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confined to his home by illness.
TAsKER's music rooms are now locat-
ed opposite First National Bank, Main
street.
MRS. H. n. KEHoE has moved from
Pleasant street to a tenement on Main
street.
S. L. JEwETT advertises the latest
spring styles of wall papers, in another
column.
VIM LUNDERGAN is spending few
days with his sister, Mrs. j. X. Miller, in
Munroe, N. Y.
THE annual meeting of the Village I'm
provement Society will be held March
30th. See notice.
Mrs. ANN DONNELLY has moved into
one of the tenements in the new Hawks
block on Main street.
Mr. AND Mrs. L. A. GRAVES enter
tanned few friends at dinner party at
their home. Wednesday evening.
Miss ALICE MABEL NORTON has just
returned home. after spending several
weeks in New York and Philadelphia.
The Young Woman's Club will give
their last supper Saturday night, from 6
until o'clock. Chowder and oysters
will be served.
THE Young Women's Club have their
regular business meeting, Wednesday,
March Goth, followed by a practical talk
on ''self reliance"
SERVICES will be held in the Methodist
church at the usual hours, Sunday
Morning subject: THE Law of Spiritual
Interacton''; evening, Jesus the Way
to the Father
OUR readers will please note the
change from Wednesday Goth to Monday
18th, of the annual meeting of Y. NJ. A.
Monday, 18th. is the proper date, from
, to o'clock, p. m.
PROF. GEO. II. WILEY of Boston, has
arrived and will begin rehearSals at once
for the production of the comic opera,
THE Miller's Daughter" to be produced
here under the auspices of Company X.
LIEUT.-Gov. MANsUR as president of
the Vermont Society, Sons of American
Revolution, has appointed VIM. Z. Hawks
of this village, one of the committee to
represent the society at the dedication of
the monument to Gov. Thomas Chitten-
den, which is to be erected at Williston.
YESTERDAY Free Press said: Mr.. and
Mrs. w. II. Philips are in the city, being
the guests of Geo. F. Bell and wife,
Bishop Michaud is still sojourning in
Rome. He will return i'll time to attend
the 50th anniversary of Archbishop Will
'liams' entering the priesthood IN May
which great church event will be OBJ
served in Boston, where The Archbishop
resides.
THE membership of the Vermont Sol
diers' Home has been 100 since the first
of January, 1895, since then there has
been ten admitted, six returned from fur
Tough, five discharged and three died.
There are 90 at present and 20 are cared
of Company B, 10th Vermont, is danger
Ously i'll with gangrene and paralysis and
cannot live but short time,
THE great increase of business on the
Fitchburg railroad of late has made the
facilities in the yard at Williamstown,
Mass, hardly sufficient to accommodate
Nhn 10 har &c Lot
time allow the yard work to continue.
There is tr -uble experienced also at the
round house in getting engines out quick
ly enough because of the insufficient
amount of tracks. Therefore, as soon as
spring opens two new tracks will be built
One will extend from the eastbound
yard 10 the main track, running beside
the Hoosac river; the second will extend
from the switch leading to the caboose
track to the west end of the coal dump,
where it will join with the coal shed
track.
A MEETING of the School Directors and
Town Superintendents of Bennington
county was held at Arlington, Tuesday,
the object being the consideration of the
selection of text books for the next five
years and of changes in the school law
and methods of administration. About
twenty of the sixty-Odd school officers in
the towns were present. The following
school-book publishing houses were rep
resented: American Book Company, G.
II. Butler & Co., CHM & Co., D. G. Heath
~ Co., Leach, Sewall & Sanborn, May
nard & Merrill Company, Potter IL Co.,
Sheldon &c Co., Silver, Burdett & Co.,
futile Company, University Publishing
Company, Werner & Co., and American
Music Company. During the afternoon
State Superintendent Stone explained the
school law in detail, giving good sugges-
tions to the school directors. The adopt.
ton of the school books will be made by
the town school officers in June.