Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-09-11

Hodges, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. J.
Hodges, all of Ripton, were married at
St. Mary's church here at S o'clock Mon
day morning. Rev. FIR. GelOt, the pastor,
officiating. There was a reception at the
home of the brides parents in the even
ing.
The fall term of the graded school
opened on Monday. The teachers are
the same as last year. The attendance IS
larger than for many years, particularly
in the two upper rooms. There are GS
pupils in the high school and GO in the
grammar school, and more are expected
next week.
Communion at the Baptist church was
postponed until next Sunday morning on
account of the storm. The subject for
the morning service will be "Fruitess
Faith, or Merlted Works. for the even
ing service, Evil of Flatterv"; c. E.
topic, "Our Tongues for Christ; Prov,
l5-1; ,: 4, I, 10, II, %, 2G, Is; leader,
Mrs. j. O. Benedict.
The REGISTER is indebted to the Bris.
tol and Ticonderoga bands for a hand
some serenade yesterday noon. UnfOr-
tunately the most of the force had gone
to dinner, but the courtesy is appre
ciated Just the same. The bands were
very much in evidence all through the
fair, and no part of it received more
praise than the music. The Bristol
band also gave an excellent open-air
concert in the park near the Addison
House Wednesday evening.
a hearing was begun last Saturday at
the office of Button 81 Button. before
w. II. Bliss, Esq, of Burlington, the
referee, in the case of Constable j. w.
Thomas of Salisbury against Mrs. Betsey
Leland. Stewart 81 Wilds appeared for
the plaintiff and Button & Button for
the defendant. The real plaintiff is the
town of Salisbury, which seeks to com
pei Mrs. Leland to pay certain taxes, but
she claims exemption on the ground that
she is a resident of Orange, Mass, and
not of Salisbury.
Mr.. II. L. Sheldon has recently secured
for his museum a nearly complete file of
the first volume of the Vermont journal,
the pioneer Vermont newspaper, which
was begun in Windsor in 1888. The
paper had but four pages, each about
twice the size of an ordinary magazine
page. The advertisements are few. One of
them shows that ginseng was then. as
now, an article of commerce. The name
is spelled in the earlier issues of the
paper, "ginshang,' but in later numbers
the modern spelling is followed.
a special village meeting has been
called at the town hall on the evening of
/ Tuesday the 18th INST, at 80 o'clock,
to see if the voters wish to extend the
water mains to the residence of |. L.
Rogers on Court street and to the place
Of business of Thomas 81 Weeks in the
north part of the village. 1t is not pro-
posed to have the Court street extension
of the full size of the nam, but large
enough to supply the necessities of that
section. Mr.. Rogers is a taxpayer,
wants the water and unquestionably
ought to have it. The length of the eX-
tension would be about 1900 feet and tho
income assured would pay good interest
on the Investment. The extension neal
the depots is more imperatiyely needed
for fire protection than for any othel
reason. There is quite a territory III
there, within which are hay barns
storehouses, ETC., that is some distance
from any hydrant. 1t is also suggested
that the village at this meeting ought t
take some action looking to straight
ening out of the water account Mr.
Beckwith, the auditor, reported at TIN
last annual village meeting that Waite
Commissioner Hope, who has charge o
the collections and disbursements of tn
board, had not rendered II detailed state
ment of his acts during the precedin!
year, so that nothing was certainl.
known of the condition of the water &C
count; and on Mr.. Beckwith's motto
Rufus Wainwright, Esq, and Mr.. c. Z
Pinney were made special commute
to Investigate the books of the water de
partment and report their findings. Tn
books have never been submitted to tn
committee for examination and the mat
ter stands just where it did last January
Nobody knows whether the water dc
partment is self-sustaining or not, o
whether takers pay for the water the
have, or what becomes of the none
that is paid in. Everything about tn
business is in the dark, and there it wi
evidently remain unless the voters tax
active measures to bring about a reform
1t don't rot clothes-IIarmless Soap.