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until next week.
MISS HENRIETTA S. Poor enjoyed a
pleasant time with some of her little
friends the 9Th, in honor of her tenth
birthday.
THE electric light company is putting
up the poles for the new lights which
they expect to have in operation befol e
the ground freezes.
il. LOOMS went to New York on the
excursion two weeks ago, and while
there was taken with severe attack of
inflammatOry rheumatism. He is still
confined to the home of his sister in that
city.
PROF. T. j. REYNOLDS, of Hoosick
Falls, will form his banjo, mandolin and
guitar classes, Saturday the 10th inst,
place of meeting to be announced later.
He has already large class promised.
SERVICES in the Methodist church at
the usual hours next Sunday. Morning
subject: "Glorifying God in Body and
Spirit" Evening subject: "The Great
Physicians Remedy for Sim Revival
services, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday evenings at 7.3O
VIM. A. KELLOGG and wife, Of Seneca
County, n. Y, have been at the Putnam
a couple of days this week. Mr.. Kellogg
is a native of the town, and this was his
first visit in several years. He spent
considerable time in driving about the
place.
THE estate of the late Perry W. EIdred
was finally settled before Surrogate
Lansing of Rensselaer, County in Troy,
Wednesday. The heirs from here were
present and distribution was made, ap-
parently satisfactory to all.
JOHN II. LAwLoR, accompanied by his
daughter, Annie, has been in Norwalk,
Conn, week, attending the funeral OF
his mother who died in that city, last
week She was 10 years of age and
leaves two sons and daughter, of which
Mr.. Lawlor is the oldest.
THE general committee of the Stark
Hose Company request those who re-
ceived invitations to contribute and VINO
have not yet replied, to leave at the res
idence of w. r. Hyde, POI Pleasant
street, whatever they intend to donate,
as the articles are to be collected the
18th. The Committee does not wish to
annoy, by a personal call, those who
have not replied and cannot contribute.
TUESDAY evening Herbert Pratt and
Fred Kirkwood, who were driving in OPP
posite directions on the North Benning-
ton road and at quite rapid gait, collid-
ed. Neither party saw the other until
too late to prevent the collision. The
thills of Pratt's wagon entered the breast
of Kirkwood's mare, Trill, and pierced
the heart, killing her almost instantly.
The mare was quite valuable one, hav-
ing a record below 2.40.
SOME classes are now being organized
in the Young Women's Club. Two
classes have begun just work. Gymnas-
tics, course of twelve lessons, class
meets Monday evening at eight o'clock,
Miss Holden, teacher. Spelling,-a
course of six lessons, class meets Tues
day evening at eight o'clock, Miss Rog-
ers, tea cher. All who wish to join the
classes should do so at once.
ALEXANDER SALvINI, who so success
fully entertained Bennington theatre
goels one evening week before last, is
seriously i'll in Montreal and his dates
for some time to come have heen can
celled. He was booked to play in Mon
treal the entire week after his engage
ment here but inflammation fol owed the
extraction of tooth and he was unable
to appear after Thursday night The
Inflammation has since developed into an
attack of typhoid fever.
THE members of the COMMITTEE of
Public Safety,'in Troy, are quite jubil-
ant over the results of Tuesdays election
in that city and have given expression in
public print of their feelings The Troy
Times of Wednesday says: George b.
Wellington and Seymour Van SantvoOrd,
who are prominently identified with the
City club, said the election was fair and
cleanest ever held. Mr.. Van Santvoord
said the City club had large number of
agents out Tuesday on the lookout for
fraud and non-conformity of the law.
He said the saloons were not generally
closed, but were generally open-that is,
in many sections. A large quantity of
evidence in this direction was gathered
and will be used against the persons i'm
plicated. AS representatives. of the City
club both Mr.. Wellington and Mr.. Van
Santyoord were highly gratilied with the
result in the county and the manner in
which the election was conducted"
THE widely advertised bazaar of Stark
Hose Co., to be held next week Friday
and Saturday, promises to be one of the
events of the season. The bazaar proper
will consist of elegantly equipped booths
for the sale of domestic articles, fancy
articles, cut flowers aud potted plants,
the variety of each being very great.
The entertainment programme has
among its numbers, songs by two bright
ouartettps each well and apnrecia ii vel y