Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-04-12

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The pOst-oflice will be open today
from to 10 80 "A. m. and from to 80
p. IN. The night mail will close at 6 80.
The Starr Hose company are TO have
dance In their rooms next Monday
evening. There will I've an orchestra of
three pieces.
Mr.. W. O. Sanford has bought Mr..
Earl's interest In the drug store in Union
block and Is carrying on the business
under the style w. o. Sanford Il Co.
The Hawthorne club met with Rev.
and Mrs. A. w. Dickens tuesday, even
my. The next meeting will be at Prof
Ienckels' on the evening of the I'D inst
There was hearing at the probate Of
flee Tuesday, before Judge Slade, In the
case of Mrs. Jane Norton of Weybridge
against the trustee of the Calvin Norton
estate.
The ladies of the Woman's Home Mis-
siOnary union will hold thank-otiering
service this friday afternoon at 3
o'clock in the lecture room of the Con-
gregational church.
There will be tea and musical at Mrs.
f. u. Cushman's on Saturday afternoon,
pril l3. from until . o'clock, for the
benefit of the "Lookout" circle of King
Sons; admission, ten cents.
The two listers doing the work out
side the village are nearly done. but Mr..
Severance, who sees to the village, will
not finish till next week. Then the
board will make up the abstract.
Rev. DR.. James l.. Barton of Boston.
secretary of the American board, has
been secured to make the address before
the alumni of the college at the next
commencement. He graduated here in
1881.
The Storer's college quartette of
colored people from Harper's Ferry.
West Va, gave an excellent concert at
the town hall Wednesday evening under
the auspices of the senior class of the
high school.
The best butter Is worth II cents a
pound at the stores. a year ago it sold
for Is cents and two years ago for %.
Eggs are II cents "A dozen. Last year at
this time they brought IL cents and two
years ago 10.
The posters are out for the band fair.
1t will open at the town hall Wednesday
evening, MAY |, and continue four
nights. About $50 worth of goods of
various kinds. contributed by the mer-
chants, will be disposed of.
J An elaborate musical programme has
been arranged for each of the services at
st. Stephens next Sunday-Easter. The
order of the services follows: High eel
ebratiOn, 6 IA. M; low celebration, a.
M. mathis and high celebration, 10 :3C
Il. M: vespers and flower service, 4 p.
M. evensong, p. M.
Letters with these addresses are at the
post-oflce unclaimed: Miss l.. f.
Blake. Miss Jennie Groves, Mrs. Par
melia Lynch. Ami Brown, Fred COlburn
James Coughlan. G. Gludden, Edward
Tafrancis. VIM. Mccoy. Geo. w. Mich
OILS. p. |. Spencer, c. F. Thompson
Harris G. Hall. lIoseph White.
Since the LIST inst. the Ripton stage
has been going up to Bread Loaf in the
evening and again in the morning. Dur
ing the winter it went up there from Rip
ton only in the evening. Beginning May
/, the stage will run from here over the
mountain TO Hancock every night ant
come back from there every morning.
\ hearing was held Monday at tho
Office of Button q Button. before W. II
Bliss, Esq. of Burlington, special mas
ter, in the chancery case of Chas. Guy
cite VS.. \. A. Boardman aud NJ. G
Everts. The Messrs. Button are counSp
for the orator and Stewart IL Wilds fol
the defendants. The question involved
is the title to II small farm in Salisbury.
The Green Mountain Pulp company;
men are engaged in driving down thu
New Haven river the logs cut in Bristo
and Lincoln last winter and the winte
before. \ year ago the water wen
down so rapidly as to leave the log
stranded all along the stream. Thes'
logs will 90 to the mill at Huntington
falls in Weybridge. The drive from
Brandon down will be made as soon as
the water subsidies sufficiently.
Trains were badly out of Joint Tues
day and Wednesday. Tuesday after
noon II cars of Inbound freight
were wrecked three miles north of Char
lotte. The afternoon mixed down ant
the mail north had to carry by. 1t was
= o'clock Wednesday morning before the
wreck was cleared. The night expires:
south, on which were several Middle
bury people, did not arrive till a. IN
Washouts on the Bennington and Rut
land road prevented the express NORTH
due here at 3:2l Wednesday morning
from getting along till after noon.
The weather of the past week has beer
varied. Monday and Tuesday people
thought spring had come sure. Robins
were here and the air was balmy and the
sun warm. One sugar-maker in an adj
jacent town felt certain the season was
over aud gathered his buckets. But a
change for the colder came Tuesday
night. and neither Wednesday nor yes
terday did it thaw in the shade. Heavy
rains the early days of the week raised
the water in the creek to an unusual
height. Right here the flood is not ap'
parent, but up in Pittsford the water has
been over the railroad track, something
that has not happened before since 1863
The flats Salisbury way are all under
water. of course. Here in the village the
going is becoming fairly good, but it is
many years since the roads in the coun
try round about us were so bad.
Personal MENTION.