Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-23
LOCAL NEWS,

ABOUT LOW ii lHc past lew udyS.
The recent rains have raised the water
in the creek to a considerable extent.
Butter sold here this week at Is to %
cents. The amount brought in is in
creasing.
Mrs. Lena Ward an inmate of the
town poor-house, died on Wednesday and
was buried yesterday afternoon.
Rev. Russell N. Bellows of Walpole,
n. H., will preach at Odd-Fellows' hall
next Sunday. morning and evening.
A large quantity of soft snow fell dur
ing Wednesday night, and melting yester-
day covered the walks and streets with
the worst sort of slush.
The auction, Monday, at the store in
the Battell block, was well attended and
large amount of goods was sold. An
other is advertised for Monday.
Further hearings in the matter of the
claim of Mr.. J. A. Child of Weybridge
against the estate of the late Col. Drake
of that town have been held this week,
before the commissioners on the estate.
The remains of Mrs. Josephine, wife of
Peter O. Dupont of Brandon, were buried
from the Catholic church Monday fore
noon. The deceased was a daughter of
Alexander Daniels and died at Brandon
on Friday.
A local correspondent writes: "The
annual school meeting, which is to be
held on Tuesday next, should interest all
the mothers of the district. Such inter-
ested are requested to meet at Prof.
Seely's at l 80 and go from there to
schOol-house hail.
A turnover sociable, under the au-
spices of the United Workers, an organ
ization formed to do sewing for charita-
BILE purposes, will be held at E. ii. Thorp's
next Tuesday evening. All are cordially
invited to attend. The admission fee of
ten cents will also pay for refreshments.
The school on Munger street, taught
by II. NJ. Balm. closed Friday, the I'd
inst, after term of II weeks. The
scholars having no absent, tardy or dis
missal marks are-Will Mills, Frank
Preston, John Bacon, George Bacon,
Bessie Bacon, Gasca Balm and Winnie
Dodge.
John Kane, arrested in an intoxicated
condition at the junior exhibition and
jailed, pleaded guilty before Justice Hen
ry L. Sheldon Wednesday morning. He
disclosed on a bottle which he had lost
temporarily and discovered Tuesday in a
clothes-press at home. Grand Juror
James NJ. Slade appeared for the prose
cution.
The remains of Mrs. Sarah f. Hamil-
ton arrived here on the early train Mon
day morning from Manchester, where she
died on Thursday, of peritonitis. The
burial was at Bridport Monday afternoon.
The deceased was daughter of the late
Jonas Hemenway of that town and the
widow of Col. Chas. Hamilton. She
leaves four sons.
The warning for the annual meeting OF
the graded-school district is up. The
date of the meeting is Tuesday next, the
9th inst, at o'clock p. M, and the
place, school-house hall. In addition to
the customary articles, the warning has
one reading, "To see if the district will
vote to pay any of its outstanding or
ders the nrasent YEAR.,
Mr.. G. S. Cornell of Burlington pro.
poses to hold musical festival of three
days duration in the town hall here the
second week in April, and is now engaged
in making arrangements for it. He has
secured the Howard Opera House orches
ira and the Schumann quartet of Bur
lington and hopes to obtain enough
singers in Rutland and Burlington tC
afford with those from this town ant
vicinity, chorus of 100 voices.
The Graded school resumed operations
on Monday, after an enforced vacation o.
four weeks caused by the prevalence o.
measles. A large majority of the pupils
enrolled were in attendance in all the
rooms. Miss Waugh, one of the teachers
we learn from her physician, did moi
have diphtheria, as reported. She was
able to be in school Wednesday, Mis-
Spencer, High-schoOl scholar, teaching
in her room on Monday and Tuesday.
Prof. Hurlburt's Hippocynagon (Which
being interpreted, means horse and dos
show had fair house at the town hal
on Wednesday evening. 1t is an admir-
able entertainment in all respects. Tn,
seven horses which appear are fine ami
mails and exhibit wonderful intelligence
Owing to the smallness of the stage, /
was difficult for them to execute some o.