Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-04-08
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr. A. Williamson shipped to the Bos-
ton market on Monday lG cows and 20 /
calves.
Mr.. F. A. Farnsworth has his tempo
rary tin shop near Beckwith 81 Co.'S al
most ready for use.
The spring term of the college opened
Yesterday 1t will close on the 29th of
June, commencement day.
Mr.. Chancey Clark fell on Sunday and
had a shoulder dislocated. He is, how
ever, able to be about the streets.
The outside of the Cobb block is re-
ceiving the finishing touches of paint.
The Interior is nearly completed.
Mr.. Remily, the barber, has bought
the O'Leary place on Seymour street and
is to have possession in the course of a
couple of weeks.
The spring term of the graded school
opened on Monday with full attend
ance. The teachers are the same as last
year.
Seventeen horses were brought up
from Boston on Wednesday by Messrs.
L. C. Sturtevant and NJ. S. Carr and TAX
Ell to the latter's place in Cornwall.
The stores of the village, which have
closed at G o'clock every night except
Saturday during the winter, are now
open every night except Wednesday.
Butter sold on Monday at 20 to %
cents pound and eggs for II cents
dozen. Buyers look for considerable
fall in the price of butter by next Mon
day.
A novelty social will be gwen at the
residence of Mr.. +. +. Wells on Wednes-
day evening, April ID, under the auspices
of the Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist
church.
Those interested should bear in mind
the Republican caucus at the town hall
this evening, at which delegates to the
State and district conventions will be
chosen
The remains of Louis Dupont, who
died quite suddenly in Lincoln on We'd
: nesday of last week, were brought here
on Friday and inferred in the Catholic
| cemetery.
The ice went out of the creek on Fri.
day. 1t was SO honeycombed and rot
ten that it did no harm to the bridge
here. which it was feared might be dam
aged when the breakup occurred.
y Messrs. Turk and Weston, whom the
selectmen and committee engaged to sup
ply plans for the stone bridge, hoped tC
e have them ready yesterday, hut write
= that they are not quite completed.
: The Burlington Free Press says thai
It "Mr. Stickney of Middebury," med
Y cal student of the university, broke leg
in the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium in that
- city the other day. Nobody here seems
# to know any such man.
If There is bad place in Main stree
half way between Pine Hall and the Val
y lette block. Whether it is caused by tn,
n frost coming out or by water leaking
p from the two hydrants at that poin
e seems not to be quite clear.
n Letters addressed as follows have re
y manned at the post-oflice one month un
&c claimed: 5. F. Barrows, Ashley Berice
. Frank Carmody, Chas. b. Foote, JOIN
II Haloran, G. ii. Place, Col. John Sabin
A. Ii. c. Walker, Mrs. Louisa Blanchard
ii Miss Eliza Hanan.
" Messrs. Oliver Severance. U. ID
IL. Twitchell and o. p. Moore, the listers
began their work on Friday, the LIST inst
They have not discovered, up to date
4. any great number of citizens who ar,
ne willing to confess that they have grow
rich during the past year.
at Weather sharps of gloomy tendencie
o ot are certain that we shall yet get muc
n cold weather, with snow and ugl
nj storms. But the weather of the pas
no week has been exceptionally fine for 5
ut early in the season. On only one nigh
IN has the thermometer gone below tn
"a freezing point. The snow has all dis
appeared from the open places, thong
. much remains in the swamps and on tn
mountains; the grass is green on lawn
and in the fields, the streets and walk
n are dry ami dusty. and altogether it look
ees and feels as If spring had come to stay.
u The New England insurance exchang,
at a meeting in Boston on Saturday, at
yanced ten per cent on the present tart