Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-17
PERSONAL MENTION.

PERSONAL MENTION.
Postmaster Peck is in Boston on
business trip.
Mr.. Geo. c. Walker has been in town
the past week on brief vacation.
Miss Greene of Philadelphia is visiting
her sister, Mrs. a. E. Carpenter.
Mr.. F. \. Bond is iii Burlington for
weeks stay. He went up on Tuesday.
Mr.. B. S. Beckwith went on Tuesday
to Boston to purchase goods, intending
to return yesterday or today.
Rev. w. w. Winchester of Williams
town, Mass, has spent the week with
his brother-in-law, Gov. Knapp.
Prof. Wager will preach at the Con-
gregational church on Sunday. Rev.
Mr.. Houghton officiated there last Sun
day.
Mr.. C. +. Spencer, lately in the en-
ploy of Mr.. Bond at Pine Hall, has en-
tered the clothing store of c. F. Wheeler
in Burlington.
Congressman Stewart was registered
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, on
Monday, and was said by the news
papers to be on his way home. He has
been expected here all the week, but has
not arrived as we 60 to press.
The Rutland Herald of yesterday says
"Messrs. E. y. Vaiquctte of Rutland,
and a. b. Colby of Middlebury left town
yesterday for Seattle, w. r., and expect
to be absent five or six months. They
have gone on business and pleasure
trip"
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. jackson were sum-
moned to Mortified on Saturday by a
telegram announcing the serious illness of
Mr.. F. w. button, Mrs. Jackson's brother.
They came home on Wednesday, leaving
Mr.. Dutton "A little better, but still very
sick with ii combination of spinal menin-
gifts and pneumonia.
Mr.. Henry b. Dodge of Chicago is
here, having been called by the serious
! illness of his father, Col. Sardis Dodge
who is afflicted with complication OF
diseases from which his recovery is i'm,
probable. Up to a little more than 8
week ago he had been about the streets
attending to his business, but since TAX
ing to his bed he has failed rapidly.
Homer c. Royce, Esq, of Vergenne:
will soon come to Middlebury to reside
He has formed a copartnership with w
H. Bliss, Esq, for the practice of tn,
law under the firm name of Bliss &
Royce. Mr.. Royce is son of Chic
Justice Homer f. Royce of st. Albani
and a graduate of the university o
Vermont. lie has been in the practic,
of the law at Vergennes for something
more than year.
b. NJ. Pitts of Fitchburg, Mass. sol
of the late Hiram Pitts, formerly the cot
ton manufactures here, and himself at tn
same business at his present home, wa
in town on brief visit a few days ago
The boys and girls of twenty years ag
would best recognize the now big boy
called MARSHALL" He reported having
had a call the week before his arriva
here from f. j. Davenport, an old school
mate and chum, who, after a drop-o
call here, too, was on the way to hi
prosperous home in Minneapolis.
Hon. Lyman +. Knapp and his famil
will leave here on the evening train mort
tomorrow night for their new home a
Sitka, Alaska, of which territory he
the governor. They will go by tn
Manitoba-Pacifc route by rail to Var
couver, thence by boat to Victoria, o
Vancouver island, where they will en-
, bark on the steamer for Sitka. All tn
family will go except the daughter
Miss Fanny, who, after visit home
returned on Wednesday to her studies a
Wellesley college, from which institutio
she will graduate at the coming con
khencement, and will then proceed t
n Sitka.
Never had preparation more a appropr