Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-02-14

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best clubs in years, and the young ladies.
II IN number, forming the other club,
are well trained aud will add greatly TO
the entertainment Good sittings may
still be had at Sterns'.
A letter from George NJ. Powers, Esq,
chairman of the committee managing the
! Morrisvile electric light plant for the
village. SAYS the arc street lights there
are of 2000 candle-power, not 200. as
has been stated in these columns. The
subject of lighting our village streets is
undergoing lively discussion. Various
schemes are talked Of, including one for
Iutting in new outfit of Kerosene
lamps.
The district meeting of the Odd Eel
lows is appointed to be held with the
local lodge on Friday night of next week.
The district deputy sent programmes
of the exercises yesterday. The initia-
tory degree will be worked at o'clock
by Hamilton lodge of Burlington. Then
will come banquet. Judge Slade will
have charge of the post-prandial speak
ing. All Odd Fellows in good standing
are cordially invited.
The lecture to be gwen IN the college
course at the chapel tomorrow evening
bv Prof. Brainerd Kellogg Of the Poly
technic institute. Brooklyn, should he
borne in mind. The hour will be 30.
1t may be we'll again TO remind nom
college people that these lectures are
open to the public to the extent of the
seating capacity of the room and that the
cost of single admissions is p cents.
The Middlebury Young Mems Catholic
union was organized Tuesday evening at
a meeting held in the old Y. NJ. c. A..
hall, officers were elected, committee
on constitution and bylaws was APP
pointed and it was voted to hold meetings
every Tuesday evening. The officers are /:
Pres ident, c. L. Quigley; vice-president,
Frank II. COrrigan: recording secretary,
Joseph +. Dionne; financial secretary,
John O'COnnor; treasurer, Emory Wis
sell ; chaplain, Rev. Father j. NJ. GelOt.
Miss Daisy, youngest daughter of Mr..
Oliver Severance. died of cerebrO-spinal
meningitis on Tuesday evening, the ] tn
INST. at the home of her sister, Mrs. @.
B. Warner, in Port Henry, aged y
lyears. The funeral will be attended
From Mr.. Severance's home on Wey-
bridge street at > o'clock this afternoon.
miss Severance had been i'll about three
weeks. She was a bright and estimable
fyoung woman, whose loss Is keenly felt
by the family as well as by numerous
warm friends.
The freshman class of the college had
its banquet at Hotel Brandon, Brandon,
Tuesday evening. Mr. Corbin was the
POSTMASTER and the toasts and other eX-
ercises were as follows: Glass History,
Miss Southwick; The Faculty, Miss Wa
terman; Music, male quartette; College
Frats, Mr.. Hurlburt; Glass Grafton, Mr..
Waterman: Our ColOrs. Miss Campbell ;
Music. Mr.. TIubbard The Sophomores,
Mr.. MunrOe; Our Young Ladies, Mr..
Whitney; Music, Mr.. Howard; Our
Young Gentlemen. Miss Sturgis: Glass
Prophecy. Mr.. Boyce; Class Song.
Prof Boyce and Messrs. Allan Cal
houn and W. NJ. Jackson, the subcom-
mittee of the stone cruSher committee.
went to Rutland on Friday in quest of
additional facts relative TO the making of
stone roads. ON their return that even
ing the trustees and members of the com
mittee had IA meeting to consider the sub
ect. Professors BOyce and Eaton were
appointed to prepare report for sub
mission to the special village meeting
next Tuesday night, the warning for
which appears in another column.
Notwithstanding numerous other at
fractions in town, the sOclabe at the
lecture room of the Congregational
church on Friday evening was well at
tended. The chief feature of the enter
tainment was the presentation of Is
tableauX illustrating Tennyson's Lotus
Eaters" Mrs. McGilton read the poem
and Mrs. James 4. Smith, Miss Agnes
Wainwright and Miss Susan Brewster
appeared in the tabeauX, which were
very pretty. Refreshments of ice cream
and cake were served and homemade
candy was sold
The real estate and Il portion of the
personal property belonging to the John
l.. Buttoph estate were sold by auction
yesterday to close the estate. Mr.. j. +.
Buttolph bought the home place in the
village for $500, and the tsnements in
Frog hollow; also the George Hammond
farm, the Carr lott of 100 acres and
another small lot of about nine acres,
making about $50 acres in all, for which
he paid $1,000. Mr.. 4. NJ. Chapman pur-
chased the lot on the southeast side of
the Cornwall road opposite his residence
and also the so-called "sand' lot west of
the Catholic cemetery.
\ large number of invitations have
been seat out for the Ladies library
birthday party, in celebration of the
30th anniversary of the founding Of the
institution, which is to be held with Mrs.
G. \. Branerd at Battell hall on the
evening of Tuesday, the 18th inst. Those
invited are asked 10 give as many cents
as they are years old, though those over
30 will he let of on payment of 30 cents.
Small bags in which to place cOntribu-
tions, which may be taken by those who
go or sent by those who can not attend,
have been distributed those not suppl
ed can get bags of Miss Bird at the store
of Beckwith q Co.
The Inasmuch circle of Kings daugh-
tiers held its fifth anniversary in the lee
ture room of the Congregational church
J last Saturday afternoon, at which about
/ 80 invited guests were present. mu-