Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-08
LOCAL NEWS.

The Hawthorne club will meet with
Mrs. Rufus Wainwright next Tuesday
evening.
The Sons of Veterans are to have a
dance in the town hall on the evening of
Tuesday, April IL.
Services are held at the Catholic church
every Wednesday and Friday evening
during Lent at 80 o'clock.
The Essay club will meet with Mrs.
John IL. Stewart on Monday next at /
o'clock. An essay by Hazlitt will be
read.
a total eclipse of the moon, visible
here, will occur Sunday night, beginning
at S.54 and ending at % minutes past
midnight.
Mr.. B. w. Smith of Townline, the
county examiner of teachers. will hold
examinations here on Monday and Tues
day next.
The entertainment announced last
week for this evening at the Congrega-
tional church parlors should be borne in
mind by those interested.
The price of butter Monday was from
% cents pound down. Buyers look for
lower figures next week. Eggs for ship
ment bring 20 cents dozen.
the remainder OF his fine and ne has been
released from the House of Correction,
i'm which he was confined on sentence
for selling rum.
Mr.. Blumenthal, the Hartford, Conn,
horse buyer. purchased but three head
here Saturday and Monday. MI. c. II.
Briggs of Middleboro, Msss., bought
nine head. Neither of the buyers paid
high prices.
\ meeting of the school directors and
town superintendent of this county has
been called at the town hall here on
Thursday, the 18th inst, by State Super
intenden: Stone. The session will
begin promptly at 10 o'clock "A. IN.
Rev. d. j. O'Sullivan of St. Adams
will deliver st. Patrick's day address
at the town hall on the evening of Tues
day, the 10Th inst, the net proceeds of
which will 90 into the church building
fund. He is an eloquent speaker ami
deserves large house.
Some means should be devised for prop
erly heating the town lIall. Ii is an out
rage to ask people to stay there and DO
business when it is as cold as it was
Tuesday. Only those who wore fur
coats were comfortable, and so they
would have been out of doors.
Inasmuch as the report of the sudden
death of Mr.. +. b. Douglas, prominent
resident of Shoreham, gained consider
able currency IN this part Of the county
early in the week, it may not be amiss
to say that there was no foundation for
it. Mr.. Douglas is alive and we'll.
The early days of the week brought
cold weather. Two or three inches of
new snow came Monday night, giving
fair sleighing once more. Wednesday
and yesterday were warm and the
snow is rapidly disappearing. Yester-
day was much like an early April day.
Byron L. Fleming, well-known resi-
dent of the village, died last evening.
He had beee i'll for more than year
with a complication of diseases, from
which he had suffered greatly. lie had
been falling rapidly for the past two
days. The arrangements for the funeral
have not been made.
The order of weekday services at the
Episcopal church during Lent is as fol-
lows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, morning prayer at 10
O'Clock. reading and addresses at 4 80 p.
IN. Wednesdays and Fridays, celebration
of the communion at Z Il. M. A special
CiNNi "iii oS lOi ilOll Wtths
Rev. S. b. Blunt and IA confirmation
class went up to Vergennes Sunday
afternoon in order that the class might
be confirmed by Bishop Hall at st.
Paul's church Sunday evening. The
members of the class were Mrs. Collins
and Mrs. Cornell and Messrs. A. II.
Williams, w. G.. Foote, Jesse Campbell,
w. o. Sanford, Richard Warner, Roy
IIemenway and John Hammond.
! Mrs. Bridget McNulla, an old resident
/bf the village. died last Saturday at the
'age of 70 years. She was the widow of
the late Michael McNula. Six children,
three sons and three daughters, survive
her. The funeral was attended from the
Catholic church at 10 o'clOcR Wednesday
morning, It having been deferred in or
der that her daughter, Mrs. McDermot, A
might arrive from her home in Wisconsin,.
The interment WAS in the Catholic Gem
etery.
Union lodge, No. ?, f. & A. NJ, held
its annual meeting Monday night. These
officers were elected; Frank j. Hub
bard, worthy master; Alfred Woodward,
senior worthy; John +. Weeks, Junior
worthy; Charles +. Pinney, treasurer;
Char les A. Piper, secretary; Rev. 5. b.
Blunt, chaplain; p. f. Chapman, mar
shall. The following stations were filled
by appointment: W. G. Foote, S. d.
Fred ID. Cloyes, j. D.; +. c. Drollette,
S. s.; w. Thomas, j. S.; j. NJ. Peck,
tyler. The lodge Will have a special
communication at 80 Monday evening,
the 18th inst, for work on the NJ NJ.
degree. a banquet will be feature of
the occasion.
\ Case street correspondent writes
Next week Thursday and Friday even
ings an entertainment will be given IN
the Case street school-house. The dra-
ma, "Out in the Streets and the farces,