Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-08-23
LOCAL NEWS.

The barber shop in the Y. NJ. G. A.
building, Main street, has been purchased
by Louis Trudo.
Mr.. p. f. Chapman's dog Flora had
tough experience in the river Wednes-
day. A cat drove her into the stream,
and she was carried over the falls. She
seems to be no worse for the trip.
Letters addressed as follows are at the
post.oflice. unclaimed: Mrs. f. f. Fer
rim Mrs. NJ. Graves, Mrs. VIM. Pike,
Mr.. Barker, Willis Burns, Frank Deaile,
w. Jellarshall, Louis Hovey, a. r.
Smith.
The basket meeting of the Woman's
Baptist Mission circle Of Addison County
association will be held with the Baptist
church of Middlebury Friday, Aug. 30.
The morning session will begin at 10 10
o'clock.
A number of NIiddlebury people went
out to Lake DunmOre Wednesday even
ing to attend benefit hop given at the
Lake Dunmore House for Mr.. J. IL.
Campbell of Middlebury, the leader of
the orchestra.
The annual campmeeting of the Meth
odists of the Burlington district will
open at Spring Grove, New Haven, to-
day and continue for week. Rev. j. j.
have charge of it.
The very best butter Is worth Il cents
a pound. though the bulk of the offerings
this week sold for 10 and l6 cents. Eggs
sell for 1G cents a dozen for shipment. A
year ago the price of butter was Is cents
and of eggs 10 cents.
Rev. 5. B. Blunt has resigned the
rectorship of ST. Stephens parish, which
no hos hold FOR sompthiuU moro than a
year and half, to accept a call to DAN
Vile, Pa. The local parish has accepted
his resignation. 1t will take effect
Sept. 10.
Miss Ocrena H., daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. +. Youtt. and Mr.. George San
dersOn of Burlington were married at
the Methodist church Monday noon in
the presence of a large number of
friends. Rev. c. F. Noble, the pastor
oil the church, performed the ceremony.
Mr.. Henry L. Sheldon celebrated his
18th birthday, the 18th inst, by taking a
ride about the village in an ancient
vehicle that forms one of the treasures
of the museum. 1t is a gig used by the
late DR.. Zaccheus Bass, who practiced
medicine here for GO years previous to
1875.
Mr.. Paul Cornell began Wednesday
morning to distribute the posters and
premium lists of the Addison county fair
lie will give ten days or two weeks to
the work and will cover all the main
roads in the county. The managers of
the fair propose to have 1t fully adver-
tised this year.
The Gee sisters, Mrs. Josie Calvin and
Miss Mary Gee, have bought out Mrs. w.
c. Foote s millinery business in the Sade
block and have taken possession. Miss
Gee has charge of it at present, but Mrs.
CALVIN will resign her place with Beck
with q Co. Sept. l. Mrs. Foote's sue
cessors are competent, experienced and
Obliging and are certain to succeed in
their new venture.
Work Oh the new Catholic church was
suspended for the season last Friday.
The money raised had all been expended,
and it was thought best by the church
authorities to stop and await the gather
ing together of more funds About
$4,000 has been expended so far. \ fair
is to be held the coming fall and other
means will be employed to procure the
money needed to carry on the work.
The improvements at the college are
well along toward completion. The
wooden steps and pOrches erected during
President IIamins day at the three
front entrances to Painter hall became so
rotten that it was necessary to do some
thing with them. They have been re-
moved and substantial marble steps laid.
No porches will be built. Prof Me
Clifton has his two new laboratories in
the front rooms Of the ground floor of
. the chapel building nearly ready for
use.
The cold wave foretold by the Wash
ington weather officials put in an appear
ance finally. 1t was due Friday night,
but fingered by the way and was not felt
till Monday. Since Monday it has been
cold enough for late september. II was
the coolest Wednesday night 4 Their
mometer i'm town Is said to have stood at
the freezing point yesterday morning.
There was no frost here, however, but a
sufficiently close approximation to one
for all practical purposes. A man who
came down from Lincoln in the early
morning said the ground was white up
there when he left. 1t warmed up con
siderablY yesterday.
An ugly storm visited this region Sat
urday evening. The day had been
bright and warm. but soon after 6
o'clock "A black cloud arose in the west
and within a very short time the storm
struck here. No great amount of rain
fell, but the lightning was plentiful and
vigorous. Three buildings could be
seen burning after the storm passed.
One Of them was Mr.. Scove's hay barn
on the bank of the creek in Cornwall,
another is said to have been in Pitsford
and the third was probably Mr.. Branch's
barn in Orwell. The bulk of the storm
went south and east of Middlebury. Up
in Ripton it rained very hard then and
later in the night, causing much damage
to the roads.
Mt Calvary cOmmandery, No. |, Of
Middlebury, will send about 50 members
to the great trlennial cOnclaye of Knights
Templar in Boston next week. They
will 90 on "A special train that will reach
here at 30 Monday morning. Their
headquarters in Boston will be 1.-The