The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-08-25
Local News.

Local News.
julie Pitts was in town yesterday,
Domestic help is scarce in this vii
lage.
Such weather as this makes fellow
happy.
Prot. d. NEG. Means arrived last
week, for a visit.
Middlebury is not so largely repre-.
sented at camp meeting this year as
usual.
John Hyde, who has been seriously
i'll with typhoid fever, is now conva-
lescent.
Quite q number of the "horse" fra
ternity went TO Rutland TO the races
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. s. Foote returned
to town Wednesday, to remain some
time we hope.
Mr.. and Martin O'Connor attended
the funeral of Mrs. Mary Casey of Rip
ton, yesterday.
We believe the temperature of the
past week has been very satisfactory
to most people.
Only ten cents mission fee to the
Spring Grove camp meeting next Sun
day. Salvation, however, is free,
Prof. Seely started for Montreal on
Monday, to attend the meeting of the
American science association.
The bee keepers pronounce this by
far The poorest season for honey which
thev have had for manv rn"~e
f. A. Bond 81 Bro. propose to
offer some big trades this fall in their
line. New goods are co ming in every
day.
Miss Matte Conner is away to the
sea shore. Her eyes, which have
troubled her considerably, are i'm
proving.
The heavy apple crop which started
in the spring has largely fallen of,
reminding fruit growers that this is an
"off year"
Hon. Andrew Williams, of Platts-
burgh, N. Y, was in town yesterday
looking after his interests in this
section.
We regret to record the death of
Mrs. j. II. New, which took place on
Wednesday. The funeral was this
morning at ten o'clock.
Rev. w. ID. Smith, of Clarendon,
recent graduate of the college, has ac.
cepted call from the Congregational
society of South Royalton,
The sidewalk across Merchants
Row to Main street, between Allen
block and the railroad, has been laid
with m arble slabs and graveled.
w. S. Alden and wife returned
from their trip to Pennsylvania on
Saturday last, having taken in CHATEAU
qua Lake few days on their return
home.
Rev. j. w. Quinlan, pastor of the
M. Il. Church, is absent on vacation,
to his wife's friends in N. Y. His
pulpit was supplied last Sabbath by
Rev. S. w. Bidwell.
Mr.. III. Ii. Vail and wife of Col
umbus, Ohio, were in town last week
. and spent some days at the Bread Loaf.
Mr.. Vail is graduate of the class of go
of Aliddlebury college.
The ripe wheat in DR.. Wellington's
field on Seminary street was harvested
on Tuesday afternoon with self-binding
reaper, which attracted a crowd to see
Its Intelligent operations,
Mr.. E. C. Eells started on Tuesday
for Ohio. He will exhibit the choice
HOOK recently nnrchasod of Dean *
Jennings at the Ohio state fair, which
begins at Columbus next Monday.
BENJAMIN Dodge, who attended
the Sheffield department Of Yale Col
lege last year, is to pursue his studies
in Syracuse the coming year, notwith-
standing reports to the contrary.
The new building of the Vermont
Merino Sheep Shearing Association on
the Fair ground is being rapidly push.
ed forward. 1t is large and will be a
building OF handsome architectural pre-
tensions when finished.
Work on Beckwith & Wainwrignt's
new block has been at a standstill over
week, owing to failure on the part OF
the manufacturers to deliver the pressed
bricks needed. 1t is expected that
operations will soon be resumed.
-Four of the party who went steam
poating from Vergennes last week, re-
turned home last Saturday. DIR. Mel
len, one OF the four, was suffering from
sore finger, which brought to his
mind that there is no place ike home.
The rest of the party returned later.
Geo. McHugh has partially stocked
his new eating saloon next door TO
Meekin's barber shop and expects TO
be in full blast next Monday. George
says he is going to keep a first class
place, ana the strongest drink dispensed
will be birch and ginger beer.
The power of the human eve can
only BIO fully appreciated when a well
regulated wink will change a bottle of
tonic beer into bottle of lager beer In
spite of its label.--Ex.
There must be a great many optical
deformities in this village, Judging
from the quality of the "stuff7' that is
Manufactured by the above process.