Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-08

HENRY FALES mas moved from Gne
Weeks house to the tenement corner of
Weeks street and Putnam avenue.
M. S. STONE, State superintendent of
education, will meet the Bennington
unity school directors at Arlington,
Tuesday next, the 18th, inst.
WE understand orders are coming in
more freely and most of our mills are
running full time, with prospects of con-
tinuing without any more shutdowns.
NovEcK is too late this week for a
change in his advertisement, but as our
readers know he is not to be undersold,
whether by so.called bankrupt sales"
''fire sales" or anything else.
THE auction of the personal property
of John Healy, held Thursday, was very
largely attended, and everything sold
brought good prices. Cows brought
from $50 to $40 and upward.
THE second quarterly meeting of the
Citizens League will be held at the YES
try of the Baptist church, on Wednesday
evening, March 18th, at $3.50 o. clock. Re
ports will be read and officers elected.
MANoLA-MAsoN in Friend Fritz, are
playing all this week in Boston. The
Boston press speaks in the highest praise
of them. They start on the New Eng
land circuit Monday, and will appear
here Saturday, March 10th.
MRS. POTTER-BELLEw who created
such Juror as "Charlotte Corday," in
New York and Boston the past three
weeks, have changed their date here to
week of May 18th, as they go back to New
York for run at the Herald Square
Theater, following Rob Roy the 18th.
In the Campbell-Jewett wedding,
Thursday we got the wrong person
III the bride. Her name was Matte
Campbell and she has just graduated
from school, and has never worked for
Capt. Fillmore nor anyone else in Ben
ningtOn.
THE ward caucusses were held on We'd
nesday and Thursday evenings of this
week. The following are the regular
nominations: Ward l, John S. Holden;
2, Martin Lyons; 3, j. Carrigan; 4, DIN
Scott; 5, DIR. F. S. Pratt 6, S, II. Rock
wood; 7, Fremont Gregg. The general
caucus is to be held at the Village Rooms
this evening.
THIS week sees some change in the
personel of the express office here. j.
w. Carpenter, who for several years has
been senior driver, takes the position of
messenger on the branch run; F. r. Nc
Rae, who has had the branch run, is pro-
noted to run between Troy and Rutland,
vice James Adams, one of the oldest
messengers, retired. Ed. Phillips of
North Bennington takes Carpenters
place on the wagon.
AT the town meeting in PittsfOrd,
Tuesday, quite number of women ap-
peared at the polls for the first time and
voted for school director. The count of
the vote showed that Miss Eleanor l..
Marley was elected to that position.
Miss Manley is quite we'll know here,
having been for some time teacher in
our Graded schools, when the new
school house was first completed. Miss
Manley is niece of Mrs. Geo. w. Har-
man of this village.
ALL of the entertainments under the
auspices of the Ladies Aid Society of the
Baptist church, this winter, have been
well attended and very successful. The
| last one, at the home of Mrs. VIM. Morse,
was no exception. Regardless of the un-
pleasantness of the afternoon and the
watery condition of the walks, more than
one hundred people were present and
were very Hospitality entertained. The
literary and musical programme pre-
pared by Mrs. Macgeorge, was very per-
fectly carried out to the pleasure of all:
The Society will rleet again next week
Friday in the same locality, at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Frank Knapp.
| THE annual convention and tourna
ment of the New York State Fireman S
Association, will be held in Troy, Au-
gust goth, 23d, next. The firemen of the
city expect to raise about $4,000, to be
expended in entertaining the convention.
About Sl1 900 was raised for the enter
tanment of the convention of tiremen in
Troy seven or eight years ago, and nearly
all the amount was expended in giving
the delegates a firstclass time and in up
holding the city's reputation for hospi-
tality. A prominent member of the fire
department said this morning that he
had no doubt that $4,000 for this year
would provide most creditable enter
tainment of the delegates and that the
sum could be secured in short time.
THE pickerel referred to in our issue
of Tuesday as being caught in Lake
Bomoseen, has been on exhibition in the
win low of Frost's fish market, a portion
of the time this week. The fish which
is one of the largest ever caught in that
lake, weighed 264 pounds. 1t was 4S
inches long and in girth was 81 inches
When hung up by the head by the side
of full grown man, it reached from the