Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22
LOCAL NEWS,


The winter term of the graded school
closes today. The spring term will open
on Monday, April |.
Teams are engaged in drawing stone
for the foundations of the proposed new
Catholic church, and ground will be
broken for the structure AS soon as the
weather permits.
Seventeen cents has been the ruling
price for butter this week, and eggs for
shipment are worth only II cents doz-
en-. a year ago butter was quoted at
IS cents and eggs at II cents.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn
is to be one of the speakers at the next
meeting of the Congregational club of
Western Vermont, which will be held in
Mddlebury Tuesday. May II.
y carload of French Merino rams,
bought by Mr.. O.. Il. Dmmock of West
Cornwall for the South African market
arrived here Friday from California.
They were large and handsome animals.
Mr. William Matthews of Cornwall
has bought the Bolton place on College
hill and will come to town to live. The
terms of the sale, which was effected
through Mr.. Twitchell, are not made
public.
Town Clerk Brooks says very few
dogs have vet been registered. The
time for getting "A license ut the lowest
rate expires April |, and owners of ca
nine pets should govern themselves ac-
cordingly.
Mr.. ID. w. Lyman, Il student of liam
ilton college, Will preach at the Baptist
church next Sunday and the Sunday
following both morning and evening.
lie comes as candidate for the vacant
pastOrate.
The annual meeting of the voters of
the village school district will be held in
the high-school room at the graded school
building on Tuesday afternoon next at ,
o'clock. The warning contains the usual
articles only.
This weeks meeting of the Hawthorne
club was postponed from Tuesday to
Wednesday evening, when it was held
at Mr.. Rufus Wainwright's. The next
meeting will be on Tuesday evening,
April ., at Rev. Mr.. Dickens.
Mr.. j. NJ. Bosley, who recently bought
the Clark farm, south of the village, of
Col. Fletcher, has taken possession; and
Mr.. Ballinetine, who carried it on for
several years, has, with his family, gone
to the Asa Hemenway farm in Bridport.
The band is to have a fair at the town
hall the first week in May for the pur-
pose of raising funds wherewith to buy
new uniforms. Almost all the mer-
chants have already contributed goods to
be disposed of, and the rest will undOubt-
edly do so.
The coming of spring is heralded by
the appearance of grass and clover seed
in the stores. Timothy seed is selling at
50 bushel, 10 cents more than year
ago. Medium and mammoth clover seed
is worth 10 cents pound and
Alsike IL cents.
All interested in the formation of "A
bicycle club are asked to meet next We'd
nesday evening at 80 O'Clock at the
hall of the Volunteer Hose company,
which the officers of the company have
kindly placed at their disposal for the
occasion.
Makers of maple sugar in this vicinity
are tapping their trees and getting ready
tor work. So far there has been too
little warm weather TO cause cOpious
runs of sap. In the south part of the
State new sugar is on the market and
sells at % cent pound at retail.
Prof. IIenckes gave an able and
scholarly lecture in the college course
last Friday evening, taking for his sub
ject "The moral problem of Faust" To-
morrow Saturday evening Superinten-
dent Riggs of the Pittsburgh On. "
schools will lecture on "Tennyson and
his works.
The Green Mountain Pulp company
will make its usual spring drive of logs
down the river from Brandon. The logs
were cut during the fall in Goshen and
this winter have been drawn to the bank
of the river IN Brandon, where they are