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of house on Elm street.
ERsKINE COLE has the foundation up
for new residence on Putnam street
THE Young Womens Club will have
their regular business meeting on We'd
nesday evening, Oct. 10th, followed by a
social.
MISS HAwLEY of Manchester is giving
whist lessons in Bennington. About
twenty ladies are improving the oppor-
tunity.
REUBEN FLOOD has set over fifty traps
for foxes in the forests between Sears
burg ard SJratton. Foxes are said to be
plenty in that section.
CHA3. A. MAURER has rented the
rooms in the Adams Block, recently va
Gated by G. Fl. Mason and is furnishing
them for his use as a law office.
Mr.. AND MRS. J. G. COLGATE gave a
dinner party last evening. to the resi-
dent clergy in honor of Rev. Geo. B.
Lawson, the new Baptist minister.
WELL bound books are the greatest
ornaments to home; they are also
among the most useful adjuncts. The
work done at the BANNER Bindery is
neat and substantial.
AT the annual meeting of the Trus-
tees of the Vermont Home for Destitute
Children, held in Burlington, Thursday,
Miss s. E. Park was elected director
from Bennington county.
Mrs. VosBURGH of New York City has
come to spend the winter with her sister
Mrs. G. Friender and assist in her restau-
rant and boarding house. Mrs. Vos-
burgh is an experienced caterer.
HAVING finished laying about 900 feet
of sewer on Washington street, the sew
er gang has been called from labor and
no more sewer work, except a few con-
nections, will be done this fall.
MRS. LOUIS A. GRAVES handsomely
entertained thirty one ladies at card
party Friday afternoon, last. Elaborate
refreshments were served by Sinsabaugh,
of Troy, n. Y. Prizes were won by the
following sladies: first, Mrs. II. w. Mar
tin; second, Mrs. S. Huling Blackmer;
consolation prize, Miss Ethel Childs.
JOHN RUSSELL, a prominent citizen of
the City of st. John, New Brunswick,
has been the guest of Col. R. j. Coffey,
at the Soldiers Home, during the past
week. They are cousins and recently
met each other at the Crawford House
in Boston. They had not seen each
other previous to that time, since 1913.
JOHN w. WILLIAMS has rented the
building on the corner of Main and
School streets, formerly occupied by G.
FL. Rice, and will use portion of it as a
dwelling and the other portion for his
bakery. To adapt the building TO it's
new purposes, number of interior
changes have been made.
THE hearing in the cases of John and
Michael Powers, for assault on Michael
Sullivan in Arlington two weeks ago was
held before Justice Vault, in Arlington,
Saturday afternoon. John Powers fur.
nished bail in the sum of 5000 and Mi
,chaelin the sum of $4OO for their ap-
pearance at an adjourned hearing which
is to be held two weeks from last Satur-
day. Sullivan is rapidly improving.
MAI. F. w. CHILDs, of Brattleboro,
brother of A. P. Childs, and member
OF. the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
of Boston, joined the excursion of that
body to Richmond, Va, leaving Satur.
day. The party has gone to points of
interest in Virginia, and Maj Childs
and Others may go to the Atlanta expo
sition before returning home.
THE third battalion of the Patriarchs
Militant of Vermont Odd Fellows, met
in Rutland yesterday. The Rutland and
Bellows Falls Cantons appeared with full
ranks, but the. Bennington Canton did
not attend. John H. Ayres of the de-
partment staff, was present and partici
pated in the parade, which occurred at
Up. IN, through the principal streets of
the city.
THURSDAY, the parents, in Bratteboro.
of Mrs. Mary Howe LAWN received ca
BILE message announcing that Mr.. and
Mrs. LAWN have both made an engage
ment at the Royal opera house in Berlin,
Germany. 1t was known that Mrs. Law
in had gone to Berlin with the prospect
that she might be chogen to take the
place Of one of the leading. sopranos of
the company, but the engagement of
both was not anticipated.
Il. L. STILLsoN went on Saturday, on a
business trip to Connecticut. He
stopped over the Sabbath at the Stillson
homestead in Newtown that State, which
has been in the family for over 200 years.
The only resident of the home left is
Miss Mary Beers Stillson, now over 10
years of age, the rest of the family hay
ing moved away or deceased. In the
church yard (Trinity),. at Newtown is a
long line of headstones of the Stillson
ancestry some of the dates reaching back
to the seventeenth century.