The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-27
Local News.

james ]. Griffin and wife are visi-
ting friends in town.
e. G. Seeley, oyer on Munger
street, is making extensive repairs upon
his house.
L. d. Eldredge is going to move
his law Office into the Dyer block /,
second floor.
Rev. w. W. Winchester is now in
Blackinton, Mass, where he will
reside.
Rev. c. A. Votey, Charlotte, will
preach at the Court house next Sunday,
morning and evening.
Mrs. Prof. Kellogg arrived last
Saturday. She left the professor rap
idly recovering from his recent illness.
-Dea. g. j. Soper has sought more
room for his tailoring business by nov
ing into the vacant store in the Dyer
block.
Rev. Mr.. Bennett, of Shelburne,
preached at the Methodist church last
Sunday, in exchange with Rev. Mr..
Mead.
Mr.. Oscar Bicknell has moved into
his house, which is rapidly approaching
completion. II is now handsome
dwelling.
Mrs. E. A. Sturtevant is to meet
the ladies OF Leicester the Goth inst,
Salisbury the 9th, and Orwell the
28th and Goth.
-Dugald Stewart, who has been
stopping in Albany, N. Y, arrived
home last Monday. He appears i'm
proved in health.
There were some errors and omis-
sion in our list of taxpayers published
last week, which we shall endeavor to
fully rectify in our next issue.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Loren
s. Peet, of Cornwall, died very suddenly
yesterday morning while at the break
fast table, probably from heart disease.
There is partial eclipse of the sun
to-day. 1t does not show in Middle
bury, and parties who want the best
view Of 1t should strike for the North
Pole.
Last Monday was an ideal spring
day, with its clear blue sky, and de-
lightfal atmosphere. The intense en-
erald which everywhere colored The
landscape showed the beneficial influ.
ence of the rains of last week.
AN advertisement of Smith & Allen
will be found in another column,
Their new shop Is now in good running
order and supplied with the necessary
machinery, and they can probably suit
every customer with the quality and
promptness of their work.
"A letter from Detroit says: "The
reelection of Judge Geo. Swift as clerk
OF the,city court, occurred under circum.
stances which make it most honorable
to him. The papers here spoke in the
highest terms of his worth and ability
OF course 1t delighted every Vermonter
to have 1t so fully recognised by all par.
ties"
Charles Grow has been In Rutland
the past week, selling the Little joker
Washing Machine, for which he Is gen.
eral agent. Our better half has used
the machine, and concludes not 10 try
to keep house without 1t. 1t makei
the work of washing clothes very cas-,
and expeditions. 1t will undoubtedly
become regular part of every house
keepers outfit.
e. j. Davenport, of Minneapolis
Minnesota, son of our townsman, jason
Davenport, at session of the Suprem
Lodge, Knights of Honor, in that city
on Tuesday, May IL, was presented b,
the visitors with a beautiful gold watch
and chain appropriately inscribed, as a
expression Of the appreciation felt b
them for his efforts to make their alta
during the session pleasant one.
AT meeting of the residen
alumni held at the Office Of Hon. T.. ID
Eldredge, ON Monday evening lasl
for the purpose of making arrange
ments for the coming commence
ment, the following officers and CON
mittees were appointed: President, W
III. Parker; secretary, j. NJ. Slade
committee on music, j. NJ. Slade
on alumni dinner, Hon. l.. d. e
bridge; on finance, j. G. Stapleton
on hospitality, e. 4. Smith; marshal
Hon. l.. ID. Eidridge.
-"They are having another tempe
ance jamborse' down ut Middlebur'
and the Register man is wroth becaui
all the temperance people don't sir
In the chorus Bailey should bear
mind the fact that majority of Il
professed temperance people In III
state don't care o continental Wheth,
the law Is enforced or not. A steu
perance man IL always in mortal fe,
Of treading ON somebody's c0rns."
burlington Clipper.
We insert the above on account
the obvious truth which ends 1t.