Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-21
LOCAL NEWS.


$40 a on for hay.
Mr.. Abram Williamson's son, Louis,
has been very i'll for a week with typhoid
The two railroad bridges in the village
have been repaired lately by men from
Rutland.
Butter took an upward turn Monday
and sold here at Is to 10 cents for good
to fine and 20 cents for selections.
Rev. r. II. Sherman of V%ergennes will
preach at the Baptist church on Sunday
in exchange with Rev. Mr.. Palmer.
The time made in the two-year-old race
at the recent county fair was 3 :44a and
3 :3s, instead of the time first reported.
DR.. w. S. Webb of Burlington and a
party of friends passed through here
yesterday on a coaching trip. They
were bound north.
The hose cart purchased by the new
hose company has arrived and was es-
corted from the depot yesterday by men,
bers of the company and the band.
1t will be noticed that the auction sale
Of goods owned by Prof. Austin, adver-
tised in another column, was postponed
one week and will take place next Mon
day.
The Sheldon museum has received a
quantity of valuable books from the
American Swedenborgian Publishing So
ciety. Any person desiring to read them
car do so.
Mr.. John B. Foote brings to this Office
three stalks of Stowell's Evergreen corn,
raised in his garden on Seminary street,
that measure ten and a half feet in height
and are well cared, too.
Two young men from Ripton were ar
rested here Saturday night on suspicion
that they were thieves who robbed the
depot at Georgia the night before. They
were at once released when the officers
found out who they were.
The college feld-day sports will open
Oct. 10 with the tennis tournament,
which will be finished on the forenoon OF
the 18th. On the afternoon of that
dav will come the athletic exhibition
on the fair ground, and on the afternoon
of the 18th there will be a baseball game
and in the evening the usual supper.
The resignation of Mr.. E. n. Folsom
as secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A. was &C
| oavtaI Of n ,nantinn of thn nynantix-e
board Wednesday evening. 1t will take
effect Oct. l. State Secretary Lawrenc,
was here to advise with the association
officers as to the practicability of keep
ing the association going and the reading
room open without employing a sec
rotary. He thought it could be done, anC
the officers of the association have deci
ded to act upon his ADVICE.
a long train of fine cars took the New
York excursionists down to the metro
polls Tuesday. The passengers number
ed fully 500 by the time the train reached
Rutland. Middlebury furnished a mum
Der, including Messrs. j.. E. Negus, Z
r. Clay and G. E. Marshall, who wen
for goods. The Central Vermont announ
ces a Boston excursion next Monday ant
Tuesday, at fare one way from Burling
ton and intermediate stations to Bartons
vile, also between Whiting and Ticon
deroga inclusive. Tickets are good go
ing on the days named and returning t
and including Oct. 2.
Ybe wooden mill, which has BENNY
fQbthe past seven or eight years by TN
yessrs. Chadwick, shut down the othe
hay. They have given up their lease o
it and retired from business. We under
stand that there is no market for clotl
and that almost all that they have mad
during the past year is still in the com
mission merchants hands in New York
unsold. Messrs. Brewster and Sever
ance, owners of the property, hope t.
find another tenant soon and are alread,
negotiating with a firm who think O
using the mill for the manufacture o
blankets. 1t is certainly to be hoped tia
the business will be resumed in the nea
future by some one. The slow sale O
woolens seems to be due largely to tn
tariff agitation in Congress. n
The veterans of Company B., Fit
Vermont volunteers, met on Monday lar
at G. A. R. hall here, in accordance wit
the notice. There was a good after
dance, among those present being Cap
D. f. Barrett, Sergeants E. P. Williamson
James Sneden, j. S. Chandler, E. King,
ley and others who went out in '61. E. I
Williamson called the gathering to ordel
Officers were chosen as follows: Pres