The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-01-13


Middlebury elected the following Iii
rectors for the year ensuing: Pari
Fletcher, Calvin Till. y. W. Stewart. j
la. Wellington. Subsequently the iii
rcctors held meeting and elected Par
is Fletcher, president; Calvin Hill, vice
president; J. G.. Wellington. cashier ant
C. f. Pimcy, teller. -
The cast of characters in the dra
matte entertainment To be given at Acad
envy Hall by the Reform Club, mex
Wednesday evening, shows that tn,
parts have been taken by the following
VIII II. Nichols, j. X. Newell, j. L
Kingsley, II. b. IIoicc, j. &. Harvey
Fred Footc, G.. d. Warner, +. II. Brain
erd, II. =. LangworIhy, Misses Lizzie
Lamb, Lille Severance, Jennie Brooks
Alice Twitchcll and Alice Rockwell. =
Thursday was comparatively milo
and comfortable, but during the night
the north wind arose and blew almost &
gale. filling up roads and cooling offthe
atmosphere so that the mercury in tho
thermometer suddenly dropped down
this (Friday) morning, TO from IA to Is
degrees below zero, according TO loca-
ton. Very few teams found il convcn-
| lent To come into town and business has
been dull. The snow has become so
deep in all this region rs to seriously
depress the wood business.
The Middlcbury Reform Club will
give Il dramatic entertainment mt Acad-
envy Hall in this village on Wednes-
day evening of next week, Jan II, con-
sisting of the popular comedy entitled
'Thc Green Mountain Boy" in two
acts, and the laughablc farce 1.-The Loan
of a Lover" Music by IIatch's orches-
trail band. Doors open at o'clock.
Curtain rises at I 40. Tickets for sale
at Chapman Il Co.'S on and after Sat-
urday January Is. Admission %, re-
served seats 50 cents.
Our ingenious ncighbor, ). llolton,
is getting up model of 'single wrap
per addressing machine" as we should
call it, which seems to supply need
in publishing offices which mail much
of their lists in single wrappers. 1t is
combined mailer and wrapper-cutter
1t cuts the address from printed slip,
pnsies il and stamps it 10 the wrapping
paper, fed from continuous. roll, which
Is then cut of and laid in II pile ready
for use. The speed is almost unlimited.
1t is IN ingenious conception to Tighten
one Of the most onerous jobs of the
mailing office.
On Friday evening Of last week II
lodge OF Good Templars was organized
by State Deputy Mrs. A. =. Upper, and
the following officers were elected:
Jane, NJ. Slade, W. G. T.; Mrs. W. II.
Button, w. V. r.; +. Il. Clay, record
ing secretary; Miss Frank Langwor-
thy, W. +. s.; Miss Ida Newcomb,
chaplain; Miss Mary Flint, trcasur-
er; W. W. Swiney, marshal; Mrs. w,
III. Goodnough, guard Mrs. +. Ii.
Noilhrup, sentinel; +. A. Sturtevant,
lodge deputy and representative to the
grand lodge at Bennington. The lodge
will hold weekly meetings on Wednes-
nay evenings at srypn o'clock, at +. II.
ClaN's hall.
-Four brothers and three sisters,
children Of the late Sheffield Lang
worthy. sal down to Il reunion dinner
at the residence of Mrs. James NJ. Slade,
in this village, on Wednesday of last
week. January 3, and the united ages
of the seven present amounted to four
hundred and eighty-five years, an aver
age of little over sixty-nine years each.
There were in this family twelve child.
rem, Of whom nine are living, now of the
average age of a little more than seven
ty-two years. OF these, Mrs. Laura
Brown, Mrs. Sophia Goodrich, Myron
Langworthy, Ileman Langworthy, Geo.
Langworthy, IlarryG. Langworthy and
Mrs. James NJ. Sladc reside i'm thi, vii
laaa,
p,s, v-.N NJ :. ~
os' u, nei ~, ~. w. ~. ~, as
as Was ",l l''; ,"s. WIZ, presented
NJ Wy punlo ~ ~ Lns' Mi.,.,epuI! on
Moiua! anu 'ucsua! evenings oi ms
Meeh' W1u u. 1AV'ueil,! I I,uii III .i'lsNil-
N.Y. e''hsuu! anu lnurs''"! encl,-
I'M, tI'e liriili,g war ur"'li" MI, Sil'i M'
my ne ~. ~ -Io'' ,r, cr inc oue-
I.iia loom. me! h'u irs'-ra.e au-
ulences 1T polh pltces on eacn evening,
IN 'iie io,ilici 'i'co me nan prins rather
100 sh,'li ior ,iic "u'ieh.e' nc uc.orS'
.1ois u en'lrel! I:i9Apcriel,cu' I'erioIlii-
GU :icil par Nun sNl'' anu euc:es'
w, Wiiic'i SuiP'i>cu wen ''ic inos, suiis uiiie.
NJ "n"n'i" ma occI' l''.' "Pci' wv s,"Sc
states, always with success. even under
the unfortunate condition of employing
unprofessional and inexperienced actors.
Mr.. j. Osborne of St. Adams was man.
ager, and the east of characters showed
the names of the principal actors TO be
as follows: |. W. Clark as Mr.. Marks,
W. Olmsted as Vim. Warks, c. Sever
ancc as Walter Greenwood, T.. Ross as
John Steele. A. Enos as Robert Davis.
j. Groves, who was TO appear as Pal
O'Dohcrty, being absent. his part was
taken by The manager. j. Nash as sam
Hannibal, ID. Marlin as Col. Barker,
j. ]. Manney as Adiutant Green, John
Sargent as Capt. Dunbar, Miss Susie
Russell a. Alice Marks, Mrs. Lncy
Adams as Clara Steele, Mrs. William
Palmer as Widow Powers, Miss Ida
Smith as Mary Powers, II. ID. MAYNARD
as Fred. Steele, A. Peck as Sam Smith,
John Manney as Jacob Kopfbach, +.
Piper as George Mack. Several others
appeared in the performance in minor