Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-01
LOCAL NEWS,

Mr.. Abram Williamson took to market
this week 43 cows and springers.
Mrs. Hood, whose presence in town as
the guest of Mrs. F. A. Farnsworth has
been noted, will sing at the morning
service at the Congregational church on
Sunday.
The price of butter in this market on
Monday ranged from Is to Is cents for
fair to good and 20 cents for the best.
Eggs for shipment brought three cents
dozen less than the week before. They
are now worth 10 cents.
There will be reception at Mr.. B. S.
Beckwiths on Friday evening, Feb. 8, at
80, for the benefit of the ladies' library.
A farce will be given by few of the
young people during the evening. A
cordial invitation. is extended to all.
Admission, 30 cts.
Prof. w. II. Parker died at his home at
an early hour yesterday morning, aged
so years. He had been in failing health
for four or five years and during the last
week had sunk very rapidly. The funer-
al will be attended from the house on
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
"The Norman Invasion and the Battle
of Hastings is the subject of the fourth
and last lecture of the "battle" series at
the Y NJ. c. A. hall. 1t will be deliver
ed on the evening of Tuesday next, the
9TH inst, by Prof. C. B. Wright; admis-
sion, 10 cents. Tickets of members of
the association admit.
Roswell p. Flower, the New York
statesman, and his brother propose to
erect $4,000 Episcopalian church at
Watertown, their native place. Archi-
tect Wentworth of Boston has designed
the structure, which is to be of stone, and
we understand that Mr.. Clinton Smith
of this village has taken the contract to
build it.
Mr.. Clarence Phillips, administrator of
the VIM. Carr estate, has sold the farm
of over 100 acres, located about mile
northeast of this village, to Mr.. Frank
GoodrO, for $4,000. The purchaser is
native of Middlebury, but has of late
years lived at Willsboro, N. Y. He has
come to town with his family and taken
possession of the farm.
Mr.. Allan Calhoun lost his horse in
singular manner last Friday afternoon.
1t had been standing in front of his store
for nearly two hours, apparently in good
health, when blood was noticed flowing
from its mouth. 1t was taken to Mr..
Lewis Hopes for treatment, but died,
evidently of hemorrhage of the lungs,
within half an hour after the attack.
Town Clerk NJ. A. Brooks wishes us to
suggest to the district clerks of the town
that it is high time they had in their re-
turns of births, marriages and deaths.
The law requires that they be in the
hands of the town clerk today, but yes
terday some of the district clerks had
not gotten their blanks at the town
clerks office.
We now have winter in earnest. Snow
fell during Sunday night and Monday to
the depth of eight or ten inches, atfording
the best of sleighing. The snowfall of
the previous week had nearly all melted
from the roads before this last came.
Business of all kinds is reyiving, par
ticplarly with those who have to do with
tke lumber interest.
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THE funeral of Mrs. Catherine Haley,
mother of Mr.. James Haley, was very
largely attended from the Catholic church
on Friday morning last. Mrs. Haley
died on Wednesday of last week, after a
brief illness brought on by hard cold.
She was most estimable woman. Rela-
tives were present at the funeral from
Burlington and elsewhere outside the
county. =
The rooms at the south end of the
Smith e. Sheldon block have been vacated
by Mr.. McCue and are undergoing extern