The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-30

Mlddlebury, Dec. ~, 1881.
Local News.
j. w. Dorsey is at home.
Wish You a Happy New Year.
The demand for skates is dull.
S. r. Bolton is now the ~janitor a
the college.
Swear of from your bad habits foi
a few days.
Charles E. Chapman is visiting hi
friends here.
The Otter Greek Ice Company has
not begun business.
The business places generally were
closed Mondry afternoon.
j. j. Griffin and wife of Easton, N,
y, are in town for n few days.
Phil Stewart is home on the vaca-
tion from Phillips Academy.
-J.W. Abernithy and Wesley Phelps
are at homo for the bolydays.
Tho Eddy is full of flood wood
brought down by the high water.
The creek has apparently brought
down oil the ice that has been formed
i'm it.
They say the mud is worse than ev-
er. The going isn't particularly nice
in our sire DTS.
The annual village meeting takes
place next Wednesday afternoon at
half-past n o'clock.
The oldest Masonic lodge in tho
state is the Union of this place, which
was chartered in 1894 and 1897.
Tuesday was the wettest day of the
season, this far. Wednesday was re-
markably warm, though damp likewise
yesterday and to day.
Little boys, don't try to go skating
or The ice just now. 1t is extremely
thin, and won't hold you up a minute.
Mr.. Rollin Ashley started to join
day, and will spend the winter there.
Several of the recent graduates of
the College were in town this week, in
GLIDING G. Is. Murkland and Harry
Boice.
' The Lilliputian's Opery Troupe,
Notwithstanding the excrable weather,
had a good house last evening, and the
performance was pronounced a highly
entertaining g
Miss Mary Burke, who has accept
ably filled the position of p%receptress in
the Cobleskill, N. Y, graded school
during the term just closed, is spending
her vacation at home.
Several of our young ladies who are
attending school in other places are at
home for the holidays, among them be-
ing Miss Julia E~ldredgo, Gertie
Fletcher, Nellie Upper and Hattie
Chapman.
The opera Patience will be given
in the Howard Opera House, Burling-
ton, Monday evening, Jan. 2. A spe-
cial train will be run as far south as
Middlebury at the close of the enter
tainment. Excursion tickets at half
fare on the railroad. Tickets for the
opera at Il. M. Chapman g. Co.'S.
Christmas brought its usual obser.
vance The sermons were all appro-
pirate to the day. On Friday evening
last there was a pleasant children's fes-
tival at the vcstry of the Congregation
al church, and there was q sociable at
the Methodist vcstry Wednesday even
ing.
Mr.. Fred Jackson met with an &C.
cident on Wednesday afternoon which
will disable him from active labor for a
while. He was engaged in pressing
hay at his hay barn when his right
hand was caught between two timbers
in the press, and the palm near the
wrist was severely crushed. 1t is
thought no bones were broken, how
ever, and the member will probably be
as good as ever when it heals up.
The temperance meeting on Tues.
day evening happened, like the previous
one, to fall on a very wet night, yet
the attendance was large. There were
several earnest speeches made, and Il
appeared as though the next thing would
be something in the line OF business.
The attendance shows the interest felt,
and 1t seems as though the time had
arrived to grapple with the violations
OF the law in our midst in O common
sense way.
<Mr. w. II. Delmege, proprietor d
the Hub Dining Rooms, died on Tines
2 day last after being confined 10 his room
about three weeks. Ills disease wa,
Brights disease, with which he ha(
been afflicted about two years. Mr.
Delmege was a native of Montreal. bu
came to Vermont when fourteen wear,
old, working in a wooden mill in Lud
low four years. While there he mar
ried Miss Ellen Cunningham of Middle
bury, who survives him. He afterwar(
worked as a boss spinner for nine year
years In a wooden mill at Middleboro
Mass. Ill health induced him to leay,
this employment, and he took a hotel a
the noted summer resort of Wood
Hole, where he remained for eighteen
months when, the climate not sgreeins
with him, LIE purchased and took DOS
session OF the Hub Dining Rooms /,
this place LIST May. He kept a quiet
orderly place, though increasing II
health prevented him from giving /
much personal attention. Mr.. Delmeg,
andwife were frequent visitors to thi
vicinity while living in Massachusetts,
and had many friends and Acquaintance
. here. His age was nearly thirty