Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-25
LOCAL NEWS.

Chapman.
Joseph Clapper of this town has been
granted pension and gets $3.50 or there
abouts of back pay.
Judge Knapp has been absent from
town this week on visit to friends in
Massachusetts.
G. ID. Miner came home on Thursday
of last week from Michigan, whittier he
had been to buy wool.
Mrs. f. j. Taylor of st. Louis. Mo-. is
in town on "A visit to her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. 6. Wainwright
Col. Fred. Fletcher of st. Johnsbury
was in town yesterday, the guest of his
nephew, \. \. Fletcher.
Quarterly meeting in the Methodist
church next Sabbath the sermon by
Presiding Elder Bennett
O. w. Chase, IA Montpelier photogra-
pher. has taken the rear rooms over Mrs.
SHADES store and is fitting them up.
II. G. Sessions of the east part of the
town shipped number of horses to par
ties in Middleboro, Ct, last week
Maxim Valiquette has left the employ
of A. b. Colby to accept Il position in
Rutland, and is succeeded by Abram
Langworthy.
Miss Alice Twitchell, who has been
some months in New York city hospi-
tai as nurse, is spending brief vacation
with her parents.
Mrs. W. w. Higinbotham and Mrs. II.
n, Griswold of Windsor, Ct. mother
and sister of the late Mrs. W. :. Alden.
returned home yesterday.
Prof. Brainerd Kellogg of the Brooklyn
Polytechnic school is in town to train the
students of the college for their com
mencemcnt performances.
Harry Fletcher, who has attended the
Vermont Episcopal institute at Rock
Point, near Burlington. the past year. i
home for the long vacation
The summer guests have already begun
y
those already there are Prof. Cornwall of
Princeton college and family.
Secretary Parsons of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Went over to Bethel. Saturday, and re-
manned till Monday assisting State Sec
rotary Avery in a series of meetings. -
Luther Gorham. while unloading CALVES
at the freight depot last evening. slipped
from the platform and broke his left leg
midway between the knee and ankle.
The steam yacht that was placed ON
the creek year ago by II local syndicate,
has been repaired and painted and put in
excellent shape for the summers bust
ness.
DR.. VIM. Bass, formerly a practic-
ing physician in this place, visited his
nephew, DR.. Russell, and friends here
last week. He is now a resident of Sand
wich, Mass.
Mr.. CalhOun's wOrkmen have resumed
operations at the capitol and state library
buildings, Montpelier, which he has the
contract to fit with steam apparatus and
plumbing
Smith Il Allen have another large job
on their hands. 1t is to transform a
church into Il town hall at Walpole, y. IL.
The cost of the change in the structure
will be about $1,000.
Butter was IA trifle lower. Monday. than
the week before. only II cents being paid
for the best aS against Il the previous
market day. The offerings We're about
one-third less than then.
J. W. Baker has decided to remain here
He intended to remove his livery stable
to Lake Dunmore at the opening of the
season, but finds business so good that
he has changed his plans.
Miss Carrie IIignbotham of Windsor
Ct, who about two weeks since came tc
attend upon her sister, Mrs. w. ). Alden
in her late fatal illness, will remain at
Mr.. Alden'S for few weeks longer.
At the Congregational church, next
Sunday morning, the pastor will preach
on the topic Love and Care for the
Church with reference to the repairs on
the church edifice, which will then be
completed.
David \. Burke, formerly of this town
and for several years past principal OF
the school at Mineville, n. y, has been
appointed by President Cleveland consul
at Puerto CabellO, Venezuelan seaport
of about 5000 population.
Samuel McCauley of Australia, owner
of one of the great sheep farms peculiar
to that country, was at the Addison
House on Tuesday and Wednesday. He
was on his way to England, coming from
San Francisco here to look over some of
the fiocks of the vicinity.
The ordination of Mr.. Geo. W. Row
land, at the Congregational lecture-room
to-day, promises to be an interesting
event. The ecclesiastical council will
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