Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-23


street next to DR.. Sh'ldOn's store and
have opened meat market there.
The merchants who have closed their
stores at 6 o'clock every evening, except
Saturday during the winter, have decid-
ed to continue the same arrangement un-
til April l.
Friday evening, April 6. is the date
the has been fixed for the presentation of
the three-act drama, "Our Folks, which
the senior class of the high school will
give at the town hall.
The new post-oiiice at Belden's Fals,(
(which is known officially as "Belden's',
is in full operation with Mr.. f. IL.
Bruya, the station agent, AS postmaster.
The office is in the station.
ST. Patrick's day passed here without
other observance than the usual mass at
the Catholic church. Some of those in
terested in the day attended the exer-
cises at Bristol in the evening.
Letters addressed As follows are at the
pOst-Oflice, unclaimed: John Brown,
DIR. G. ID. Brewer. VIM. G. Cooper,
George Nj. Ellis, Thomas Smith, Geo.
Sanderson, James Mcnamara, j. II.
Waring.
The college classes will resume work
vacation of week only began on We'd
nesday. The graded school, the winter
term of which closes today, will begin
its spring term April =.
Two bright aid healthy little girls that
have recently come upon this town are in
need of homes, and Over seer of the Poor
Comstock would be glad to hear from
any one who will adopt them. They
/ q ra airbt aud niun ware a aUn
A specil communication of Union
lodge, No. =. will be held ON Monday
evening, March 26, for work on the NJ.
NJ. degree. All members are requested
to be present promptly at Z, AS there
| will be an extra amount of work.
The Undergraduate association of the
college has elected Mr.. Wicker pre- sident /;
G.. l.. Ross, vice president; l.. G. Russell,
secretary, and g. e. Lamson, treasurer.
! f. y. Davis of the sophomore class has
been reelected editor-in- chief for another
year.
The MOrrell cure recently established
here has two patients under treatment,
/ the third man of those who talked of
taking the cure not yet presenting him
self. Both the men under treatment are
doing well, although one of them was a
tough case.
Owners of dogs seem to need reminding
that the time within which they can reg
lister their stock on low-tariff basis is
rapidly drawing to Il close. Town Clerk
Brooks says only few have yet been
registered, although April, l sees the be-
ginning of double duty on the animals.
The Green Mountain Pulp company
will have logs driven down to its mills
both from Brandon and Bristol this
spring. Neither drive will be started,
however, till the weather mOderates and
the streams are warmer, AS the drivers
are sure to get more or less wet while at
work.
\ Chapman e Co. and Mr.. Hope, the
ehief occupants of the Chapman block,
which was damaged somewhat by fire
and good deal by water last fall, have
been repairing their rooms recently, and
both concerns are now in fine shape for
business. Much of the plastering had to
be replaced and of course the paper and
paint needed renewal. -
+ A recent addition to the old furniture
In the Sheldon Art museum is a Louis
\ XVI. bureau, or bank of drawers. 1t IS
hin ~ o parts. Tie base has six drawers
and the upper part nine. Two of the
drawers are square and carved like a
rose window with the fleur de lis under
I the handles. With a mantel clock of the
Name period standing on its top, it has "a
very imposing appearance.
The warning for the annual meeting of
the voters of school district No. is up.
1t will he held at school-house hall on
Tuesday afternoon next, beginning at
2 o'clock. No subject of special i'm
portance is coming up, but there ought
to be larger attendance of the voters
than in recent years, for the looks of the
thing if nothing more. Not over dozen
persons have been out at any one of these
meetings for several years past.
Russell post, G. \. r., will have box
sOciabe and dance at its hall on the even
ing of April II. The doors will open at
o'clock, and the grand march, led by
the commander and his staff. will come
at s o'clock. Good music and coffee will
be furnished; admission, % cents. The
boxes will be sold to the highest bidders.
The ladies are requested to furnish each
hox containing supper for two. All
are invited to go and assist the post in
adding to Its relief fund.
The price of eggs is way down to II
cents a dozen. Butter is about half a
cent pound better than last week, IL
W 10 WINS OSiiiS paw WI nhOhuog lOi q
good article and 20 cents for large tubs
of the very best. Potatoes are worth
but 40 cents Il bushel and there is no de-
mand whatever for onions for shipment.
Hay is nOminally quoted at about $40 a
ton, but the down-country markets are
pretty well supplied and local buyers
are not eager to purchase.
At the first visitation of Bishop Hall
to this place, recently, the infant daugh-
ter of Rev. 5. b. Blunt was baptsed.
She wore the Weeks family baptismal
robe. The history of this robe is tradi-
tional. 1t is made of white figured silk.
is over yard square and is apparently
as bright and glossy as when new. 1t
is over $50 years old, having been hand
ed down by the descendants of John
Alden the Pilgrim to the Weeks family
ami to the Sheldon family. 1t is said to
have been brought in the MayfiOwer and
to have been used at the baptism of 100
persons.
If the old notion thai the weather of
March 20 is an index of what is coming
during the following 40 days, we shall
get bleak April. a cold north
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