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G. L. Richardson, yesterday morning.
THE Young Womeus Club will have a
literary entertainment tomorrow even
ing, at o'clock, at the rooms.
ABOUT eighty members of the Rutland
lodge of Knights of Pythias are expected
here next Thursday evening by special
train to institute new lodge.
THIS evening, Tuesday, the meeting
for converts and workers takes place at
the chapel of the Second Congregational
church. Arthur Elwell will lead.
ERNEST, the nine year old son of Geo.
A. Hover, of Park street, is seriously i'll
with diphtheria, having been taken with
the disease Saturday. This morning he
is slightly improved.
THE preliminary survey for the Ben
nington electric railway line has been
completed as far as North Bennington,
and will be continued to Walloomsac.
The work of constructing tie road will
be begun early in the spring.
THE Y. P. S. c. E. of the Second Con-
gregatiOnal church will hold a sOclabe
and business meeting on Wednesday
evening, November 9th, in the church
parlors at 7.3O o'clock. Officers will be
elected for the ensuing six months.
WEDNESDAY evening, some one man.
aged to get into the grammar and the
high school departments of the Graded
School, and gaining access to the teach
ers' desks, took from them all of the
students report books which had just
been completed for the month of Octo-
Der. Nothing else was taken.
THE firm of Moore and Allen, fish
dealers, was yesterday dissolved, David
E. Moore retiring from The business,
which will now be conducted under the
name of j. B. & H. H. Allen. II. II.
Allen, the new member of the firm, is
well known resident of this town, hav-
ing for many years been in business as
painter and decorator.
FRANK HALL was killed in the rail
road yard at Williamstown, Sunday aft
ernoOn while engaged in putting up
switch lights. Both legs were cut off
and he was injured about the head and
body. He was fifty years old and un-
married. He was taken to the North
Adams hospital but died as he reached
it. He was brother of T. Hoxie Hall,
of Pownal, who was his only near rela-
tive in the East.
THOSE who were on Union street at
about noon last Sunday witnessed pitt
full spectacle. A cripple, who is obliged
to use pair of crutches to get around,
staggered along the street, heavily under
the influence of liquor, and finally fell to
the sidewalk He was unable to arise,
and lay there until assistance reached
him. The scene was not only pitiful,
but disgusting, yet such and similar
ones happen, and will contine to happen
as long as rum holes are allowed to
flourish freely and unmolested in the
village.
THE new series of Sunday evening ser
vices began auspiciously last Sunday at
the Second Congregational church.
Messrs. Geo. NJ. Rowell and Hiram L.
Hall assisted in conducting the respon-
sive readings. Charles McDonough
played the cornet. The sermon was up
on THE New Christian, his new out
look, new companions, new responsible
ties and new life of love. The address
next Sunday night will be upon what
the Master Expects of His New Disci-
pie"
AT the regular meeting of the village
trustees, last evening, a communication
was received from the secretary of the
State Board of Railroad Commissioners,
enclosing a copy of a petition from the
Bennington and Woodford Electric Rail
way Company, asking the commission
ers to come here and locate the tracks of
that company on certain village streets,
the trustees having refused to grant the
privilege. The Corporation Attorney
was instructed to file an answer to the
petition and to take such steps as might
be necessary to contest the granting of
the petition by the commissioners.
As announced exclusively in last Fri
days BANNER, John Casey recently had
colt stolen from pasture in Woodford
Mr. Casey had well-iounded suspicious
as to who took the animal. and since the
time when he discovered his loss has
been actively engaged in following up
clues. Monday morning John Nash re
cieved word that one Fred Martin, whom
Casey had suspected from the first, had
been arrested in Fonda, n. Y, with the
horse, and that Martin was in Jail in
JOhnstown, and that Casey was in Fon.
da with the horse, which the officials
would not deliver up until an officer
went from here. Mr.. Nash went to
Johnstown on the noon train, Monday,
and will probably return this evening.
1t is probable that Martin will return
here without requisition papers He
was arrested about year ago charged
with breaking into the post office at Ben
nington Centre, but could not be in
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