Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-04-19

on sale at the Hanaford drug store. The
object is a worthy one, and there should
be large attendance. Prof Groencke,
who is to perform feats of sleight-of-
hand, is vouched for as an expert, who
will give all who go to see him the worth
of their money; and, in addition, the
band will be there and render selections.
Miss Couthoui's reading at the town
hall on Wednesday evening, for the ben
eft of the scenery fund, was attended by
fair audience. She is as good reader
as when here before, and then she de-
lighted her audience. Her part of the
programme, which was rather short as
printed, was heightened out to decent
proportions by numerous recalls. In
addition to the readings there was the
best of music, Misses Ella Bond and An
ma Slade playing piano duet, Miss Hor-
tense Drake singing two solos, Miss Slade
giving a piano solo and the quartette
composed of Miss Drake, Mrs. Miner,
DR.. Sheldon and Mr.. j. NJ. Thomas rem
dering a selection. Mrs. Miner accompa-
MED the singers.
The venerable mothers of many of the
older citizens now living about here in
cuded in their household duties the spin
ming and weaving of the cloth used in the
family for all domestic purposes, table
and bed linen, and many clothes. a
full set of utensils for this purpose has
been placed in the museum, beginning
with the bundle of flax, the flax brake,
swinging board and knife, barn and
house hatchel, spinning-wheel and distaff,
reel, quillwheel, scarn, warping bars, and,
lastly, the loom from which the cloth
would be sent to the mill, to be fulled
and dressed, ready to be cut into gar
ments by the tailor, and made up by the
dressmakers, who usually went around
from house to house.
Mr.. VIM. II. Cobb, deputy sheriff and
jailer, was badly hurt on Wednesday
, forenoon. He was engaged in drawing
| manure for the barn at the Jail and had a
colt in the team. They started to run
through narrow passageway, but he
kept hold of the reins and was dragged
! along beside the wagon and bruised and
crushed between it and hay-rigging
which had been turned up against the
barn which formed one side of the pas
sage. His head and face were scratched,
his whole body bruised and one leg jam
, med and cut. 1t may be that one bone
4 of the leg is broken, though on account
Il of the swelling the doctors couldn't tell
whether it was or not. AT any rate, he is
in hard shape and will be laid up for
all who have looked the ground over that
he could go through the place in the
= fashion he did and come out aliye. The
horses did not get away from him.
The Green Mountain Pulp Co. has
begun its annual spring wrestle with the
logs. One lot was driven down the New
r Haven river from Bristol early in the
y, week-the first experiment of the kind
was rather shallow. The company has
more logs up there, ready to send down
as soon as the water comes up. After
st these logs had all been taken TO the
company's lower mill the men began tC
prepare for the big drive down the creel
from Brandon. A boom was put in bacl
, of this office to compel the logs to pas
through the north span of the bridge
and other arrangements were made tt
facilitate the passage of the logs to thei
- destination. Wednesday morning tn
. logs-l, 100000 feet-were dumped int,
the creek where they had been pilet
he during the winter, little north of Bran
D. don village, and yesterday morning tn
eddy below the falls here was full o
an them, while many had gone along still
90 further toward their destination. Tn
~. work is being done by experienced log
40 drivers from the Connecticut river an,
large and staunch boat, built for tn
purpose, has been imported for their use