Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-21


Southern trip, much improved in health, |
though not entirely well. He has been
at Bread Loaf Inn since his return. super |
intending extensive changes in some of |
the interior arrangements of the house.
The college base ball team goes to Bur- |
! lington today to play a match game |
with the Norwich university nine at the
Field-day sports of the Burlington col
lege boys. Quite delegation is likely to
go up from here. Return checks will be
given to those who pay full fare going.
Letters addressed to the following
named persons have remained in the
pOst-oflice one month uncalled for Phil
ip Aldridge. John Burk, Miss Dell \.
Damon (2), Miss Annie Downs, Emma
II. Grover, VIM. II. Joubert, Blanche
Ludolph. NJ. l.. Taylor. Melville L. Ross.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everard G. Eells will
start for South America next week. Mr..
Eells will take 100 Merino rams and ewes.
Page G.. Potter will go with him to assist
in the care of the sheep, which have been
bought out of some of the best flocks of
this region.
FfOne lady was baptised in the creek be-
low the eddy last sabbath by the pastor
of the Baptist church. The ordinance
was witnessed by large and orderly
company and everything tended to make
it solemn and impressive The water is
\ Unusually warm for this season of the
year.
At the Y. VI. G.. \. rooms. Sunday af-
: ternoon, Frank b. Hyde spoke to large
congregation from John l., Il. Monday
evening there was IA Bible meeting and
Wednesday evening Il young mems meet
l ing in the parlor. Rev. Mr.. Noe will
speak at the meeting next Sunday after
, noon, and there will be the usual services
: Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Rev. Mr.. Speare preached the sermon
, at the dedication of the West Rutland
Congregational church, Wednesday,
; taking as his text Psalms ST: !, ,, GLOW
amiable are thy tabernacles. O Lord of
Hosts. My soul longeth, yea, even
fainteth for the courts of the Lord, my
. heart and my flesh crieth out for the
d. living God" 1'hirty-one years ago, when
e the former church was dedicated. Presi-
:, dent Labaree preached the sermon.
: \ local correspondent writes: Their,
was pleasant gathering of nearly fifty
N 1nlia- nd nt bo ,,i
Y Mr.. and Mrs. Walter V. Wright Oh
:, Wednesday, May 18th. the 23d anniver
: sary of Mrs. Wright's birthday. Their,
Ii was Il quilting on the docket. a. in 'y'
:, piled the needle. There was no lack o.
Il entertainment by the host and hostess
+. especially around the festal board. tn,
+ table being filled with Il large variety %
deicacies, which were abundant in guam
tity and superior in quality"
The grand list of the town is Sl9.G43
!. and is S535 less than last year. The fall
ing-ot1' is of course on personal property
the real estate remaining at the forme
/ figures. The list of the graded diStric
II is Sl4 ,531 and it will require II tax of 3
cents on the dollar to raise the amour
p voted; village list, Sl3,3S0, necessitatin
X a tax of % cents to raise the funds voted
The appraisal of the real estate is fraC
% ton over one million dollars. The mum
II Der of individual taxpayers in town
$50. There are - taxpayers by tn
of Smith anl | nv 4,
"a Severance. OF the colorS represented b
name there is only one White man i
town and no Black one.
,r \ Washington press dispatch of Thur,
= day last said: "John Hitz and Charlie
+. Prentiss, president and cashier. re-,
:, pectivcly, of the defunct Gcrman-Amer
can national bank, were to-day cOnvicte
$3.50 on five indictments for making false er
tries on the books of the bank in 1873.
The Washington papers we have seen sa
that the verdict Of the jury was SUI
IT, prise to the Judge aS well as to people {
III the city. The defendants counsel al
~ seeking to obtain Il new trial. and failin
in this. the case will be taken up to II
ut supreme court. DR.. Prentiss' numerOl
:. friends here are 10th to believe that Il
It. evidence justified the verdict and IA
j. convinced that, even if he is shown
have been in the wrong, it will also a
or pear that he was so in trying to prote
to or aid another.
at Wednesday afternoon and evening Il
IN eleventh annual meeting of the W.
7. L. was held at the hospitable home
< President and Mrs. Brainerd. Betwec
nv forty and fifty were present. The o
co board of officers and superintendent
~ We're unanimously reelected. Flu
49, ther arrangements for the temperan,
III camp meeting to be held at Spring Grov
June 9-l4, were made. After refres
'o ments, the evening was spent in liste
lie ing to very entertaining account of Il
III drink and tobacco habits of the ia