Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-31


village was held at the Baptist church on
Monday evening and a Young Woman's
Christian Temperance union formed. |
Mrs. A. A. Cambridge is the president.
Another meeting will be held at the same
place next Wednesday afternoon at 4 10
o'clock.
The report of the State railroad COM
mission speaks of the "noted improve
ment in depots and platforms" which
that honorable body has observed in its
travels about the State. 1t is supposed
the commissioner who wrote this par
tcular sentence had Middlebury in his
minds eye.
Chicken thieves have appeared in the
village of late and committed depreda-
tions on the roosts of several citizens.
Peter Champagne was the first sufferer.
losing four head of hen stock last week
and since then they have visited several
others, including Representative But
tolph, Mrs. Seymour and a. ii. Lang
: worthy.
News has been received of the death
at Green Bay, Wis, Oct. %, of Mrs. E.
S. Whitney, aged 81 years. Her maiden
name was Emeline 5. Henshaw, and she
was the last of that family. She was
born in Middlebury in 1903, married
Daniel Whitney here in 1926, removed
at once to Green Bay and had since re-
sided there.
Eggs are the best property in the pro-
duce line just now. They sell at % cents
IA dozen. Butter quotations are unchang
p ed. Mr.. Carr is paying half dollar
bushel for potatoes for shipment. Those
which were put into cellars early rotted
badly; in some cases not one bushel of
sound ones was found in 20 bushels har-
vested. Those dug later are not rottiug
g perceptiblv.
). viii Gotta was up before Hon. l.. ID.
Eldredge, justice of the peace, Monday
morning, charged with stealing bulls
: hide, the property of a. G. Chandler of
;, Riptor, who lost it while on the way to
Middlebury. Gotta, it appeared, picked
t. it up and sold it at Mr.. Piper's market.
" llC plCuNtCu anu was lCO VII VII
payment of a nominal fine. Grand Juror
Royce appeared for the prosecution.
l Miss Mary E. Daniels of Rutland died
l. on Wednesday night at Miss Parker's
) house, South Main street, where she and
her nurse, Miss Smith, were residing
d temporarily during the absence from
t. town of Miss Parker. Miss Daniels was
IS the daughter of the late Luther Daniels
once prominent citizen of Rutland. Hel
e. age was Ga years. She had been out OF
II health for some time and her death was
e caused by complication of diseases.
The happiest person in town just now
is probably Mr.. Eli b. Parker, to whom
10 a pension of SIS month has been grant
-. ed. The back pay amounts to S46S0
IN Mr.. Parker had three sons in the Unol
=, army and two of them died in the service
p' One, the youngest, was torn in pieces by
bloodhounds while trying to escape from
the rebels, by whom he was held prison
err; and it is on his account that the pen
sion was granted
About 200, 600 feet of logs belonging t.
the Green Mountain Pulp Co. are boom
ed in the creek just above the railroad
y bridge. Three teams are drawing then
thence to tine company's upper mill
They came down the creek from Brandon
" and it is cheaper to draw them from herr
m to the mill than to get them out of tn
eddy, where the majority would go a
this stage of the water if an attempt wer
made to float them down.
at 1t is announced that Rev. j. w. Nc
Cannon, \, NJ, is to deliver at School
house hail, about Nov. IL, his lecture OF
Eight American Authors, their Home
eU and Iaunts, illustrated by over 80 stere
opticon views. The authors dealt wit
are Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Emerson
Hawthorne, Poe, Bryant and Longfellow
Mr.. McCammon was formerly at tn
head of the State university of Nevada
Further announcement will be made lal
err
Mr.. Farnham, formerly of Burlington
IT. is to lecture at School-hOuse hall thi
afternoon at | AS o'clock on Lord Ne
' son." 1t will be free to scholars of tn
High and Grammar schools, and an &C
, mission fee of ten cents will be charge
the townspeople. Mr.. Farnham has bee
. blind since his 18th ear, but by the al
of others eyes he has done great dea
II. of studying. lie is highly recommends
by Senator Edmunds and other prom
ii, nent Burlingtonans.
The postponed match race, for $50
side, between the horses Bret IartC
''o owned by \. ID. Austin, and II. 5. Pei
u kins' lIotspUr, came oil'on the fair groun,
track Monday afternoon. The trac
IT was in bad shape by reason of recen
OF rains, so that no remarkable time wa
lrt made Uarte won the first third an