The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
Local News.

FRANK a. Bond went 10 market yeSter-
day, to be absent a week or more.
There will be communion service in
the NJ. E. church on Sunday morning.
Mrs. Julius W. Morse is rapidly failing.
Mrs. DR.. Hamilton of Rutland was in
town. Monday.
Mary E. Sawyer has bought of the NJ.
c. Rice estate house and lot on Sev-
mour street, paying 81 900.
Miss Matte, daughter of PRINCIPAL
Mead, is spending her vacation at home.
She is teaching at Nalck, Mass.
Frank l.. Eastman has moved from
Charlotte. where he has lived for several
years, to his old home on Munger street.
Principal Mead of the Graded school
is spending this week at his farm in Al
burgh. lie may return home tomorrow
Co-education gives rise to some prob
lens in nomenclature. At Cornell they
have recently invented freshman la
dies"
Those who keep dogs should bear
in mind that it will cost them only half
as much to get licenses before April l..
as after that date.
II. +. Rawson, who has been clerk at
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returned to his home in Hartford. Conn.,.
to remain permanently.
Herbert A. Austin, member of the
sophomore class Of the college. has sew
cred his connection with the institution
and gone to Newport.
Rev. c. NJ. Stebbins. who is teaching
Prof. Austin's classes at the college,
preached in the Nergennes Congregations
al church last Sunday.
Chapman G.. Smith has rented the
rooms in the Smith Il Sheldon block. now
occupied by John II. Sargent, and will
take possession April /.
Rev. Father Moloney. pastor of the
Roman CATHOLIC church. was quite i'll on
Sunday and could not conduct the SER
vices. He was improving at last ac-
counts.
We are pleased to learn that the moth
er of our townsman, Clinton q. smith.
who for several months has been i'm n
very critical state of health. is now i'm
proving.
Oliver Severance is in Texas. lie was
in San Antonio the 18th inst. The issue
of the Texas Wool Gr0,cer of the 9th
inst. contains the report of an interview
with him.
This item is going the rounds of the
press: st. Adams is to be connected
! by telephone with Burlington. Middle
bury, Rutland and the towns in the east
ern part of the State.
There have been no shipments of sheep
from this station to the West since our
last issue. Parties are buying. however.
for that market. The Mcssrs. Caswell
~ a l1nr
Peter Trudo, who was engaged in the
same row with Bassett, a few days since.
was arrested and arraigncd before Justice
j. +. Stapleton. He pleaded guilty to
intoNication, was fined and paid.
Five members of the senior class of the
college, with ladies, went to Brandon
Tuesday night and had supper at the
Brandon House. They reached home
about two o'clock Wednesday morning.
The w. c. Il. l.. will hold prayer
and business meeting at the home of
Mrs. MunrOe, Seminary street. at 3
o'clock next Wednesday afternoon. The
parlor meeting is to be omitted this
month.
The wife of Albert Larocque died at
the home of the family, in the north part
of the village, Sunday. She was aged
A.. The funeral was attended on We'd
nesday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Speare oilic-
atug. "
Royal Nitherell, aged about 80 years,
died at his home on Case street, in the
east part of the town, Tuesday night, of
paralysis. The funeral will take place
from the house at II o'clock this friday
morning.
Preparations are already being made
by the Juniors of the college for their
exhibition at the close OF the term,
March %. The hop. following the ex-
hibition, will be in Academy hall. The
class has seven members.
The entertainment given by the Ade-
phi society at Academy hall, last Friday
evening. was well attended and passed
of successfully and pleasantly. Quite IL
sum was realized, which will be used to
increase the society library.
There We're very few people in town
on Monday and not over "a dozen tubs of
butter were brought. Thirty cents "A
pound was paid for new-milk, and n
and 20 for winter. But hardly enough
was offered to make price on.
The rain of Wednesday materially de-
creased the snow and the warm sun of
yesterday uldue Il SIlll IuIuner reduction.
The roads are reE orted very heavy. But
there were a large number of people in
town Yesterday, Notwithstanding.
Our readers should bear in mind the
annual shearing, under the auspices of
the STRENGTHENING association, to take
place in this village April |, ,, and 3.
There is every prospect Of a large at
tendance and a successful shearing.
The Munger street school closed on the
22d of February. The pupils who were
neither tardy nor absent We're Nellie
Mills, Josie Benton, George Kendall,
Burley Balm, Willie Mills, Charlie Lee
and Johnnie Bacon. Willis n. Cady
was the teacher.
The storm of Saturday and Sunday
gave us more snow than we had had be-
fore this winter. Luckily there was no
wind, and so no drifts, or the roads would
have been impossible. As it was, they
had to be plowed out. Trains on the
railroad were not much delayed. ~
| Sylvester b. Rockwell died very sud-