Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-05-27

by ram, only about two days work hav
ing been put in. Some 80 or 40 men and
half Il dozen teams are employed and the
job has reached point where each day
shows progress.
1t was Charles Guyatt. not William,
who was charged by Frank Taylor with
furnishing him with intoxicants. Taylor
was arrested for intoxcation and tried in
the local court. 1t did not appear that
his disclosure was truthful and the man
upon whom he disclosed was not held.
Mr.. G. C. Chapman and DR.. Sheldon
are having pipe run from the water
works main to their garden, in order that
they may have the water for irrigation.
4 ledge was encountered in the highway
by the diggers and the laying of the pipe
has proved to be something of an under
taking.
Letters addressed as follows have re-
manned at the post-office one month un-
claimed: Ned Brasso, Ezra Brown.
Messy Cooley, Donahue, Esq, A. ID.
Fletcher. J. A. Foote, Mr.. Haiger, Ever
EFT b. Norton (2), Fred Stone, Leslie
Pullman. Geo, Worry, Mrs. Robt. John
son, Mrs. Margaret Lamorder, Miss
+ Anna McDermott.
Butter sells at lG cents and eggs at II.
The hay market continues to boom and
the price of a first-cass article, delivered
at the station Impressed, has risen to SIP
| tpn DItutnas al in nd Il
the price of them has gone up to % cents
, bushel. The wool market is still dull.
: One at least of the local buyers is paying
II cents for fine and 81 for medium. and
gets some wool.
The three-days' teachers institute
which began at the town hall here on
: Wednesday of last week came to an end
Friday afternoon. The chief features of
Fridays sessions were papers by Prin-
cipal Dewart of st. Adams and Princi-
pal Bullock of Middebury. The insti-
1 tute was not as whole a very lively af-
t fair, nor was the attendance what it
should have been.
The rains which fell most of the time
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raised the water in the creek almost to
the spring high-water mark. Consider
, able damage was done up the stream to
, crops on the low lands. Mr.. A. n. Fish
er, whose farm is IA mile above the vii
. lage, had 20 acres of oats under water on
Wednesday, and other farmers in that
direction suffered in the same way to a
, greater or less extent.
: The rains have seriously interfered
1 with base ball playing the past week.
= The college nine got in but one of the
three games it planned to play. 1t de-
G feated the nine of Goddard seminary,
e Barre, Thursday, II to 0. The high
: school nine went to Burlington on Satur-
\ day to play the Rock Point nine, but
came home at noon, as the storm gave
= no promise of ceasng. Tomorrow the
r college boys will go to Port Henry to
meet the nine of that town.
The remains of the Iirst fire pump
: brought to Middlebury is at Mr.. Lang
: worthy's machine shop. Mr. Langwor-
thy found it out at one of the old quar-
RES. 1t was bought of the village by a
quarry owner and used there while the
quarry was run. The machine consists
essentially of IA rotary pump. When in
commission for fire purposes it was on
top of a tank that was mounted on
wheels. At each end of the pump shaft,
which projected over either side of the
tank vehicle, was a big crank on which
D nant of the machine consists only of the
pump itself and the shaft.
The annual meeting of the W. c. Il. L.
was held on Wednesday with Mrs. VIM.
c. Langworthy. y large number were
: present, and the officers for the ensuing
1 year were elected, with Mrs. Clark as
n president. The work among the young
q people was earnestly discussed, and it
\ was decided it was one of the most i'm
portant departments. Mrs. Crane and
Mrs. Bacon were appointed supernten-
e dents of this work. The signing of the
e pledge was Endorsed by the mothers
present, as it had proved of great benefit
in many cases. In the evening the sec
D retary's and treasurer's reports were read,
and other matters of interest brought
forward. The meeting adjourned to
S meet in June with Mrs. Bacon.
y A curious coincidence relating to two
important inventions now in universal
n Use is saws a village CORES pondent that
4 they were both invented in Middlebury
e and the patents were illegally taken from
0 the rightful owners. The circular saw
i was invented by jeremiah Hall, who
lived in the house now owned by Mr. A.
a j. Marshall, and the patent was zap
: propriated' by some other person. Mr.
Hall died in Whiting and old citizens
4 now say that the original saw, made by
: | a blacksmith, is buried in the rubbish