The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
Local News.

auCUlODeerS.
Hon. r. B. Langdon of Minneapolis is
in town, the guest of the Addison House.
Miss E. M. Geer is in town again. after
an absence of two or three months in the
West.
Rev. S. A. Parker preached to the
Sunday evening.
Mrs. w. A. Ncwcomb has been seri-
ously i'll for two weeks past, with pleuri-
sy, but is improving.
Thos. Ii. Mcleod is laid up with a
scald, the result of a pot of boiling tea
being spilled upon him.
Dr. w. II. Kingsley and r. ID. Hedden
of Salisbury go to the Adirondacks next
week on hunting trip.
The Green Mountain Pulp company
are building large boarding house at
the Huntington falls mill.
Prof. Steele occupied the pulpit of the
Congregational church, last Sunday, in
the absence of the pastor.
Mrs. f. w. Linsley has returned home
from Milwaukee. where she spent the
greater part of the summer.
The local potato market is dull Prices
are low and producers. generally, are
holding their crops for rise.
DR.. c. E. Prentiss is building a house
on his farm near George HammoDd's.
Smith & Allen are doing the work.
w. L. Blanchard, Braintree man. has
taken the Central photograph gallery.
formerly occupied by Mr.. Brown.
Rev. Mr.. Speare arrived home from
a nn aft
an absence of nearly two weeks.
Charles A. Chapman has bought of
Joseph Battell the Mussey place, social
ed on the west side of Chapman hill, and
is repairing the house.
ii. Il. Dorrance of California is at the
Addison House. He learned the saddlery
business of Mr.. Hill many years ago, and
went out to California at an early day.
Charles ID. Lane of Cornwall has sold
to VIM. Fits of BroOksville the farm on
the north side of Chapman hill which he
took in exchange from Fred Hammond.
The butter market was a little less
firm last Monday than the week before.
The ruling price was % cents, though
some selections sold for little more.
Miss Annie r. Dashiell is back in Mid
The sessions are held at the residence of
Prof. Brainerd, where they were last
term.
The w. C. Y. L. will hold a parlor
meeting with Mrs. Dr. Eddy. Wednesday
afternoon and.evening, commencing at
three o'clock. Gentlemen invited to tea
at six.
Miss Mary Brannan, daughter of John
Brannan, formerly of this town, started
on Monday to join her father at Tecoma,
Nevada, where he has resided since leav-
ing Middlebury.
j. +. Gauvin, till recently in business
here, has bought out Mems photograph
gallery in Burlington. He is a good
artist and will no doubt succeed in his
new venture.
Two fine specimens of taXidermy are
on exhibition at Hanaford's drug store.
One is blue heron and the other hawk.
They were " set up" by Jesse A. Els
worth of the college.
Reports from Cornwall and other fruit
sections of the county indicate a large
crop of good quality. Growers and deal
ers are of the opinion that 81 80 to
Sl.75 barrel will be about the rate for
winter apples.
The next excursion to New York by
way of the Rutland q Bennington road
occurs on Tuesday, the 2lst. A few
tickets and choice staterooms may be
had of G.. K. Marshall. Early applica-
ton should be made.
It's understood that the report of the
commissioners-W. l.. Burnap, Ii. b.
Williams and ii. 5. Brookins-n the
road case Town of Weybridge VS.. Towns
of Cornwall, Bridport and Addison is
adverse to Weybridge.
While A. c. Burwell of Bridport was
driving ne6r this village, week ago
yesterday afternoon, his horse was fright
ened by a bicycle. The carriage was
tipped over and the driver thrown out
and considerably bruised. The horse ran
home, distance of about eight miles.
There have been an unusually large
number of deaths in this town the past
week. They include two children of
Tommy Smith, one aged five DAYS and
the other little over year; Edward. 10
years of age, son of Peter Counter who
died on Saturday of typhoid pneumonia.
after brief illness an infant child of
Joseph LaROck; John Fisher of SEYMOUR
street, an aged man, and Mrs. Daniel
McNaughton, The latter lived in the
lane near the mills and died on Wednes-
day night. She leaves FIVE or six quite
young children.
A case of incendiarism is reported from
Ripton. Wednesday evening. shortly
after eight o'clock, as r. f. Bentley and
another man were on their way home
from Brandon they saw fire in w. S.
Huntley's butter-tub mill. Proceeding
to the store, they gave the alarm and the
fire was soon out. Appearances indicat-
ed that bunch of shayings had been
saturated with Kerosene, placed on the
work bench and fired. A pane of glass
had been broken out of a window over
the bench and the shavings pushed
through the opening thus made.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert III. Fisher have re-
turned from their wedding trip to Mon
treal and Quebec. On entering their
rooms at the Addison House they found
there, in addition to their many other
gifts, an elegant marble clock from Tiff
fanny q Co.'s, New York, as testimon-
ial of regard from the Pensioners of st.