Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-14
VERGENNES,

saturday and sunday last the Friends
held a quarterly meeting at their church
in Ferrisburgh
Look out for your currant bushes.
Hellebore and perseverance will save
most of the currants.
The market held its own last week, in
Nergennes, and butter did not fall pen
ny pound, as was prophesied.
Rev. Mr.. Austin, pastor of the Metho-
dist church, is able to be out again,
greatly to the satisfaction of all.
East street near the Methodist church
is receiving the attention of the street
want of care
Luck, ir.," Merino ram two years
old next June, sheared, April $. twenty
five pounds. He was bred by Mrs. L. Z.
Clark of Addison.
Miss Edna Carlisle. who has been in
Mrs. Stones millinery shop for two sea-
sons, left for a similar establishment in
Brandon. Monday.
5. J. Wright of the firm of Mason &
Wright, who left some weeks since with
HI blood Merno rams for New Mexico,
arrived there May 3. all right.
Mr.. Absalom Upper of Ferrisburgh
is in feeble health. He is in the hands of
one of the best physicians in the county,
DR.. Cram. and has excellent care.
Rev. Mr.. Taylor, rector of st. Paul's,
has gone to Hartford. Conn. where Mrs.
Taylor is visiting. He will be absent
next Sunday. but will return next week
The canal boat l.. b. Danforth. Capt.
Case. from New York, one of the for
warding line of j. ;. Hickok. arrived
from New York. Albany and Troy Sat
urday. loaded with coal and merchandise.
G. II. Sprigg is helping the Boston
market to some very nice veal. Last
week Friday he shipped l0j choice calves
from Nergennes. New Haven and Mid
dlebury depot>. costing. live weight. / -
cents per pound.
Rev. Mr.. Robertson at the Congrega-
tional church preached a well-writteu
sermon. sunday morning. from Il part of
the 9TH verse of the 18th chapter of Luke.
Lord increase our faith" Mr.. Robertson
is Il growing man.
The eighth church choir guild will be
held. by invitation. in the Trinity parish,
Rutland. in september next. Prof :. b.
Whitney, of the church of the Advent.
Boston, the leading organSt of New
England, will be conductor.
Rev. Mr.. Sherman of the Baptist church
preached to an attentive audience, sun
day morning, from the 24th verse of the
18th chapter of John. There has been an
increase in the attendance at this church
since Mr.. Sherman became the pastor.
Three hands unloaded two hundred
and thirty-tive tons of coal for Thomas
Mack, last week Friday, from O'Clock
in the morning until two o'clock the neXt
day, one-and-a-half days. At two O'Clock
the boats were on their way down the
river.
Mr.. l.. W. Frost of Bridport has ;
three-years-old Holstein heifer that give:
forty-two and half pounds of milk ;
day, from which two pounds of butter il
made. This figure, although not quite
up to the crack Jerseys, is above the av
erage of diaries.
President Brainerd of Middlebury col
lege occupied Rev. Mr.. Austin's desl
last sunday. His sermon, which wa
listened to by deeply-nterested audi
ence, was based upon the lG5th verse O
the 18th Psalm. lie left an eXcellen
Impression on the people.
The authorities require permits, now
for auction sales, and all persons are fol
hidden to stand on the nice park grass
hereafter. Sales of agricultural nipple
: ments, on the street, are now placed III
der restriction, by order of Mayor Nc
Cucn. He is proving an active official.
. One of the heaviest fleeces yet recorde
was that shorn from the blood Merlin
ram "Gold Nine" On Tuesday week IN
sheared thirty-three and half pounds
The 10th of May, 1885, was his last shear
, ing. He is six years old, and is owne
by Gorham q Mason. The bad road
kept this ram from the Mddlebury shee
shearing.
The rector of st. Paul's church, who
one of our really active, earnest an
working Christians, preached goo
catholc-spirited sermon, Sunday, on
part of the 18th verse of the I'd chapt,
: of LIST Peter. Rev. Mr.. TAYLOR is Il gel
tleman of practical views, and clearly r
II CARDS the work of the Master matt,
II for everyday life.
Messrs. Stowe Il Evarts are putin
h their steam apparatus, etc, in good ru
II ming order, at their creamery establis
ment at New Haven depot. F. Z. NJ