Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
LOCAL NEWS.


The shipment by Mr.. Williamson to
The Boston market on Monday consisted
of % cows and 19s calves.
Potter chapter will hold a regular con-
vocation at 80 next Tuesday evening
and there will be work on the NJ. NJ. NJ.
degree.
Mr. and Mrs. c. w. Earl arrived home
on Saturday from their trip to Boston
and vicinity, where relatives of Mrs.
Earl reside.
Fifteen cents was the top price for
butter in this market on Monday, the
most going at lower figures. Eggs are
going up and command IL cents doz-
en-.
The most active members of the COM
munity just now are the wool-buyers.
They say they are paying Is cents a
pound for fine wool and 20 cents for
medium.
The annual meeting of the w. G. Z.
L. will be held with Mrs. J. Z. Crane
on Wednesday, May 81; business meet
ing from 3 o'clock to 6; supper from
to- All are cordially invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Parlhurst were
visited by number of their friends on
Saturday evening, it being Mrs. Park
bursts birthday. They were the recipi-
ents of a number of valuable presents.
Several oil paintings of marked excel
lence. the work of Miss Hattie belong
of West Cornwall, are on exhibition at
the Addison house. One is of Mr.. w. ii.
belongs horse Claremont and another
is the head of colt.
The local Democratic cohorts will meet
in caucus tomorrow evening at the base
ment of the town hall for the purpose of
choosing delegates to the State and dis
trict conventions, which are called at
Burlington the 10Th inst
The double house on South street op-
posite Col. Fletcher's has been purchas-
ed by Mr.. Oren f. Smith, who will live
in part of it and has rented the rest. The
seller was Thos. II. Purdon, who has re-
sided in Rutland for two or three years
past.
One of the first locomotives used on the
Rutland railroad is being broken up at
the shops in Burlington. She made her
first trip Dec. p, 1919, and was then and
for many years afterward known as the
mount Holley", but was renamed the
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cent date.
The town of Middlebury has been
sued by the town of New Haven for
moneys expended for the support of
Chas. Bartlett of Brooksville, who, the
l New Haven people say, belongs to this
: town. 1t is said that claim will be con-
tested. Messrs. Stewart & Wilds are
counsel for New Haven and Messrs
D Bliss q Royce for Middlebury.
The water of the creek held large
e percentage of mud on Wednesday, in
. consequence of the heavy rain of the
+ previous day and night, compelling the
a shutting-down of the pulp mills. 1t i;
1 very seldom that the creek is so high al
/ this time of the year as it is at present
The New Haven river, too, is FULL carry
l. ing more water than at any time this
: spring.
Z The Boston and New York gentlemen
IA who are interested in the quarry out cas-
: formerly operated by the Addison Coun
=, ty Marble Co. were in town on Friday
= and spent the day looking over the quar-
e ny and the cotton mill here. 1t is not We
e known what their decision was in regarC
~ to going ahead 1t is certain, however
e that Mr. Durham is still at work and i
Il quarrying more blocks.
=. Bennett Matlack and company CAV
:. Hamlet at the town hall on Thursda
e, evening last and "Virginius" on Saturda.
evening. Monday and Tuesday night
T. they played in Brandon, coming bacl
70 y, here Wednesday and giving "Sweet
is hearts" and damon and Pythas" tina
II evening. They did not draw so goo
% houses as the merits of the acting fairl
:" entitled them to. They went to Glen
N Falls yesterday.
t. The count of the mail at the local posi-
:, Office during the week ended Sunda
- night showed that 2G19 letters with two
lie cent stamp were sent out and 112 dro
= letters delivered; 372 postals were sen
* TO other offices and Isl were mailed her
for local delivery. The newspapers sen
49, out by publishers weighed 29G lbs. Tn
above were the principal items, but o