Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-11-05
In THE LOCAL FIELD.
North Bennington.

Cards are received announcing the
marriage of Miss Florence Bell Simmons
to G. Floyd Huling, on Wednesday,
Nov. Goth at six o'clock in South Park
NJ. E. Church, Hartford, Conn.
The attempt to obtain a government
order that the mail on the sleeper should
not be used for the accommodation of
the business men when necessary for the
speedy transactions of trade, has proved
futile. The mail is for the use of the
public. but not for the purpose of boy
cOtting the regular established post
offices in this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Banker of Proctor, on
their way to visit friends in SGhaghti-
coke, n Y, called upon Mr.. and Mrs.
James yelling yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cooper spent Sun
day with their parents at Center Shafts
| bury.
The survey for the electric railroad
| through Main street, Bennington, and so
on through our village to WalloOmsac,
has been done to this point The 335th
stake has been driven, which makes it
about six and one-third miles from the
starting place, and five and one quarter
miles from the Putnam House to our
bank building.
Saturday afternoon some ten of our
bicyclists met and went on their wheels
to Bennington for pleasure trip. The
company was of both sexes, and though
| the road was quite heavy from the recent
storm, all report pleasant time. Most
of the cavalcade were amateurs and the
curicueS cut at times on the way are re.
ported as being excruciating, not men
tioning the headers and falls which some
| took, though there was nothing serious
to mention.
The Fl. T. Cushman Mfg. Co. con.
templates the erection of a store house
from seventy-fve to one hundred feet
long, to make it possible to keep the as
| sortment necessary for the prompt ship
ment of orders. The present store room,
llOx4O feet, is not sufficient, and the con-
stantly increasing demand seems to rem
der 1t the thing to do.
The marriage of Miss Nora Leonard
and Patrick Kinney, both of this town,
at the st. John Baptist Church yestel-
| day, was pleasant occasion. Many of
their friends, who can only wish them a
long life of happiness and prosperity,
were present at the ceremony. Father
La Chance Oficiated, and the happy
! couple lett on the train for New York to
spend few days in visiting and sight
seeing, before entering upon the sterner
| duties of life.
| In the basement of the rear of the
o. Bren building, now owned by w. j.
| Hurley, and which is used for store
room, and is seldom entered, was found
a few days since some of the goods sup.
| posed to be stolen several weeks since
! frOm the clothing store OF Columbus
! Huling, consisting of a suit of clothes. "A
pair OF shoes and IA hat. 1t is difficult to
surmise the meaning of it, as they are
but fraction of what were taken, If in
fact they were part of that steal.
A ''degitigrade, carnivorous mammal,
the MephitiS Americana" was chased
through the streets last evening by a
crowd of boys, its sp"ckled appearance
not SO fully Indicating its genus, while
they Ulied with the light of a lantern and
stones to dislodge it from hole in the
roadway, as did the fragrance which fol
lowed IA closer attack The citizens gen
orally give it its true and more com
monty called name.