Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-23
ADDISON COUNTY.
Nndd1ebury.

NuUuleOurys
The nrsi sloighlng that we had this Winter
,ame on the first of December and snow has |
continued on the ground In greater or small.
n quantity ever since, So that we have had
1nc hundred and Eve consecutive days OF
sleighing.
Charley Wicker Started Wednesday night
for Chicago, in which city he expects 10 make
his home for the future.
Landlord Rider of the Addison House is
having some needed improvements made
about his hotel. The Addison IL having II
large patronage under Mr.. Riders manage
ment.
Prof. Foster Of the college has n club OF
students in German who rccite TO him even
ingS a, tue college. The club is composed
of members Of the Senior and Junior classes
who desire to pay more attention 10 their
German than it is possible for them to do
during tho regular college couisc.
The pulp mill was in part started up for
work Thursday morning, one grinding ma
chine being sci in motion. Some OF the ma
chinery for the mill was destroyed by the
recent fire in Bellows Falls, so that there will
necessarily be some little delay before the
mill can be put to work III full blast.
The new prizes TO be spoken for by the
Sophomores at each commencement are the
donation of the late Rev. Thomas A. Mer-
rill of Middlebury. DR.. Merrill died about
twenty years ago, previous TO which time he
had been for over forty years the pastor OF
the Mddlebury Congregational church. BY
the will Of DR.. Merrill it was provided that
after the death of his widow the sum OF 81, :
800 should go TO the college Tor the purposes
before named. Mr.. Merrill died last year
orI tho ;,,,root ,f tbia m haa upw bpcpmp
available to DC used in accordance with the
wishes of the donur.
The annual school meeting OF the Middle
bury village school district viii be held on
Tuesday afternoon March 21th. There is
no excitemeht in school politics this year.
Sap has begun to run aud large num-
Der Of trees have been put ON drought IN
the surrounding country, 70 tina, we shall
soon have new maple sugar IN the market.
Three or four weeks ago some maple sugar,
alleged TO be new, was exposed for sale
here, but as we had not then had twenty.four
hours of soft weather the trick wss too
transparent to deceive ever the most I'M
sophisticated.
Robins have pu, in their appearance, and
may be heard daily, announcing the coming
of Spring 4 few early stragglers came
along two or three weeks ago, but they did
not stay long.
Mr.. A. J. Marshall has his hands full just
at present He is one Of the village trustees,
one of the sclec,mcn OF the town and men,
Der of the school committee, in addition to
which he is, by an arrangement OF the select
men, ovcrsecr of the poor, et cDc'o. Those
several offices in addition to his duties as
station agent are enough, one would think,
to make Mr.. Marshall busy man.
One of the many citizens of ncighboring
towns who occasionally come TO Middlebury
to have some fun visited the town Friday
an1 Il, an early hour in the afternoon had got
50 much under the Influence OF ether or some
thing else that he lay sleeping in sleigh by
the roadside on the most prominent street In
town. A citizen of Mlddebuty who is u
phi ilanthropist, happened along luckily, and,
rousipg the sleeping beauty from his letharsy
told him that if he didn't want to get
hauled IN he had better move on. lie "tum.
bcd"-and moved.
Several wealthy gentlemen from New
York, New Hampshire Connecticut and
Massachusetts were present at the auction
sale of the John Ring horses vt Bristol, We'd
ncslay. They had come on especially Tor
the purpose of bidding on tho trOtting hose
Dexter and were much chagiined when the
officer appeared and served the injunction. a
gentleman from Huntington had offered 10
start the bidding on the horse at $1,000 and
the auctiouecr was Just crying out this BID
when the injunction was served
The good people of some of the towns ad
jacrnt to Middcbury used to think that Mid
dlebury was the only town in this region
where rum was sold, and consequently when
ever any Of the risky residents of those
towps got full and cut up Cain all the blame
was laid al the door Of Middlebury. Re-
Gently, however, the eyes OF those COOS peo
Pile have been opened, they have seen things
MS they are and they know now that Middle
bury is not the only town that sinneth.
Carpenters and mechanics from Other
towns are already making Aliddlcbury theil
objective point in anticipation OF the good
wages which the large amount OF work to bt
done here this Summer will surely bring
The seasons work will open bri.lily as soor
as the weather will permit.
Mrs. O'Conner widow Of the late JOIN
O'Conuer has sold 10 her son Martin lei
house and her interest in the bakery business
| The consideration for the whole is $1,000
Mrs. O'Conncr, with her younger children
will soon 20 to live in New Haven. Conn.
where her married daughter, Mrs. DR.. II. j
MClluHu, Tesiucs. SlGssTs. DlATtlu ~ NOubtl
and Peter Champagne will hereafter run thu
bakery business.
Las, Fall Messrs. Carleton Moore AM
Henry l.. Sheldon jointly purchased the ole
DR.. Harris house. Mr. Sheldon has nov
made gift OF his half Of the house TO th'
Sheldon Art Museum Archaeological and His
| torical aociety, and has already presented
that body with deed Of the gift.
Mr. Human Coggswell OF East Mddlebur,
has been for several weeks soldier in tn,
large army Of the sick, and he does not ge
pcrcerlibly better yet
A. i. Upper ESQ, has 50 far recovered
| from his recent illness az to be able to attcnt
| to his law business, but he has not yet full
recovered his health aud strength.
| A Mr.. Marsh from Bethel has been 70
some time in Addison county buying hem
! lock bark, which he sells again 10 iannerics
| He has already shipped considerable OF i
| from .Middcburv and Salisbury, and ha
abou. three hundred cords more in Orwell
and New Haven. 1t goes to Keene, n. II
St. Patrck's day passed Oh very quietly il
Middlebury. There was no drunkenness
perceptble, and everything was much NOR
peaceable and decOrous than our Saturday,
usually have been OF late. For the most par
every one stuck to his work. and there wa
no celebration of any sort, in honor Of ST.
| Patrick.
Prof. c. d. Mead, principal of the graded
school. is considering the feasibility of estab
fishing night school here, in order to pivt
persons who are obliged to work through the
day an opportunity TO procure some much
| needed instruction. There are large mum
Der of young men in Mddlebury, as IN every
other town Of considerable size, who were
unable to see the berefits of education in their
school days, and hence didn't get any more
than they could help, but who have now dis.
covered their mistake and would like 10 70.
pair 1t as far as possible. Prof. Meals pro.
jccted night school will give this large class
of persons just such an opportunity as they