Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-08
FOR BARGAINS, AND TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF THIS
GREAT FIRE SALE.
CHAPMAN e CO.
LOCAL NEWS.

The Hawthorne club met on Tuesday
evening with Rev. and Mrs. A. W.
Dickens.
will close on Friday of next week
There will be a vacation of two weeks.
The cold snap has closed the river
above the railroad bridge aud other
pieces of water in this vicinity, making
the skate market brisk.
The judges, lawyers and many Jurors
and Others went up to Vergennes on the
forenoon tram yesterday to attend the
funeral of Gen. Grandey. They came
back on the flyer at u 42.
Butter is getting to be decidedly win
try in quality and prices are falling of
accordingly. The general prices this
week are 20 and - cents, though %
cents was paid for the very best. Eggs
are worth p cents for shipment.
The house of Mr.. James Duff on High
street was quarantined last week on ac-
count of the existence there of case of
diphtheria. The child, we understand,
had the disease in a mild form, and
there are, so far as we can learn, no
other cases in the village.
The coolest day of the first week in
December, 1892, was Tuesday, the 9th,
when the mercury went 8 degrees below
zero. The highest temperature of the
week was 80 above, at noon on Monday.
On Tuesday, the ID of December, 1890,
the mercury was below zero all day and
the next day was 2 below.
Adelbert HER of Salisbury was arrested
in that village Wednesday night by
Deputy Sheriffs Cobb and Chapman,
who brought him to Middlebury and
locked him up. The warrant charges
Hier with completely with Peter Bushcy
in the burning of Merritt Robbins barns
in Hancock two weeks ago last Tuesday
evening.
The village officials are beginning to
get their accounts in shape for the an
nual report to he presented to the meet
ing of the voters on the first Tuesday of
January. They hope to have the report
ready then, so as to avoid the adjourn
ments necesstated year ago by the in
complete shape of the report at the date
for the regular meeting.
The fair held by the people of the
Catholic parish at the town hall on the
evenings of Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of last week is understood to
have added about $500 to the building
fund for the new church. After it closed
on Thanksgiving evening the Young
Peoples Fraternity club gave dance,
which was well attended.
Messrs. Walker & Booth, the Yer
gennes hay-buyers, whose barn near the
height station was burned late in October,
have perfected plan for new and
larger structure on the same site and
will at once set about building it. 1t
will be 80 by So feet on the ground and
have lS-fOOt posts. Work upon it will
be pushed as rapidly as possible.
Thanksgiving passed quietly in town.
Most of the places of business were
closed all day. There were the usual
family gatherings. A large congrega-
ton assembled at the Methodist church
for the union Thanksgiving service and
head an excellent discourse by the pas
tor of that church, Rev. G. f. Noble.
Rev. Messrs. Lyons and Dickens assisted
In the service.
village correspondent writes: "The
social at Miss Mary Plerce's home, Wed
nesday evening, was success and every
one had good time. Miss Pierce knows
how TO get up good time, and does it
when she undertakes the job. Only one
mistake was made, and that can be set