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ting friends here.
CLEMENT Il. CONE and wife at
Asbury Park, n. j.
JOHN WILLIAMS of Villa i''pwn,
Mass, is here for a few days.
Miss MAMIE CONE of N)rtl ourth
street, Troy, is visiting here.
JONI LEAHY has begun IL erection
Of - house on West Main stree.
,l-~ MABEL TWIST of Ne" York. is
VI. { Miss Florence Walbrdge.
L. , Roof visited Camp Governor
Wood lr ut Fairlee, this week.
Mr.. AAD Mrs. j. HARVEY KING of
Troy, are here for few weeks with
friends.
MISS IsADELL LUTHER of Boston,
Mass, is visiting at the home of Mrs.
Edward Norton.
MRS. A. V. HARTLEY, of Bridgeport,
Conn, is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alba Buss.
Miss BELL MORGAN of Connecticut is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Az Buel Sibley,
on Union street
Mr.. AND Mrs. WIN. PEART of Troy,
Y. Y, are spending the week with their
son, VIM. A Peart.
FREEMAN ROSE of the Vermont Sol
diers' Home, has been granted an in
crease of pension.
Mrs. EDw E. HAWKS and Son, of
North Adams, are visiting this week with
Mrs. A. w. Braisted.
THE Rev. Frank a. Smith Of Somer'
vile, n. j., will preach in the Baptist
church Sunday the 18th.
Miss MARY P. NORTON has gone to
Minneapolis, Mimi, to spend number
of months with her sister, Mrs. Emmons.
ANDREW j. Downs has recently been
granted a pension of IS per month with
back pay, through the agency of Judge
White.
Mrs. MARY STEWART of Beaman Park,
Troy, and her granddaughter, Frances,
are spending two weeks with relatives
here.
Mrs. LEE EDGAR and son, of st. Louis
are stopping with Mrs. Geo. A. Smith on
Union street. Mrs. Edgar was formerly
Miss Annie Smith of Bennington.
SERVICES in the Methodist church at
the usual hours next Sunday. Morning
subject: 1.-The mpershableness Of
Love- Evening subject 1.-TWO Gates
Two Ways-Two Ends"
Work on the new bank building has
been suspended for several days, owing
to a lack of brick. The last lot received
does not match those which have been
used, so another lot was ordered.
THE Rev. c. r. Seymour will occupy
his pulpit as usual next Sunday morning
and evening. The evening address will
contain some reference to his late tramp
IN the Adirondacks in company with
Mr.. William Campbell. Subject: ''The
Upper Air"
THE girls employed in the knitting mill
of Tiffany Brothers, spent Tuesday after
noon and evening at the Casino, through
the kindness and generosity of their en-
ployers, who not only gave them half
holiday, but also their tickets and sup
per, thus making a red letter day in
their lives that will long be remembered
DEPUTY SHERIFF. GODFREY and Nash
with J. II. Slavery, returned from North
Adams Tuesday night with the rig that
was stolen from Slavery Saturday even
ing. They had no difficulty in tracing
and identifying it. They did not succeed
in capturing the fellow that ran away
with it.
THE Valentine Knitting Company an
nounces that tomorrow it will issue
to each one of it's female hep, round
trip ticket over the electric road to the
Casino, and dinner ticket good at the
Casino. The tickets will be good for the
balance of the month so that the recipi-
ents can 60 singly or in groups.
NASH AND GODFREY, deputy sheriffs,
returned Wednesday night from an un.
successful search for Walter Richardson,
the party who skipped with one of J. II.
Savery's rigs Saturday night. They
traced him as far as Pittsfield, Mass,
where he undertook to secure work with
gang of men who were at work putting
up telephone line. Not succeeding in
this, Richardson went on and no further
trace was found of him. The officers
found where he had traded off the bicy-
Gle that he received in North Adams
toward the rig that he sold. Richardson
IS we'll known here, having formerly
been engaged in some of the livery sta
bes of the village. For the last few
weeks he had been working with the
gang that are laying the concrete walks
Lore, leaving that job Saturday night.
lie is known as a tough character.