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PERSONAL. mm mm mm mm mmm mm Souvenir of BENNINGTON. Twenty-sixviews for 25 at The White Studio, Norton's White B'ld'g, Main St LOCAL NEWS. AT NOVECK'S Price Cut on Following Items: You should see them. About 10 fine Ladies' All-Wool Tailor-Made Suits at a reduction of $2.00 to 4.00 on a suit to close.

About 15 fine Skirts at one-half and less their former price, ranging from 49c, 89c to S2.50, were more than double. Special cut prices on Ladies' Trimmed Hats. NEW GOODS JUST ARRIVED A beautiful assortment of all kinds of new Shirt Waists, new Children's Wash Dresses and Sailor Suits, new Wash Petticoats, new Babies' Bonnets and French Dresses, new Summer Underwear for men, women and children. We can show you the finest assortment of men's and boys' NEGLIGE SHIRTS AT 50c You would think they were worth $1.00. Come and see them.

N. NOVECK. 437 Main Hawk's Block, Opposite M. E. Church.

im mm 7m Be Ready for Another Warm Wave THE GREATEST STOCK OF Wash Dress Goods Is ready to supply the wants of all Ben-nington with hundreds of yards of the most popular and desirable fabrics at remarkably low prices. Dress Ginghams from 8c to 50c. Silk Ginghams, 20c. Golf Suiting, 12 l-2c. Mercerized Duck, 15c.

Katrina Dimity, 15c. Charmione Brilliant, 10c. Papillon, 20c. Russian Cord P. K.s, 20c.

Galatea Cloth, 13c. Potomac Printed Madras, 15c. Great Sale of Wall Papers Ten Thousand Rolls 1500 Rolls, 3c single roll, 6c double roll, border and ceiling to match. 2000 Rolls Gilt Papers, 5c, 6c, and 7c single roll, border and ceiling to match. 1500 Rolls Embossed Paper for Parlors, Sitting Rooms, Dining Rooms and Halls, 10c a single roll.

Great Bargains In Mattings, Carpets, Bugs, Lace Curtains, Window Shades, Poles, Floor Oil Cloths and Lenoleuins. Agents for Butterick's Patterns. Subscriptions taken for The Delineator. A Woman Eighty Years Old Who has been a good cook all her life, said to us the other day that "WISE KING" Flour was the West Iie Ea ci' Used Such a testimonial is worth a good deal to us, inasmuch as all our customers say about the same thing. "Wis(k IiZiii Flour Costs No More Than any other good kind.

But we do not advertise it as the cheapest, but the best Hour. Come and see us about it. HUBLBURT 123 BRADFORD STREET. Toe Second Congressional District Convention has been called to meet at Montpelier, Wednesday, June 18tb, the day before the Republican State Contention, when Hon. Kittredge Haskins will be renominated.

--The "Pottery Row," on Park street, was divested of its old time appearance several years ago, when Major Valentine tcok out two tenements, cutting the "row" up into 3 double houses. This week the central portion has been moved to new foundations, on an extensiou west of Scott street. The foundation is being built for the power house of the electric light plant which James C. Colgate will install at his new mansion in the western part of Bennington. The station will also furnish the lights for the Old First Church at Bennington Centre.

The carpenters who have been working for some months on Mr. Colgate's bouse will complete the job in a short time and will go to Pittsfield, Mass to maae extensive alterations on the Fosburg house urder a contract of Norcross Brothers. Affairs at the Howe Scale Works, Rutland, culminated in a strike Wednesday. Concessions had been made as noted in our state items, today, but the ten hours pay for nine hours work has proved a discussion that would not "don." Five hundred workmen are out, and the worst of it is, that the plant may be moved to Buffalo, N. a proposal that has been discussed by trie company.

The arrangements for Memorial Day, by the two Grand Army posts of tbis village, are nearly completed, and will follow about the lines of preceding years. On Memorial Sunday, May 2oth, Custer Post will attend divine service at Hinsdillville, by invitation of the Rev. G. E. Mayer.

