Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-03-06

The Mapewood club held Its annual
meeting on Wednesday evening and
elected the following officers: President,
w. w. Wood; treasurer, j. NJ. Cheney;
secretary, f. H. Button; managing com
mittee. John A. Fletcher, Il. w. Bundy.
f. J. Hubbard, DR.. E>TI. Martin.
The big thaw Saturday morning
flooded the cellar in the residence of
Liquor Agent II. \. Peek where the
towns stock of wet goods is kept and
before Mr.. Peck discovered it the water
was half way up the barrels. The cell
lar drain was frozen and the surplus
moisture had to be carried out in buck
cts. The liquor sustained no damage.
Deputy Sheriff Cobb has at last found
an owner for the horse he captured at
West Cornwall last fall i'm the possession
of one TrOmbly. who has stolen it in
Canada. Alphonse I.akerge, postmaster
at NaperNille, Z. @, was down the other
day to look for the animal. which he said
belonged to the priest of his parish He
decided. however. not to take it back, but
TO let Mr.. Cobb have it to square his bill
for keeping
The following officers were elected
and appointed at the annual meeting of
Union lodge. No. ;, Monday evening :
W. NJ, \. c. Woodward: :. w., G. j.
Mathews: J. W, John f. Weeks; treas
urer. {. f. Pmney; secretary, G. \.
Piper; :. d., X. NJ. Mills; j. d., Fred
ClOyes; stewards. W. NJ. Cushman, +.
H. Winch; marshal, +. j. Hubbard ;
tyler, j. NJ. Peck. The installation fol-
lowed the election.
The price paid for butter at the stores
runs from u to 20 cents according to
quality. Eggs sell at II cents, though
they are not worth that in Boston. The
price of potatoes for shipment has adj
Vanced from l2l to - cents bushel and
some shipments are being made. The
usual shipment of livestock TO Boston
could not be made this week, the cattle
train Monday morning having been dis
continued because of the floods.
States Attorney Fish of Nergennes
Sheriff Merritt of Shoreham ana several
of the latter's deputies were in town yes
terdaX afternoon and raided five
places where liquor was supposed to be
sold 1t is understood that something
in the way of contraband drinkables wa,
found in each place visited, though two
of the proprietOrs claim that their stuff
was nothing but 3 per cent beer. Further
proceedings in the cases will be haC
later.
; The three churches, Methodist. Baptis
, and Congregational, will hold union ser
r vices in the Congregational church lhi
, afternoon and evening and also on sun
! day morning, afternoon and evening
! The three Sunday schools will be held a
the several churches at the usual hour
All are cordially invited to attend TIN
meetings. Go and take your friends
The meetings held i'm the Methods
church, under the direction of Evangelis
4 Underwood, have been of great and con
stantly growing interest, nOtwithstand
; ing the extremely unfavorable weather.
! Professors McGilton and Bryant me
e with an accident at the college hbora
. tory Wednesday afternoon while maxim!
an experiment. They had filled glass tub
= with gas aud were heating it when tn
tube exploded while both the operator
were standing over il. \ piece OF tn
t glass cur cash in Prof. McGiltOn'S fac
e and finer particles were driven into tn
face of Prof. Bryant, whose spectacle
+ were also broken. Mr.. Piper, a studen
who was assisting the professors, %
DR.. Eddy up TO the college to repair IN
damages. Prof. MOGilton was not on
= Yesterday. but Prof. Bryant : iniurie
y were not sufficiently severe to keep hit
i'm the house,
q The lecture in the college course las
h Friday evening by Hon. John W. Stew
q ant, on Washington life and the work q
congress. was an Interesting and instruC
tive description of matters and thing
. about which people in general know lii
- tie. He told of the various ranks In -
i ciety AT the capital ana their distinguish
inn ,harantnrie and Hneprt bpH hnN
= business Is done i'm congress. lie ais
: clearly explained filibusterng and ho'
u Speaker Reed stopped it, closing his ao
II dress with brief references to some q
the public men now prominent in ma
n tOna affairs. DIR. BOyntOn of Wood
= stock, who has travelled extensively an
1 is an entertaining speaker. will give tn
2 next lecture on Friday evening, the l3t
inst; subject, "From Marathon t
Il Waterloo
c The trustees and the electric ligh
e people are apparently no nearer comm
Y to an agreement than they were wee
ago. though they have had one or tn
- conferences. The company turned o
p the lights Sunday night. after askin
, permission of the trustees so TO do, bu
# with the understanding that no charg
was to be made. Last week the tru'
- ices OHered 10 pay nj tue rate OF SlzuO
;, year for % 2OOO-candle-pOwer arc light
" during the coming ten months, the light
:, to be run every dark night till midnigh
~ The company say they cannot afford
V accept the proposition. They do, how
ever, offer to compromise on lowe
re basis than last years price, but the trui
n tees decline to go beyond the fiigur
y above given. II is understood that I'll
d trustees have ordered oil lamps for ii