Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-23
New HAVEN.
Butter sold for % cents on Monday.
Merchant Roscoe reported lively
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trade last market day.
Mrs. VIM. p. Nash has been spending
some time in Troy, n. Y, with her sis
ter, Mrs. Katie SWEET, who has been very
ill.
Rev. Mr.. Sargent occupied the desk
last Sabbath, and preached at East Mills
in the afternoon. He is quite improved
in health, although troubled with
hoarseness.
Two young ladies in town were so in
terested to know how "John Norton
spent his Christmas" that they took the
"Foot and Walker" train for Bristol las
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Mary Bottum is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Carrie Hall of Cambridge,
Mass, and also Miss Lottie, who has
been in the Conservatory of Music at
Boston for year past.
Mrs. Carrie +. Nash left town the first
of April to visit her sister, Mrs. Ellen
(Smith) Nash, at Oak Grove, Wis. Up
on arriving there she was conveyed to
her sisters residence in sleigh, there
being foot of snow on the ground. Old
Vermont is ahead yet.
h Master Leroy C. Russell and Miss Mat
tie Partch have each sent an order to the
China Tea Co. of Boston, and secured
their premiums. Leroy has an elegant
parlor lamp and Miss Matte tea-set,
which she presented to her mother, Mrs.
Partch honoring the gift by giving a tea
party to Matte and her friends. -
a curious Illustration of animal in
stinct was recently witnessed upon the
farm of Stowe & Doud of this town. Mr..
l.. 5. Doud with his men were finishing
the cutting of Il strip of timber upon the
side of the main woods. Two trees re-
manned about one hundred feet or more
from the edge of the woods, and when
one of them was felled a flying squirrel
ran out of it and up the remaining tree.
The animal appeared quite tame and
greatly excited. Upon examining the
PROSTATE tree a nest containing five
young squirrels was found in the same.
A section containing the nest was cut out
and placed at the foot of the standing
tree. The old squirrel instantly seized
one of her young and by deXterous man
ipulations with paws and chin, reduced
it to the appearance of a small, furry
ball. which she caught in her mouth,
and ascending the tree to some distance,
launched out in mid air across the open
space toward the main woods, alighting
at the foot of tree at the edge of the
cover. Depositing her little burden in a
hastily improvised nest upon the ground,
the old squirrel ran up this tree and
started through the air on return trip
to the four remaining young ones. The
| former operation was repeated, and so
on until the five little ones had taken an
aerial trip to their new lodgings. But
now. either from a lack of confidence in
her tally, or at any rate to quiet her ma
ternal anxiety, the mother made yet one
more trip to the old nest, and after eX-
ploring every nook of the same, and
seemingly becoming satisfied that none
had been overlooked. returned to her
family, thus making five and one-half
round trips and the routes crossing each
other in mid air like a horizontal letter y.
The precision with which the animal
tonishing; and indeed the whole per-
Torrance in all its details was executed
with an accuracy, celebrity and success
quite unlike many of the ''plans of mice
and men" political and otherwise, which
often miscarry.
From Another Correspondent
d. ii. Squiers intends to paint his
house soon.
G. w. Barton is loading car of pota
toes for the Boston market.
Mrs. c. f. Waite is sick with whoop
ing cough, and there are several othe
cases in town.
New Haven maintains four covere,
bridges and about - miles of highways
which is much more than most of tn
adjoining towns.
/ Prof. II. ID. IIoflnagle is very popular
with the students of the academy. ii
is good instructor, Il thorough disciplin
: rian and the right man in the right place
: ii. c. Roscoe did a rushing business Il
his store last Monday. lie bought
large amount of butter, the ruling pric
paid being % cents, and sold over so
worth of goods.
In 1927 there were G29 scholars enroll
ed in the district schools of this tow
: and for a period of forty years the nun
+ Der was upward of 800 year. The nun
Der in attendance for 1885 was 2G0.
0 The chief question which agitates til
Z public mind in New Haven now is, Al
we to have IA macadanized road to Bri
: tol? The road has been in a deplorabl
>, condition for the past few weeks, an
loaded teams had to suspend operation