Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-10-25
CHAPMAN e COS.
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
The HawthOre club will meet at Miss
Callender's next Tuesday evening.
Beginning next Monday, the electric
works will afford light mornings as well
as evenings.
Bissette Bros. of this town threshed
G54 bushels of oats in Is hours last week
while working for the Buttolph estate.
Prof Wright's Browning lectures are
to be given Thursdays. instead of Tues
days, as we inco' rectly stated last week.
Butter is a trihe higher, the best sell
ing this week at Is to 20 cents a pound.
Eggs for shipment are worth 20 cents
IA dozen.
1t is hoped that all will remember the
Japanese wedding which takes pl. zee
thiS)3vening at the vestry of the Congre-
gHional church.
Mr.. William Dumas and Miss Clara
BBouvier were married at the Catholic
church on Tuesday, Rev. FIR. GelOt, thV
pastor, officiating. Il
\ match shoot at clay pigeons. under
the auspices Of the Middlebury Gun club,
viii be held at the fair grounds today,
beginning at 10 O'Clock.
Miss Katharine Egbert of Burlington.
teacher of physical culture. Is instruct
inc IA class here. She has the room in
the Battell block formerly used as Il res
taurant.
Mrs. Lapine, aged IS years, died on
Monday at the residence of her son. Mr..
solomon Tapine. The funeral was large
ly attended from the Catholic church at
. o'clock Wednesday morning.
The New York part of the sleeping
train north Sunday morning did not get
along TIL between and 9 o'clock A
freight wreck ON the Bennington and
Rutland road caused the delay.
The bridal party at the japanese we'd
ding this evening consists of l3 young
people The ceremony will lie very
pretty and well worth seeing The add
mission will be Is cents, including re-
! freshments; children under II years, 10
cents.
/ Several early risers here saw fire in
the south Tuesday morning. 1t was the
old Catholic church in the west part of
Brandon village, which has been used for
| a stOrehouSe since the erection of the
new church The fire was of incendiary
origin.
/ Rev. :. H. Archibald of Waliingtord
will supply the Baptist pulpit sunday
morning in The absence of the pastor.
/ The topic for the c. F.. prayer meeting
sunday evening is, coincidence To God.
/ What does il involve:': references. Deut.
] : :l-20: leader. Mrs. Frank Pare
The Volunteer Hose company had Il
very pheasant dance at the town hall
Wednesday evening. There were 30
couples present. CObh'S orchestra
afforded the music and the supper was
furnished by the members of the com
pauy ana their friends IN the lower hall
Alonzo Derby's l3-years-old SON En-
nest. was assaulted ON South street,
Friday morning, by Il COW owned by
Joseph Calhoun. The animal tossed the
/ boy in the air and then hooked him in
/ the leo. DR.. Noble was called, but did
moi ind the injuries of Il serious char
ac:er.
The meeting of the W. c. T, L. yester-
day was well attended. Partial arrange
ments were made for "A series of gospel
temperance meetings during the month
of November Miss Frances Towusley,
whom many remember, will conduct
these meetings, and further particular ;
will he given later.
Mrs. Caswell, secretary of the Woman 5
Home Missionary society, will speak in
the congregational church on the even
ing of Monday next, the 18th inst, at
: 80 o'clock. A cordial invitation to
hear her is extended TO all, both ladies
and gentlemen. of the several churches.
Mrs. Caswell Is thoroughly informed on
her subject and will surely instruct and
entertain her audience.
An excursion to Boston from stations
on the Rutland road from Burlington to
Bartonsville, inclusive, and from those
on the Addison road Is advertised for
next Tuesday, the 18th. The fare for
the round trip from Mlddlebury is $3.50,
and il Is cOrrespondingly low from other
stations. EXcursionistS can go on any
train that day and can remain in the city
till Nov. 10. The special attraction in
Boston Just now Is the Mechanics fair,
which is always well worth seeing.
1t is predicted that the coming winter
will be unusually cold The husks ON
the corn are very thick, for one thing,
so the farmers say, and there are other
indications of like nature. The past
week has certainly been plenty cold
enough for the season. Quite bit of
snow was found in the woods up near
Silver lake, Friday, by a part of hun
tiers. Monday six inches of snow fell in
Westtield, Orleans county, and Sunday
nearly nine inches came down at OsWe-
go. n. Y. Whaling ships which have re-
turned to San Francisco from the ArtiC
say the ice formed this year earlier and
thicker than it was ever known before.
Landlord Darwin Rider of the Addison
House celebrated his 80 birthday, az
Friday, in very agreeable fashio