Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-14
LOCAL NEWS.

Oh Dutuer Ill Ills uldThet.
The reunion of Co. B. Fifth Vermont
volunteers. will be held at G.. A. r. hall
in this place at 10 o'clock, Il. IN. on the
18th inst.
A good 17-months-old Durham steer
was that brought to Cushman's market
the other day by Mr.. Moses Sheldon.
1t dressed 620 pounds.
The funeral of Mary, daughter of Mrs.
Alvin NJ. Williamson of Court street,
who had been i'll for several weeks, was
attended from the house at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning.
The W. C. T. L. will hold a business
meeting at Mrs Clinton Smiths Wednes-
day, Sept. 10, at 3 p. N. Important
business will be presented, and a large
attendance is desired.
The usual number from this town and
vicinity have attended the State fair at
Burlington, which opened Tuesday and
closes today. The fair has been well pat
ronized and the exhibits are numerous
and excellent.
Mrs. n. c. sherman, who lives alone at
the north end of the village, has been
greatly annoyed of late by ill-disposed
persons who prowl around her premises
nights and try to brighten her. The 9TH
er night the front of her neatly-painted
house was smeared with black paint.
Letters addressed as follows have re-
NAMED at the post office II month
uncalled-for: David Bergeron, Miss
Ella Ancell. Mrs. Gibbs, II. Z. Hubbard,
Miss Matte Hammer. Mrs. j. \. Knight.
Mr.. Smiley, H. Stowell, Mrs. Minnie
Taft, Mrs. Addie Wheaton. Lewis d.
Weller.
The butter which took the sweepstakes
premium at the county fair last week
was made from cream raised in one OF
the Blanchard cream-raising cans made
by the New England Dreamer company
with this lot, he says, not intending tC
show it.
The freshman class at the college now
has six members. One or two more are
likely to come, but the class will be small
as compared with that of last year. Blu
all the colleges that have opened NEE
with the same encouragement, the enter
ing class at Yale being 80 per cent below
the average.
The fall term of the Graded schoo
opened on Monday with a full attend
ance in all the lower rooms, but will
somewhat fewer than usual in the higl
school. The village furnishes the latte
with only a small number of pupils thi
year. but from out of town the attend
ance is large.
Messrs. Smith & Allen on Monday be
gan work on the Congregational churcl
at Vergennes, which they will repair
buildings which they have been erecting
for Vermont academy at SaXton's River
and have the Black River academy a
Ludlow covered and rooted.
We are indebted to Mr.. Geo. II. Wrigh
of Weybridge for the apples he showed
at the fair and on which he tool
the first premium. 1t was a fin
showing. Mr.. Wright attributes TIN
fairness of the fruit largely to the use o
q sprayer, with which the trees wer,
treated to a shower of paris green in wa
ter, last spring, etfectually destroying al
insects.
Mr.. E. r. Clay has had his store thor
oughlv repaired and put in readiness fo
the fall business. 1t has been TASTEFUL,
painted inside, a new carpet laid in tn
millinery department and other noticeabl
improvements made. He has decided t,
confine his business hereafter to ladies
and children's cloaks, millinery, dres
trimmings, laces and ladies' furnishin.
goods. He and Miss Eaton, his milliner
60 to market in a few days to buy hi
fall and winter stock.
The run business was overworked dur
ing fair week, or some one thought i
was, and IN consequence complaint
against three alleged dealers were made
The accused persons appeared befor
Judge Knapp and each pleaded guilty t
ten first offences. A fine of 500 an,
costs was imposed in each instance. Al
appealed, of course. The prosecutio.
was conducted by States Attorney Wllds
w. H. Bliss, Esq, appearing for one O
the defendants and j. f. Stapleton. Esq
for the other two.
The shed in the rear of DR.. Sheldon
store was partially wrecked about 81
o'clock Saturday night. The upper POI
ton of the building is used for the stol
age of flour by the doctor, and during tn
afternoon a carload had been put i
there. The weight proved greater tina
the timbers could bear, the beam acros
the center of the floor broke and tn
middle part of the flooring fell with
bio crash. Two single teamS ono owna