Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-07-05
VERGE MES.

The Baptist society hold a strawberry
festival Wednesday evening.
Charles 5. Ravens has moved into the
DR.. Kldder house on Main street.
j. 5. IIickok of Burlington was in town
Tuesday adjusting the Palmer fire.
6. H. Sprigg q Co. shipped one car of
stock to the Boston market Monday.
DR.. Webb of Shelburn has purchased
the lockwood team of Bristol for $1,000.
The City cornet band will give free
concerts in the park Saturday evenings.
Only few have begun haying in this
vicinity. Next week the mower will be
heard.
j. C. McCarty of New York president
of the nail company located here, ar
rived Monday.
County School Commissioner Hassel-
tine of Bristol registered at the Stevens
House Monday.
Jean Colson of Ferrisburgh cut his
foot badly with an axe Sunday evening,
nearly severing it.
George Burroughs of Waltham badly
damaged his shoulder by falling from a
building Thursday.
w. II. Hckok and Miss Hickok OF Or
ange, y. Y, were in town on Monday
visiting friends.
Mrs. L. z. Clark of Addison has four
months-old lamb that weighs 10 lbs. {;
his name is big Man."
Deputy Warden j. F. Scott of the Mas
sachusetts Reformatory visited the Re-
form school here last week.
Miss Nellie Sullivan of Boston, daugh-
ter of Michael Sullivan of Panton, is Wis
iting at home for few days.
j. C. Norton of Addison has returned
from his trip to California. He reports
the Vermonters on the coast all right.
Vergennes has great many pop-beer
merchants, and how they all make mon
ey is a mystery to the prohibition law
yers.
DR.. Z. T.. Strong of Elzabethtown,
y. Y, brother of Charles Strong of Add
ison, was registered at the Stevens House
Monday.
Vergennes families are we'll represent
ed on the lake front, many owning cot
tages, which were all occupied Sunday
and Monday.
The 25th anniversary of the marriage
of Mr.. and Mrs. ii. =. Elitharp of this
city was celebrated last week by their
many ITlcHus.
A. S Presbrey and family of Port
Henry were in town Monday. He was
formerly connected with the Cheever
iron furnace near Port Henry.
Rev. p. A. Campeau has bought the
Sherman property below the falls, con-
sisting of the storehouse near the river
and the dwelling house opposite.
The New York Kerosene Gas-light
company exhibited their system of light
ing at the Stevens House Friday and Sat
urday. 1t will be put into several stores
here soon.
An examination of the surroundings
and crops on the farm of Cyrus \. Bolts
ford of this place will prove TO all that
farming, rightly conducted, pays, and
that the cry that it does not is false.
The Ripley factory here has been sold
to Ex-Governor Proctor, present secreta-
nv of war. 1t is understood that the
building is to be used for finishing mar
BILE TO be brought from Rutland county.
Thomas Fish, the veteran bee mama
ger, has now about 300 colonies. lie has
had as many as % swarms to hive in one
day. They are producing honey fairly
well and the prospects are that ii VIII be
successful season.
independence day will be celebrated
in this vicinity by an excursion TO Crown
Point by the Catholic society. Camp
ing and fishing parties will go to the
lake, and fire crackers will be provided
for the boys and ice cream for the girls.
An overland party from Middlebury
arrived here Saturday last, taking din
ner at the Stevens House, and enjoying