Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-15
LOCAL NEWS.

Butter Is selling at from - to 20 cents
a pound according to quality, and eggs
at 20 cents dozen.
The Essay club met Monday at Mrs.
Dickens. The next meeting will take
place Feb. %, at Miss Pinney's.
The Rutland Herald says Nv. +. Bur-
dick of Middleburv expects to open an
extensive ladder factory IN this city in
the near future"
The town officers are settling up affairs
for the past year and preparing the an
nual report for printing. March meeting
will come on the 9TH of the mouth.
Blanks upon which to make returns
for the assessment of the new income
tax are being sent out 10 persons and cor
porations liable to taxation under the
law.
Rev. j. j. Noe, presiding elder, will
preach at the Methodist church Sunday
evening at o'clock. The quarterly con
ference will be held Monday morning
at 9;30.
Next Friday, the 22d, Washington's
birthday, is legal holiday. The bank
will not open and the post-ollice will be
closed except from to 8 80 IA. m. and
from to & 80 p m.
Union lodge, No ,, will hold a special
communication on the evening of Mon
day, the 18th inst, for work on the third
degree. All members are asked to be on
hand promptly at 80.
Mr.. John NJ. Bosley has sold his farm
in the Seeley district to "A Mr.. Merrill of
Monkton, who will take possession about
March |. Mr. Bosley will probably buy
another farm hereabouts.
Eight or nine western horses were sold
to residents of this region by auction at
the Addison House stables Monday after
noon by Capt. Bowman of Rutland.
The prices obtained were not high.
\ letter just received by JEFF" frisco,
the shoemaker, from his brother John,
who, it was feared, took passage for
America on the Inflated Elbe, makes it
certain that he was not passenger on
her.
The village trustees are endeavoring to
persuade citizens to refrain from dump
ING rubbish in the streets. Notices con-
tanning the law and stating the penalty
for its infraction are to be issued by the
board.
Mr.. Munroe of tho freshman class at
college is supplying the students with
badges. They are of gold and bear the
word "Middebury" in white letters on an
enameled blue background shaped like
banner.
Prof. Sanford of the faculty will give
the sixth OF the college course of lee
lures at the chapel this evening. lie
will speak on Life in POmpeii." The
lecture will be profuSely illustrated, and
it is certain to be interesting.
The adjourned hearing before the in
solvency court on the question of grant
ing a discharge to the partners in the
firm of Hammond, Bush IL Co will be
held on Wednesday, the 18th inst, in
stead OF on Tuesday, the 2Gth, as has
been incorrectly stated.
Preparations are making for the cree
ton of the new Catholic church. 1t will
stand just east of the present parsonage.
The stone for the foundation is to be
drawn TO the site at once. A passage
through the wall separating the lot from
the highway was opened yesterday.
Letters with these addresses are at the
post-office unclaimed Mrs. Alcutt, Liz
zie Gaudette (2), Miss Harriet Cove,
Miss NJ. l.. Martin, j. w. Beckwth,
Oliver Clair, Solomon Chevalier, Ed.
Dickerson, l.. II. Jacobs, win King, c.
II. Manley, C. w. Otis, Washburn &
Iafkef, w. IL. stevens.
1t is not often that the river is so fully
frozen over as now. The coating of ice
is complete above the falls except for
short and narrow strip under the south
arch of the stone bridge. The water is
low, and practically all of the water
going down passes through the flume, so
that the ice extends to the very edge of
the dam.
The dance which was to have been held
at the town hall last Friday night by the
members of Union lodge and their friends
had to be given up because of the storm.
Up to yesterday tho management had
been unable to secure suitable music for
any night previous to the beginning of
Lent, and the present outlook Is that the
dance will not take place till after Easter.