Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-08-09
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l.. A, GRAVES and wife LETT thursday
for weeks trip to Boston, Newport and
New York.
THE Misses Fonda, of Cambridge, N.
Y, have been spending several days with
friends here.
Miss BESSIE Fox has returned, after
several weeks visit to relatives in AL
bany, N. Y.
Miss ANNA V. DUFFY, of Sixth avenue,
Troy, will spend the month of August
with friends here.
Miss DAISY ELNIENDoRF, of Bellows
FATS i, spending the month of August
will 'r"lds here.
},n> iEo +. GRAVES and Mrs. Hor-
ace H.,dmaA returned from Asbury
Park, y J., Wednesday.
Mrs. GLD. A. PACKER, of Troy, n. Y,
visited, last week, with her sister, Mrs.
David Carpenter of this village.
Mrs. l. f. GIBSON, Misses Hattie Nor
gan and Drucella Dakin, have gone to
the seashore for a couple of weeks.
CECIL AND FAITH POWERS went to
Middlebury, Wednesday, to spend a
couple of weeks with their grandmother.
Mrs. HARDWOOD, wife of Quartermaster
Fred Harwood, is spending a week in
Manchester, during the absence of her
husband at muster
Gilbert LEONARD, of Bradford, has
been appointed provost sergeant on the
non-commissioned staff of General Estey
commanding the brigade, relieving
r. S. Buss of this village.
WE printed very large edition of the
BANNER Supplement, in March. They
had large sale, but we have yet guam
tity on hand which will be sold for five
cents each, ready for mailing.
NovECK is advertising a closing out
sale of his stock of ladies' and gentle
mems summer goods at extremely low
prices. Read the advertisement for di-
rections for procuring a large water color
painting.
Mrs. HORACE HAsKINs, of ROXbury,
Mass, has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
VIM. C. Bourn, and neice, Mrs. H. A.
Taylor. Mrs. Haskins left yesterday to
visit her husbands brother, Kittridge
Haskins of Brattleboro.
TEACHERS EXAMINATIoN-An exam
ination for first second and third grade
certificates and for admission to the
State Normal schools, will be held at the
Graded school building in Bennington,
August 22nd and sd, commencing at 9
a. m.
DIR. W. E. PUTNAM is about to put
down in front of his new residence and
office on South street, concrete walk,
which will be a decided improvement.
The walk should, and we presume will
be, continued along in front of the sew
eral residences south of the doctor.
READ the two column price list on the
opposite page, from the busiest Store
on the Busiest Block of Bennington's
Busiest Street." or, in other words, from
Drysdae's store. Their midsummer
clearance sale is now on, and to make
room for fall goods, their summer goods
will be forced out with rush by the low
prices.
Mrs. ELIZA NJ. SNIvELY has filed an
answer to The divorce suit begun by her
husband, Rev. T. A. Snively, formerly
rector of st. Johns church in Troy. The
charge is desertion in January, 1898. In
her answer Mrs. Snively says she was
not properly provided for. She is now
in California while Rev. Mr.. Snively is
rector of st. Chrysostom's church in
Chicago.
AN advertisement of MacdOnald's Shoe
Parlors appear in another column. These
parlOrs, in charge of John Meara, of
Hoosick Falls, n. Y, have just been
opened to the public. They are hand
sOmely and conveniently furnished and
are well stocked. Mr.. Meara is son of
Trustee Meara, of Hoosick Falls, and
comes here highly recommended by the
business public of his home.
PROF. II. DRESSED JR., who has just
resigned as superintendent of the North
Bennington Graded school, at the close
of the school year just finished, and Miss
Anna Butts were married Wednesday,
at the residence of her father, John S.
Butts, of White Creek, N. Y, by Rev.
Chas. H. Peck of North Bennington.
Prof. Dressed has been elected superin-
tendent of the new Graded school at his
old home in Springfield, this State.
LAST Wednesday at Glens Falls, DR.. L.
E. Potter's beautiful mare, Valerine,
started in a field of thirteen horses :35
class, purse, $780, The first heat she
won and received a mark of 2:218. The
second heat she was nose and nose with
Bayreuth, the winner, Bayreuth won
the third and fifth heats in 2:223 and
2:214 respectively. Valerine also won
the fourth heat, in 2:214 and received
second money. DR.. Potter is a promi-
ncnt dentist in Hoosick Falls. He was
y student for time in the Office of DIR.
Cutler, of this village.