Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-02
LOCAL NEWS.


Two new members have been added to
the freshman class at the college, making
the total number in it 30.
A mink spent most of the forenoon
yesterday in swimming about in the
river back of the Battell block.
A pension of SO month, with ar
rearages for several years, has been
granted to Mr.. Peter Champagne.
A regular meeting of Union lodge,
No. 2, will be held at o'clock next
Monday evening work on f. G. degree.
Mr. Solomon Lapine and family have
recently moved into the fine residence
which he built last summer on Court
street.
The village trustees will have the
regular monthly meeting for November
at the office of Stewart 81 Wilds on
Tuesday evening next.
The New Hampshire contractor who
concreted the stone bridge and did var
ious smaller Jobs about town has taken
his men, teams and apparatus to Essex
Junction, where he has work to do.
The Hawthorne club met with Miss
Calender on Tuesday evening and listen
ed to the reading of an Interesting paper
by Mrs. McGilton. The next meeting
will be held at Prof. McGilton's on the
evening of the 18th inst.
A poverty party, for the benefit of
st. Stephens parish, is to be given on
Wednesday evening, the 9TH inst, at
Mrs. Roseman's, Academy street. The
programme will include music and re.
freshments admission, ID cents.
The social committee wish to notify
/ ha of ho i-ti
society of the Congregational church
that the notice given out Sunday even
ing was mistake. There will be DC
reception this week.
The service at st. Stephens church on
Sunday evening next will be full choral,
and the music promises to be of high
class, as in the past. The subject of the
discourse will be "Ritualism of divine
authority; no ritual of human authority.
One hundred years ago Samuel Mat
tocks built a public house where the Ad-
Olson House now stands. 1t was burned
in 1916, but was soon rebuilt and has
been kept as public house to the pres.
ent time. 1t is the first business place
in town to arrive at its centennial.
The bill amending the charter of Mid
dlebury village which Representative
the house reads as follows The charter
of MiddIebury village is hereby amended
so that the annual meetings shall here
after be held on the third Wednesday in
January"
The class of 90 of the MiddleburI
high school has organized and appointed
the following officers. Reid l.. Carr,
president; l.. Bernice Thomas, vice
president; Maude K. Mellen, secretary
Allen IL. Nelson, treasurer executive
committee, Jessie Lane, Agnes Board
man, Jessie Brainerd, Cecile Child,
Frank Ashley.
There was lyceum at the school
house in the Mead district on the even
ing of Wednesday, Oct. "a. The question
debated was, "Shoud capital punish
ment be abolished?" O. p. Moore and
Howard Dorsey were the principal dis
putants on one side and A. n. Brown
and j. T. Kingsley on the other. The
committee decided that it should not be
abolished.
A number of men and women of the
village interested in the Ladies' library
have been engaged in earning a dollar
each for the institution by novel employ
ments. An experience meeting is
soon to be held at the library room.
when each of those who entered into the
plan will tell in rhyme his or her story
of how the dollar was gotten. Further
announcement will be made later.
Wednesday night was Halloween, and
the boys were out, as usual. Steps,
gates and fences were carried where they
did not belong and wagons were placed
in queer situations. a single buggy was
found yesterday morning on the top of
the stairs leading to Mr.. Jackson's
photograph gallery. We regret to say
that some damage was done to property,
especially to the boxes covering the
village fire hydrants, Il number of which
were torn in pieces.
With the exception of the very last
day, the latter part of October afforded
as fine weather as any reasonable mortal
could have wished. There were four
days during the month when the Their
mometer fell below the freezing point,
and the rainfall of the month was, ac-
cOrding to local observer. four and
three-siXteenths inches. The rain which
began on Wednesday is apparently not
over. The ground had become very
dry, so much so that blowing had been
given up by most of the farmers.
The price for butter is lower, 20
cents being the best figure paid this
week Eggs have advanced to % cents.
Winter apples are, local buyers say,
worth only Sl.50. That price was fixed
on Wednesday, $l.75 having been paid
before that time. Potatoes are in de-
mand at 35 to 40 cents, but onions are
not wanted. A city buyer who was in
town the first of the week said that the
best hay could not be sold in the down.