The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-07-29
Local News.

Pres. Hamlin has been in Troy, N
Y, for few days.
The fire engine house has received
coat OF paint.
johnny Hyde has gone into Beck.
with & Co.'s store as clerk.
The comet has been invisible for a
long time. Too many clouds.
The advertisement of the graded
school will be found in another column.
DIR. Russell and family and Mrs. L.
M. Fletcher and sons have gone camp
ing.
Mrs. b. r. Sturtevant is attending
the temperance campmeeting at Lyn-
donville this week.
The alterations at the post-office are
completed. Everybody is pleased, and
Mr.. Hammond is voted "brick."
DR.. V. w. Blanchard came home
last Sunday morning, but has been con-
fined to his house with illness since.
lie expects to be out in few days.
Measures will soon be taken to get
a larger stream of water into the new
watering tub on the corner by Geo. G..
Chapman's. The flow is now very
scanty.
The open space onIthe cornor in front
of Geo. G. Chapman's has been graded
and covered with loan in preparation
for its being fenced for a park. 1t is a
desirable improvement.
The Congregational Sabbath School
and friends of this place went TO Queen
City Park on picnic, Wednesday, and
enjOyedfte ntelves in q manner beft ing
the occasion. The day proved pleasan.
ter than the average of late.
james l.. Barton, of the recent grad
Mating class, starts to-day for Cincinnati,
Ohio, where he has good situation
offered him. Barton is young man of
ability and gentleman, who will find
hosts of friends wherever he goes.
"A. w. Cary, the blacksmith, has
accepted position as boss in large
horse shoeing establishment i'm Con-
necticut, to which his skill recommend
ed. lie sold out to l.. N. Howard, who
Gems now to have the full swing on
at 81 de of the creek.
There was fine electrical display
accompanying the storm of Monday
evening last. The storm itself amount
ed to little in this vicinity, but over the
lake and in Bennington county heavy
wind accompanied the storm which did
considerable damage, and two or three
deaths from lightning are reported.
Members of Mt. Calvary Comman-
derry of Knights Templar from this place,
Brandon and Vergennes, with their
ladies, to the number of about forty, on
Wednesday took the steamer Water
Lily at Vergennes and went to Basin
Harbor, where they enjoyed pleasant
picnic. While there the Sir knights
INDUCED in drill under Z. Commander
M. II Heoly.
The advertisement of Ii. S. Bull 81
Co., Albany, N. Y, agents for the Ac-
cident Insurance Company of North
America will be found in another col
umn. This is we'll established COM
pany, which devotes its entire capital to
an exclusive accident business. Its
rates are no higher than those of other
companies, and it offers all the advan-
tages to be gained in accident insur-
ance. The company is said never to
have contested claim. Local insur-
ance agents would do well to cores
pond with the advertiser.
We have received piece of sheet
music called the Vermont Union Polka,
by g. M. Chase, editor of the Lyndon
Union. 1t is fine composition, with a
pleasing melody and all idevotees of the
piano will find it charming addition
to their repertoire. 1t is written in q
happy mood, indicating that all the sub
scribers OF the Union pay in advance,
SO that its editor is occasionally able to
indulge in peanuts, and doesn't have to
change his every day suspenders TO his
Sunday pantaloons when he goes to
church. A good many editors, under
taking to give their thoughts musical
expression, couldn't strike anything
livelier than a funeral march, just be-
cause their subscribers don't give them
q fair chance. Such editors will feel
1t q CHASTITY If not intended sarcasm when
they notice that this polka is dedicated 10
the Vermont editors. Published by
White, Smith a. Co., Boston; A. II.
Bailey, st. Johnsbury and Burlington.
Last wednesday afternoon the in.
FAINT class of the M. K. Sabbath School,
went picnicking on the west side of Chip
man Hill. The teachers and few
friends were present so that there was
a company of some sixty persons. The
weather was fine for picnic with thu
exception of a slight shower when the
whole party took refuge in the empty
house and told stories and played "but.
ton" The view of the village and sur.
rounding country from the bill side Il
familiar, but no less beautiful for being
80. The pleasant groves filled with the
happy sounds of children voices as they
gathered ferns to deck the tables.
Tables of plank were improvised, and
the children, seated in rows on the
piazza, were bountifully served. Ice
water was plenty and all kind of good
les profuse. The infant class consists o
90 members, of the brightest and most
promising children ever seen. Young
as they are they have knowledge o.
and interest In the bible that is surpris
ing. They all enjoyed their little pic
mic, some saying they never had SO nice
Q time In all their lives before. ~.