Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-05-14

Mrs. FRED BOWEN yet continues quite
ill.
JOHN j. CANFIELD, of the Hoosick
Falls Post Office, spent Sunday in town.
MRS. GEORGE W. HARTMAN, who has
been quite i'll for several weeks, is i'm
proving.
MRS. H. F. LoTHRoP and Mrs. w. F.
Marley of Pittsford, are guests at Geo.
W. Harman's.
MRS. JEROME BENTON, who has re-
Gently had second shock of paralysis,
was quite low this morning.
Mr.. AND MRS. LOUIS R. WHITNEY of
Albany, N. Y, and their friend, Frank
w. Cady, visited IN town Sunday.
THE Young Woman's Club will have
their regular business meeting on We'd
nesday evening, May 18th, at s o'clock.
Miss Kate Lundergan leaves to.mor-
row for a two weeks visit with her sis
ter, Mrs. John Miller in Munroe, NY.
r. L. BARNEY sewers his connection
with c. G.. Coles clothing store this week,
to accept a position in the Campbell
mill.
MISS ETHEL STEVENS, who passed the
winter here with her grand parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Jas. Bassett, has returned to
Brooklyn, N. Y.
CHARLES H. BENTON has been con-
fined to his home several days, the re-
suit of an operation for relief from an
ingrOwing toe nail.
THERE has been decided improve
ment in the condition of Michael LOner-
gan, since Friday, and he is now thought
to be out of danger
JAMES BAssETT, the veteran carriage
maker, 2G7 Main street, is turning out
some nice work this spring. He has de-
signed and built several delivery wagons
that do his establishment credit
CONSIDERABLE improvements are be-
ing made to the house occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Barney, for a number of
years the home of the late Chauncey L.
Shaw on Beach street.
EDWARD DoNNELLY is here and will
remain until the opening of the theatre
cal season in the fall. During the sea.
son just closed, he has met with flatter-
ing success with one of the leading
troupes on the road.
THIS section was visited by quite Sc
we're frost last night, and it is feared that
much damage was done, especially to
fruit as most of the trees were well bios
somed out. Ice nearly quarter of an
inch thick, is reported in several places
in the village.
DEPUTY SHERIFF FRED GODFREY left
this morning for BrattlebOro, having
with him Morris Irving, who has been
adjudged insane by a council of physi-
clans, and goes to the asylum. One hear
IN the cases of Kate and Ann Irving, his
sisters who were taken there few weeks
ago, has been begun and continued.
SHERIFF WILSON, accompanied by
Deputy Sheriff Stearns of Rutland, and
j. Henry Otis of Wallingford, were in
the village to-day, looking for horse
and carriage that was stolen from the
latter on Wednesday of last week. The
rig was II aced to East Dorset Thursday,
where the horse was fed at noon. The
same evening the horse was fed here at
Savery's livery stable, but instead of hav-
ing carriage here a change had been
made, and Concord wagon substituted.
Thus far no further trace of man or team
has been found.
A PARTY of fishermen, consisting of
W. II. Bradford, E. w. Bradford, c.. H.
Mason, Doctor Jenney, L. S. Norton,
George Shurtleff, Charles Dewey and
Fred Godfrey, spent couple of the last
days of last week at Little Pond in
fishing. During their alb
sence they caught about II pounds of
trout, the two largest being taken by w.
II. Bradford and Charles Dewey. These
about II pounds each.
THE Troy Times of Friday said: John
McGurn of Bennington called at police
headquarters yesterday and stated that
his son, aged seventeen years, William
had ran away from home. He
thought the missing youth was in this
city. Officer Butcher of the third pre-
cinct found young McGurn and COM
panion named Meredith, also from Ben
this morning. The formers
father was notified" Young McGurn
home on the 6:3S p. m. train,
Friday evening. He was accompanied
by his mother. The young man was
locked up in Jail Saturday, at the request
of his bail. He was before the Munlci-
pal Court Monday, and his case was con-
PAUL II. POTTER's four-act dramatiza-
ton of Du Maurier's novel "Trilby'' is
truly the drama of the period. 1t has
proven grand success-the grandest of
this decade. The character drawing
which the dramatist has shown is the
most vivid ever known. To those who
have read the book this fact must neces-
sarily stand out boldly. The single hint
of the novel, during all the life of the
characters in the studio, of Svengali's