The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-12-22

Ina, a daughter of Charles Westall
died with diphtheria Wednesday night.
She was only sick q few DAYS aud
would have been five years old Thurs.
day.
This morning there was a pitched
battle between the Ice men, in regard
to the ice fields, in which we under
stand some weapons were drawn, but
no damage was done.
Harrison Drake, clerk in the post
office, is having a severe run of the
typhoid fever, and Misplace in the office
has been filled this week by Mr.. George
Walker.
The large boiler for the new pulp
mill arrived here Tuesday and the work
men are now ems aged in setting il in
Its place. 1t is expected that the pulp
mill will soon be in running order.
The annual meeting of the Cham
plain Valley Bee Keepers Association
will be held at Middlebury Jan. IS,
1888, at ten O'Clock A. M. Thurman
Brookins OF Shoroham is Secretary of
the Association.
DR.. Mellen's lively horse took no.
ton to run away Monday evening of
this week and did 30. The cutter was
somewhat damaged, but fortunately no
injury was sustained by the doctor or
his horse.
Miss Daisy Edgerton of Rutland is
III town for short visit. She took the
part of the gypsy fortune teller at the
entertainment Tuesday night and her
"make up" was a marked success.
The new Baptist Church will be
dedicated next week Thursday, Dec. &c,
Rev. II. G. Dewitt, ID. D., of New York
city, preaching the sermon. Services
will be at 1.30 p. NJ, and also in the
evening.
viii j. Wilcox, who is kindly
remembered by many in this vicinity,
is in town and will remain only n short
time, when he will return TO the West.
He is located in Chicago.
Miss Hattie Parker, who has been
sick for several weeks at the residence
of her uncle, Hon. l.. d. Eldredge, is
able to be on the street again, much to
the qualification of her many friends.
The Catholic Church is to be trim
med with evergreens for Christmas,
though not so extensively as in former
years. There will be no midnight SER
vices, but mass will be celebrated on
Christmas day at 1890.
Tie annual meeting of the vt.
Merino Sheep Breeders Association will
occur Jan. 10 and II, extending over
those two days so as to give an oppor-
tunity TO the members of discussing
questions.
AS W. W. Swiney was at work
with circular saw last saturday, u
piece of the block he was saving broke
of, flew up and struck him in the eye,
much TO the temporary disadvantage of
his personal appearance.
The evening through trains 10 and
from New York have been considerably
late this week, and those who were I'M
able to get their New York papers nm
til the morning after publication have
grumbled copiously at the delay.
1t is said that the fashion in buck
wheat cakes this season is TO make
This is Il cue.rious idea, but it will add
" tlIC CdSc vi JOChtllllS lilClu.
There is a rumor that diphtheria
has reached town, but as yet, so far as
we eau learn, it is confined TO one fam
lily. In former years when this dread
full scourge was raging in surrounding
towns, Middlebury escaped remarka-
bly, well.
Il. D. Eldredge's team, loaded with
hay, tipped over in front of his Office on
Main street on Wednesday mornin q.
There we're thirty-two men giving di-
tections 10 the driver al ono time us TO
the easiest way ont CT the scr ape.
-Middlebury seems to contain some
persons who arc anxious to become dis
tinguished rs "sluggers," and two OF
these aspirants to distinction in the
manly art have recently got eXlin-
guished instead of distinguished.
The members OF the Addison Coun-
ty bar were highly pleased with The
manners of Judge IL. IL.
Powers who presided over the County
Court last week, and with his clear and
prompt expeditions of the law on del
icate points.
The price paid for butter in our
markets has held pretty steady st %
cents per pounG for several weeks past.
Hides have fallen appreciably in the
market, and many who have been hold
ing thcir-ihoir stock--not their own
hides for higher prices now wear lon .
faces.
- Ed NJ. Parker and G. S. Mnrkland
are home TO spend the holidays. Park
er is in the Medical Department OF the
University of the city Of New York,
and MuIkland in the Theological
School at Cambridge, Mass.
Ed &. Bell, who has been west for
the past three years, and located for the
most OF that time in Minneapolis, MINI,
is in town visiting his family and
friends. "Ed' likes the west and will
return there soon.
-Snmn of our younty ppnOln a finn Tod