Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-01-01

and Mr.. Calhoun has had the arc light
taken out of his store and the incandes-
cents put in instead.
Late arrivals in town are Mr.. and Mrs.
llrisko, the Hungarian shoemaker and
his wife. They went to New York after
being burned out in the fire, but decided
to come back here and stay.
Prof. Boyce has finished the survey
for the map of the burned district and
also that for the map of the waterworks
mains and they will be completed as soon
as President Brainerd returns home.
The plate glass broken out of the front
windows of Beckwith e Co.'S store the
night of the fire has been replaced this
week. There was about $500 worth of
it for the insurance companies to pay
for.
y meeting of the executive committee
of the State Firemen's association has
been called here early next month to ar
range for the annual meeting and tour
nament of the association, which are to
be held here in Middebury in July next.
DR.. Mellen has begun to tit himself
up an Office in the rooms over Bond
Bros store. He hopes to be able to
open for work by Monday next, but
may not succeed. He is able to get about
quite comfortably with the aid of Il
cane.
Two quite elaborate portable buildings
have lately been shipped to the vicinity
of New York by the Blanchard Process
Lumber Co. The company is full of
work and is going ahead with other
structures aud il the preparation of hard
woods for one use and another.
The chldreu of the Methodist Sun
day school mad ii tree and supper at the
parlors of tilu cnuIch on Friday evening.
Mr.. VIM, JACKSON wore stunning cos
tune of his own manufacture and made
the youngsters happy by distributing
among them, as Santa Claus, the gifts
which filled the tree.
Members of the fire department tested
the hose on Monday last. a consdera-
BILE amount of it was found to be in bad
shape, though there is quite a quantity
that is all right. Three hundred feet of
new has been bought within two weeks,
but probably still more will be needed
before the village has adequate protec-
ton.
The Methodist sunday school chose
these officers at the annual meeting on
Monday: Superintendent, G.. 5. Barton;
first assistant, w. j. Douglass; second
assistant, II. Ii. Seely; secretary, Miss
Maud COmstock; assistant, Miss G race
Fleming: treasurer, Miss Elizabeth Bar
ton; librarian, B. NJ. Marshall; assistant,
l.. NJ. Seely; chorster, G. l.. Hassel-
tine.
The new passenger station was Occu-
pied for the first time on Tuesday. 1t is
not yet fully in use, the telegraph i'll
struments not having been moved, but
that will be done in very few days.
The station is of modern style, handsome
~ finished and conveniently arranged.
1t is heated by Il furnace, lighted by cleo
tricity and furnished with all atter-day
conveniencies.
The weather changed emphatically
during Wednesday night and yesterday
morning the thermometer stood but two
above zero. 1t is not necessary TO tell
our nearby readers this, but those in
other States, seeing the weather report
at the head of the page, might think we
were enjoying Indian summer yet. The
signal service say that the present clear
skies will not last long, big storm
being on the way here from the West.
The children of the families of limited
means in the village were handsome
ly entertained on the afternoon before
Christmas at the Congregational vestry
by the young ladies of that church.
Miss Jessie Stewart managed the affair.
There was tree, of course, from which
Mr.. Albec Smith, the Santa Claus of the
occasion, took presents for all hands.
a bountiful supper followed the distri-
button of the gifts and was thoroughly
appreciated.
The high wind Tuesday night blew
down the south wall of the old Sheldon
store and in the morning the cellar of
Mr.. Cobb's proposed block was half full
of brick. The rain caused the sidewalk
on the opposite side of the street, just
north of the north end of the bridge, to
slump, and the break had to be bridged.
The rain was very heavy. 1t raised the
creek till it was higher than it had been
for year, and it settled the waterworks
bitches so that there were many bad
holes, some of them in the middle of the
highways.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Speyer, writes vii
lace pOrrpspopdpnt had a rpuniOn Of