Sixth Corps Post will worship in the Baptist church, Rev. Frank R. Morris, pastor. Oo the 30tb, Custer Post will proceed to the cemetery at Bennington Centre, Hon. John V.

Carney, president of the day, and M. N. Clapp, marshal, and the Rev. G. A.

Kerr of South Sbaftsbury, will deliver the address. In the afternoon the Post will go to North Bennington, where the address will be given by the Rev. R. B. Tozer.

Further details will be announced soon. Sixth Corps Post, with about the same procession as last year, including the schools, will hold its memorial exercises at the Soldiers' Home, Prof. W. S. C.

Russell being the orator of the day. The president and marshal, we are told, will be announced after the meeting to-morrow night. Thus historic Bennington will honor the memory of her patriotic dead, and strew flowers above their last resting place. remembering as well those who sleep in unknown graves. E.

L. Waterman of Brattleboro, was in town Tuesday. fjen. E. fj.

Bates has been in Brattleboro a part of this week. John Cottrell of White Creek, N. was in town Sunday. Harold Harmon of Princeton Theological Seminary, has been in town for a few days. Mrs.

H. S. Armstrong is ill at her home on Silver street. Mrs. Chauncey H.

Goold of Chat-hamtf N. has been here for a couple of days. Jchn H. Warren, who has been indisposed for a week or so, is again regularly at bis desk in the National Express ofltce in this village. Mrs.

William H. Shields of Troy, lv. will not come to Bennington for the summer until the latter part of June. Mrs. Hattie Bradford very pleasantly entertained the members of the Monday Evening Eucher Club at the Sixth Corps Post rooms.

The club will meet with Mrs. A. Li. Ritchie next Monday evening. E.

Q. Lasell and family will pass the summer in Bennington. They have usually been to Dorset. Mrs. Maynard, the mother of Mrs.

Lasell, will accompany them. Hon. P. W. Clement will not speak at Manchester to-morrow, as advertised, but at West Pawlet.

The date for Manchester has not been an nounced. Mrs. E. H. Scott of New York, ar.

rived in town, Tuesday and, for the present, is the guest of Mrs. Charles R. Seymour. Mrs. Grace Barnes and son, of Chat-bam, N.

are visiting her sister, Mrs. Ernest Lambert of this village. Allen Stupplebean, iow of Philadelphia, expects to take a position in Baldwins, Long Island, next week. He is pleasantly remembered here. Miss Sopbronia Collins conducted a practical talk on "Who is My at the Young Woman's Club Wednesday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cochran of Brooklyn, N. are rejoicing in the birth of a son. Mrs.

Cochran is a daughter of A. P. Chi Ids. Deputy Sheriff John Nash left Wednesday afternoon for a several days' visit to the northern part of Vermont. The Rev.

John M. Harris, a native Beaningtonian, who is now pastor of the Third Street Methodist church in Troy, N. has started, with encouraging results, a fund for raising the debt from his church. Mrs. Herbert Marsden returned Wednesday evening from Boston, where she had been to attend the Supreme Lodge session of the New England Order of Protection, which met there Tuesday.

Mrs. Marsden was elected Supreme Guardian. Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Lucy Griswold Plumb at her home in Harrington, of apoplexy. She was about sixty years old.

Mrs. Plumb, who was a daughter of the late Abner Griswold of Bennington Centre, removed to Delaware about thirty years ago. Conductor John J. Parris of Rutland has bet $1,000 with George C. Underhlll, of Florence, that Fletcher D.

Proctor will not be nominated for governor at the coming Republican otate Convention. Mr. Parris offered to put up another $1,000 against Proctor, but Mr. Underbill would not cover it. Mr.

Underbill is the "Democratic neighbor" from whom a letter was recently circulated, setting forth reasons why the Republicans of Vermont, should nominate Proctor for governor. gatherings were abandoned, and toe society, although its officers held over, went, practically, out of existence. The Union Medical Association, composed of physicians resident in the counties of Bennington, and Rensselaer, and Washington counties in New York, was organized in Cambridge, October IS, 1879. A constitution and by-laws were adopted. The first board of officers was: Dr.

