Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-16

that the unfinished business of the an
nual meeting may be satisfactorily com
pleted.
A gang of fakirs engaged In selling
corn medicine made tremendous racket
advertising their wares about the village
Tuesday evening and afterwards swim
died the gulible portion of the public.
Just why the people should submit to
such disturbances Is more than Is clear
to the ordinary mind.
The Methodsts reached the conclusion
at a meeting on Monday that it would
be best to rent the seats in their
church for the current year. The advis-
bilty of having all seats free had been
discussed at some length, but the fnan-
cial condition of the organization did not
seem to the majority to warrant that
step now.
The exercises of the. graduating class
of the high school will be held at
School house hall this evening. The
class numbers seven-Misses Grace f.
Richards and Flora G.. lockwood and
Messrs. G. p. Kimball, Il. G.. Lyons, Jr.,
Arthur G.. Parkhurst, Arthur Piper and
Smith G. Shedrick. Music for the
occasion will be furnished by the school
y
banjo club.
The strawberry and ice-cream festival
which the ladies of the Congregational
church held at the town hall on Wednes-
day evening proved very enjoyable
affair. 1t was largely attended. Besides
the abundant and excellent refresh
ments, there was fine singing and
some exceptionally good pantOmimes,
in which a number of the handsome
young ladies of the village took part. A
good sum was realized.
The Kings Daughters will have a
lawn party at Mrs. w. w. Eaton's on
Tuesday, June 20, from until 80 D.
M, to which the public are cordially in
vited. Admission, 10 cents; children, )
cents. Ice cream and cake will be for
sale, also fancy and useful articles,
many of which will be found very ac-
ceptable to any planning to attend the
Worlds fair. Among the attractions
will be lemon tree in full fruit.
A stout-buit citizen was the victim of
joke that he did not appreciate, the
other day. While in neighboring
town he bought a black alpaca coat
All of the assortment offered were too
small, except one, which had sleeves of
unusual length. The dealer kindly vol
unteered to have the sleeves curtaied, so
the citizen bought it. On putting 1t on
after reaching home he found that only
one sleeve had been made his size, the
other falling gracefully over his hand.
Harvey Yale, one of the characters of
the town, died on Saturday from the
effects of being trampled upon by colts
a few days before. Although nearly
90 years of age, he insisted on leading
two lively colts out to water. They
threw him down and inflicted fatal in
jures. Mr.. Yale was lifelong resident
of the southeast part of the town. He
was engaged in the horse business from
his earliest years and possessed vast
fund of information on the local history
of the horse industry.
Mr.. G.. E. Rae, a Boston gent leman
who is stopping at the Addison House,
met with painful and serious accident
on Monday afternoon, while returning
company's quarry with Mr.. George
Manchester. The horse stumbled and
fell, throwing both of the occupants of
the vehicle out upon the ground. Mr..
Rae struck upon his left shoulder, caus-
ing fracture of the humerus near the
joint and bad injury of the joint itself.
He was attended by Drs. Smith and
Noble.
Announcement is made of the death of
Rev. Ovid Miner in Syracuse, \. Y. He
was born in 1903. Mr.. Miners early
life was devoted to the printing business,
and he was seven years in the office of
the Northern Spectator at East Poultney,
where Horace Greeley learned the print
ers trade. lie published the Vermont
Statesman in Castleton two years from
1926 and then moved it to Middlebury,
where it was continued as the Vermont
American until 1880. He left file of
his paper and life-size portrait of HIM
self to the Sheldon art museum.
The work on the new stone bridge over
the river makes sensible progress. The
cofter-dam around the site of the south
one of the two piers is in and the laying
of the pier will begin presently. About
half the old bridge has been torn down
to give the men room to operate. 1t is
still disable by careful foot-passengers.
The trestling built in the river along the
upper side of the old bridge as foun-
dation for the railway that is to convey
the stone from the bank to the site of the
bridge is finished. The temporary
bridge over the stream Is IN full opera
ton and serves its purpose admirably.
Sufficiently hot weather for the season
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday was
followed on Sunday afternoon by Sc
we're thunderstorm, after which came a
long and copious rain lasting most of the
day Monday. Sundays storm was an
ugly-looking one, but it did comparative
ly little damage hereabouts. Up in
Shelburn small area, including the
premises of DR.. Webb, was pelted with
big hailstones, which broke out all the
glass in his extensive greenhouses.
There was also some hail in Shoreham.
Since Tuesday the weather has been hot
enough to make corn grow and human
beings wilt.
Next Sunday morning Miss Virginia
Dox of Boston will speak at the Con-
gregatlonal church on behalf of 1.-The
New West Education commission. The
subject will be, "Three Years among the
Mormons and Cowboys. Miss Dox is
said to be one of the most effective
sneakers of all the women now Dresent-