Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-19
ORWELL,
Deferred from Last Week.

Monday evening
Daniel Ryan and Mary Quirk We're
married on Sunday at the Catholic
church, Father Coffey officiating.
Mrs. Linus Wilcox was stricken with
paralysis on Sunday at 3 p. m, and re-
manned unconscious until 10 a. Ill. on
Tuesday, the 9th, when death relieved her
painful condition.
John Ryan of this town raised the past
season from two acres, or four bushels of
seed, siXty-siX bushels of spring wheat of
the Lost Nation variety, besides waste
of two or three bushels per acre. Who
beats this?
Communion service was held at the
Congregational church on Sunday last
A large number united with the church,
81 on profession and five by letter, ~ in
all, ranging in age from children up to
those of grey hair. Meetings will be
held on Tuesday and Friday evenings of
each week for the present.
VIM. Ryan died on Sunday morning,
after a painless illness. Being an old
gentleman, he gradually weakened until
death resulted. The funeral was attend
ed at the Catholic church on Tuesday
morning by goodly number of relatives
and friends, Father Coffey officiating.
Mr.. Ryan was on Irishman by birth and
has long been a respected resident of this
town. He leaves widow and several
children who have long since been doing
for themselves; one of them is our
esteemed townsman, John Ryan. The
others are not residents of this town.
TLatest.l
Mrs. Samuel Cook and family will oc
cupy Miss Todd's house in the village for
the coming year.
Doctor Ward of Mortified, Mass,
spent three or four days in town last
week, the guest of his brother, F. Ward.
At one time last week there were three
persons laying dead in town at the same
time-an infrequent occurrence for this
town.
George Bush has purchased the Sam
uel Cook farm and taken possession.
We understand he will make extensive
repairs the coming season.
\ man named Gibson. who has been
supported by the town for some weeks
past, died at the residence of Fred La
duke on Wednesday last and was buried
on Friday, Rev. ). F. Calhoun officiating
Mrs. NJ. \. Royce and family are again
occupying their pleasant home in the vii
lage, where they expect to remain for
the present, excepting Master Robert
who returns to the L. G. academy, Poult-
ney, after few days.
The funeral of Mrs. Linus Wilcox was
attended from her late residence. that of
Hon. II. I. Cults, on Thursday of last
week by a large number of sympathising
relatives and friends, Rev. :. +. Calhoun
officiating. Mrs. Wilcox came to Or
! well when quite young. Since then she
has always lived on the farm where she
died. She was devoted Christian and
one of the oldest members of the Congre-
gational church, being - years of age,
and was respected and beloved by all
who knew her.
This is the report of Superintendent of
Schools G.. a. kimball, as presented at
the town meeting:
Mr.. Chairman and GenHemen:-Ag gain is it
well, required by law and agreeable to Gus.
tom, to pause awhile during town meeting to
take cognizance of our schools by way OF rec
ord and report. Thanks to the care and inter,
est OF the various committees and faithful
work of our teachers the schools have been
unusually good. Even the few teachers with
a ont experience have done all that might be
expected of them. When we hire boy for
boys wages and expect him to do II mans
l work on the farm make n mistake. SO OF
young and inexperienced teachers. They
generally do the best they can, work hard for
small pay, board round, make mistakes OF
course, and, because they do not do the work
of older teachers, find fault with them
But we must have some young teachers and
they need encouragement
There are 10 organized districts in town.
and during the last year there were 10 common
schools and 26 terms of common schools. A.
the schools are not yet all closed and but few
registers returned cannot give the statistics
for this year in full, but they are very nearly
the same as last year, when the aggregate
| number of days of school for all the schools
of town was 1880; aggregate total attendance
= 51S9la. There were 325 different scholars ut
: tending the common schools, and 344 attend
ing both public and private schools. Their,
was no school but what had more than six
scholars and but one but what had more than
: IL scholars. The amount paid for teachers