Lyman Rogers, Bennington, president; J. M. Lambert, Salem, vice-president; C. C. Schuyler, Troy, third vice-president; John Miliington, East Greenwich, corresponding secretary.

At the annual meeting held in October, 1880, the Association extended is jurisdiction by the admission of Berkshire County, to the rights of membership and participation iu the proceedings. The name was, also, changed to the ''Bennington, Berkshire, Rensselaer, and Washington Union Medical Association. Ibis society has maintained is organization, and meetings at different places are held. The Bennington County Medical Society had not been active for years. After the meeting of the Vermont State Medical Society, beld in the fall of 1900, the members were called together, and a reorganization was partially affected.

Much interest has been aroused, and it now bids fair to be a successful organization. The present president is Dr. L. H. Ross of this village.

PERSONAL. cities they will call on friends and relatives before they corre home. Mr. Plank's health is not of the 'rEDesT and he is now on the sick list. Gen.

John G. McCullough and Frederick B. Jennings of North Bennington, generously came to the relief of the Bennington Free Library, as suggested in The Banner, recently. The library was in debt over $1,700, and citizens bad srbacribed about one-half this amount, when Messrs. McCullough and Jennings, as they have before done, came to the rescue and placed enough money in the hands of the trustees to liquidate the remainder of the entire liabilities.

It is understood each contributed one-balf of the balance. Thus have these gentlemen again placed our people under obligations for assistance rendered to the Free Library. Col. LeGrand C. Tibbits and1, wife, who passed the winter in Oakland, California, have returned East," and will oicupy the Manor bouse in Hoosick, N.

the coming sunr.mer. mm The Medical Society. The Bennington County Medical Society held its bi-monthly meeting at North Bennington, Wednesday. The attendance was the largest in the history of medical meetings in this county. Four members were admit te Dr.

T. F. Andrews of Bondville, and Doctors Daley, Fillmore andCbis-holm of tbis village. It was voted to become auxiliary to the Vermont State Medical Society, and that meetings be held quarterly, at North Bennington, on the second Wednesdays of January, April, July, and October. The programme announced was carried outv and Dr.

James M. Hamilton of Kut-land, state organizer, was present and participated in the discussions of the paper by Dr. W. S. Phillips on "Ty-phoidFever.

This was a thoughtful effort. The discussion was opened by Dr. C. W. Bartlett, wbo was followed by Doctors H.

S. Goodall, Woodbull and others. The opening paper, however, bad been historical, and was written by Dr. L. B.

Newton. Tbis was a resume of the entire history of medical societies in the county and, imcidentally, in the state. A sketch is appended, from the pen of Corre spjndent Burt: The present society is a direct offspring of the first medical society ever formed in Vermont, which was incorporated by an act of the Legislature, passed at the session held in the month of October, 1784. The society was composed of physicians then re-aiding in Bennington and counties. The members of the profession had met on the 19th of the preceding August, and voted to organize, and ask for a charter from the General Assembly.

Its members included every member of the medical profession in the two counties. How long this society existed, who were its othcers, and what were its transactions, there is no record, neither is there of its final dissolution, or list of its members. About the year 1810 the Benningtun Oounty Medical Society was formed. Its first president was Doctor Little-field of Arlington. It bad a charter as an auxiliary to the State Medical Society; and was a revival of the one that had preceded it.

Its seal was of copper, about tha size of a silver dollar, with the proper ergravings on one aide. Tbis society finally went out of existence, but was resuscitated again about the year 1860. At the meoing in January, 1865, the president, Dr. Luther Mosley, of Arlington, and Doctor Ames of Factory Point, were the only persons present. Tbis society followed in the footsteps of its two predecessors.

The Bennington County and Hoosick Medical Society was organized at Arlington. Its members included doctors resident of the county, and of the town of Hoosick, N. Y. The fate that bad overtaken previous societies seemed to follow this one. Meetings were held regularly for a time, but the interest gradually died out, finally all Mildred Holland is quietly resting from fresh laurels gained after surpassing all previous efforts in her stage career, in the production of "The Lily and the Prince, at Buffalo, N.

