Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-14

1uStlce To the good Things OF lie.
Middlebury.
A subscription paper is in circulation to
raise money to pay for having the streets
in the business part of the village
sprinkled in good shape. The sprinkling
is al present done in very unsatisfactory
manner, and the sprinkler is rarely put
into service except just before rain ...
Charles Tully has purchased the stock of
goods of Mr.. Boylan, Jr.. and expects to
starts a meat market and grocery store in
the rooms recently occupied by Mr.. Boy
lan....H. b. Potter OF New York. is In
town on visit to his relatives, but will
not stay long. Abe Chandler caught a
Tuesday. The cub weighs only nine
pounds and Mr.. Chandler intends tob ny
it up and educate it...LrVi j. Samu
has broken up house keeping and
gone to Saratoga, \. Y, intending to sttv
in that vicinity for the greater part of the
summer. Rev. DR.. WeDber's lecture at
the town hall, Wednesday, for the bene-
fit of the Young Mems Christian assoca-
ton. was not so largely attended as its
merits deserved, but those who We're pres
ent were well repaid for their trouble.
The lecture was a graphic and exceeding
ly interesting description of town in
Ireland, aud Dr. Webber's keen Observa-
tions on the people aud scenery of the
Emerald Isle were gl eauy enjoyed by the
audience. The lecture ought TO be re
peated to larger house.
Wilbur Bingham is rapidly getting well,
and was able to ride out Friday, but
he has had pret.y hard pull of it.
&C.. w. l.. Townsend of st. Albans has
taken the position of clerk at the Addi.
son House. Frank Forest, who has been
in different parts of the West and South
since last fail arrived home Thursday
i,TI "A tr,l nf l.si. hall ON
the college grounds on Thursday after
noon between IA nine of small town boys
and the freshman college nine. The
youngsters came out OF the game vic
tOrious, with Il score of y to2l Some one
got badly fooled Friday by starting to 90
TO what appeared to be il big fire in the
south part of the town and finding out ai-
ter travelling considerable distance that
it was nothing but burning brush heap
....AlmOn Enos and steve CHAPMAN of
East Middlebury are the latest Middlebury
additions to the governments list of pen
sioners, Mr.. Enos drawing about $22CJ ar
rearages and Mr.. Chapman between $500
and $1,000.
The college base ball nine were to have
gone to Bristol saturday to play the
StarksbOro nine there bat were prevented
| by the rain and the Middlebury bows will
now probably enter the State intercolleGi-
ate contest without having played Il pre-
! ViOuS practice game with any club, AS
every game they have ARRANGED for has
! been Knocked in The head in one way or
another. -. Harry =. Stmson, a graduate
! of Middlebury college in the class of 1Si,,
and son of eX-Sheri1I Stimson of Ludlow,
is in town on II visit to old friends. Mr..
| Stmson is Il bright student and is held in
pleasant remembrance by many people
here. Messrs. Lorenzo H. Stow, Ed
ward STOW and several other Middlebury
| people, have gone to Ferrisburgh on fish
/ a. if and a n ~
! haul. .... Mr. John Westfall of the United
! States navy, who has been here on Il visit
to bis sister, Mrs Benjmain f. Wales, has
| gone away and Will soon return to his ship
| the "Trenton' 49,. Rain commenced falling
| Friday night and continued to pour AL
day Saturday, much to the satisfaction OF
the people of the surrounding agrlcultur
| al regions. 1t is the first good rain we
have had since the snow went oil 1t is
hoped that there will be a good attendance
at the meeting to make arrangements fol
| Decoration Day, Monday night. The day
will be observed in Middlebury on Mon
day, the 3lst, aud on Saturday, the Goth
most, If not all of the members of oul
post, will 90 to brandon to attend the eX
erciseS there.
Newell Orcutt of Munger street ha.
been out OF his head for the past three ol
four weeks, and he was taken to the in
sane asylum at BrattleborO, Monday by
Constable John Caldwell of New llavel
.... Religious services were held Sunday
afternoon and evening in the upper stol
of the Court street skating rink, and the
We're conducted by Christopher Roberts
the colored revivalist, assisted by a Mr.
Chandler from Silver Lake. Simila
meetings will be held every evening o
the present week .R. A. Dean, our ar
. tistic photographer has taken some yer,
fine views of the college buildings from
, different points of view, and photolltho
graphic reductions of them Will illustrate
: the forthcoming college annual, the kal
eidoscope. -. Dr. Edward NJ. Parker o
lirOckton Mass, is in town, paying Wis
it to his father, Prof. w. II. Parker.
The Green Mountain Pulp mill compan.
Will soon begin the work of re-buildin!
: their dam at the upper mill, as il goo,
e part of the time now they are unable t.
r. get sufficient supply of water to run tn
p mill at its full capacity .... The Easter CO
+ lection taken up for Rev. Father Lane a
the Catholic church already amounts t.
over S25S and the contributions are no
all in yet. The usual services were hel,
l at the Young Mems Christian Association