Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-24

Mr.. Durham began on Monday to get
together the stone for the foundation of
the lime kiln which he is to build out at
the old Addison County Marble com
pany's quarry. The structure will be of
brick and iron, 20 feet square on the
outside and will cost about $500.
The selectmen, after careful investi-
CATION, find that the tower clocks made
by Howard of Boston are most likely Ia
give satisfaction. They have according
! ly purchased one for the Congregations
al church tower, in pursuance of the in
structions given at the March meeting,
and it will presently be here and placed
in position. The cost is about $500.
President Fisher of the Green Noun
tain Pulp Co. aud IA gang of men have
been engaged the past week in driving
logs down the New Haven river. Otter
creek is so high that the logs at Bran
don will not be put into the stream Just
yet. The creek is now the highest that
it has been this spring. There is still a
considerable amount of snow on the
higher mountains.
Butter sold here on Monday for %
cents Il pound and eggs for II cents II
dozen. Feed has got up to Sl.S0 Il 100
pounds, oats to - cents a bnshel and
corn to % cents. \ year ago corn sold
for Is to 30 cents and oats for 10 to II
cents. 1t is estimated by one who ought
to know that the sales of feed. oats and
corn in this place have averaged since
last October about $1,000 worth month.
The purchasers were farmers for the
most part.
The board of village trustees held a
special meeting on Saturday evening
and renewed for the term of three years
the current contract with the electric.
light people. 1t provides for - arc
lights for 252 nights in year fol
81 300, extra lights to be furnished at
the same rate each per year. Twenty.
four lights are now running The trus
tees will go over the village tomorrow
evening to see if more lights are needed
or if any now in use can be dispense,
with.
The Merino rams owned by Messrs
, Wright, Witherell and Mason wcr,
g shipped from here on Monday to New
\ Ork, whence they will 90 sometim,
this week on the steamer Tower Hill
bound for London. Another steame
will take them thence to their destina
ton, Cape Town. Cape Colony. Mr.
ID. f. Doty went with them to Nev
York, and Mr.. Witherell is to take then
: through and sell them. if he can.
+ The item in this column last weel
, concerning the crutch which pension
: er had discarded, after being examiner
by the loca. board of surgeons. was true
as far as it went, but the whole trutl
was not told. 1t seems that he lived il
= a remote part of the county, where h
could not see a doctor. Had he beel
able to do so, he might have throw
away the crutch long ago. The doctor
' composing the board treated him and h
. could walk then without difficulty.
The Illustrated temperance lectur
delivered at the VI. Z. church last MOI
day evening by our toWnsman, Mr.. j. /
' Crane, was well received by the fah
sized audience which attended Nj
J. Crane has spent quite an amount of tim
and money in bringing out his entertain
ment. land now has one of the most uniou,
entertaining and instructive temperate
lecture courses on the platform. Durn
the past winter he has addressed larg
audiences in some Of the largest Ne,
England cities, and, as a result, ha, bee
It heartily endorsed by the leading ten
II perance advocates of the United State,
He is booked for two lectures at the n;
e tiOnal Prohibition convention to be hel
u on Staten Island some time this summer