Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-09

the college Is teaching the grammar
school temporarily, Miss Bond being
disabled by illness.
Miss Ada b. Calendar went, Wednes-
day, to New York to visit her cousins,
the Misses Austin of Burlington, who
are spending the winter there.
The creek has reached its customary
spring altitude, flooding the meadows
from here south to Sutherland Falls. No
damage is reported hereabouts.
Rev. Mr.. Noe will preach at the union
Fast-day services to be held at the Con-
gregational church at 10 40 this morning.
At st. Stephens services will be held at
the same hour.
The foundation of the creamery f. w.
Atwood is building near the freight
depot is partly laid and lumber is being
drawn for the superstructure. Ifnothing
happens it will be ready for operation by
June !.
employ of Beckwith & Co. as clerk in
the grocery department. He had work.
ed seven years at the Addison House.
among whose guests he made many
friends.
Rev. DIR. Weber has consented, at the
the request of the Womans auxiliary
give a talk on 'Ireland" at the town hall
sometime, next week or the week after,
for the benefit of the Y. NJ. c. A. The
date will be announced later.
AT VIM. Cars place, east of the vii
lage, is poplar tree that measures %
feet four inches in circumference at one
foot from the ground. a sprout of the
same tree, standing about rod from the
parent stem, is eleven feet in circumfer-
ence.
John /. Buttolph received a painful
injury Wednesday morning. He was
feeding a root-cutter, when he got the
second finger of his right hand into the
knives, cutting and mangling it so that it
was necessary to amputate it at the sec
ond joint.
Mrs. \. NJ. Beckwith went Friday to
Washington for a brief stay. Mrs. Du-
gald Stewart, who has spent the winter
in the South, will join Mrs. Beckwith at
the capitol. and come home with her
Dugald Stewart will stay for time at
Thomasville, Ga.
The commissioners appointed by the
comfy rourt i'm rho nottor of tbo Nou,
Haven highway from the railroad station
east to the Bristol line will look over the
ground tomorrow. They are Lieut.-Gov.
Ormsbee, Judge Lane of Cornwall and
II. ). Jackman of Waltham.
W. a. Tyrell, formerly connected with
marble companies at Dorset and Man
chester, has come to Middlebury to man
age the marble business carried on by
the Burlington Manufacturing Co. at
Belden's Falls. He and his family, con-
sisting of his wife and two daughters,
are boarding at Mrs. Batchelders
The young ladies of the college, assist
ed by their friends, will give an enter
tainment at the town hall on the evening
of Monday, April 26. to secure funds to
complete the furnishing of the Brown
Study" 1t will consist of Howells' farce,
1.-The Register" together with comedy
sin the Farmers Kitchen" Further
announcement will be made next week.
Rev. Mr.. Speare exchanges pulpits next
nj, hnt Il 81 L - ii 6
rean Baptist church, Burlington, having
accepted an invitation to address the Bur
lington Y. NJ. G. \ at their anniversary,
Sabbath evening. Rev. Mr.. Gould was
until recently professor in the Theologi-
cal seminary at Newton, Mass. He will
preach morning and evening. 1
Joseph Brouillett left town on the 3 :36
train Saturday morning. He is said to
have gone into the saloon business at
Pittsburgh, n. Y, whittier his family
will soon remove. This town had be-
come too hot for him. The day before
his departure two officers were after him
with warrants charging him with a large
number of offences of selling liquor land,
as these would have been second convic-
tons, he wisely made himself scarce.
A. Gonzales, rich planter of Costa
Rica, came to this country early in the
winter, and bought a number of thor
oughbred cattle, horses and sheep. among
the latter several purchased of j. b.
Cherbino of Weybridge through 4. j.
Severance of New York. Mr.. Gonzales
sailed for home the latter part of Febru-
airy; but the steamer has never been
heard of since it left port. He expected
to return to the United States in a few
months after more improved stock.
Our business men are branching out
considerably this year. Smith Il Allen
have a large job on their hands at Bel
lows Falls, As before stated and now
Mr.. Calhoun has taken the contract to
put in the plumbing Stpam hoilars and