The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-27
Local News.

Mr.. F. ID. Proctor of Sutherland Falls
was in town on Saturday.
Miss Murray of Clarendon Springs is
visiting at Col. a. A. FletChpr's.
Mr.. w. II. Brewster started Monday
afternoon for New Orleans. He will be
absent three or four weeks.
Mr.. c. NJ. Wilds was in Burlington the
early part of the week in Tendance upon
the United States Circuit court.
Manager NJ. d. Brooks of the Cutter
Marble company arrived in town Mon
day night.
Mr.. John Powers. who recently fell and
BROKE his wrist, has so far recovered that
he is out of doors az in.
The butter market of Monday was not
specially lively. The prices paid were
the same as for a month past.
Mrs. w. ID. Lane has gone to Dandy to
visit her parents and is to be away two
or three weeks.
A number went from here Wednesday
night to a dance given at Bridport by
Morning sun lodge, F. q A. NJ.
Mr.. Samuel Brooks has just recovered
from quite a serious illness of ten-days'
duration. Mrs. Brooks is now very
sick.
Mr.. j. w. Rogers, a Bloomingsburgh,
OHIO, sheep man, has been in town and
vicinity the past week looking over the
fiocks of our breeders.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Methodist church will be held Wednes-
day. March 4, at 2 p. M; the quarterly
NEE Ing, March 8.
The creek below the falls has afford
ed fairly good skating the past week,
which the young people have fully util-
lied.
A h%alf-barrel of ale or beer was seized
at the express office on Tuesday by Dep
uty sheriff Cobb. 1t has not yet been
disposed Of.
The Junior exhibition of the college
will probably be held this year at the
opening of the spring term, instead of at
the end of the winter term.
The town reports are already in the
hands of the voters, who will have all
needful opportunity to study them before
the town meeting.
Mr.. j. Z. Ainsworth has sold his farm,
west of the village, to Mr.. Nj. d. Parme-
lee, who is now on the Shackett farm.
Principal Mead, who recently bought the
ldIltl, VII ulONC upOh IL u luz .lilt COln-
ing school vacation.
DIR. Kingsley and Messrs. G.. d. Earl,
Paris Fletcher, L. NJ. Chapman and AL
bert A. Fletcher went to Orwell, on
Tuesday night, to assist Independent
lodge F, and A. NJ. of that place in con-
ferring degrees.
Mrs. Ii. A. sheldon was summoned to
Rutland on Monday by a telegram an-
nouncing the serious illness of the young
son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. Z. Graves. She
returned on Wednesday, at which time
the child had somewhat improved. He
has the pneumonia.
The village trustees haYe voted to buy
of b. d. Stevens of Burlington twenty of
the improved street lamps which have
been on trial recently. Those now In
place will remain where they are and the
rest put on corners at which there is
most danger of collisions.
Tuesday morning was a hard one for
the railroad men. The early freight
from the north got into trouble at Bel
den's Fails, one of the car-wheels climb
ing a rail. No damage was done aud the
train was delayed only four or five hours.
The mixed from the south broke down
at Center Rutland; and, on getting to
Brandon, found a freight of on the main
line, causing further detention.