Morgan once worked for John D.
Stiles in ibis town. Days first call IN
this village was upon DR.. A. Z. Houle, to
whom he talked in a rambling manner
about splints.
WIN. E. AND S. B. HAWKS returned
home Saturday, the former from an
extensive Southern and Western trip in
the interest of his various water works
plants, and The latter from a six weeks
stay at Monroe, La, at which place i'm
portant additions have been made to
their fourishing water works and cleo
trio light plant at that point. They at
tended the annual convention of the
American Water Works Association, at
Atlanta, Ca, of which organization both
are members. Representatives were
present from nearly every State of the
Union and the proceedings were of great
importance to water works men. The
citizens of Atlanta showed the members