Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-07-31


special communication at its rooms next
Monday evening at 80 o'clock.
Mr.. f. II. Winch is at Sandy Hill, N.
Y, with a string of horses which are en-
tered for the races now going on there.
MIR. w. b. Lane, formerly In business
here, but latteTly a resident of Rutland,
has sold his greenhouses in that city.
Frank B. Youtt was arrested here last
Friday by two soldiers from Fort Ethan
Allen and taken back to the fort. lie
had deserted.
The Lillian Mortimer Dramatic COM
pany will play at the town hall the six
nights of fair week and give matinee
Saturday afternoon.
Repairs are being made in the interior
of the Addison House. The billiard
room is to be smaller and the space so
gained will be used for other purposes.
Rev. BENJAMIN Swift of Orwell will
preach at the Congregational church
next Sunday and Rev. DR.. Norman
Seaver of Rutland the three following
Sundays.
No services other than the Sunday
school and Christian Endeavor society
meetings are held on Sundays at the
Baptist church, the pastor being away
ON his vacation.
The price of butter is the same as last
week-9 to II cents a pound for dairy
and IL cents for separator. Eggs bring
ID cents dozen. New potatoes are
plentiful at 80 to 60 cents bushel.
A well-ripened and gOod-sized orange
has been left at this office by the grower,
Mr.. w. B. Rose of Court street. There
or hor
from which this specimen was picked.
Two blcyclists, j. NJ. Stewart of New
Orleans and c.. E. Rodgers of Charles
ton, 5. c., were at the Addison House on
Tuesday. They came on their wheels
from New York city and were on their
way to the White mountains.
A pate mt for an emergency brake for
electric cars has been granted to Mr.. G.
c. Peck. The invention consists of a
shoe which is dropped in front of the
wheels, the shoe having within it
Strong electromagnetic to grip the rail and
prevent the shoe from sliding along the
track
A copy of the revised check list of the
town for use at the September election
has been posted in the post-Oilice. The
selectmeu give notice that the board of
civil authority Will meet at the town
clerks office on the 10Th of August to
further revise the list.
The army worm continues to be heard
from in most of the towns in this part OF
the county, but no great damage other
than that already reported has been done
by it. 4 farmer near Rome, y. Y. has
so the papers say, that salt
will kill the worm.
The democrats OF the town held eau
Gus at the town hall Monday night and
elected these delegates to the county
convention of their party held here yes
terday: j. NJ. Burke, DR.. +. IL. Martin,
John Higgins. NJ. X. Moore, j. c. Dur
lex; alternates, John Lareau, Michael
Moore, John O'Counor, o. p. Moore, V.
Z. Burdick.
Frequent showers and extremely hot
and muggy air have characterized the
weather of the past week. Here in town
there has been no severe storm, but one
which struck Brdport, the west part of
Cornwall and the north part of ShoTeham
Tuesday afternoon did large amount of
damage. The hail accompanying the
storm cut down growing crops and broke
windows, while the heavy wind unroofed
barns, overturned fences and blew down
trees.
Letters addressed as follows are at the
post-oflice unclaimed Mrs. Emma \.
Blake, Mrs. Willis Burns, Miss May
McGraw, Mrs. VIM. G. T. Shedd, Mrs.
Andrew Wainwright, Mrs. Della willard,
Laner Aldrich, Willie Belts, DR.. c. A.
Church, Alison Hill, j. E. Hendeee,
Asahel Jones, Henry Joslyn, Mr.. Leavtt,
Sam Lerow, Edward Stickney, Philo
Spencer, J. c. Wakefield, w. c. Wales.
Miss Mary Cozzens, % years old, who
formerly lived here, died at a boarding
house in Burlington last week Wednes-
day from a fever following childbirth.
She was buried at the expense of the
city and the child, a girl, is In the care
of the city Overseer of the poor. Miss
Cozzens was taken to Burlington by II
man who is described by the city papers
as middle-aged, dark and coarse looking
and roughly dressed. lie is believed to
belong in Middlehury.
The Congregational ministers of the
county had their quarterly meeting at
the Logan House on Tuesday. Those
present were Rev. w. n. Bacon of
Bridport, Rev. J. c. Houghton of Mid
dlebury. Rev. c. y. Thomas OF New
liaven. Rev. O. G.. Baker of Ferrisburgh,
Rev. Robert j. Barton of Salisbury,
Rev. George Bennett of Ripton, and
Rev. Benjamin Swift or Orwell. Rev.
John NJ. Thomas Of East Orange, n. j.
who is visiting his faith NV Haven.
met with them and took part in the
discussions.
O. p. Goodnough died on the 18th inst.
at the home of his Niece, Mrs. Angus But
ters, in Napa, Cal. He was the Oldest of
the children of the late Jesse and Almira
Goodnough Of Middlebury and was born
on the 10Th of December, 1925. He re-
moved to California in 1880. Seven years
ago he suffered stroke of paralysis and
had since made his home with Mrs. But
tiers. A son. who lives in Boston, sur
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