Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-29
LOCAL NEWS.

The spring term of the graded school
will open on Monday next and that of
the college on Thursday.
A regular communication of Union
lodge. No. ,, will be held at O'Clock
Monday evening, April work on f. \.
degree.
Beckwith & Co. are having the wood
work inside and outside of their store re-
painted and have put up new curtains in
the front windows.
The family of the late Byron J.. Flem-
ing were notified few days after his
death that his pension had been increased
from SIG to $50 month.
The price of butter is the same as last
week-l7 cents a pound for the best.
Eggs have gone still lower and are worth
but 10 cents dozen for shipment.
Burlington livery-stable owners have
been buying hay in this county by the
carload, paying from $40 to Sll a ton.
Burlington sellers ask Sl4 to $l5 IA ton.
Maple sugar that was really "new"
appeared in the stores Monday. Satur-
day was a good sap day. The sugar retais
at 10 cents pound and is generally of
I fine quality.
\ second minstrel entertainment under
!
and the direction of Mr.. Jesse Campbell
is announced for the evenings of April
! and II at the town hall.
A maple sugar sociable will be held IN
the lecture room of the Congregational
church Wednesday evening, April 3. An
entertainment consisting of 1.-The Carni-
val of Readers tableauX, music, ETC.,
will also be given. All are cordially in
Vitpd ndmiS sim | y cents
| \ movement is on foot for securing the
establishment in Middlebury of manufac-
lures. The substantial business men are
directing it and are very much in earnest.
Some progress has already been made.
It will probably be quite as well for all
concerned, however, to withhold details
/ till things are settled.
\ bicycle club was formed at meet
ing held Wednesday evening In the
rooms of the Volunteer Hose company.
/ The officers are: President, Rev. \. W.
! Dickens; secretary, Theodore \. Mum
roe treasurer, Frank \. Hubbard. \
large number of new machines will be
purchased by Mlddlebury people this
spring.
Supt. j. G.. Riggs of the Patts burgh
schools lectured on Tennyson in the col
lege course saturday evening. lie told
of visit by him few yeaIs ago TO the
poets home on the Isle of Wight, gave
the principal facts in the poets life and
reviewed his leading productions. The
next lecture will be given about the mid
die of April.
Furniture was sown all the way down
Court street and on the fair ground
Tuesday afternoon. Thomas Bissette's
team, drawing a load of furniture belong
ing to a Weybridge man who was NOV
ing into town, ran away. 1t was turned
into the fair ground by the efforts of
people at the Pierce House to stop its
career down Court street No serious
damage was done except to the furni-
ture.
Up to yesterday the weather had been
mild and everything indicated an early
spring. The snow had almost wholly
disappeared, the water in the river had
risen and the ice had begun to break up
above the falls. During Wednesday
night the wind got into the north, and
yesterday morning there were three or
tour inches of rev snow, more coming
and a stifl wind was blowing. The
storm continued through the greater
part of the day.
\ Case street correspondent writes
about 30 attended the box social at the
Case street school house last Friday
evening. After considerable discussion
and ballOting an auctioneer and helper
were elected. ABOUT 81 was realized from
the sale of the boxes. Following the
supper came games and music. The
company broke up at Il late hour, all
seeming to be we'll pleased with the so
cial, especially the ladies, who enjoyed the
voting. A. d. Austin, j. ii. Doody and
NJ. X. Moore were elected committee
to take charge of the money already
raised and decide what organ to pur-
chase. Friday evening, April ,, there
will be a maple-sugar social in the
school-house, with Il literary and muslca;
programme and plenty of maple sugar,