The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-12-29

| 10 C0liuTeu 3 IestlVdl III INC ioTCc
House, under charge of the ladies OF
I st. Stephens, was very pleasant ami
0 Joyous OCCASION 10 the little ones.
That white musk-rat skin in
Dodge's window has attracted much
, attention this week. White musk-rats
, are "scarcer than hens teeth"
h. The Middlebury Post office will
be open New Years from 8 to $3.50
] a.. M; IL to p. m; and from to 6.
? Night mails closed at promptly.
Pat Mcmahon came near being run
away with last Saturday, but showed
his grit by holding on to his horse. He
! was driving one of BattelPs spirited
. horses and wishing to go by q couple of
teams in front of John Powers shop he
! gave the word, but ono of the teams in
front of him turned quickly towards
the center of the road and collision
was the result, over-turning Pat. He
was dragged some distance, but the
horse didn't get away all the same.
Burlington and Middlebury pre-
scented quite contrast Monday. In
Burlington two police courts were rum
ming all day for the benefit of those who
celebrated the day by getting drunk in
MiCdlebury there was no drunkenness
apparent, and the day was q very quiet
one. One reason is the fact that Mid
dlebury in the last two or three years
has lost quite number of persons for
merly distinguished by their disgrace
full conduct on holidays.
Frank G. Bell, one of the leading
and most enterpIising business men OF
the place, is fast gaining wide reputa
ton for his success in the real estate
business, and is doing much for Valley
Springs and the country tributary by
bringing in settlers. He is one of those
wide-awake men whose enterprise is
the motive power in the wonderful de-
velopment of the west, and he is Just
such q man as land seekers and land
sellers are always glad to find.-IVal-
ley Springs Cor. Rock County (Minn.)
Herald.
Incur last issue was published the
programme of music sung at st.
Stephens church Christmas eve and
day. There was one addition to the
programme Sunday night, the "Creed."
1t was chanted by the whole choir in
unison. 1t was one of the most impress
sive pieces of music we ever heard, the
organ grandly rounding out the har-
mony. The large audience was still as
death. On Monday evening the music
was said to be very fine, and the solos
of Mrs. II. s. Foote, Miss Nellie Upper
and Mr.. Murkland were highly spoken
of. There were few choirs in the State
better than st. Stephens Christmas.
DO you receive on New Years day?
The custom of New Years. calls is in
growing favor with the people of the
larger towns and smaller cities, but is
not followed nearly so much as former
ly, in New York and other large cities.
One reason is that in the cities it has
been customary 10 place wine before
the callers, and many of them, after
making large number of calls, would
be little "minky." Many ladies', see-
ing the evil, stopped receiving.
BY an item among the reading no.
tees in another column it appears that
Mrs.W. +. Goodrich is DESTROYS of SELL |
ing her farm situated in the south part
of the town. This farm is one of the |
incest in Middlebury, and is adjacent
to the place where Middlebury was first |
settled. 1t is valuable piece of prop
erty and can DO purchased on easy
terms.
DIR. F. W. Halsey has leased the
Morrison house" on South Pleasant
st. and will occupy it in short time as
a dwelling house. He will also move
bis offico thera ohn- = 800" r.
dooon't nnei.o much difference to the
Doctors business where his Office is, as
his patients will look him up or wait
for him. The new Office will, however,
be in as central a place as the old one,
and more convenient for the doctor.
"A good story is told of the absent
of young man living on
weybridgc st. After milking his COW
the other night he gave the COW the
pail OF milk, and "perambulated his
calcareous strata" into the house and set
down on the pantry shelf his milking
stool and a pail Of feed prepared for the
"porker." His attention was called to
the mistake and he went back after the
milk, only to find that the COW had
drank 1t up. When asked what he was
about, he said he was ponder
ing over the problem of lighting the
streets, running the mills, and blowing
the organs of Mlddlebury by utilizing
the great electric power stored up in
our waterfall. He isn't stockholder
In the Middebury Electric Light and
Power Company either.
The business done at the Middle.
bury post-cfiice during the Christmas
season has been much larger than
usual Every one seemed to be getting
and sending presents.
Phelps Coolihan, whose advertise {
ment appears in our business notices
this week is a young man whom the
public should patronize literally. He
was the victim of a sad accident last
spring at tie Cutter marble quarry, by
which he lost leg, and nearly lost his
life, and is therefore iucapacitated for
any active employment. L
The new Baptist church on Mer.
chants Row was dedicated yesterday, {
Rev. III. G. Dewitt preaching an able ,
sermon. There was large attendance,
every portion CT the beautiful little ,
church being completely filled. From
the report of the treasurer 1t appears {
that the church is paid for and the So
ciety is free from debt and there is q
surplus Ill The treasury. a collection
to over 5000 was taken up.
There was also evening service.
ALI the outside work at the pulp
mill is completed, and the masons
were all discharged last Saturday night.
1t is expected that everything will be
in readiness for starting up work in a
few weeks. Next season the pulp COM
pany will probably build large paper
mill, and 1t is also said that they intend
to erect some tenement houses for the
use oftheir employees.