Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-03

CluU III w
JOHN DoLAN of Rutland, has accepted
position with the electric railroad and
has moved his family here.
MISS MARION VAIL, who has been in
Boston few weeks, the guest of DR..
Amadon, has returned home.
Miss LAURA STAFFORD of the gradu-
ating class of 1914 of the High School, en-
tiers the Albany Normal College this
week.
MRS. d. II. MILLER and her little sons,
Earl and Buel, have returned from
weeks pleasant visiting with friends in
Lansingburgh, Troy and Albany.
THE BANNER Supplement is having
large sale at five cents a copy, ready for
mailing. Send copy to your out-of-
town friends. They will appreciate the
favor.
The Young Woman's Club have talk
at their rooms Wednesday of this week,
1t promises to be specially interesting,
as quite a number are to participate in
it.
A OUINTETTE of Atlanta University
students give free concert at the Second
Congregational chapel this evening
They will explain the objects of their
visit ami take collection.
JOE OFT, upon his second appearance
here, Friday evening, drew an audience
that filled the Opera House, number of
standing room only tickets being sold.
The receipts amounted to over $500.
THE Rev. John NJ. Harris of Pittsfeld,
Mass, preached in the Methodist church
Sunday evening. He is the son of Mrs.
S. F. Harris of this village. Next Sun
day the presiding elder, the Rev. j. j..
Noe, will be present at the services and
preach.
A NEW crosswalk is being laid across
Park street, at its junction with Pleas
ant A retition signed by more than
one hundred voters has been presented
to the trustees, asking to have walk
laid across Main street in front of Lii
brary Hall.
The Hon. Olin Merrill, Enosburg
Falls, Hon. O. NJ. Barber, Arlington,
members of the State Board of Railroad
Commissioners, were at the Putnam
House Friday night They had spent
the day at Pownal, investigating the rail
road accident.
For a number of days, Mrs. f. A..
Greenslet, widow of j. j. Greenslet, has
been critically i'll with pneumonia, at the
residence of her son, F. A. Greenslet, on
Gage street. Yesterday morning there
was a noticeable improvement in her
condition, and this morning there are
strong hopes of her recovery, She is 70
years of age.
Miss FLORENCE ALDEN of New York,
who is stopping at the Centre, Celebrat-
ed her eighteenth birthday with party,
Saturday evening, at which about TWEEN
ty-five guests were present. The occa-
sion was one of the many pleasant ones
that have occurred at the Centre during
the summer. Miss Alden is a sister of
Mrs. L. A. Graves.
THE Valentine Knitting Company has
been for some time troubled by want of
sufficient power To obviate the diff
Guilty the Company is now arranging to
put in an additional 125 horse power
steam engine which will increase the ca
pacity of the steam power to 2j0 horse.
This, the Company thinks, will furnish
all the power needed for years to come.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Post Office at Bennington, for the
week ending September End, 1895: Mrs.
P. L. Bttle, Miss NJ. FitzsinOns, Miss
Lizzie Lever, Mr.. Il. Bignoble, Mr.. VIM.
Griffin, Prof j. Newberg, 2nd, Mr.. Ar
thur RochfOrt, Napoleon LOngas. These
letters will be sent to the Dead Letter
Office September 10th, if not delivered
before. In calling for above, please say
advertised" giving date of list.
FRIDAY, August 23d. U. S. Marshal
Harris went to Island Pond and attached
the real estate and other property be-
longing to the Grand Trunk Rail Road
of Canada, and lodged notice of the
same with the clerk of that town. The
attachment was in favor of Wayne Cob
leigh, resident of Maidstone, Essex
County, who, November 18th last, was
run over on crossing at Stratford, Coos
County, y. H., and who brings suit in
the sum of $4,000. The attachment is
returnable at the October term of the
L. 5. Court.
IL another column will be found a
timely communication from Mrs. Isabel
Spencer Freeland, who, it will be remem-
bered, delivered several lectures on var
ious topics to the ladies of the village
and the Centre, a short time since. She
makes vigorous protest against the use
of bodies and wings of birds as orna.
ments for bOnnets and other wearing APP
parel of the ladies. The slaughter of
birds for this purpose threatens to again
assume considerable proportions, and
Mrs. Freeland's efforts TO discourage