Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-02-28
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. :. NJ. Sayford, an evangelist, held
meetings at the college last week.
\ list of new books recently added to
the Ladies' library is printed on an in
side page.
Butter is selling for shipment at from
II to 20 cents pound and eggs at Il
cents dozen.
Marble for use in completing the new
Catholic church j. being drawn from the
quarries out east.
Green Mountain lodge of knights of
Honor is to be visited this evening by
Grand Dictator c. w. kimball.
The hall of the Volunteer Hose com
pany has recently been repainted and
papered and fitted with a new carpet.
Gillig. the stallion owned by Mr.. w.
w. Moore OF Shoreham. is at the Adds
on House stables, Where he is in train
ing.
The ice harvest is about ended. In
spite of the frequent thaws a good crop
has been harvested and most of it is of
fine quality.
The weather the past week has been
fine. A thaw the first of the week set
tied the snow and helped the Sleighng
materially.
The trustees have taken measures to
lessen the cOastIng on the sidewalks,
which has become quite nuisance to
pedestrians.
Prof and Mrs. IIenckes entertained
on Saturday evening the members of the
three upper classes OF the college who
are studying German.
a movement is on foot to organize here
tribe of Red Men. 1t is suggested thar
this community, like some others, needs
white men as much as any sort.
The meeting of the Hawthorne club
which was to have been held at Prof.
McGilton's on Tuesday evening was
postponed one week because of the meet
ings then in progress at the college.
Hon. John W. Stewart will give a
lecture in the college course AT the
chapel AZ 80 o'clock this evening. He
will talk about congress and its methods
of doing business and is certain TO please
and instruct his hearers.
\ large number of people in this and
neighboring towns are suffering from an
epidemic which. for want of Il better
name, is called the grip. 1t seems to he
less severe than former vsitations, but
sufferers think it is bad enough.
Prof. Boycc the county examiner of
/ teachers. started out on his spring tour
yesterday morning. He went first to
! ShOreham. where he Is to be through
today. His dates for Middlebury are the
9th and 7th of March.
The water works were shut down for a
short time ON Wednesday to permit the
making of some slight repairs at the
pump house. Mr.. Davis of the Lang d
GoOdhue shops at Burlington came down
that day to look over the machinery and
direct what should be done.
\ free exhibition will be given at the
Case street school house on Tuesday ev-
ening. March 3. The programme will
include play, "A Drop TOO Much" "A
plantation drama aud several dialogues.
| The music will consist of vocal duets.
solos and plantation songs. The doors
will open at : 30.
\ match race for SO a side will be
| trotted on the ice of the river at o'clock
/ tomorrow Saturday afternoon by Mr..
! G. l.. Nutting's Mademoiselle Dumas,
trCtter. and MIR. l.. o. Aliens PAGER,
| Happy Franklin. The race will be best
3 i'm }, mile heats. 1t is understood that
other matches will be made up and
| trotted at the same time and place.
! The case OF the tilens Falls On. I } ma
tional bank vs.. John w. Cramton, "a prom
inent Rutland man. which was argued
in the United States court at Burlington
on Tuesday by j. G. Baker, Esq, of Rut-
land for the plaintiff and by G. NJ.
Wilds. Esq, for the defendant, is Of con
siderable interest locally. The bank has
a note against the Vermont Investment
! and Guarantee Co. of Orwell, in which
Mr.. CramtOn held large amount OF
stock. The bank seeks to make him in
dividually liable for the company's debt
Some rather fine points of law are in
volyed in the questions raised by the
suit.
The next debate at the Case street
school house will come On'the evening
of Wednesday, March 4, when this ques-
ton will be discussed "ResOlred, That
the world is growing better morally, in
tellectually and physically" Messrs.
o. p. and James Moore will speak in the