Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-08-27

leave for Brandon tomorrow for two
weeks vacation.
Mrs. A. p. CHILDs and a portion of
the family have returned from the For
est and Stream Club.
SATURDAY, officers from Pownal
lodged a party by the name of Shay in
Jail here, for assaulting in that place
a man named Wayne.
A FoUR-HoRsE load of guests from
Camp Comfort drove to Williamstown,
Monday, where they took dinner, return
ing the same afternoon.
THE Misses Clara NJ. Norton, Eva G..
lockwood and Mande Wheeler of this
village, have been engaged to teach in
the North Bennington Graded school.
The Deerfield Valley Times in its last
issue says: ~. b. Allen took his de-
parture for Bennington, Tuesday, where
lie is expected to become an inmate of
the Soldiers Home.
RUSSELL IL MARCH have completed
the handsome residence in HoOsick Falls,
n. Y, for Mrs. Zoe Richmond. 1t is
said to be one of the best pieces of work
in that village.
TwENTY-FoUR applicants for teachers
certificates p' esented themselves for eX-
animation before the County Examiner
at the Graded school building last
Thursday and Friday.
Miss CHARLOTTE ROBINSON of Bur
lington, has returned to her home, after
a two weeks visit here. Her sister, Bes-
sic, returned home with her.
JOHN MILLER and William Bump of
Hoosick Falls, n. Y, captured three
coons near North Bennington, Saturday,
the three weighing total of forty
pounds.
GEORGE e. HATCH, an instructor in
the manual training department of the
public schools of Boston, returned to
tlat city yesterday, after vacation of
several weeks with his parents on North
street.
Mr.. AND Mrs. II. G.. HILTON and Mr.
and Mrs. +. j. Kennett, of New York,
and two men servants, arrived here on a
tally-ho drawn by four horses, Sunday,
and took dinner at the Putnam. They
were on their way from WilliamstOwn to
Manchester, where they are to remain
few days.
THE following Knights Templar left
here Monday to attend the Conclave be
ing held in Boston this week:
H. c. Lindloff, q. B. Sibley,
II. L. StillsOn, Jerry Finn, W. E. Hawks,
Jr., b. F. Wood, f. B. Niles, NJ. II.
Chandler, j. b. Woodruff, A. p. Childs.
C. II. MASON has gang of men at
work cutting down the sidewalk in front
of his premises, recently purchased on
South street. In some places the walk
will be lowered at least two and a half
feet. CURLING will then be put in and a
new walk either of flagstone or of con-
crete laid the entire frontage of the prop
erty.
BURGLARS entered the store of Ed
ward Walbridge at Bennington Falls,
Friday evening. and helped themselves
to about thirty dollars worth of tea, cot
fee, sugar, COrned beef and cigars. En-
trance was was made by breaking win
dow in the rear of the building No ar
rests have yet been made.
A WRITER to the Sunday Observer
from Willamstown, Mass, says "Other
popular drives are to historic Benning-
ton. The road to Vermont's renowned
battlefield leads over Mason hill, from
which magnificent view may be OBJ
tanned. From Mason hill the road runs
through wild mountains and picturesque
hooks. Bennington offers many attrac-
lions to the lover of the historic and few
drives are more thoroughly enjoyed than
this one"
GEN. AND Mrs. CHAs. w. DARLING of
Utica, \. y, are resting at the Walloom-
sac, after driving tour of three weeks
through the counties of Oneida, Madi-
son and Chenango, in New York State.
Gen. Darling, the well known secretary
of the Oneida Historical Society, is at
the present time engaged in the compil.
alton of certain unwritten historical
facts relative to the first settlement of
Bennington. Mention will be made of
the early Dutch squatters on the banks
of the Hoosick, and to later settlers from
New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts, who received grants of land
from Governor Benning Wentworth, I'M
der the New Hampshire charters.
GODFREY AND NASH, deputy sheriffs,
visited SALISBURY Hollow, near White
Creek, Friday, and raided a disrepu-
table house which has been kept there
for some time by Hiram Niles. They
arrested one Nellie Clark who of late,
when under the influence of liquor, has
scandalized the adjoining country by
mounting bare backed horse, when in a
perfectly nude condition, and riding
about This it was claimed was done in
New York State. The woman gives her
age as thirty years and says she was
born in Boston, and is dressmaker by