Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-05-25

The Hawthorne club met on Tues
day evening with Mrs. G n. Brainerd.
The next meeting. and the last of the
season, will be at Prof. Wright's on the
evening of June 4.
Mr.. NJ. A. Munroe has sold. through
Mr.. Winch, his two-year-ol1 Gillig colt
to IA Mr.. Cummings of Boston for $500.
The purchaser left the colt in Mr..
Winch's hands for a year to be trained.
Mr.. Blumenthal was up from Hart
ford, Conn. on Monday and bought IA
head of horses for shipment home. He
bought better animals and paid higher
prices for them than on any previous
visit.
! Their friends here will regret to hear
of the death on the 18th inst. of Cecil,
the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. II.
b. Hasseltine of White River junction.
Mrs. Hasseltine was before marriage
Miss Ella Foote of Middlebury.
Both butter and eggs were a trifle high
er on Monday than the week before, the
best butter selling at IL cents a pound
and eggs at II cents a dozen. Last year
rhe price for butter and eggs We're 20 ana
16 cents respectively, and two years ago
l6 and II cents.
The concert to be given by the College
Glee club at the town hall tonight should
not be forgotten. Tickets are on sale at
Sterns'. The club had IA good audience
at Shoreham on Wednesday evening, not
withstanding the storm, and gave Il
pleasing entertainment.
At the annual meeting of the w. c..
T.. L.. last week, the officers and super
intendents of departments were re-elect-
ed with two exceptions. Delegates to
the county convention, which is to be
held in the Methodist church of this
place June 6 and I, were appointed.
The young ladies of st. Stephens
parish are to give Il sword drill at the
town hall on Thursday evening, June II.
There will also be other special attrac-
tons to be noted hereafter. Strawber-
ries, ice cream, cake aud homemade
candy/will be served from booths the
entHe evening. \
Mr.. Solomon Aines, in the employ of
Marshall e Co., and Miss Oracle Dean,
daughter of Rev. Mr.. Dean of Burling-
ton, formerly of Bridport. were married
on Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock at the
home of Mr.. NJ. f. Damon, a relative of
the bride. Mr.. and Mrs. Aines went
Nsouth for a short trip.
The Central Vermont road on Memoir
al day will sell tickets between all points
in Vermont for two cents a mile fol- dis
tances of 30 miles or less. with a maxi
imum rate of 81 and a minimum rate of
IL cents for distances of "a miles and
over, for fare one way, which is Ii cents
a mile. Tickets good for continuous
passage only and only on May 30.
The filing of the cellar of the old
Allen block, in front of the Battell
block, has been nearly completed this
week under the superintendent of
Highway Surveyor H. w. Harmon d
1t will be necessary to lay some sort of
a retaining wall alongside the railroad
and President E. c. Smith of the Central
Vermont has promised to come down in
a few days and see what his company
will do with reference to the matter.
Mr.. Hammond is also having the places
where horses stand at the hitch rails
around the park paved.
On the evening of Memorial day II
young ladies from Ticonderoga, n. y.
will give an entertainment in the town
hall. The perform ince will consist of
two drills, sash and t%ambourine, which
are said TO be extremely attractive. The
proceeds are for the benefit of an organ
fund, and the young ladies have already
ralseu d laTSe sum ny giving their eu-
t%ertainment. DIR. Sheldon will sing
twice during the evening. Tickets will
be on sale at Sterns' drug store. All
seats are reserved at % cents.
As has been announced, Rev. Mr.. Dick
ems, the Congregational pastor, will
preach a Memorial sermon at his church
next Sunday morning and the members of
Russell Grand Army post and other veter-
ans will attend in a body. Rev. Mr.. Ge-
lot, the Catholic pastor, has invited the
post to attend a service at his church on
Memorial day, and the post has accepted.
There will be high mass and a sermon at
8 o'clock. The members of the post will
assemble at their hall promptly at S 80
o'clock and march to the church. In the
afternoon the programme of Memorial
exercises printed last week will be car
ried out under the direction of the post.