April 7. 1902. She is Boon to sail for Europe and devote the summer to looking up the locale of ber new play, and will attend the coronation in London next month. We hope she will appear in Bennington next season. A.

L. Fabyan, proprietor of the Jan-caster, N. Hotel, died suddenly on Monday, aged 59. He was one of the best known hotel men in New Hampshire. For many years he managed the Old Fabyan House, which was built and owned by his father.

Later be was manager of the Mount Pleasant House and the Quincy House in Boston. A widow survives him. Mr. and Mrs. S.

F. Plank are visiting their son, Charles Plank, in Pitts-field, and will also visit in Springfield before their return via. Albany and Troy, N. Y. In the latter PERSONAL.

Bradst reefs Vermont Trade Report. The weather continues to be too cold for the sale of seasonable goods and in consequence the retail stores are not very active The farmers are busy and agricultural conditions are favorable. The manufactuiing industries throughout the state continue active and there is no particular labor trouble reported, although the carpenters and contractors in Burlington have come to no permanent agreement. Burlington reports the wholesale business fairly good, mills and factories busy and collections fair; retail trade quiet owing to weather. It is understood that the contractors are paying the carpenters for 9 hours' work the same wages formerly paid for 10 hours; this arrangement appears to be only temporary but a premanent agreement will likely be reached soon.

In bellows Falls the paper mills and other manufacturing plants are very busy, collections good, retail trade fair and the hotel recently renovated is receiving large patronage. Ludlow reports business good both in manufacturing and retail lines, the chair factory shipping a large amount of goods. Hard-wick reports the granite business very good, the large sheds here having practically doubled their capacity and are putting on cutters as fast as they can get them. Rents are well occupied and in demand. While the weather has not been favorable for quarry work it is now being pushed to full capacity.

The slate business at West Pawlet is good, quarry working full force; retail trade good, collections fair. Rutland reports business good in all lines, collections fair. In St. Albans business is about as usual, although it is reported that the cold weather has interferred with retail business. St.

Johnsbury reports the manufacturing interests well employed, no recent changes in retail business or collection. The manufacturing business is in good condition in Brattleboro, other interests normal. Barre reports the "Exchange" as getting along well, the granite sbeds busy and collections as usual. Manufacturing interests well employed at Island Pond, retail trade unchanged, collections fair. Mrs.

Frank E. Howe is quite ill with la Grippe. George Dauin is confined to tb house by illness. Mrs. Harrison I.

Norton gives a reception tbis afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Mrs. Robert R. Hall of Hampden, is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Almon R. Sweet. Oscar Nichols of Boston, arrived yesterday for a short visit with his brother, W. H. Nichols.

Judge and Mrs. J. B. Wheeler of Rutland are receiving congratulations upon the birth of a daughter, Sunday, June 11, 1902. Mrs.

Wheeler was formerly Miss Lizzie Murray of South Shaftsbury. Adiuiral Dewey has nailed one lie, which has done duty on a good many occasions, as showing the evils of in temperance. Here is the story A Sunday-school teacher in Canton, Ohio, while talking temperance to ber boys recently, was much troubled when one of them asserted that, while the battle of Manila Bay was in progress, grog was served at frequent intervals to everybody on the American fleet. To settle the matter the teacher wrote to Admiral Dewey asking for the facts. She soon received a kindly reply.

"Iam very glad," wrote the Admiral, "to have an opportunity of correcting the impression which you say prevails among your Sunday school scholars, that the men on my fleet were given liquor every 20 minutes during the battle of Manila Bay. As a matter of fact every participant, from myself down, fought the battle of Manila Bay on coffee alone. The United States laws forbid the taking of liquor aboard ship, except for medicinal uses, and we had no liquor that we could have given the men even had it been desired to do ao. A number of other excellent tenets taught to youth have just as little upon which to stand. CLEVELAND Baking Powder Makes the lightest, most delicious and wholesome hot-breads, cakes and griddle -cakes THE American Fidelity Co.

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