Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-15

ed at the town hall last Friday night to
a small house.
Mr.. Williamson's shipment to the Bos-
ton market on Monday consisted of 20
cows. 30 calves and two hogs.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sargent Mcdonald. a
well-known resident of the village, died
quite suddenly at : o'clock last evening
of pneumonia, aged "a years.
Those voters whose names are not on
the check list should bear in mind the
meeting of the board of civil authority at
the town clerks office tomorrow after
noon, when the list will be revised.
a young ladies baseball club, said TO
hail from Cincinnati, played an exhibit
ton game with the village nine on the
college grounds Yesterday afternoon.
There was quite a crowd of spectators.
The Woman's Christian TEMPERANCE
union will hold their August meeting in
the vestry of the NJ. f. church on We'd
nesday, Aug. 20. The devotional meet
ing will begin at 3 80 p. m. and be fol-
lowed by a business session.
Tanis C.. Trudo, who lives near
B~rooksville, was up before Justice Sey-
mour Edgerton last Saturday OF a charge
of breach of the peace preferred by VIM.
jerome AMI his wife, Hattie. The hear
ing was continued to the 18th inst. Mr..
Wilds appeared for the State and j.. f.
Stapleton. Esq, for the respondent.
The railroad advertises a very desirable
excursion for Wednesday next, the 10Th
inst, to the Ausable Chasm. The stations
covered are Middlebury to S%helburn, in
elusive. and only 500 tickets will be sold.
The tain will leaye M%iddlebury at $3.50.
Four hours will be spent at the Chasm,
and the returning train will reach here
at 6 :2S p. m.
Butter sold in this market on Monday
for ii cents and eggs for Il cents. Local
buyers say, however, that the situation is
improving and that the ruling price for
butter next Monday will be 10 cents,
with selections at l6. The recent hot
weather caused the butter offered last
week and this to be very poor, and that
was n reason for the continued low
prices.
The drouth is becoming quite serious.
Here in the village lawns and gardens
are drying up and wells and cisterns are
giving out. \ considerable amount of
water is drawn from the creek every day
by the truckmen to supply families. The
farmers say that pretty much all their
crops except hay are failures, while the
pastures are poor. OF fruits there is
not enough to supply the home demand,
and of berries of all kinds there has been
and is a short supply.
Mr.. w. IL. Lang of Burlington and his
son, who were down here last week max
ing surveys preliminary to furnishing
estimates of the cost of a system of wa
ter-works, returned home on Thursday
afternoon. The estimates, it was hoped.
would be ready for publication this
week, but they have not arrived at the
hour of going to press. However, they
will be here in ample time for the vii
lage meeting. The last work lone by
Mr.. Lang was the measuring of Roar
ing brook, which had been suggested as
a source of supply. He found that it
furnishes less than $4,000 gallons a day,
about one-third the necessary amount.
The steam pump at the bakery, which
belongs to the village and has been used
to supply the Addison House, the reser-
voir neal Mr.. g. 5. Wainwright's and the
sprinkler, broke down about two weeks
ago, and is so badly demoralized as not
to be worth repairing. The hotel and
the reservoir are now supplied with wa