Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-02-16
and the work of the institution goes on
as If nothing had happened.

AS II uOJnluR udu ndpptuSu'
The house on Seminary street belong
ing to the estate of the late Thomas
Towle has been sold to Mr.. Gulley, bag
gagemaster at the station. Mr.. +. +.
Rich and family, the present occupants,
will soon remove to the n. f. Rider
house on High street, which is now
owned by A. p. Upper, Esq, and DIR.
Porter of Cornwall. Mr.. Gulley is un-
delstood to have paid $1,000 for the
Towle house.
The lvceum at the school house out on
Munger street, Wednesday evening, was
well attended. the room being filed to
its full capacity. The debate was spirit
ed and interesting. The decision was
two to one in favor of the affirmative.
The next debate will be on the evening
of Wednesday. the Dist inst. when the
topic will be: "RcSolred, That if the Will
son bill becomes law it Will be detri-
mental to the interests of the citizens of
the United States" j. 7. Kingsley and
ID. +. Taylor will speak in the atiirma-
tive and \. y. Brown and O. Z. Moore
in the negative.
\ village correspondent writes 1.-The
valentine social given by the ladies of
the Baptist church, Wednesday evening,
at the home of +. +. Wells, was a conl-
plete success. y large company gather
ed. The entertainment was of "A high
order, both interesting and amusing.
After spending the evening pleasantly
the company went home feeling that all
had had good time and that they had
got their moneys worth. If the future
of some of the young people was rightly
fOreshadOwed, some of the parsons in the
village may be called upon before long
and had better be examining their stock
of certificates. Mr.. Wells is the place
to go for social
John Fredette, late of East Middle
bury, who lives ur on Chapman hill,
raised rumpus at home and another on
the streets, Friday night,and was arrest
ed by Chief of Police Cushman and
arraigned before Justice Mcleod charged
with second offense of intoxication.
He pleaded guilty and paid the fine of
so and costs, Sl7.S5 in all. lie dis
closed on n. F. Rider, who on Monday
pleaded guilty to second offense of sell
ing, for which he was fined $40 and
costs and sentenced to 30 days in the
House of Correction. He appealed to
the county court, his partner in the drug
business,i Charles Dano, becoming his
surety. Grand Juror w. H. Button con-
Quoted the cases for the State.
The blizzard which struck the eastern
portion of the country on Monday night
brought about foot of snow to this
region. \ stfong wind accompanied
the storm and piled the snow up in
heaps, filling the cross roads and render
ing travel difficult. The stages were,
however, able TO get in on Tuesday from
the surrounding towns, although that
from. Bridport was two hours late,
Early yesterday morning another storm
began and as we go to press the snow
is still coming down steadily and rapid
ly. The twol storms of the week gave
us not .far from two feet of light snow.
A heavy wind would pile it all up and
stop business of every kind. The last
storm was preceded by cold wave, the
mercury getting down to II below zero
at some time during Wednesday night.
y Sunday night mail will be sent out
from the Mddleburv office hereafter. 1t
I will close at o'clock, and the Office will
be open every Sunday evening from 6 80
to : to receive mail matter. Stamps can
also be procured during that half hour,
but no postal notes or money orders can
be sold ON Sunday. The Sunday night
mail was discontinued year ago last
summer when the fast night train ran,
and it was not resumed when that train
was taken of. The mail box placed on
the electric-light pole near Mr.. Wales
store last summer for the accommodation
of sOuth-side residents while the bridge
was building has been removed. 1t was
not used enough to warrant the contin-
uance of collections from it, II letters
only being deposited in 1t last week.
Buyers of two-cent stamps at this office
will have to take the Columbian kind for
some time to come. When the Column
bian year ended the post-oflice depart
ment found itself with lot of these
monstrosities on its hands, and in order
to get rid of them it divided them up
among the presidential offices of the
country. In January s0,OO0-a six to
eight months supply-were sent here.