The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-07

pTcuuCt VI NtTlOuS klnuSs His nioNtu iiOo
town, and people who have produce to
sell can find him about town.
Mrs. Margaret Conley of this place,
who has been a resident for some 10
years, is to remove to C%lintonville, N. Y,
where she has a daughter residing.
The work of putting up the memorial
porch at st. Stephens has begun. The
e%xcavating for the foundation is done
and workmen are cutting the stone.
The ruling price for butter in this mar
ket, Monday, was 81 cents. The offer
ings this year are of good quality, less
poor butter being made than usual.
Last Friday Mr.. U. d. Twitchell shipped
a carload of sheep to Topeka. They were
! to be exhibited at the Kansas State fair.
Mr.. Eugene Twitchell went with them.
Saturday night a night-blooming GER
Gus belonging to Mrs. j. b. Foote opened.
the blossom being II 1-2 inches in diam
eter. 1t is seldom they grow to such a
size.
The ladies of the w. G. II. u. who con
Quoted the refreshment booth at the fair
ground, wish it stated that missing
dishes, etc., may be found at Mr.. Clinton
Smiths.
VI L " IoObO % Otii t'Ni
lington. He is employed on the steamer
Reindeer. and while at work had an arm
injured. lie expects to be able to return
to the city in a few days.
Quarterly communion service at the
M. e. church next Sunday love-feast
commencing at $50; sermon at the
usual hour, followed with sacraments of
baptism and Lords supper.
The other day the house of Mr.. James
Farrell was entered during the absence
of himself and family and various arti-
Giles of women's wear were stolen. A
woman is supposed to have been the
thief.
Mr.. John NJ. Stearns of Brooklyn,
whose arrival mt the Addison House was
noted last week, was a newspaper and
magazine publisher here about forty
years ago. He has practiced law the
past thirty-four years.
Sunday night saw a decided change in
the weather, and since then it has been
very much like fall. There was quite a
frost Tuesday night, all through the
county. 1t was especially severe on the
lowlands along the streams.
The Middlebury Brass band at the
county fair elected universal common
dation for their artistic skill in mus
ic. their neat and becoming uniform and
their gentlemanly and intelligent carri-
age. Such "A band is a credit to the town
in which it is located.
Miss Della Hammond and her friend,
Miss Mabel Cook of Rutland, are to sail
the 2Sth from New York for Europe,
where they are to spend some time-pos-
sibly a year. They go in company with
the family of Mr.. w. G. Clement of Rut-
land.
The meetings of the American Mission
airy association in the Congregational
church, on Friday afternoon and evening
of next week, promise to be unusually in
teresting and profitable. Rev. G.. l..
Woodwork, ID. d., of Boston, Prof. Phil
ip Page of West Africa and other able
speakers are expected. NeighbOring
churches and all friends interested in
this work of national and worldwide
Importance are cordially invited to at
tend.
The Troy Times says there is a town
in Vermont that has only n policeman.
and that every night the church bells are
rung at intervals of five minutes in order
to rouse him to a sense of his duty. This
cannot mean M%iddlebury, because all
people rest securely as to person and
property when they know "Clay Dick
is on duty. If, now and then, a strong
and bOisterous n escapes, the weak
and inofiensive ones are sure to be scoop
ed up by his official net.
Freeman j. James of Starksboro, who
was Jailed here about three weeks ago, is
still in confinement. He is the keeper OF
a house-hardly a hotel-at StarksborC
, village, where he entertains travellers
When arrested for violation of the liquor
law he pleaded guilty to $50 offenses as
of the first conviction, and was fineC
81 800 and costs, with an alternative sen
: tence Of between 1000 and 1000 days tC
the House of Correction. He appealed
and not being able to procure bail, was
committed. 1t is alleged that he wa
: drunk when tried.
g The men who have been at work in thu
vicinity of the college park for a month
| past, trying to bore a well for the village
. became discouraged, last Friday, anC
: stopped. The first holes bored aggre
t gated 81 feet. These were put down a
the risk of the village, and the cost wa
e Sl.50 a foot. On the last hole the,
reached a depth of something over
{ hundred feet; but as the agreement wa
n lIdU LltN were 10 TcCtlft uOillluS IL wa
ter was not obtained, the last expert
ment cost the village nothing.
Ed McCue, a blacksmith in the emplo,
of the Cutter Marble company, was gOip,
home, between 10 and IL o'clock SatuI
= day night, and when near the turn In tn
road by Mr.. Julius Williamson's, leading
to Hillside avenue, a shot was fire
from the garden of Mr.. j. G. Wellington
by the roadside. McCue thereupon en-
C tered a shanty in the garden occupied b
Orrin O'Rourke, who sleeps there night
to protect the garden from thieves. !
tussel followed, during which O'Rourk
was badly bruised and pounded and tn
gun broken, McCue carrying off the ban
rel and O'Rourke retaining possession @
the stock. On Monday McCue was al
h rested by Deputy sheriff Rider, and o
Tuesday was tried before Justice j. j
is Stapleton and fined $40 and costs
Is Grand Juror James NJ. Slade prosecute
and Stewart a. Wilds defended.
n Prof. Stuart Phelps, who was for a tim
d connected with this college, accidentl