Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
LOCAL NEWS.

respecter of persons, at least so far as
age is concerned. One Of our physicians
has patient sick with it in Weybridge
who is 70 years old.
The hearing before the commissioners
in the Col. Drake estate on the matter of
the claim of Mr.. John A. Child of Wey-
bridge was adjourned on Friday last to
Thursday of next week. The evidence
is not all in yet.
A meeting of the executive board of
the Vermont Merino strengthening as
ISOLATION will be held at the Addison
House here on Wednesday, the 18th inst,
at 80 o'clock. Such a meeting was APP
pointed for last Wednesday, but was adj
Ijourned two weeks.
Rev. S. C. Beane of Salem, Mass,
preached two excellent sermons at Odd
Fellows hall last Sunday to the Liberal
Christian society of this village and vi
entity. The morning discourse was from
the text in Isaiah, Waterman, what of
the night?" We regret that lack of space
compels us to omit an abstract of the
sermon which has been sent us.
A very ancient round dining table, so
constructed that when not in use it can
be turned up against the wall and answer
the purpose of chair, has been pre-
scented to the museum by Mr.. S. n.
Brooks. The bass viol used in the choir
of the Episcopal church about 1920, when
services were held in the Osborn house,
was presented by Mr.. Rollo 1. Landon.
The meeting called at the Addison
House on Wednesday to take action re-
garding the formation of a stock COM
pany for the purchase of the fair grounds
was adjourned one week. 1t will be held
at the Addison House at IL o'clock next
Wednesday, March Z. A full attendance
of farmers of the county and others in
terested in the project is much to be de-
sired.
On Tuesday evening next the regular
monthly meeting Of st. Stephens branch
of the Church Temperance society will
be held in st. Stephens chapel. 1t is
hoped that Gov. f. j. Ormsbee will be
; present to address the meeting. The
Rev. w. b. buckingham, rector of Trini-
ty church, Rutland, had also been invited,
but was compelled to decline on account
; of important duties elsewhere.
If nothing happens to the weather and
the ice, the postponed races of the Adj
olson County Colt-Trotting association,
which come on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of next week, will be well at
tended and interesting. The programme
already announced will be followed.
The tracks on the creek are in fine condi-
ton, better, indeed, than before the thaw
that necessitated the postponement.
The lecture on Egypt, by Rev. T. A.
Hopkins of Burlington, at the Congrega-
t tional lecture-room on Saturday evening,
for the benefit of the Ladies' library, is
e highly spoken of by those who heard it.
Owing to a number of causes the attend
ance was smaller than it should have
+ been. Mr.. Hopkins was to have preach
ed at st. Stephens on Sunday, but was
G unable to do so on account of severe
cold.
Alvin NJ. Williamson, a well-knOwn res.
dent of this village, died on Sunday morn
ing last, of obstruction of the bowels, al
). the age of "a years. He had been i'll about
ten days, though his condition was not
p regarded as serious till within two days
, of his death. The funeral was attended
from the house, Court street, at 10 O'Clock
on Tuesday morning, Rev. Messrs. Palm
er and Thompson officiating. A large
number was present., including many
4 members of the Grand Army post and
Odd Fellows lodge. to both of which or
CARNATIONS the deceased belonged. Mr.
: Williamson was the oldest of six broth
> ers, two of whom, Abram and Edison, re.
- side in town, two others, George and
4 Samuel, in Colorado, and another, Harry
in California. The latter has been here
on visit for several weeks past. The
. deceased leaves widow and two young
daughters.
There have recently been published in
:, up in their sleep, and walking off in theil
night clothes, froze to death. Such sto
!. ries are improbable, but case in towr
l. shows that they may be true. The cir
y cumstances as we understand them were
these: About 10 80 o'clock last Sunday
q night Capt. NJ. V. B. Bronson's l7-years-
:. old son Eugene, who lives at the home OF
a the family near Henry Hammond's three
quarters of a mile east of the village
got out of bed in his sleep and jumped
a through the window of his room, taking
}, the sash with him. He alighted on the
e roof of the shed below, and sprang
n thence to the ground. Then he went ou
y into the road and started for the village.
He had nothing on but his night-clothes
: Julius Williamson, whose house is half a
mile this side of Bronson's, had Just