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THE women of the Church of the Sa
cred Heart are arranging for fair to be
held next month.
A MINISTERIAL Baptist conference fol
Rutland and Bennington counties will be
held at Poultney beginning Tuesday
evening, November 10Th, and continued
through Nov. goth, 2lst, and 22nd.
THE second football eleven from the
High School played the grammar school
Saturday. The grammar school eleven
won in two fifteen minute, halves. Score,
u too.
THE Putnam House was searched SAT
urday and bottle half full of (said to
beg whiskey and bottle of lager seized,
The case came before the Municipal
Court and upon request, the hearing was
continued until the 30th.
BISHOP HALL has sent to all Episcopal
parishes in Vermont a pastoral letter
referring to the letter of the house of
Bishops asking prayers and aims on be-
half of the Armenian sufferers, authoriz-
ing a prescribed prayer and receipt OF
contributions by all churches.
The mill of VIM. Campbell has shut
down for couple of weeks for the pur-
pose of changing from thick to thin
goods, also to make some necessary re-
pairs. The mill has been in constant
operation day and night for weeks, and a
short rest will probably be appreciated
by the help.
The Cottage Hotel continues to come
to the front. M. E. Burgess, the owner
of the building, was before the Munich
pal Court, Saturday, to answer to the
charge Of leasing house in which liquor
was sold and for other purposes. He
called for a continuation for the purpose
of consulting with his counsel and the
hearing was continued until the 22nd.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Post Office at Bennington, for the
week ending Nov. 18th, 1895: Joe D.
Doucett, Andrew Guenn, Fred Mattison,
c. c. Newell, L. n, Stevens, Frank
TONNES, George Welsby, Frank
Winters, Miss Lime G..
Polk, Mrs. Margaret H. Sprague.
These letters will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office, Dec. End, if not delivered
before. In calling for above, please say
"advertised," giving date of list.
IN another column the Montpelier Ar
gus and Patriot advertises areduction in
its subscription from 50 to $3.50 per year.
This will be welcome news for the De-
mocracy of the State, with whom the Ar
gus is great favOrite, as we'll as for
many Republicans who enjoy its newsy
and spicy columns. The Argus is I'M
doubleday the newsiest weekly in the
State, but it is the Vermont organ of
that party over whose crushing defeats
we have been rejoicing, Its politics are
abominable; in other respects it is ex-
cellent.
THE High School football eleven has
arranged the following lineup: A. E.
Hollister, centre; r. E. Potter, L. g.; L.
Nichols, R. G.; NJ. Townsend, L. T.; r.
B. Pike. R. T.; W. j. Meagher, L. E.: r.
E. Grennan, H. D. Larrabee, r. E.; LIE
Grande Hyde, @. B.; r. RawsOn, L. II.
B.: R. E. Grennan, H. D, Larrabee, r.
II. B.; J. NJ. Ayres (captain), F. g.. sub
stitutes, NJ. Love and Chas. Chase. 1t
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the Hoosick Falls High School eleven for
next Saturday.
THE will of Mrs. W. H. H. Baxter, of
Rutland, distributes the bulk of her es.
tate to relatives and friends, Hugh II.
Baxter. her son, being the residuary leg
aztec. There were four public requests;
to the Trinity Society of Rutland, in
trust for specified purposes, $1,000; to
Zion's church at Manchester Centre, in
trust for the support of the rector and
his successors, $4,000; to the Domestic
and Foreign Missionary Society, the in
come to be expended in Vermont, $500
and to the Rutland Missionary Associa-
ton, $4,000.
AT present the BANNER regularly goes
into about $50 Bennington residences
twice each week. This fact should be of
weight with every man with goods TO sell.
An average of five residents in each of
these houses would give the BANNER g.
$50 Bennington readers twice each week,
and with those added who secure the pa
per through neighbors by borrowing or
exchanging and those purchasing the pa
per on the street, this number would be
considerably swelled. AS the value of
newspaper advertising depends upon the
number of readers, these figures will be
of value for Bennington merchants in de-
Gliding where to place their advertising
for the approaching holidays.
A SERVICE of unusual interest was en-
jGyed by the large Congregation who at
tended the Baptist church Sunday. Rev.
Mr.-Lawson's sermon upon that search
ing'questien thrice put to Peter, "Lovest
Thou Me2" will long linger in the minds
of the large number who listened so in