The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-05-14


Scofield during the winter.
Work in the dress-making bust
| seems TO be brisk. Mrs. Sumner 4
Lee have had to engage two more Il
help them, and still they have had har,
work to fill the demand.
w. G. Langworthy has dcparte,
for Now York where he will lay In
supply of goods for his new store
which already looks very attractive II
its display Of furniture and fancy goods
The base ball season was opened
Wednesday afternoon by a game be
tween thelhigh school aud the colleg,
mines. Only five innings were played
The college won by q col of IL to
-Garlick Il Williamson appear Il
have repented of going out of tho inca
market business, as they have agar
bought it and will take possession mex
Monday. Mr.. Dan Adams will remaii
with them In his former capacity.
Prof. Brainerd is confined to his
houselby illness. He was to have occu
pied the pulpit of Rev. j. G. johnson,
in Rutland, last Sabbath, but his illness
prevented. Prof. G.. N. Boardman
who is stopping in Pittsford, took hi'
place.
AS Freddie, q little son of Mrs. II
F. Hayden, was playing ball on thu
school house park last Wednesday, ont
of his playmates accidentally pushed
him down and broke his arm. DR.. Eddy
was called and took charge, and the
little fellow is doing well. -
Tho advertisement of Mr.. Hama
ford, DR.. Plumley's successor, will bt
found in another column. This store
has always been a good place to patron
ize for drugs and fancy goods OF vari'
GUS kinds such as are kept in q drug
store, and it will maintain its reputa.
ton under its new dispensation.
The community was considerably
excited last Saturday evening and until
Monday morning by an absurd tele-
graphic report which magnified the
death of two men by the fall Of a body
of ore in Mineville into a terrible disas-
ter by which two hundred men were
killed by the caving in Of q mine.
Last Saturday Mrs. A. Williamson
met with a sad accident. She was rid
ing with her husband when the king
bolt of their wagon came out, and both
were thrown to the ground. Mrs. Will
liamson's right arm was broken above
the wrist, both bones being fractured
and tho muscles being badly lacerated
by the broken ends.
Co~o octho oIJ ho,1 hovs bovo rot
together and propose to faver us with
some music Decoration day. There is
certainly material in town for q
first-class band, aud as this will be an
unusually busy year for bands, 1t would
be a good idea if the boys could be
encouraged to hold together and fur
nish us with music for the rest of the
season.
The reservoir in front of G.. C.
Chapman's has been pumped dry and
newly cemented inside, in the hope
that it will hold water better. The
sides were intact, but the cement which
was first applied was evidently of poor
When finished this reservoir
will hold a supply of water sufficient
for a draft of not much less than two
hours in case of fire, even if drawn up
on by a steam fire engine.
Tho grand list of the town of Mid
dlebury contains 934 names. or these
twenty-three answer to Smith, thirteen
to Langworthy, eleven to Chapman and
ten to Sumner. Seven claim to be al
ways Wright, and eight dance to ethe
music OF Piper. There are only four
Brooks and one Rivers. Only four
persons have a list exceeding one hun
dred dollars each. The total amount
exceeds that of last year by about $3.50.
Mr.. A. V. Brown, the new photo.
grapher in Lovctt's block, over Alden'f
variety store, has been kept busy since
his rooms were finished last week, in
meeting the calls upon his skill. We
have seer n better work done in this
state than that which he has done under
his new light. lie is evidently a thor
oughly good artist as well as a gentle
man to deal with. Mrs. Brown doci
the retouching of his negatives, In
which she shows good skill and judg'
ment. MI. Brown will evidently have
a full share of the patronage OF this sec
ton.
The annual meeting of the Middle
bury w. c. Il. U. will be held in the
vestry of the Congregational church,
next Wednesday, May 10. The dcvo.
tiOnal meeting will be at ten O'Clock In
the foreno on. The business moeting
for the election of officers, reading an
nual reports and miscellaneous bust
ness, will be held at half past two. So
c;ol ra unson opd amman a. civ Dtclncb
at the vcstry of the Methodist chnrch,
to which gentlemen are invited. Chill
dren's meeting at the Congregational
vestry, at half past seven, at which will
he various exercises by the children.
-Middlcbury has a man who order
ed from the market three-fOurths of {
pound of sirloin steak for his family
dinner, and had a fourth Of a pound o.
round put in for the servant girl. They
do some mighty mean thugs dOwi
there. -[Burlington Clipper.
Why didn't tho Clipper add TIN
equally veraciOus statement that TIN
servant girl concluded to eat her dinner
first and made way with the sirloin steak
while the family numbering fifteen per
sons, divided the quarter of pound O
round between them. There are somt
mighty independent servant girls down
here.
There seems 10 be quito an activit,
in the Wheat Bitters business of N. Il
Rider & Co. They claim positively
that the article is not a disguised wills
key. like some of the other bitters n
the market, but a medicine, whose bash
is a solution Of the gluten and phos
pilates of the wheat kernel, prepared 8
as to be safe from fermentation, and
with the addition OF several valuable
tonic barks and roots, forming an arti
Gle easily and quickly assimilated by
d~isordered system, whose functions ar,
by it toned up and strengthened. Their
increasing sales seem to show that tn,
preparation is appreciated.
Sheldon & Co. mako an announce
ment in another column. They hav
fixed up a nice room ut the west end O
their store, where they will supply good
adapted to the understanding equal,
well, If not better, than those whic
used TO be sent forth from tho sam
room when it was the Register sanctum
They have a first-class assortment @
boots and shoes of every grade. LII