Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-01
LOCAL NEWS.

The Starr Hose company had a we'll
attended dance at their hall Monday
evening.
The next meeting of the Hawthorne
clue is set for Tuesday evening, the 18th
inst, with Mrs. Brainerd at Battell hall.
The annual communication of Union
lodge. No. ,, F. & A. NJ, will be held on
Monday evening next, beginning at 80
o'clock.
The mercury was below zero on II of
the IS days of February and % : below
two days, while on II days it did not
rise above the freezing-point.
Lent began Feb. p, Ash Wednesday.
Easter will come April II. The custom
AIRY lenten services are being held at the
Catholic and Episcopal churches.
Both butter ard eggs are worth more
than thew have been of late. The price
of butter is from Is to % cents according
to quality and eggs have gone up to ~
cents a dozen.
Mr.. John II. Stewart will build a house
the coming summer. 1t will be of good
size and will stand on lot, now vacant.
between the residences of DR.. Sutton and
Mr.. f. p. Cushman.
William b. Wright. who. manages the
hotel near the passenger station, was
tried at the Office of Button & Button,
Saturday, on the charge of selling intoX-
icants, and acquitted.
/ The English sparrow has a cOnstitu-
ton well adapted to this climate. \
flock of them were bathing yesterday in
in puddle of iCe-cold water in de
preston in snow drift on Merchants
| Row.
Mr.. Asa Hemenway has sold his house
on the south end of Pleasant street to
Mr.. O. Z. Moore, who took possession
yesterday. Mr.. Hemenway and family
are going to Bridport for a few weeks,
but intend to return to Middlebury to
| live.
The annual dance of the Battell Hose
company, at the town hall on Friday
evening, drew out large crowd and was
pleasant event. The music was by
RELIES orchestra of Rutland and first.
class supper was served in the lower
hall.
Mild weather has prevailed since the
beginning of the week. Yesterday q
thaw set in. More water will be appre-
ciated by users of water-power along the
river and by the farmers in the country
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for their stock.
The Baptist Y. p. 5. G. +. will give a
slelghride and box social at Weybridge
Tuesday evening, March >. Those OF
their friends who desire to go are asked
to leave word at II. S. Benedct's store
before Monday night, so that arrange
ments can be made to carry them. The
price for the ride and the social is iC
cents for each person.
Rev. DIR. ID. Sage MacKay of Newark, n
j.. lectured in the college course Wednes
day evening. lie talked very entertain
ingly on "Scottish Folk-Lore". Excel
lent stories illustrative of the character
istcs of the Scotch formed large part
of the lecture. Prof. Henckels of the
faculty will give the next lecture. on the
evening of the 18th inst. The subject
will be announced later on
The bulk of the valuable law library
which Hon. +. II. Hard of Burlington
has accumulated during his long career
at the bar will come to tins county
States Attorney Fish of Vergennes ha;
bought about GOO volumes, including the
United States, the New Hampshire and
the Massachusetts reports, the New
York common law, chancery and court
of appeals reports and number of text
books. Messrs. Stewart d Wilds take
about 600 volumes of English reports
and the Messrs. Button a quantity Of
textbooks.
1t may be well to call attention to the
fact that by an act of the general assem-
bly, of the State of Vermont passed a
the session Of 1894 the law relating t
truancy was amended so as to render i
compulsory for every person having the
control of a child between the ages ca
eight and fifteen years to cause such chile
to attend public school at least PC weeks
in the year, and no child under fifteer
years of age shall be employed in a mil
or factory unless such child has attended
public school 2G weeks during the cur
rent year.
Fully one-third of the community il