Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-06-15

in the vestry of the Congregational
church next Wedresday afternoon, com
mencing at o'clock.
A first-cass cement walk is being
laid from the post-ollice to the Main
street railroad bridge to replace the
asphalt walk, which had worn out.
In a game on the college grounds here
last week Thursday the college boys de-
feat ted the Westport, n. Y, nine, the score
standing 6 to in favor of the home
team.
The date of the missionary meeting
and tea with Mrs. G. 5. Wainwright, a
notice of which appeared last week,
should have been Friday, June 10, in
stead of the Sth.
a gang of men has been engaged this
week in painting the new iron railroad
bridge south of the village. Its erection
was not finished till cold weather last
fall-toO late to paint it.
There was large advance sale of
seats for the sword drill aud entertain
ment given at the town ball last evening
10y the young ladies of st. Stephens par
ish. 1t was Il successful affair.
The next regular meeting of w. p.
Russell post, No. 50, will be held June
p. Hanback, and coffee will be served.
There will be something of this sort at
every meeting through the year.
Five young men belonging in Brandon
came into town yesterday on bicycles.
They rode up to Lincoln on Wednes-
day and left there Yesterday morning
for home, ARRIVING in Middlebury before
noon.
Letters addressed as follows are at the
post-oilice, unclaimed: Ida May Abbey,
Miss Harriet \. Chairman, Mrs. Lettie
O. Bryan, Richard Butler, W. l.. Mann,
VIM. G. Rowe, Clarence Sharp (2),
Henry SULTAN, y. f. Whitney.
Messrs. r. NJ. Chapman, W. II. Brew
-ter, Isaac Sterns, j. NJ. Cheney and Dr..
Kingsley were among the MddleburY
MasOns who attended the celebration Of
he l0Oth anniversary of the grand lodge
ut Burlington on Wednesday.
At the Methodist church, next Sunday.
The pastor will preach temperance SER
mon in the morning. In the evening
Rev. j. j. Noe, presiding elder. will
preach. The quarterly conference will
meet Monday afternoon ut } o'clock.
Warm and dry weather has prevailed
for week. Monday was the hottest
often experienced in any season. The
thermometer went up to 90 and the air
was heavy and oppressive. II was the
hottest June | on record in New York
city, 92l.
Mr.. A. Il. Dow of Burlington, an ex-
perieuced civil engineer, has been in
town this week to make surveys for the
proposed sewers, under the direction of
all
probability be put in this season on
Washington, Court and Seminary streets,
where the condition of things is such as
to necessitate immediate action.
The old street sprinkler has been re-
paired and will be put in service on
Main street from Mr.. Battell's to Mrs.
Osborne's and on Merchants Row from
the Kidder shop to Main street. The
sprinkling will be paid for by the sub
scriptions of the business men. Over
$50 has been subscribed already.
The railroad company sent here yes
terday pile driver which will be used
70 set timbers in the river bank on DR..
Mellen's land near the intake of the
water works. Several small trees were
pulled out of the bank there by the
roots during the work of raising the cars
that went down with the old bridge,
thereby causing the bank to cave off,
''The Girl Spy of Chickamauga", the
military drama given at the town hall on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings by
three professional actors assisted by
local talent, did not draw large houses
and the addition to the treasury of the
Volunteer Hose company, under whose
auspices it was presented, will not be
heavy. The play was good of its kind
and deserved better patronage than it
got.
The Democratic cohorts of the town
turned out TO the party caucus in the
basement of the town hall on Monday
evening and chose these delegates, who
are to select their own alternates: To
State convention, =. Champagne, c. L.
Quigley, DR.. Sheldon and j. Speyer; to
district convention, A. L. Stapleton. j.
c. Durick, w. S. Tisdale and w. II.
Baldwin.
The exercises of the graduating class
of the high school at the town hall this
evening will begin promptly at 7.3O
o'clock. The programme will include
orations, essays, declamatiOns aud reel
tations. 1t seemed best. for the sake of
variety, to have some of the young
people give selections rather than orgi-
nal efforts, although every member of
the class handed in an essay or an ora
tion. The Howard Opera House orches-
ira of Burlington will provide the music
for the public exercises as well as for
the dance that Is to follow. There will
he no admission fee to the graduating eX-
ercises.
The New York Coaching clubs party,
of which DR.. w. S. Webb was princi-
pal factor, reached Middlebury exactly on
time Saturday-l.l0 p. m.-on their four
days trip from New York to Shelburn
farms. They were five minutes ahead of
time at the farms. reaching there at 5.55.
a large crowd, including many from out
of town, gathered about the Addison
House to witness the arrival of the coach.
Its coming was heralded by blasts from
the horn blown by Graham, the guard.
The party drove right through to the sta
ton. where the car Ellesmere was in
waiting and on which they had lunch.