Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-11-17

sleighing,all the while; and the snowfall
in the>winter was of unusual amount.
Julius p. Douglas, n well.kno IN resi-
dent of Middlebury, died on Wednesday
afternoon at his home south of the village
of cancer of the throat. The funeral will
be attended from the house at | o'clock
tomorrow Saturday afternoon. Rev.
a. W. Dickens will conduct the service.
Mr.. John l.. Barker, "A former Middle
Burian. but now of Princeton, H., and
Mrs. Langworthy, widow of the late
VIM. &. Langworthy, were married at
the Methodist parsonage on Wednesday
and set out on wedding journey. Both
have many friends here who will wish
them we'll.
A sale of fancy articles, candy and ice
cream and cake will be held IN the lower
part of the town hall on Friday evening.
Nov. ~, by the Laurel Mission Band of
the Baptist church. There will be "A
short literary programme. consisting of
recltations and music. All ale cordial,
invited to attend
AS will be seen by the notice in am
other column, the village trustees have
offered IA reward of 500 for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of
the incendiarv or incendaries who are
responsible for several recent fires in the
village. 1t is to be hoped that some
thing will come of it.
The house which Mr.. c. w. Ross began
in September to build for Mr.. Abram
Williamson, on the latter's farm mile
west of the village, was completed last
week. Mr.. Ross and his men are now
finishing up Prof. Eaon's residence,
south of the college, which will probably
be ready for occupancy about January l.
The workmen on the railroad bridge
have the trusses on either side of the road
way up and are rivcting them. The FORCES
used to heat the million, more or less. of
riVets used in fastening the structure to-
gether are up on top of the trusses, nearly
40 feet above the level Of the track, and
after nghtfall are plainly visible for
long distance.
At the business meeting of the w. G.
L. L. at Mrs. Bryant's, Wednesday
afternoon. arrangements were made to
assist some of the most needy families in
the village. The exercises of the even
ing consisted of declamatiOns and read
ings. Music was furnished by Mr.. j.
Patterson. assisted by Mrs. G. c. Peck
and Messrs. Peck and Hubbard.
Messrs. Booth e Walker of Vergennes,
whose hay barn on the railroad land
near the freight depot was burned n few
weeks since, have obtained permission
from the railroad people to put up a
larger building, one big enough to store
hay in as we'll as press it. The firm is
now preparing plans for the structure
and will 20 ahead and buili it at once.
The first snowfall of any account this
season came on Wednesday. The
storm continued most of the dav. In
the forenoon it was so warm that the snow
melted as it fell, but in the afternoon it
became colder and an inch or so of snow
was left upon the ground. The cold
wave continues to make itself felt,
though it is not very wlntrv considering
the lateness in the season.
The people of the Catholic parish are
to hold fair at the town hall on the
evenings of the 2Sth, 10Th and goth inst.
On the first two evenings Rev. FIR. Whit
aker will Sive an illustrated lecture on
the passion play at Oberammergau, Ba-
varia, and for the last night, Thanks
giving, other interesting features will be
provided. The object of the fair is to
raise money with which to build new
Catholic church.
MISS Mary Steele, who had been for
Stewart's household, died suddenly there
On Friday last of form of heart disease
with which she had been afflicted for
some time, but which was aggravated
by recent severe Illness. The funeral
was attended on Sunday afternoon at 3
O'Clock from the residence of Mr.. Philip
Rattell. Rev. Mr.. Dickens, the Congre-
gational pastor, officiated. The inter-
ment was in the West cemetery. i
a team owned by Mr.. Luclus j.
Wright Of Weybridge ran away Monday
forenoon and made trouble in front of
the Battell block. The most serious
damage was done to the wagon to which
he was attached. the shafts of it being
broken and other parts cOnsidera-
bly, sprung. In its career the runaway
brought his wagon into violent collision
with the delivery wagon of Marshall &
Co., throwing out Mr.. Barton, the driver
of it, and disabling the vehicle. Mr..
Barton was somewhat bruised, but not
seriously.
The first game of the new-style, or
Rugby, foot ball ever played here will
come of on the college grounds on Satur-
day afternoon of this week, the teams be-
ing those of Norwich university and of the
local college. 1t is needless to tell any
one who has seen contest of this sort
that it is lively game. There will in
all probability be large crowd out if
the day is not too disagreeable. The
college team went down to Rutland to
play with the Rutlands yesterday. The
result of the game was victory for the
college boys, Is to 0.
Very satisfactory Roadway has been
made during the past week on the stone
bridge and on the general work on Main
street. Road Commissioner George
Hammond began on Friday to fill in the
roadway on the bridge and has nearly
finished the job. The filling is of stone.
1t is the intention to cover the cobbles
forming the bulk of the filling with
crushed stone from the Cornwall crush
er, which is at work at Mr.. Mack's,
mile and half west of the village, if
that material can be secured. The side
walks will be of stone. The stone
needed to finish out the bridge is either
all here or on the way and four or five
days more of pleasant weather Will suf-