Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-22
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Mr.. Osborne is building a new fence
along the front of his premises on Main
street.
Four old soldiers were before the local
board of examining surgeons on We'd
nesday.
Three carloads of cows and calves
were shipped from this station to the
Boston market on Monday.
A pension has been granted to Mrs.
Amanda Sebra, widow of the late Henry
Sebra. The amount is IS a month.
There is no change in the produce
market. Butter sells at 10 to 13 cents
pound and eggs at 10 cents a dozen.
Business is good at the marble mills
of Smith & Branerd and the finishing
shops of Adams Il Bacon at Beldens.
The w. G. Langworthy house on Wey-
bridge street has been rented to Ed.
Goodro, who, with his family, has taken
possession.
The arrangements for the observance
of Memorial Sunday and Decoration day
are set forth in an Official notice else
where printed.
The local lodge of Odd Fellows was
represented by II of its members at the
dedication of the Gill Odd Fellows home
in Ludlow on Wednesday.
The calls for the caucuses of Middle
bury republicans for the choice of dele
gates to the several conventions are
! printed in another column.
The bicycists were out for short
run Wednesday evening. There were
nearly 20 of them in the party. Since
the rain the roads are in fine shape.
The epidemic of measles is about over
here, but in neighboring towns, Corn
wall and Weybridge particularly, the
disease prevails to a considerable extent.
A game of baseball between the
Norwich university nine and the col
lege team will be played in Mortified
at O'Clock tomorrow Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. Edward Richardson fell from a
box on which she was standing in the
shed of her residence on Railroad street.
Saturday. and broke both bones of one
leg just below the knee.
The Young Mems Catholic union has
decided to postpone till fall the pIesen-
tation of the play WHICH they had
planned TO give at the town hall on the
evening of the Both inst
Mr. Arthur II. Bristol has purchased
from Col. L. NJ. Chapman and will oc-
cupy as residence the Col. Tracey house
at the lower end of Court street. The
price is said to have been S2l0O.
The Empire State Stock company will
appear at the town hall three nights and
matinee, June 1, and 6, under the
management of Odell & Stone. There
will be "A new play at each performance.
There was a good rain Tuesday morn
ing. and Yesterday it looked as if more
showers might come. \ cold wave fol-
lowed the rain. and frost did some dam
age on low lands hereabOuts Wednesday
morning.
y span of work horses owned by
Joseph Gotta broke out of their pasture
tuesday evening, got upon the railroad
track near the lodges, half mile north
of the station, and were killed by the
mixed tram south between S and 8 !
o'clock.
Secretary Dyer of the Addison County
Agricultural society gives notice in an |
other column that the executive board |
will meet at the Addison House the 9th |
inst. to arrange the race programme for
the fair in September.
DR.. w. II. Sheldon. Ira II. LaFleur
and G. T. Quigley have been appointed /
by Chairman Durick of last weeks dem
ocratic caucus a committee to make ar
engagements for the formation of a demo-
cratic club in this town.
Mr.. II. L. Sheldon has succeeded inn
obtaining for the museum almost a
complete set of reports of the Fore |
fathers celebrations here from the very
first, together with most of the printed |
programmes of the celebrations.
Mr.. j. A. Wright will ship from here
to New York next Tuesday 40 head of
Merine rams which are to be taken to
Buenos Ayres. Mr.. C. o. Church of
Whiting will go to South America in |
charge of the shipment and Mr.. Wright
talks of going too.
Mr.. A. j. Piper is now managing the
market next to Sheldon's store. His son
Erwin has bought A. f. Careys interest
in the blacksmith shop on Court street
and is running it with Herbert JOY as
partner. Mr.. Carey has gone back to
his farm in Salisbury.
A pair of three-year-old Durham
steers which Mr.. l.. T.. Moore of Shore