Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-21

store from the Dyer block to it.
Makers of maple sugar have had ex-
ceptionally favorable weather for their
business during the past week. The sup
ply of sugar and syrup in the local mar
ket has increased, though not sufficiently
to lower the price.
The roads aud walks about the village
have dried of since the snow storm and
are in good shape. Outside the village
the highways are somewhat muddy, but
not near so bad as they usually are at
this season.
An exchange says that "Senator Proc
tor, in partnership with Clinton Smith of
Middlebury, of the firm of Smith e
Piper, contractors and builders, is erect
ing six fine houses in the residence part
of Washington"
Rev. 7. G.. Lyons, the Baptist pastor,
will preach special sermon at his
church next Sunday morning, at the
usual hour of service. to the Odd Eel
lows, in observance of the 74th ami
versary of the foundation of the order.
Our ~" mt item regarding the captures
of wild animals made by Mr.. Robert
Thomas during the past winter was
hardly complete. \ full list of his
game Isl Wild cats, 8; raccoons. u /;
muskrats, 175; mink, %; foxes, 10 !;
skunks, 10.
a long-distance telephone of the latest
pattern has been placed: in the Jail. 1t
is connected with the local exchange,
and through it direct communication can
be had with Bellows Falls, Rutland,
Brandon, Vergcnnes. Burlington, Mont
pelier, Waterbury and many smaller
places in the State.
The college base ball team set out on
a trip on Wednesday. 1t was to play the
nine of Colgate university yesterday,
that of Union college today and with the
Troy Polytechnic on Saturday. The
team is the same as that of last year ex-
cept that Mr.. WATSON of the freshman
cl ,ss is third baseman.
This county contributes number of
entries to the colt stakes to be trOtted at
the July meeting in Rutland. Two
year-olds are entered by IL. +. Cuts of
Orwell. w. w. Moore of Shoreham.
G. B. Hall of Leicester and j. w. Peck
of West Cornwall three year-olds by Mr..
Hall of Leicester and F. II. Winch of
Middlebury, and four-year-olds by Mr..
Cults and Mr.. Winch.
Letters with these addresses are at the
postotlice, unclaimed Mike Bissette,
John Byner, Geo. Burwell, Arthur Free
gard, Chas. jackson, Munson Lockwood,
Jas. S. Lee, Frederick Melee, j. II. Mar
tin, B. Nash, Frank Roberts, Chas. w.
Smith, p. Sackheim. Dustin Tyler, Miss
Madeline Foote, Mrs. Herbert Jackson,
Mrs. II. o. Lane, Mrs. Libbie Morse,
Mrs. Sarah Nichols [2), Miss Lizzie Ri
ley, Lilley Trudo, Mrs. VistIs.
There was quite a fire on Tuesday
evening at the James NJ. Piper place,
near the Piper railroad crossing. Mr.. c..
A. Wainwright is the lessee of the prem
ises, of which he took possession on the
1st inst. a barn was destroyed with its
contents, consisting of horse, three
cows, two calves, 16 hens, quantity of
hay and some harnesses. There was an
insurance of 5000 on the building. The
nj in Of l,o Hra &c
The Green Mountain Pulp Co. made
short work of driving its annual crop of
logs from Brandon. They were put in
to the stream on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of last week. and by Sunday
most of them were in the boom which
had been placed above the railroad
bridge here. On Wednesday they were
let out of the boom, and by nightfall all
of them had gone down. OF course a
Nv lodged on the pier of the highway
bridge here and more went into the eddy.
The former were sent along yesterday,
and the eddy will be cleared presently.
The job was completed in much less time
On the New Haven river, where the
drivers had been at work previous to
making the Otter creek drive, the water
was so low as to interfere considerably
with the operations of the men. The
stream subsidized so soon that the drive
could not be finished, and nothing more
can be done till the water rises again.
DR.. NJ. II. Eddy was before Justice F.
II. Button, Tuesday and Wednesday. to
answer to charge of having failed to
comply with the provision of the new
State health law which makes it the duty
of''any physician who knows or suspects
that any person to whom he has been
called is sick, or has died, of any COM
municable disease, dangerous to the pub
lie health, shall at once report to the
health officer" etc. The cases which it
was alleged he neglected to report oc-
Cured in the family of Thomas Sullivan,
who occupies part of the Victor Wright