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is visiting Mrs. Fred Godfrey.
Miss ANNIE MoRRIssEY spent Sunday
with friends in Blackinton, Mass.
Miss DELLA GUNsHANNoN has been
spending a few days with Mrs. J. w.
Mackey in Blackinton, Mass.
ABOUT 200 persons went on the Sec
ond Congregational church Sunday
school picnic to North Dorset, this morn
ing.
THE Rev. NJ. L. Severance preached in
Wallingford Sunday. His pulpit was
occupied by the Rev. Chas. Townsend of
New Jersey.
MISS ELIZABETH ROBINSON, who has
been visiting friends in Troy, n. Y, re-
turned to her home here yesterday, ac-
companied by William j. Robinson.
THE following entries have been made
oy Geo. F. Leonard in the races that
take place during the Cambridge On. W
fair: 2.4O class, Oh. m Beatrice; 2.25
class, G. m. Queen Tempo.
AN excursion from Petersburg, n. Y,
over the Lebanon Springs railroad to this
village will be run Thursday. Excur-
sionists will arrive here at 113O a. M,
and return on train leaving at 5.45 p. m.
THE BANNER Bindery has just COM
pleted the binding of number of maya
zines in various styles to be used as sam
pies, and are now ready for examination.
Anyone with volumes they desire bound
should examine this line of samples.
Miss MARY GEE, for several seasons
trimmer in Miss Keyes' millinery store
has, with sister, bought a millinery
and fancy goods store in Middlebury,
her home. The business will be con-
Quoted under the firm name of the Gee
Sisters.
EDWARD WILLIAMS and wife of San
Jose, Cal, the latter daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. S. NJ. Sibley of this village, are
IN Boston this week. Mr.. Williams is
attending the triennial conclave of the
Knights Templar of which he is a men,
Der. They are expected here next week
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Sibley.
SOME excellent bicycle racing is prom
ised in Manchester the 18th and 18th.
There are to be five events with prizes
amounting to S17j. The races will be of
much local interest as several Benning-
ton riders have entered. The entries
close Tuesday, September 10th. Appli-
cations for entry blanks should be made
to j. Il. Carney, Manchester Depot.
THE Lebanon Springs Railroad will
run an excursion train to North Adams,
September 2nd, Labor Day, for the grand
field day of the Springfield Diocesan
Union. Big attractions are advertised.
Fare for the round trip is S1.OO. Special
train leaves here at S25. The excursion
will be under the auspices of the local
F. NJ. r. A. b. Society, and will be &C
companied on the trip by the City Band.
In speaking of the races of the Hoo
sac Valley Wheelmen of North Adams,
Saturday, in which several Bennington
riders are entered, the Democrat saws:
The arrangements are now practically
completed for the first big bicycle tOurna-
ment at the fair grounds next Saturday,
and If the weather ON that day is fair.
the best series of bicycle races ever run
off in North Adams will be held. The
| anftaC 1lnSnl lngt rirrl,t npI hn
and the quality of the men entered is a
guarantee of some close races. The ex-
! cellent condition in which the track is
to be put in before that day. for there
will be lots of hard work done on it.
makes it sure that the races will be fast,
too, as well as exciting. The prizes are
valuable ones, their total value being
about 5000.
AUGUST 10Th, party of sixteen struck
camp at Fayville in the town of Glasten-
bury. The campers were: Mrs. Ida
Swan of Elkhart, Ind; Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank White, Mr.. and Mrs. Linus White,
Mr.. and Mrs. William White of Hoosick
Falls, Mr.. and Mrs. Sheldon lockwood
and son, Mr.. and Mrs. f. F. lockwood
and daughter of Bennington, Miss Ethel
lockwood of North Adams, Mass Miss
Lillian Newton of Bennington, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel j. Wilde of Boston, Mass,
and John b. Hull, Jr., of Stockbridge,
Mass. The camp is situated about ff-
teen miles from Bennington, in the heart
of the Green Mountains. 1t is an old
| logging camp and more wild and pic
turesQue spot could not be found. 1t
was selected by Sheldon lockwood, who
| is thoroughly familiar with all the noun
tmns of Vermont and New Hampshire,
and it is considered by him an ideal
camp. Running close to the house. or
more properly, shanty, is brook bound
ing over the rocks in torrents and max
ing fall of over four hundred feet in
about one and half miles. Trout are
| plentiful and the campers had the table
loaded with fish at nearly every meal.
The champion fishermen were S. H.
lockwood, Wilde, Hull and F. II. White.
Sheldon lockwood held the record for a
single catch with a total of 1853. and
Frank White followed with 121. Uull
had the largest total catch for the two
weeks and Wilde caught the largest fish
which weighed just three-fourths of a