The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-10
Local News.
-Uphl start up that fire.


-Chas. N. Powers was in town yes
terday.
Mr.. Geo. Walker has moved into
Mr.. Oscar Bicknelps house.
Wood fires have been a necessity
during most of the past week or more.
KCharles Stafford has gone to his
home in Stowe to prepare for his west
ern trip.
Prices for butter had fall last
Monday and the bucolic pbiz lie long
accordingly.
MIR. Clark Scofield is stopping in
Brandon at present. He was in town
q few days since.
Spring term of graded school clo'
SEES to-day. There will be the usual 3d.
ciable this enening.
Judge Harvey Button of Walling.
ford, was in town last Friday, visiting
at Mr.. M. G. Foote'S.
The supply OF hen fruit is apparent
ly limited, as the price remains stiffiy
at fifteen cents at retail.
The frame of Dea. j. E. Cranes
new house is partly up, and active
work is going on with it.
If you want shipping tags, either
strung or unstrung, you can get them
at the Register Printing Office.
Junior Leavenworth is out with q
handkerchief over his broken nose,
which we understand is doing well.
Major Wright, who has been con-
fined to the house for several weeks,
has 80 far recovered as to attend court.
Seymour street is receiving coat
of gravel, which will make It equal to
any of the streets in the village for
travel.
The books of the college library
have been moved into the new library
room, and the shelves have been nearly
all put up.
r. o. Sturtevant, Esq, of Swanton
was in town yesterday, having been OF
a short visit to his former home IL
Weybridge.
Rev. A. 8. Gilbert, of Hinesburgh
will preach at the court house mex
Sunday morning and evening, tor tn
Baptists, at the usual hours.
The prospects are good for livel'
season at Bread Loaf. Mr.. Battel
expects to complete his telephone lin
from there in a few days.
Postmaster Hammond has mad
some alterations in the back part of hi
Office which make IL more convenient
An addition Is to be built on to the rea
of the post Office.
1t would not be bad idea to hay
the cobble stones which ere SO hume
Gus on the streets, where they are spille
by the gravel teams, picked up (
thrown out of the road occasionally.
The Benefactor Road Machin
owned by A. A. Fletcher, will be
operation on the road between Il
village and the Shackett place ne,
Monday afternoon. which viii be got
opportunity to judge of 1t merits.
Henry Marshall, the barber, wi
opened shop In the Allen Block wi
a flourish of trumpets, and afterwal
went to work for Mr.. Gauthier at h
Addison House, has "skinned out
leaving some mourners behind him.
"A card of Miss M. l.. Sherman w
be found in another column. Miss She
man has been under competent instru
ton In eloeution and win doubtle
prove q good teacher. She propos
to form q class in oratory In this plat
Those interested win do well TO &C
snt her.
The steam fire engine was tax
out for trial Tuesday afternoon, l
the pump failed to work. An exaI
nation showed the valves and pun
piston badly In need of repairs. 1t
expected that after the repairs I
made she will squirt better than o.
before.
The w. G. Il. u. of Middlebury v
meet in the yestry Of the M. T.. chul
on the afternoon of Wednesday n,
(June 15) at 8 o'clock. Business
from last meeting Is to be dispatch
some officers elected etc. A full att
dance is desired. Ladies interested
temperance and not members of
society are cordially invited to come