Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-26

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Thursdays and Fridays.
Yesterday was the day of prayer for
colleges. There were no recitations at
the local institution and special service
appropriate to the day was held at the
chapel at IL o'clock. Rev. h. j. Ram
slow of Swanton made the address.
The attendance at the revival meetings
being held at the Methodist church has
been good and the interest seems to be
increasing. The meetings will continue
next week. The pastor is still assisted
by Rev. II. DIN Cady, and other help is
expected soon.
The best winter butter cannot be
quoted at over Is cents. Eggs, too, have
fallen in price and are worth for ship
ment only Is cents dozen. Something
is doing in potatoes, which hold up to 10
cents bushel, the price they have
brought for several weeks.
The entertainment given by the young
people of ST. Stephens parish at the town
hall on Tuesday evening proved success
financially as well as artstlcally. Miss
Scarborough's representations were good
as was the rendering of the comedy,
"Timothy Delano's Courtship', by the
young people.
The senior class of the high school has
organized and elected these officers
President, Theodore d. Wells, Middle
bury; vice-president, Miss Viola Brainerd
Mlddlebury; secretary, Clarence f
Moves, Whiting treasurer, NJ. Paul Dem
ing, Arlington.
The conservation of Bishop-elect Hal
will occur on Friday next, Feb. 2, a
) Burlington. The Central Vermont will
sell tickets for fare one way, good going
Feb. and ?, and, returning, till the 9TH
A special train will leave Rutland a
40 o'clock Oh the morning of the q
, and reach Burlington about 8 :l5.
The services at st. Stephens mex
Sunday evening will be of an unusuall
=, interesting nature. The choir hav
prepared a bright musical service, a
well as several solos to be rendered afte
the sermon. The offering that evening
will be devoted to the chOir-vestmen
e fund. Every one will be heartily we
}. coined.
,. 1t is generally easy enough to Civ
away good dog, but it isn't Away
easy to make him stay given. w. II
Bliss, Esq, bestowed his setter upon
: Hancock friend one day last week, an
L the recipient took the animal home. |
a day or two Mr.. Bliss received wOr
from his friend that dog, chain and al
had disappeared On Tuesday the dos
still wearing the chain, greeted NJ
g Bliss from the piazza when he went hon
to dinner.
The weather of the week up to yeste
day would not have been out of charact'
g, for late March or early April. A tina
that began on Monday and continued ii
+ Wednesday night took of all the Sno
the roads, destroying the sleighing. RAJ
fell from early in the afternoon till la
IN the evening of Wednesday. The
Is came cold wave. Yesterday was clei
and bright, but the air was decided
a wintry The walks about town are vel
Y icy.
le The Dung Ladies' Essay club NEE
this friday afternoon with Miss FL
Bond at O'Clock. The essayst chose
h is Charles Kingsley. This society o
Il ganzed in October and meets ever
lie other Friday. Readings have bee
given from Bacon, Addison, Steel
johnson, Goldsmith, DeQuincey, Lam
10 Macaulay aud Thackeray. Other di
III tinguished essayists, American al
English, will be taken up during Il
remainder of the season Carlyl
Lowell, Curtis, Warner, Burrougl
and others.
The water commissioners, fOllowlI
out the instructions given them at Il
10 village meeting, have made new a
lie rangement with the railroad relative
the price the corporation is to pay f
V water for its locomotives. The old RI
ic was 5000 year; the new is one doll
4 IA day for every day in the year, or S3G
The commissioners have also had h
= pumps and apparatus thoroughly oye
Y hauled by Abram Langworthy, who
Y they have employed at a fixed salary
n look after the pumps, hydrants and 9th
portions of the plant and to put in Il
laterals-in fact, to have the who
:. charge of the plant with the exception
= collecting rents.
&c There was some excitement at collie!
on Friday in consequence of scarf
1. fever scare, which, luckily, proved u
founded. Mr.. Fullam of the junior cla
fell i'll last week and went to his home
Ludlow. 1t was reported that he hi
:. the fever. Then on Friday Mr.. Chapmi
of the senior class was taken with som
thing, and it was naturally suspect'
5 that no n,iuht hava tho favar toO nv