Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
LOCAL NEWS.

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opened Monday and that of the college
Tuesday.
Mr. IL. c. Langworthy has purchased
the March place on High street. paying
$1,000 tor it.
Messrs. Charles \. Piper and B. b.
Hope have formed partnership to carry
on the furniture business.
The local lodge of Good Templars now
has nearly 20 members, several new ones
having been added at the last meeting.
The Young Mems Catholic union is
planning to give an entertainment at the
town hall on the evening of saturday,
May 30
The front of the Slade block, Main
street, is being reprinted and Mr.. CLAY
has had his store front similarly treated
recently.
The April meeting of the W. G. T. L.
will be held in the lecture room of the
Congregational church next Wednesday
at p. m.
Easter services at all the churches
were well attended and there were the
usual special features for the day at each
place of worship.
George Daniels succeeds Victor Boulia
as assistant in the Addison House barber
shop. Mr.. Boulla will remove from
town, but to what point he has not de-
termined.
The IIarpers Ferry Quartet gave an
excellent entertainment at The town hall
on the evening of the % inst, and de-
served "A better house than the bad
weather permitted to gather.
The best butter sold for Il cents on
Monday, but it is worth only 10 now,
the price having fallen fully two cents
In the city markets tuesday. Eggs
bring II cents "a dozen in the stores.
Rehearsals are held in the basement of
the town hall every evening by the
young men who will appear in the
minstrel entertainment to be given on
the evenings of the 2Sth and Doth inst.
for the benefit of the band.
Mrs. Frank Lucia fell on the ice in the
dooryard of her home on High street
Sunday and broke both bones of her
right arm Just above the wrist. This is
the third time within Il few years that
she has had limb fractured.
A movement is on foot to secure the
calling of village meeting for the pur-
poses of electing successor to Trustee
II. +. Boyce and of considering the cleo
trio light matter. 1t is likely that the
warning will be posted in the course of
a day or two.
The lot of French Merinos recently
bought in California by Messrs. Dim
mock and Haskell of West Cornwall for
the South American market arrived here
last week Thursday and were taken to
West Cornwall to await shipment. They
are large and fine animals.
The Green Mountain Pulp company
have Il large number of logs piled on the
bank of the river at Brandon and their
men are making preparations to drive
them down the stream to the mills below
here. At present the water is too high,
but it has been falling slowly the past
day or two
A sausage factory is about TO be add
ded to tho industries of Mlddlebury. a
building for 1t was erected last fall on
the premises of Mr.. Holden, Seymour
street, and his son-in-law, +. y. Carey,
will manage the business. The ma
chinery has come and the plant will soon
be in operation.
Fast day passed quietly in town. The
bank and most of the stores were closed
and the post-otice was open only in the
morning and afternoon. The usual SER
vices were held at the Catholic and
Episcopal churches and there was a
union prayermeeting at the Methodist
church in the evening.
Joseph Jefferson and his company will
give rip Van Wrinkle" at the Howard !
opera house in Burlington next Monday
night. Excursion tickets, costing 81 for
the round trip from Middlebury, will be
sold. A special train will leave Bur
lingtOn at the close of the entertainment |
and run as far as Middlebury.
Takers of village water should bear
in mind that next Wednesday, the 10Th
inst, is the last day of grace. The wat
er commissioners intend to follow pre- !
cisely the instructions given them at the
last village meeting, and where taxes are
unpaid at the expiration of the time
above specified the water will be shut Off |
The college has bought of Mr.. Malone
of Pittsford, administrator of the Raj
ferty estate, the Rafferty, place on the |
lower side of Storr's avenue, just south |
of the Starr boarding hall. The price
was $500. The college now owns all the |
land on that side of the street from |
South Main street north to the school
house park.
The weather of the last few days has
been decidedly springlike, though rather
cool. HereaOouts the snow has nearly |
gone, but large amount of 1t remains
on the mountains. II was good sleigh
ing Wednesday from Hancock to Bread |
Loaf. The roads In this section are