Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-06-05
day evenings. Spectators will be well

come.
Witherell & Doud's Uncle Toms Cab
in company will exhibit In tent on the
Wellington lot next Wednesday even
ing, the 10th inst.
The Norwich university and the col
lege mines will play game on the col
lege grounds here tomorrow afternoon,
beginning at o'clock.
There will be social at the Methodist
parsonage this friday evening under
auspices of the Epworth league; ice
cream and cake, 10 cents.
Mr.. i. NJ. Peck has found number OF
locusts in his garden They are larger
than the common gIasshopper and
brownish-yelow in color.
Butter sells at the same price as last
week, 10 to IL cents pound for dairy
and II for creamery. Eggs have ad-
vanced one cent to IL cents dozen.
A pickerel said to have weighed %
pounds was raked out of the tlume at the
upper pulp mill the other evening by a
man engaged in clearing the racks.
The young ladies will give a cotilion
at the town hall Monday evening,
June %. 1t is to be an invtational af-
fair, but spectators will be admitted to
the balcony and afforded seats for 20 cents
each.
The contract for furnishing the plumb
ing and the heating apparatus for set
of officers quarters at Fort Ethan Allen
has been awarded to Messrs. Calhoun &
Stewart. The amount involved is be-
tween $1,000 and $1,000
The State board of health will hold a
meeting at the Addison House on Tues
day, the 10th inst, beginning at 10
o'clock. All Interested in the formation
of a county sanitary association or in
sanitary work are invited to meet with
the hoard.
Good progress has been made during
the week in constructing the new walk
and road. The sidewalk is all done
from the graded school down to the
Slade block and the concrete roadway
on the south side of the stone bridge is
going in rapidly.
DIR. w. II. Kingsley was the recipient
of handsome gold banner badge at the
meeting of Union lodge Monday evening
1t was the gift of friends in the various
Masonic bodies with which the doctor i:
connected. Mr.. j. NJ. Cheney made the
presentation speech.
\ Sunday morning train north begar
running last Sunday. 1t brings the Bos
ton papers and goes as far as Burlington
leaving Rutland at 500 and reaching
Burlington at 1870. \ drawing room
car is now attached to the mail trail
south in the morning and north in the
afternoon between Burlington anC
Boston.
An N-ray photograph worth the hav
In ha a n
the Sheldon museum. 1t is inscribed OF
the back "The lett hand of Samue
Sheldon. Taken by himself" Every
bone of the hand is distinctly shown
Prof. Sheldon was one of the first o
American scientists to make these pho
tographs.
The extra water main which was laiC
under the east sidewalk of the stOn
bridge, for use in case the original mail
supplying the north side of the tow
with water should ever give out, ha
been connected with the main at the in
tersection of Main and Mill streets, :,
that it will not be necessary to tear "
the sidewalk now going down when tn
bridge main is wanted.
When the English captured Crow
Point from the French in 1859 British
soldier perpetuated his name Oh hi
powder horn. 1t is marked: Cam
Crown Point, October the 10th day, \
ID. loo. Beniaman Howe, his horn.
Ibis horn has recently been placed il
the Sheldon Art museum by Capt
Justus Cobb. 1t is said to have bee
owned in early years by r.Willlam Bass
Miss Ada Smith, clerk in the store o
Beckwith Il Co., had an unpleasant ad
venture yesterday morning while out Of
her wheel. \ team driven by Mr.
Jerome holland came up behind Mis-
Smith, and AS she attempted to turn on
of the way she slipped and fell. Bot
wheels of the vehicle passed over he
arm and chest, bruising her cOnsidera
bly,. but inflicting no serious injury.
The annual meeting of the Woman
Home Missionary union will be held a
the Congregational parsonage on Wed
nesday afternoon, June 10. at 3 3
o'clock. Miss Towne from Burlingto
will be present TO speak of the work o
the American Missionary association
lnasmuch as Miss ToWne comes for tn
special purpose of addressing the union
it is hoped that the members will max
an effort to attend. Tea will be serve
at 6, to which the gentlemen are invited
y caucus of the republicans of Mid
dlebury to choose - delegates to tn
county convention to meet here on tn
10th inst. was held at the town hall Wee
nesday evening. Judge Slade was mad
= chairman and f. ii. Thorp secretary
E On motion of c. NJ. Wilds, Esq, it wa
voted that the chair appoint nominal
ting committee of five, and Judge Slad
? named the following: c. NJ. Wilds, {
, NJ. Remele, B. 5. Beckwith, ii. Il
Bryant and Fl. X. Holden. The con
mittee nominated the following delegate;
who were elected and empowered t
choose their own substitutes Hon. ,
G.. S. Wainwright, NJ. j. Day, A. !
FoOte, II. Il. Holden, E. j. Mathews,
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