Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-12
VERGENNES 8.

New maple sugar will soon be in order.
Miss Woodbury. is now laboring in
Hinesburgh.
Four inches more Of snow Tuesday,
but unevenly laid.
Miss Ripley of Rutland is the guest of
Mayor Parker and wife.
Good teams, fine turnouts and safe
drivers at the Stevens House.
Colds are common and severe, and pub
lie assemblies bring them to the front.
Capt. Samuel Ives has moved into one
of the dwellings on the Panton road
Mr.. w. L. Berry of Crown Point is
paying a visit to his father, w. X. Berry.
The toboggan chute is in full blast
again. The lads and lasses have gay
times.
There was a dime sociable at Mrs. j..
NJ. Dyer's, West Salisbury, Thursday
evening.
Six persons united with the Congrega-
tional church, Sunday. Nine were bap-
tized.
Seats are being taken promptly for the
Harvard quintet entertainment, Friday
evening.
Rev. Mr.. Robertson attended the in
stallation,at Milton, of Rev. John L. Sc
wall Wednesday.
Lincoln contractors are shedding forty
cords of hemlock bark to the c. ID. Keel
er tannery.
There may be purse contest on the
are about ready.
Mrs. j. NJ. Dyer of West Salisbury
visited friends in this place, Thursday
and Friday last.
The farm of James Preston of Walt
ham has been barganed for by Benia-
min Goodale of Addison.
The right hand of fellowship was given
to seven persons, Sunday, by Rev. Mr..
Sherman of the Baptist church.
Frank Dean has changed his location
from y. j. McCuen's store to the Hong
Kong establishment of Mr.. Mech.
ID. ID. Middlebrook, Esq, is up and
around again despite his late shock, and
steps liveier than his son "Thoph" now.
Among the shipments to Boston, Mon
day, were twenty-one cows and their
calves, and nine veal calves, by George
II. Sprigg.
Eight hundred dozen eggs were ship
ped, Monday, from this depot by X. Il.
Bristol q Son. Eggs are abundant and
cheap.
The owners of sick horses and cattle in
this vicinity can rely upon the skillful
attention of DR.. Merrill or DR.. Taylor
veterinary surgeons, at any time.
The State school received one new
member Saturday. 1t was IA lad by the
name of Griswold, brought by Sheriff
Frank Atherton of Washington county.
DR.. Huntley of the old Whitmore 4
Clark troupe was in town this week
Monday they will make School-housC
hall echo with their characteristic melo-
dies.
The test of brick walks by the city of
ticials has proved satisfactory, and Ban
yeas brick-yard is discounting brick il
sufficient quantity to continue the worl
this spring.
The house on Main street so long occu
| pied by DR.. Paschal MaXfield is now va
cant. The doctor bought the house o
Elijah Blaisdell, proprietor of the Yer
monter, well remembered by our eide
citizens. 1t is now owned by Judge Al
len of FerriSburgh.
When will some retired editor or doc
tor, or any of these rich men, fit up, il
good modern style, the capacious build
ing, corner of Main and Water streets
and present the same to the city of Ver
gennes as a public hall? How much W
need such Il donation.
l.. w. Frost of Bridport has fine 3
years-old Holstein heifer, that give
twenty pounds of milk at IA milking. He
bag measured, before calving, four fee
and seven inches in circumference. MI
Frost has a small herd of Holsteins tina
rank among the first
We learn that John +. Dyer and hi
. brother, Frank Dyer, of West Salisbury