The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-07

The Graded School lecture cours
{ is TO be revived and arrangement
{ have been made for lectures Frida
: evening every two weeks during tn
, season. The proceeds will be devote
to the purchase of books of reference
maps aud apparatus for the use of til
school. The exhibition ut the close O
the fall term Noted about twenty-fiy
dollars, which makes q good start 10
ward the object in view. The season
tickets for the lecture course will b.
put at the low price of one dollar each
so that the benefits win be available /,
all, while admission will be given {,
the scholars from the upper schools
free. The first lecture will be given b,
Prof. Il. ii. lIigley, on Friday evening
of next week, December II, and Prof
IL. Kellogg, Of the Brooklyn Polytech
mic Institute, will give the next lecture
in the course, December %. Subject
Expression"
The hardships of the tramp nui
sancc are not all OH the side of the citi.
zcns, If the story ola modest but heart,
appcaring fellow at a house in this vii.
lage, Monday, has any truth in it. Tic
said he saw an advertisement that Mr.
Batchcldcr wanted two hundred hands
to chop logs in Ripton. Being out OF
work he started at once for that place,
I On arriving he had not only failed to
find work, but failed to find place to
lodge over night. lie crcpt into barn
supperless, and stayed until morning. but
almost froze. He started on, but met
with a cold reception, finding no oppor-
tunity TO work and no generous hand
to give him food, or place by the fire
to warn himself. AT dinner time he
found his way into the kitchen of lady
in this village, who pitied his forlorn
condition and gave him food. He said
he had never been in jail and hoped he
never should be, but he thought The life
of prisoner much preferable to his.
If he could only find work and a place
to stay he would content himself any
where. This weather is certainly not
nice for the tramping business.
The following are the names of the
scholars in the Middlebury Graded
School, who had neither absent nor
tardy marks for the entire Fall term.
High School, Miss Humphrey. -May
Daunis, Julia Eldredge, Matte Holden.
May Seely, Matte Peck, Mary Fnllcr,
Sarah Guernsey, Edwy Buttoiph.
Grammar School, Miss Oakes.-Bates
Farr, Peter Farrell May Bolton. lola
Latimcr, Addic Farnswortb. Isabel
Billings, Lizzie Sumner, Joseph Law.
renee.
Intermediate. Miss Kirby.-Willie
Mead, Willie Fletcher, Robbie Collins.
Fordie Langworthy, George Wales.
Edith Howe, Ella Foote, Hortie Drake.
No. 4, Miss Bennett.-Belle Duncan.
May Ross, Eva Kingsley, Mary Carmo.
dy, Lettie Benson, Theo. Barnes. Ar
thur Dodge had but one tardy mark, and
that through no fault of his.
No. 3, Miss Holcomb.-IIattic Bolton.
Maggie Baldwin, Josie Gee, Matte
Langworthy, Clara Latimer, Nellie St.
George, George Beatty, Willie Duffce.
Willie Foote, Johnnie Hammond.
No. 2, Miss Bell.-Mary Boudreau.
Addie Boudreau, Aggie Brown, Grace
Seely, Willie Brown. Tommy CaImodv,
Lewis Gee, frankie Holden. Willie
Hammond, Rufie Langworthv, BERTHE
Mead, frankie Parker, Georgia Dickjn-
son, Willie Beatty.
No. !, Miss OLcary.-Mamie Me-
Hugh, Jessie Kingsley, Allie William
son, Jennie Williamson, Eddie Buckley.
Charlie Rich, Eddie Mccormick.
Charlie Collins had but one tardv
mark.
AT the convention of the Woman.s
christian Temperance Union, held at
chicago, the second Thursday of. De-
ccmher was set apart as a day of
Thanksgiving and prayer to be obscry-
Ell throughout the nation, for the. cause
OF temperance. Services will be held
on that day, in Middlebury, as follows:
from ii to II AM, prayer meet
ing in the vestry of the Congregational
church. AT PM, children's meeting
in the same place. The evening viii
be devoted to mass meeting TO COM
mence at Z o'clock.
Let all friends of temperance exert
themselves to make these meetings val
liable to themselves, to each other and
to the whole community. Ladies espe-
clally Will, as much as possible. put BIZ
their common avocations upon that day.
and devote Themselves TO these meet
ings, as well as to meditation and
prayer.
All children and Young people of this
town or any other, will be welcomed TO
the children's meeting in the afternoon.
An effort will be made to entertain
them by addresses and remarks by
various persons. The Juvenile Tenn
perance Society, of Weybridge, we trust
Will be strongly represented. There
Will be recitations and singing by the
children. 1t would encourage the
members of the Juvenile Society and
also support those who have charge of
1t If the parents and friends would
come out and attend this meeting.
May the citizens of Middlebury. each
and every one, interest themselves in
the mass meeting, and feel at liberty to
express their sentiments at that time in
regard to the great cause. Speakers
from abroad are expected; but it is to
be hoped that temperance mass meet
ing in our town need not depend upon
such alone for interest. Lei our citi-
zens themselves testify to their ear
nestness by their presence and their
remarks; thus to help the cause along.