The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-07
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WI anu MIS-. ". i art IldNp DHpn VS.
iting friends at Ticondcroga.
Mrs. G. II. Ketcham is not as well. DR.
Dyer has been called again as counse
with DR.. Wright
Justus f. Brown is very sick with
rheumatic fever. He is one of the oldest
citizens we have in town.
Mrs. Angeline Mouton is very sick at
G. j. RiCh's. DR.. Smith of Middlebury
is attending her. There are several cases
of sickness about town.
Mrs. John Sheldon of Fair Haven, VT.
is the guest of Mrs. F. ID. Douglas. Bv
the way, you do not want to say very
much 10 our town representative about
his bear hunt on Goshen mountain.
We guess we shall have to believe that
the witch-hazel twig man did know some
thing, or that the twig indicated that
there was water. Mr.. +. B. Pond has
dug flowing well. he says. where Mr..
Cole located the spring. What does it
mean? Don't remember of reading any,
thing of this kind in the Bible. We dc
read about Moses and Aaron having a
little experience shifting the rock with
the rod. but that rod was a litte freaky
sometimes it was a rod and then SER
pent.
The chicken-pie supper at Rev. W. NJ.
Mayhew's. Friday evening, was certainly
a success. The ladies of the town con
tributed the chicken pies and cake, and
the society realized about twenty-five
dollars. This fund is for the purpose of
buving carpet for the church. There
is now in the treasury nearly one hun.
dred dollars. Every one seems to be in
terested in this matter and all willing to
work. New additions to the church GO
to show that there is more than com
mon selfish interest taken in our church
affairs.
It's as we predicted that when the water
works were done. it would be very nice
affair. and now Allen Ketchum 4 Son
can show you a Watertown mill that
throws an inch and quarter stream of
water seventy rods and over up a grade
of nearly one hundred feet into their big
reservoir and then leading into four tubs,
watering their cattle, sheep and horses.
1t is worth while to call upon Uncle Al
len and let him show you this great i'm
provement. The cost was but little in
comparison to the value it adds to the
farm.
From another Correspondent.
Nov. 2. four new members were re-
ceived into the fellowship of the Congre-
gational church.
Five new carriage sheds have lately
been erected by attendants of the Con-
gregational church.
Paint is still being spread by Ned Tay-
lOr, while j. +. Parker has caught the
water works fever. and is running that
necessary fluid direct TO his barns.
improvements are going on at rapid
rate. The Baptist society is engaged in
putting baptlstery into their house of
worship, in connection with which they
lowered the pulpit platform and enlarg-
I'd the building by the addition of two
dressing-rooms. \ new pulpit is also
being manufactured by Mr.. Harvey
Ketchum of Vergcnnes. these conven-
fences will be much priced by those who
have occasion to use them.
On the evening of October 81 the La
dies Mite society furnished chicken
pie supper to large crowd at the Con-
gregational parsonage. Niands of vari-
Gus kinds, intended to tempt the appetite
of the most fastidious. were supplied in
addition to the main attraction of the Ia
bles. The evening was spent in social
way, the young people, especially, tird-
ing methods for passing the time pleas
dullS' IL II SIdlll NluS W SliIc llldJ lne
financial success was as great as the So
cial, netting S23 for the treasury of the
society.
In regard to the Sunday school concert
given by the members of the Congrega-
tional school, l would say comparatively
little time was given to preparation. 1t
was such a success as to completely sur
prise the audience, which filled to reple-
tion the meeting-house,o ,on the evening of
Oct. 10. 1t was almost wonderful that
80 or 40 children, totally unused, most of
them, to a public performance, should
acquit themselves with such uniform
credit. While all of the entertainment
was capital, it is no more than just to
state that the interest of the audience
came to a climax at the fine rendering of
the exercise entitled The Ten Virgins"
by as many young ladies, when the ST.
lence in the room was almost painful.
The singing was of that order which has
given our young people a more than To-
cal reputation, and the whole affair will
not soon be forgotten.