The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-06

those who went to Boston on the eNcur-
sion of Tuesday.
The Star" polo team of this place
will play a match game with the "Stars'
of Rutland. at Rutland, Saturday eve
ming, the nth inst.
Hon. L. ID. Eldredge arrived home
Friday from his trip to the West. Be-
sides visiting Kansas, he went up into the
wheat region of northern Dakota.
Mr.. Bakers man who drives the stage
from Ripton to Hancock said Tuesday
morning that there were II inches of
nov on the summit of the mountain.
Mr.. Varney of the senior class repre-
scented the Y. NJ. c.. association of the
college at the State convention at st.
Adams on Friday and Saturday of last
week and Sunday of this.
Max Valiquette, for some months past
in the employ of A. b. Colby at his
restaurant, has been compelled to give
up work on account of i'll health. and has
returned to his home in Rutland.
Herbert w. DEMO. a member of the
sophomore class at the college. has been
i'll for two weeks with bilious fever. He
is now recovering. His mother came
from Littleton. n. H.. to take care of
him.
The parks have been raked and the
leaves taken away. The ground looks
better, but it is questioned whether the
removal of the leaves doesn't give the
frost too much of a chance at the grass
roots.
Owing to the storm Monday there was
scarcely any business done. Butter came
in quite freely, however, Tuesday. The
price was a trifle better than the previous
week-2l to % cents being paid, the most
of that sold going at the latter figure.
Thompson G.. EastOn of Cornwall gives
the weight of five heads of cabbage raised
by him, and weighed without the
stumps. The aggregate weight is l22 IL
lbs. Two weighed y l-2 each, and
the others % 81. - II and - lbs. ;
average weight, II - pounds.
The hdbeds corpus case of w. ii. Smell
was argued before the full bench of the
Supreme our at Montpelier on Tuesday
by Hon. j. w. Stewart and c. NJ. Wilds
for the relator and Special Prosecutors A.
p. Topper of this town and Edward Dana
of Rutland on behalf of the State. No
decision has been rendered as yet.
The game of polo between the Scar
lets" of Bristol and the 'Amateurs' of
this town, which it was expected would
be played here tomorrow evening, is
off" One of the ''Scarlets" has re-
moved from the State, the club lost its
sticks when the Bristol rink burned and
altogether they thought it best not &c
come.
Our Whiting correspondent last week
mentioned the fact that f. ID. Douglas OF
hat town had just finished threshing
2000 bushels of grain. AS Wcybridgt
does not like to be beaten in the agricul.
tural line it should be stated that L. j
Wright of that town has finished. during
the present week, threshing IA harvest OF
something over 5000 bushels of grain.
The work was done by James Baldwin il
II days, an average of about 360 bushcl,
IA day.
Notwithstanding the reports of theil
rotting badly. the price of potatoes ha,
not sensibly advanced and a good many
are bought here and in oLher own W
and down the line of the railroad. One
freight train the other day had twelv,
cars of them when it reached Rutland
But it is said they are decaying badly
after being stored, so that the price may
90 up yet. On the other hand 1t is sale
many with good sound crops are holding
them for an advance, so that a boom o
great magnitude can hardly be cOunte,
mons future certainties. OniOn haV'
gone up to 80 and 60 cents. A Provi
dence Or. ~ man is said to have bough
800 bushels hereabouts last week. paying
60 cts. for part of them. Large crops ar
reported. The recent rise is attributed
to the failure of the crop along the Ilud
son.
The death of DR.. Z. q. Gale. who hat
been i'll for a long time, occurred Tuesda,
/; evening at the residence of John l.. But
tolph. The deceased was a native of thi
county, we believe of the town of Shore
ham. He was graduated from the Cas-
tleton Medical college and settled in Yves
tern New York. Removing thence t
Michigan, he continued the practice o
his profession there till the outbreak O
} the rebellion and then had a government
position in connection with the enrollmeu
of soldiers. About II years ago he cam
to Middlebury and has spent most of tn
time here since. Last winter he was i
Michigan. He returned to this place i
June and has been sick all summer with
malarial trouble from which he had SUI
fercd for years. The funeral will be at
= tended from Mr.. ~Buttolph's at one o'cloc
= tomorrow Saturday afternoon.
We have received the following, date
Central Office of the Blanchard Portabl
Building Company, No. ~ Union square
New York city, Nov. 2, 1885," an
| signed George F. W~onson, presider
g Blanchard Portable Building Co.
A recent copy of your PAL er has been forwar,
ed to M containing the statement in an lite
that a certain ii, q. Tenant is "manager of Il
= Blanchard Portable Building company who's
mandatory is located in the village OF Middl
bury, VI This statement is wholly untrue IN
n without foundation in fact. Said Tenant hi
= ever been elected as business mana ger of tn
I company by the trust cs of said company or OF
erwise. The manufacturing &, p%artment of sa
con pany ia under the absolute control of DR.. vi
gil W, Blanchard of New York, the originate
n and patent ee of the inventions embodied IN Il
Blanchard portable building system OF arch to
ture. The said DR.. Blanchard is also preside
r and business mana er of "The Blanchard MI
e company" of New York, a corporation that Owl
over lOur-nfths of the entire capital stock of Il
Blanchard Portable Building Co., and AS trust
a for the former company controls and has at h
. disposal sald capital stock.
Deputy Sheriff Ill. G.. Smell of Milfort
Mass, arrived on the express train SUI
day morning bringing John C.. Flint
- IInnnonly n.hn had haon nrraSfnA at NJ