Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-29


Sunday In exchange with the pastor.
The Guy Bros. Ministries had good
house at the town hall Tuesday night
and gave a satisfactory entertainment.
The Young Mems Catholic union will
hold a strawberry and ice cream festival
at their rooms tomorrow afternoon and
evening.
Mr.. G.. H. Balm is making extensive re-
pairs on his house on Washington street.
The whole structure has been raised and
will form the upper story of the revised
house.
The Champagne bakery has resumed
the manufacture of crackers, branch OF
its business which 1t was found neces-
sary to suspend during Mrs. Cham
pagne's illness.
The services at the Baptist church
Sunday morning and evening will be
those postponed from the 18th inst.
The subject for the morning sermon will
be MAY Blossoms"
Those who wish to Join the Ladies'
library for the remainder of the year
may do so on and after next Saturday
for 81. A list of books lately added to
the library is printed in another column.
A gang of railroad men was up from
Rutland yesterday to renew the plank
ing on the highway bridges on Main
street and Merchants Row. Both of
them had needed attention for quite
while.
Tomorrow is legal holiday, so the
post office will be open only from to
1880 in the morning and from to 6.30
in the afternoon. The night mail will
close at $50. The bank will be closed
all day.
The roof of the old village pumphouse
across the street from the bakery caught
fire Saturday afternoon. The Volun-
teers turned out and soon had the flames,
which were mostly smoke, under control.
The damage was slight.
There is a good deal of complaint
about stock that is allowed to run at
large around the village, which often
makes itself nuisance. Under the law
the owner of stock so permitted to tres
pass is liable to prosecution.
Charles Beatty, an old resident of the
village, died on Friday. The funeral
was attended from the Catholic church
Monday morning, the pastor, Rev. j. NJ.
Gelot, officiating. A brief sketch of Mr..
Beatty's life is elsewhere given.
The members OF otter Creek Cycle
club and all other riders who would
| like to JON the club are requested to
meet next Wednesday evening at 6 40 in
front of Stems drug store for a run,
after which there will be business
meeting.
The base ball mines of the high school
and of East Middlebury had a game at
the latter place on Friday, in which the
high school boys were victors by a score
of 10 to ID. The local team will go to
Brandon, for a game with the Brandon
school team, tomorrow.
Letters addressed as follows are at the
postoffice, unclaimed: Mable Vanclett,
Mrs George Nay, Miss Della Pecor, c..
G.. Stewart. VIM. Sumner, George Tay-
lor, H. L. Writer'S, VIM. Laport, w. A.
Kimball, Harry Adams, John L. Brown
back, II. A. Friese, John JennOtt.
Mr.. j. A. Wright did not send his
sheep to New York Tuesday for ship
ment to Buenos Ayres, as he intended to
do, the steamer on which they were to go
having been damaged in a collision
while on the voyage up to New York.
She will probably not be in shape to
sail before some time in June.
A fine rain, during which five-eighths
of an inch of water fell, came Monday
night and relieved the drouth to some
extent. There were also showers on
Wednesday, and it acts as if plenty of
moisture might be expected henceforth.
The mercury was down to 27o during
Sunday night and frost did trifing dam
age in low places.
The boom holding the Green Mountain
Pulp company's logs above the railroad
bridge gave out Tuesday night and the
whole lot came down to the falls here.
The water is so low that they are stuck
on the rocks and the river is full of them
for some distance above the stone bridge
! The logs are part of the cOmpanv's
annual drive from Brandon down the
river. They were not sent over the falls
here with the rest of the drive because
the water fell too quickly. Navigation
up the river is now open.
Contractor Moore has completed the
concrete sidewalk from the graded school
building down almost TO Union block
and in IA few days there will be first
class walk all the way to the post office
The village never got better return for
its money, or, at any rate, a return in
more tangible shape. The grade of the
walk was raised across the hollow where
the old dry bridge" once stood. An
eNcelleul lOO mas Deen uOne tnuS TAR DOtll
by the contractor and by Highway Sur
veyor Hammond.
The annual convention of the Episco-
palians of the diocese of Vermont, which
is to be held at st. Stephens on the 18th
and 18th of June, will be of interest to
others than the people of the church.
Bishop Hall is to give a triennial charge
and will talk upon Il subject that con-
Germs all citizens. The business sessions
will be held in the town hall, and. like
all the sessions of the convention, will be
open to every one who cares to attend
A detailed programme of the proceed
ings is in preparation and will be printed
in our columns in due season.
DIR. ID. c. Noble and his horse came
out luckily from what might have been
a bad scrape Saturday forenoon. The
doctor was driving aorOcc rho rai1roa1