Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-24
CHAPMAN THE VILLAGE
TAILOR
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
All bicycle riders are asked to appear
at the Park drug store at G.45 o'clock
next Wednesday evening.
The collection at the Congregational
church next Sunday morning will be for
the Church Building society.
Mr.. c. c. Peck has sold his home
place on No. Pleasant street to DR.. f.
II. Martin, who will take possession
soon.
The water of the river reached its
highest point this season on Monday.
Ii is now falling. 1t did not 90 so high
as year ago.
The l0Gth annual convention of the
Episcopalians of the diocese of Vermont
will be held in st. Stephens church on
Wednesday, June Il.
The insolvent estate of Emily w. and
James f. belong of Shoreham was closed
up on Tuesday by the assignee, Sheriff
X. w. Merritt The creditors got 23l
cents on the dollar of their claims.
The meeting of the Hawthorne club
appointed for Tuesday night was post
poned one week on account of the vii
lage meeting, and it will be held next
w. Dickens.
The general price for butter this week
has been IL cents pound. but there has
been big drop in the city markets and
not more than II cents. and perhaps not
that, is likely to be paid next week. Eggs
are worth 10 cents Il dozen for shipment.
As has been announced, Lake Dun
more lodge of Odd Fellows will observe
the 18th anniversary of the foundation of
the order next Sunday, when a special
service, with sermon by the pastor, will
be held at the Congregational church at
3 80 p. m.
Mddlebury cheese and maple sugar
sometimes get a long way from home.
Mr. w. n. Cady received word the other
day of the safe arrival in good order of a
shipment of these things which he made
last August 70 his brother, Rev. II. Olin
Cady, who is a missionary in Central
China.
The Farmingdale cheese factory, down
in the Seeley district, started Monday.
An order for the first cheese made has
already come in from a down-cOuntry
grocer who has found that obtained here
in former years of high quality. The
factory building has been painted and
put in good shape.
a ladies' bicycle belonging to Mrs.
Josie Calvin was stolen Monday evening
from the rear of her home on seymour
street. 1t was found, Wednesday, in the
barn on the Bell place, near the paper
mill bridge, Dya man whom Mr.. Cart
NELL, the owner of the premises, had
sent there for "A load of hay The ma
chine was hidden in the NOW.
Rev. c. F. Noble VIII remain in Md
dlebury over sunday and will conduct
the services at the Methodist church
Rev. J. 6. Goodng, the newly appointed
pastor, will reach Middlebury early
next week. Mr.. Noble has been assign
ed to the Charge At Ticonderoga, n. Y.
Mr.. GOoding comes here from MoOer's,
n. Y.
Rev. E. A. Herring of Brandon will
preach ar the Baptist church next Sun
day morning and evening. The business
meeting of the church will he held
Thursday evening. The covenant meet
ing will be postponed for one week. The
topic for the Christian Endeavor meet
Ing will be: Choose the good part" :;
references, Luke l0:3S42 and Matt.
6 81 "a leader, Marcus Whitney.
DR.. Noble. the health officer, and the
committee decided that in view of the
epidemic of measles it was best to close
the school; so vacation of at least two
weeks began Monday night. Between
30 and 40 houses in the village are
quarantined, and as there are from one to
four or five cases in each house, il is
probably safe to say that the number of
cases in all is not less than 100. The dis
ease is in mild form.
| Mr.. Darwin Rider has leased his hotel,
the Addison House, to Mr.. Henry f.
Bissell, who has for several years very
successfully carried on the hotel in
ShOreham village. Mr. Bissell will take
possession early in May. Mr.. Rider
ana his family will continue to live in
the house and Mr.. Rider will retain the
management of his livery business. Mr..
p. c. Cornell of this village will succeed
Mr.. Bissell in ShOreham,
David Smith, only son of Chapman ca
Smith, formerly of this town, but of late
q resident of Lynn, Mass, died in hos
pital in that city Saturday afternoon from
q bullet wound IN the head, the result a
al accident. His age was II years.
appears from the account in Lynn Pc
| per that young Smith and another bon
| We're out hunting, each of them having
revolver. Smith saw squirrel and LETT
his companion to go and shoot it. The
other boy heard him shoot, and when he
| did not return looked HIM up. He found
him unconscious. He was removed to