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CHAs. G. MCNARY of this village and
Miss Hattie L. Foster of HoOsick Falls,
N. Y, were married at st. Marks par
sonage, in the latter village, last Wednes-
day, by Rev. c. e. Edmunds, Jr.
WAsHINGTON's birthday, Friday, will
be the one hundred and sixty-secOnd an
niversary of his birth. 1t will be hOli-
day in all the states with three excep-
tions-Iowa, Mississippi and Arkansas.
DIR. PARKHURsT's first article to wom-
en- in The Ladies' Home Journal, has
proved so popular that the entire huge
edition of the February issue of the mag
azine was exhausted within ten days,
and a second edition of As, 900 copies has
been printed.N
RAILROAD business is not very lively,
and the employees of the Bennington &
Rutland now work three weeks on full
time and then lay off a week. In other
words they are paying, as their tax for
the present Democratic administration,
do those who are Democrats like the
Paradise their party has created?
A NEIGHBoRING physician occasionally
fills in the time between writing pre-
scriptions by writing poetry. We give
below his latest attempt, which will be
seen at once to be a homeopathic dose.
Here 1T is:
And now the wintry winds do howl,
And grim disease doth fight us;
And if you haven't got la Girl pc,
You've got the tonsilitus.
THERE is a growing impression, say
several of our exchanges, among the
clergy of the Methodist church that the
time limit should and will be removed at
the meeting of the general conference in
1896 The time which the clergyman of
this denomination may remain on
charge is five years, having been changed
in 1892. The sentiment is to have the
pastorate continue as long as it is salts
factory to pastor and church.
APPEARANCES indicate that there is to
be considerable moving the coming
spring. George NJ. Rowell is to take pos
session of the r. j. Crawford house on
Grand View street, Cashier Cone is to
occupy the house vacated by Geo. M.
Rowell, Chas. II. Kehoe is to move into
the tenement vacated by E, H. McIntre,
Mrs. Geo. Gavin has moved flOm Silver
to Pleasant street, and Mrs. John KehOe
is to remove from the home on Pleasant
street now occupied by her to G3S Main
street.
RICHARD RUSSELL, now an inmate of
the Soldiers Home, did good service dur
ing the Rebellion as a member of Co. A,
125th, New York. He enlisted from
Hoosick Falls. His record includes "a
general engagements, and quite a num-
her of slrmishes. Mr.. Russell has just
received from the State of New York, a
medal for distinguished and horoic SER
vices at Gettysburg. On the first day of
the battle Mr.. Russell did gallant service
at the time Colonel Willard of Troy was
killed. Mr.. Russell is well known as
G.. A. r. man. At the battle of the Will
derness he was severely wounded, from
the effects of which he is now suffering.
Mrs. FLORENCE ROCKwoOD, wife of
George McMaster, died at their home on
South street, Saturday afternoon. She
was IS years of age and had suffered from
heart disease for some time, recently be-
ing quite bad, and her death was not I'M
expected. Mr.. and Mrs. McMaster were
married about eight years ago. No child
rem have been born TO them. She was a
daughter of David lockwood, and her
mother has been quite i'll for a week.
Deceased was a sister of Burt lockwood,
and of Eva and Kate lockwood, who are
teaching in North Bennington. Her
mother was unable to see her for more
than week before she died. She had
many friends with whom she was great
favorite, and her early death is mourned
by them. The funeral will be observed
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
THE Mary Loomis benefit will be held
in the First Baptist church, Friday even
ing. An interesting programme has been
arranged 1t is now known that the
Messrs. Bennett will certainly appear;
also, Miss Dymond, the Boston Soprano
of whom we spoke LAST week; Prof. lie.
cat will render few choice examples of
French tragedy; Alex. J. Cooper will
give recital upon the organ, and Mrs.
j. Ed Merrill and Miss Audria Bowen
will assist in the musical. Altogether
the occasion will be an enjoyable one,
and we hope fine benefit will result for
Miss LOOMS. 1t should be borne in
mind that if BrattlebOro had not assisted
Mary Howe might not have been able to
command the means for study. Will not
Bennington in this way return some of
the favors received at the hands of Miss
| LOOMS?
ONE of the largest attended funerals
held here in long time was that of Eddy
| II. Thomas which was held at the resi-
dence of his grandmother, Mrs. Almon
Eddy, Saturday afternoon. The house
was unable to accommodate but small