Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-01
sSPRINGeN NOVELTIES
LOCAL NEWS,

Bass fishing in the creek is likely to be
active henceforth. The close season ell
ded yesterday.
y church and society meeting is called
for two o'clock tomorrow Saturday
afternoon at the Congregational vestry.
The waters of the creek have subsidized
materially during the past ten days and
are almost down to the usual summer
level.
There will be meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. c. A. on Saturday
afternoon, June 2, at O'clock at the
association room. BE
The new hose company voted in new
members at its meeting on Monday night
andinow numbers 33. 1t will meet again
next Monday evening.
Mr.. Negus began yesterday to move
some of his goods back into his old store,
the repairs on which, with the exception
of the ceiling, are completed.
The Shepard family gave fine enter
tainment at the town hall on Saturday
evening. They always draw well here
and always satisfy their patrons.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Smith have moved
into the Nichols house on Weybridge
street. The Houghton house, which
they vacated, is without tenant.
The Bohemian Glass-Blowers have had
good houses at the town hall all the week,
and Russell Post, under whose auspices
they came, is likely to net a handsome
sum as its share of the proceeds.
Butter sold here Monday at Is to 20
cents for good to fine and q cents for a
few lots of extra. Buyers say they
probably cannot pay over 20 cents, pos
sibly not over 10, for the best next week.
Albert NJ. Evarts, formerly of Sails
bury, shipped hence to Utah, his present
home, Tuesday, the 300 Merino rams
which he purchased hereabouts in April
and has since kept at the Playground
barns.
The Republican club hoped to secure
Hon. w. p. Dillingham; for speaker at a
public meeting to be held here on the
evening of the 18th, but his engagements
are such that he cannot come and the
meeting has been given up.
The June term of court, which will
open on Tuesday next, is likely to be
short. Not over three or four civil cases
will be tried by jury, the lawyers think /;
and as the criminal docket is pretty well
cleared up, nothing very startling in that
line is expected to develop.
The college baseball team went down
to Rutland on Wednesday to play with
the nine of that town and was beaten by
a score of seven to u. To-day the Nor
witch university club will play the college
nine here; and next Wednesday the Rut-
lands will come up to play them.
The committees of the Graded school
and the County Grammar school met on
Saturday evening and voted unanimous
ly to offer the principalship of the school
to Mr.. Ralph ii. Bowles, Jr., who is now
at the head of the Bennington Graded
school. He is graduate of Trinity col
lege, Hartford, Ct, and has had consid-
cradle experience as teacher.
There have been two lively runaways
this week. Tuesday morning the deliv-
cry horse at the New market got on a
rampage and broke up the harness and
wagon considerably, and Wednesday
forenoon Mr.. Calhoun's horse ran on
Seymour street, broke its wagon and har-
ness and collided with another wagon,
which looked rather worse for the en-
counter.
Our information relative to the acct
dent to Mrs. Washburne, last week Tues