The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-23
Local News.

-SarJleS TOT GTanu view anu Lake
DnnmOrc are numerous.
Bread Loaf Inn has about seventy
boarders, and still they come.
Tho weather has been just alb out
right for picnickers, pleasant and not
excessively hot.
Some of onr citizens went to Yer
gennes TO hear Senator Edmunds,
Wednesday evening.
Ed. Fisk has sold out his interest in
the blacksmith business to VIM. Cobb.
Mr.. Carey will remain in the shop.
Mr.. James Kingsley is repairing
his house, ON South street, raising it,
putting in new chimney, etc.
The Good Templars' festival last
Wednesday evening was quite a sue
cess, a large company being present,
and buying ice cream, cake, etc.
Most farmers are about
through haying. The crop, so far as
we can learn, has turned out better
than was prophesied month ago.
The regular morning service of the
Baptist society will be omitted next
Sunday morning, on account of the alb
sence of Rev. Mr.. Hibbard. Services
in the evening as usual.
Mr.. Oscar Bickncll has begun
work on his place! on Seminary street.
He has torn down the rear additions
and will move the main part few
Yards eastward, and repair it into a
fine looking residence.
There will be meeting of the ex-
ecutive board of the Vermont Merino
Sheep Breeders Association at the Ad-
olson House, in this place, at 10
O'Clock, a. m, Wednesday, July 2S.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid Society
will meet with Mrs. Hubbard next
Wednesday afternoon at two O'Clock.
All are requested to come, as matters
of importance are to come before the
meeting. trt.
"A large number of tickets were
sold at this station, Wednesday, for the
excursion to Ilighgate TO hear Beecher,
mostly to youths of both sexes. One
of the youngest says he found Mr..
Beecher "pretty fair, but nothing re-
markable."
Mr.. Scion Sumner of South Bristo
can hardly complain of the weather
this season. lie had field of herds
grass, very thick and heavy, which av.
eraged abont four feet in height. Hl
brought in one specimen which meas
urcd iifty-fve inches in height.
"Wednesday afternoon two it'll,
girls got into j. O'Conor's boat ant
padded ont into the stream, when the,
found that one of the oars was broken
They went gently sailing down towar'
the falls, when Eddie Huntington, VIII
was washing wagon in the water, res
cued them from position of possibl
peril.
William Sladc has a portrait G
Garfield put up on the door of his mil
linery store, with the seductive legend
"SlOO TO $50 next president" o
the opposite side of the street job
Calvin has a picture of Hancock wit
thu offer of $3.50 TO 90 on next presi
dent. Somebody oughl TO make q fc,
dollars out of one of them. tf
IT. d. Smith of the Franklin Honst
Vergcnncs, has repeated to Mr.. Fred
Leland the wheelbarrow ride bet O
the next election, which he lost fou
years ago. If Mr.. Leland accepts an
MIR. Hancock is beaten, it is suppose
that Mr.. Smith will skip out to Cal
ada on the ground that Mr.. Leland
too heavy a man 10 be wheeled aroun
by a person laboring under the q,
pressing influences of defeat.
The following, if II works AZ sta
ed, is mean trick 10 play upon ra
and mice, but pcrsans who wish 10 CT
cuinvcnt the animals NAV like 10 try
nevertheless. Place II dish on the foo
containing equal paris of -four an
plaster of paris. Leave near II fiat di
of water, and tive rodents will drink a
ter eating. The plaster will "set"
their stomachs, and they will die wi
out running 10 their holes.