Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-08-14

this season and apples developed from
the first and second sets of blossoms
As stated last week, the road commits
siOners of the several towns Of the
county will meet at the court house here
this afternoon to discuss the subject of
road building. The State board of
highway commissioners and Hon. j. O..
Sanford of Stamford, q member of the
board of agriculture, will make adj
dresses.
The explosion of lantern last Thurs
day night set fire to the barn on
the Harvey Yale place on East
street, under the mountain, where ii. II.
Nichols and family live, and the struc-
ture was destroyed, together with u
large amount of produce and farming
tools. The loss is put at $1,000. There
was no insurance.
Middlebury has the champion horse
woman in the person of Mrs. f. II.
Winch, who at Glens Falls, n. Y, Fri
day drove the PAGER Major Wonder Il
mile to a road cart in 2:l74, which is Il
worlds record. The best previous
record was that made by Mrs. |. Crosby
of Brewster, Mass, who drove Emma b.
a mile at Rigby part in Maine in ;2Gi.
The chestnut gelding Monopole, which
won the = 20 pacing race for purse of
$500 at Columbus, o., Friday, was bred
by DR.. w. II. Kingsley of this town. He
was sired by Leicester and his dam was
Old Robin, a Morgan. There were six
heats in the race, the last three of which
MOnOpole took; best time, , :095. Mono
poles owner is X. f. Way of Hartford,
Conn.
The Young Mems republican club of
Middlebury and its allies from surround
ing towns sent nearly POO men to take
part i'm the big rally at Rutland on We'd
nesday. All were equipped with torches
and most of them wore the republican
campaign hat, which is yellow with gold
tassels. The return train did not leave
Rutland till nearly midnight and ii was
almost o'clock in the morning before
it reached here.
A number of young blind people will
give an entertainment at the town hall
next Monday evening. They are from
the Hartford (COnn.) institute and home
for the blind. Music by a brass band,
an orchestra and glee club forms the
larger part of the programme, but there
will also be an exhibition of the methods
used by the blind in reading, writing,
keeping accounts, etc. The object of the
entertainment is to secure funds for the
support of the institution.
A Salisbury correspondent writes as
follows under date of Tuesday, "The
finals in mixed doubles at the Lake
Dunmore House tennis tournament were
played yesterday morning. Play began
at 1910 o'clock, but long before that
time a large number of guests from both
the Dunmore house and Mountain Spring
hotel were IN attendance. Considerable
interest was manifested, as a close match
was looked for. The game resulted
thus Miss Caroline Hopper and Cush-
ing Hill beat Miss l.. Il. Hopper and f.
r. Weles, GO, 20, 81.
We were in error when we stated last
week in announcing the death of Mrs.
Byron Sunderland of Washington,
that she was the daughter of the
late Jonathan Hagar. Among others
who set us right is Hon. James Simmons
of Lake Geneva, Wis, former resident
of this village, who writes: "SoOn after
graduation from Middlebury college
Mr.. Sunderland was married to Miss
Elizabeth Tomlinson, very beautiful
and engaging young lady whose father
lived in the house after ward occupied by
Prof. Robbins at the north end of Wey-
bridge street."
The total amount of taxes to be paid
this year by owners of property in the
village is l55 cents on the dollar of the
grand list, divided as follows: Town
tax, 80 cents; highway. 20 cents village,
40 cents, and graded district, 40 cents.
The town tax of 80 cents includes the
State, the State highway, the State
school and the county taxes, which are
all to be paid out of the town treasury.
Town Treasurer G. f. Pinney will col
lect the town tax and the remaining
taxes will be collected by Mr.. Munroe.
The tax book will be IN Mr.. Pinney's
hands Sept. l; at least that is the plan
now.
The house Of John w. Halliday, east of
the village, was entered by some one last
Sunday morning while the family were
at church and a quantity of silverware
and some other articles were taken. The
thief was evidently in quest of money,
as the house was thoroughly searched,
but there was only small amount to be
found. Suspicion rests upon man who
was seen about the premises after the
family had gone. He was of medium size,
dressed in dark blue suit and wore a
brown SLOUGH hat which he left in place
of a black derby which he took. Several
recognized the hat as belonging to
man who lived in Ripton about ten
years ago and went by the name of Tom
Curry, and later in Burlington by the
name of VIII Dale. This man has lost
the two smallest fingers on his left hand
and carries his hand in his pocket good
deal.
Hon. William Slade is to be the speak
er at the rally of the Young Mems re-
publican club at the town hall at S
o'clock this evening. He is veteran
campaign speaker and the club has good
reason to believe that he will make an
able and interesting address on the
money question. The speakers at the
rally last week Friday night were Prof.
Samuel Sheldon of Brooklyn, a former
resident of Middlebury and up to this
vparo dpmoprar who told CLEARLY his