Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-01

The death is announced, at Wakefield,
Mass, April 49, of DIR. Preston Sheldon,
a graduate of the college in the class of
1874. He was relative of the Middlebury
and Salisbury families of the name.
The listers have notice elsewhere
that will interest aggrieved taxpayers,
and the State Fish and Game league and
Col. T. NJ. Chapman have something to
say to fishermen that deserves their at
tention.
Mr.. n. c. Brooks has bought of Mr..
NJ. d. Parmelee his farm on the Brdport
road west of the village. Mr.. and Mrs.
Brooks and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hammond
will occupy the place and will take poss-
ession today.
We are informed that young German
is going about in adjoining towns pre-
tending to be piano-tuner, when in fact
he has no knowledge of the business. lie
tried to rune several instruments IN Corn
wall, falsely averrng that Mrs. f. o.
Porter had sent him to do the work.
Work on the pumping station for the
water-works has not progressed appre-
ciably during the past ten days. The
workmen who began to clear away the
earth from the rocks where the founda-
ton is to go found so much frost that it
was thought advisable to wait a little.
1t is understood that the Epworth
leagues connected with the Methodist
churches in North Ferrisburgh, Wey-
bridge, Nergennes and Middlebury Will
meet with the Vergennes league on the
18th inst. to celebrate the second ami
versary of the formation of the national
organization.
Sunday evening, April 2G, the anniver-
sary of the organization of the |. o. of
o. f. was appropriately observed by
Lake Dunmore lodge, No. II, the mem
bers of which attended the Episcopal
church in body and listened to an'able
sermon prepared for the occasion by the
rector, Rev. Thomas Bell.
The weather of the past week has been
all that could have been desired in the
way of variety. Saturday it showed all
day and Tuesday morning the ground
was white Yesterday the air was as
warm and mild as in orthodox May. The
streets became very dusty on Tuesday
and the sprinkler was gotten out for the
first time in the season.
The ordinance of baptism will be ad.
ministered next Sunday evening at the
Baptist church in connection with the
preaching service. The pastor of thi;
church will give during the current
month series of Sunday-evening lee
lures on 'God, His Being and Attri
butes," beginning May 10 with the theme
"God, His Being as Taught by the Light
of Nature
The new clock for the tower of the
Congregational church has arrived, anC
also Mr.. Prescott. an employee of tn,
Howard Clock Co. of Boston, who viii
put it up. He came Monday Afternoon
and before Tuesday noon had the old ma
figures will be used for the new clock
but the hands will be new and of course
none of the old machinery will be re-
tanned.
The house of Mr.. Milo X. Moore, in tn,
northeast part of the town, was burneC
to the ground about noon on Tuesday
He and his wife We're visiting in the vii
lage and the children were at schoo
Iwhen the fire broke out. Neighbor.
succeeded in saving some of the furntur,
4 in II damaged condition. There was NJ
( insurance on the house and but little OF
the furniture. The fire caught upstairs
in closet, it is supposed.
"Vet" Mayo, well-known resident @
the village, died very suddenly at hi
home on Tuesday evening about 6 ~
o'clock. He was carpenter and ha(
been at work at the Logan House during
the day. On going home he dropped
down on the sofa to rest and almost i'm
medately expired. He was 80 years o
Iage and veteran of the war, having
served nearly five years in the eth Yer
mont under Col. Tracy. He was first
class soldier. The funeral will be at tn,
house at 10 o'clock this morning, Rev
Mr.. HeaXt officiating. The local Crane
Army post will probably participate il
the exercises.
The logs which the Green Mountain
Pulp Co. got together on the banks of tn,
creek at Brandon during the winter wer
dumped into the stream Monday morning
They were caught in a boom just abov
the railroad bridge in this village and ar
= allowed to pass out of that and down t.
the mills as wanted. The first of then
went over the falls Wednesday morning
The company had two and a half millio
feet at Brandon and all these will be sen
down at once. They are destined for tn
company's lower mill at Huntingdon
Falls, Weybridge.