Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17
PERSONAL
Mr.. and Mrs. b. b. Hope are the happy
nnrnnts of q son now about q week old

wife is elsewhere announced, is himself
quite sick.
Rev. FIR. Lane, the Catholic pastor, has
been in Ludlow this week attending a
40-hours' devotion service.
Mrs. w. II. Sheldon and Mrs. NJ. b..
Sheldon, who have been i'll for some
time, are getting along nicely.
Mr.. Parker Williamson has accepted
the position of organist at st. Paul's
church, Vergennes, and will enter upon
his duties next Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Cambridge, the Baptist pas
tor, has been secured by Needham post,
G. A. r., of East Middlebury to deliver
the Memorial-day address there.
Col. A. A. Fletcher went to New York
Wednesday evening for the purpose of
accompanying home his wife and daught-
er, who have been in the city for two
weeks.
Hon. l.. d. Eldredge was kept in the
house by illness from Friday till Tues
day, but is again about. His father,
Dea. Eldredge, has also been sick, but
is better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hammond, who
have lived in Chicago for a number of
years, are again in Middlebury and are
stopping for the present with Mr.. and
Mrs. n. c. Brooks, Mrs. Hammond's
parents.
Col. +. NJ. Chapman and family in
tended to leave Charleston, 5. c., for
Washington yesterday. They have been
detained for some days at Charleston by
the illness of the older daughter, Miss
Jessie, who has had the measles.
Mr.. Byron Murray, wife and daughter
have lately visited Mr.. and Mrs. 6. NJ.
Fletcher. Mr.. Murray, who is Mrs.
Fletcher's brother, is connected with the
bank of California and has lately returned
from Il trip abroad in search of health.
II. w. Kemp, Esq. of Montpelier, the
national bank examiner, was in town on
Tuesday to make the customary yearly
examination of the local institution. 1t
is hardly necessary to say that he found
IL in first-class shape. He went hence to
Orwell.
Mr.. j. NJ. Patton, Morton professor of
Latin and French at the college, has re-
signed, the resignation to take effect at
the close of the current year. He IN
tends to go abroad for further study aud
to take a two-years' course at the univer-
sity of Bonn, in Germany.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Fisher came to
town on Friday. They are just back
from their winter home in Florida. Mr..
Fisher is here to superintend the driving
of logs down the creek and down the
New Haven river to the mills of the
Green Mountain Pulp Co.. of which cor
poration he is president.
Mr.. j. B. Mumford arrived in town
on Sunday morning from Berlin, Ger
many, where he and his two brothers-in-
law, sons of Mr.. w. w. Moore of Shore
ham, recently went to engage in bust
ness. He comes to accompany his family
thither. They have been at the Addison
House for several weeks and will not
start for Germany till about June l.
Mr.. Wilbur c. Bingham, who has been
for some time the popular head clerk at
Pine Hall, has formed a partnership
with Mr.. Rolla Allen of Bristol, a nephew
of the late W. II. Allen of this town,
and they have purchased the business
at Bristol of W. j. Miller, dealer in
clothing and furnishing goods. Mr.
Bingham and family will move to Bris.
tOl at once.
Hon. George Hammond arrived home
on the early train Saturday morning
He had been absent about two years anG
had spent most of the time at Bueno:
Ayres, where he took a lot of horses tC
sell. He brought back two of the bes'
of them, the mare Tempest and a Bel
Franklin colt. Mr.. Hammond is in gooC
health. Mr.. and Mrs. ii. f. Potter cam,
back with him, but are still in New
York. Peter Donnelly staid at Rio
where Mr.. Hammond ard his party hav'
been since January.
Mr.. John Hyde is home from Crow
. Point for a few days. and his son, Rev. F
b. Hyde, is here for "A brief vacation
The latter has preached for the Congre
%gationalists at Wilmington for over
year. When he left there, a week ag,
yesterday, the snow was a foot and
half deep on the ground and the sleigh
ing was first-class. Wilmington is a yer!
prosperous town 20 miles west of Brat
tleboro and high up on the plateau whicl
forms the central southern portion of tn
State.
COUNTY N VICINITY NOTES.
Brandon business men talk of organic