The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-30
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County court next week.
Emerson X. Wright has been seriously
i'll for two weeks past, and continues to
fail.
The firm of o. +. Comstock & Co.
has been dissolved. Mr.. Langworthy
will continue the business.
States Attorney Hawkins was in town
Tuesday and Notwithstanding prepar-
atiOns for the approaching term of court.
\ trustworthy citizen who was up
early. Sunday morning. says there was
quite a respectable snow-storm for May.
Yesterday morning was the coolest for
several weeks. In some parts of the viii
lage water standing in pals and basins
out of doors was frozen over.
The old Case & Rider drug store open
ed for business again, Wednesday morn
ing. Mr.. Rider is now the sole proprie-
tor, he having bought out the others in
terested.
We publish elsewhere an obituary
notice of VIM. j. Fish. whose death oc-
CURED. as stated, at Minneapolis, the
18th. lie had many acquaintance and
friends IN town.
The third week of June is to be week
of conventions. The Republican county
meets here on the l7th. the State at Bur
ingtOn on the 18TH and the Democratic
county in this village the 18th,
Messrs. Eldredge Il Slade have re-
moved thcif law office to Brcwster's block.
They occupy half of the upper floor, the
rooms in which have recently been Ic-
paired and impr Dyed for their use.
On the last page of this paper will be
found valuable article on The Plum
Crop" We trust all who own plum or
cherry trees will read it and do as direct
ed. both for their own and their neigh
bOrS' sakeS.
+. II. Knowlton, a member of the
senior class of the college, who will he
the first graduate of the college with the
degree of b. s.. has accepted the pro-
fessorship of natural history in the Hol-
derness school. Plymouth. y. IL.
| The addition to the skating rink at the
fair ground is substantially done. 1t gives
room II by % feet in dimensions. There
are also rooms in front for ticket Office.
! the storage of skates, etc. 1t will make
Il splendid floral hall AT fair time.
The ice-cream and strawberry festival
which was to have been given by the
ladies of the Congregational church in the
lectul Groom, Wednesday evening, June
18th. has been postponed to Friday, the
18th. 1t will open ut 3 o'clock and con-
tinue till 10 pm.
1t is expected the surveyor who is to
run the route and make estimates for the
proposed water-w works will shortly make
his appearance. He was to have come
at an earlier date than this, but has prob
ably been hndered in work elsewhere by
the rainy weather.
A. " Brown went, Wednesday, 2Sth
inst. to Springfield. Mass. to remain
permanently. Mr. Brown will open Il
photograph gallery at No. $50 Main
street, in that city. He has his mega
tives with him and can furnish copies of
pictures taken here.
The work of improving the streets,
parks. ETC., still goes on under the direc-
ton of the trustees and rural improve
ment association. The next thing to be
taken in hand will be the sidewalks, of
which we need II larger supply than the
town at present boasts.
Occasionally one of the new issue of
postal notes reaches here from some of
the larger places, where they have been
put on sale. They are of a blue color,
50 lildI NIllluS VIII SllbN ulJ''n lltul
better than on the old style, and some
changes in the form have been made to
guard against fraud.
Albert Chapman and +. n. Bissell of
Shoreham were the Vermont representa-
tiVes at the WOOl-GrOWcrS' convention in
Chicago, last week. Mr.. Bissell will re-
main to attend the Republican conven-
ton lie is accompanied by Mrs. Bissell.
They are now visiting friends in Michi-
gan. Mr.. Chapman reached home Tues
day night.
Grant NJ. Sprague, son of NJ. r.. Sprague
of Weybridge, who for the past three
years has been with Hon. ID. c. Linsley,
manager of the Canada Atlantic rail
road at Ottawa, Ont, has resignedf his
position at Ottawa and accepted of q
more lucrative one at Albany, n. Y,
with IL. S. Marcy, general freight agent
of the Delaware Il Hudson Canal Co.