Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-07

hay, eighty tons; of curtain rolls, for
ty tons; of kaolin, forty-eight tons.
Rev. II. F. Austin had a paralytic
shock, Monday morning about 3 o'clock.
Indigestion and overwork predisposing
causes. Mr.. NJ. Yott was called to nurse
him. lie is improving. He preached
last Sunday.
\ movement is on foot to have a grand
firemen's muster in Nergennes on July
it'll We have a real live fire department.
and why not inaugurate rousing cele
bration, with races, prizes, speeches, din
ner. etc? Say we do,
Mr.. Shaw, principal of the graded
school. was kept from church, Sunday,
and from his post of duty at the school
room, Monday, by a rheumatic trouble
and heart affection. He is better again,
and in the school room.
There was very quiet wedding in
town Tuesday morning, early. The high
contracting parties were Mr.. A. j.
Wickus and Miss Murta Farwell. They
were united at the Congregational par
sonage by Mr.. Robertson.
A baptsmal tank has just been placed
in the church at Addison by F. L. Nc
Donough. 1t was seven feet long, four
feet wide and four and a half feet deep.
1t is a nice piece of work, and is sunk in
the floor in front of the altar.
The five cattle killed on the railroad
near the high bridge, short distance
south of Nergennes, last week, belonged
to Mr.. VIM. Conant, and were in fine
order. They strayed from Town Hill.
The owner valued them at two hundred
dollars.
Fast walking horses are by no means
common, but they are valuable. John
Green, the horse breaker and trainer, is
driving a black horse, whose owner we
cannot name, and whose weight we do
not know, that out-walks any horse we
ever saw.
Is it fair to let the agents of moving
machines and agricultural labor-saving
inventions come into Nergennes and To-
cate on the street. without license or tax
of any kind, and compete with dealers in
the same line, who live here, pay rent,
taxes. and spend their money in the
place?
a letter from Miss Susie. daughter of
Mr.. VIM. Holland. at Pasadena, Cal,
, speaks of their general health as good.
: Mr.. VIM. Webb, who left with Dea. Par
ker, April eth. is with Mr.. Holland
Miss Jennie Tudor is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Allen at Los Angeles.
If YOU have occasion to visit North Fer
rsburgh Hollow. call at the Brookside
hotel, kept by Moses Richardson. He
entertains both man and beast in way
to be remembered. 1t is quiet, rural
spot, clean, with good table and sen
sible mine host. Call.
AT the Congregational church meeting
last week Thursday evening. it was de-
cided to have three deaconS. Dea. Par
ker'S resignation having been accepted
on motion Geo. +. Stone was chosen
and +. +. Sears. and these. with Dea
Ross. now constitute the full quota.
The steamer Water Lily, the captain
assures US. will not, probably. begin hel
regular trips until about the middle OF
the month. There is no urgent need OF
it, business and travel rather light. Ev.
erything is in order. and the boat is rea.
dy daily for work or pleasure parties.
There is greater scarcity in good, ca.
pable female help than is generally re-
, allied. Mr. Simonds, at the depot, has
long been engaged in procuring help OF
this class and farm help, also, from
abroad. He has an opportunity to Sc
cure good respectable house help from
the south of England. He has been very
4, fortunate, as the term is, in securing gooC
, men and females for those who have ap
: piled to him. We should say that he ha,
, been careful and judicious in every in
stance and has thus made it successful
business venture.
Mr.. C. II. Simonds has been in charg,
2 of the Vergennes depot for twenty years
p He has seen changes in men and measures
= during that time. About fifty thOusanC
trains have passed the station during hi
q official experience. No coroner's inquest
- no misplaced switch or report of death
- dealing accident in all his returns for y
years. 1t reads well. Loungers ant
hangers-on never look for him. He ha
= been absent but ten days on the time
: book of the Central Vermont in all tn,
= seven thousand and three hundred day
he has been in their employ; Il gOoC
+ record, II rare showing. If we were
d president of the road we should lool
It about for good nice position for an EN-
ployee who had proved himself so com
6 petent, safe and reliable through so man,
2 years of faithful service.