Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-04-09
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LOCAL NEWS.

The Hawthorne club will meet at Mr..
A. +. Higley's on Tuesday evening next.
Mr.. F. A. Bond is putting new piazzas
on his residence and making other i'm
provements.
The Labaree society of the Conerega-
tional church will serve tea at the
lecture room on Friday evening of next
week.
Peter Dwire, who has been confined to
the house for several weeks with
broken leg, is so as to be in the shop
again
The spring term of the graded school
began Monday. The number of pupils
is fully as great as last term, taking the
school as whole.
A Mddlebury party which took trip
to Lake Dunmore the first of the week
found the lake covered with an unbroken
sheet of ice 20 inches thick.
Mr.. L. O. Allen recently sold his liv-
cry stable to Landlord Higgins of the
Pierce House. He is to resume the bus
mess shortly in the fair ground barn.
The Junior Endeavor society of the
Baptist church will hold a sociabe at the
home of the pastor this friday evening.
a general invitation is extended to all
children.
The store of Bond Bros. is undergoing
alterations. New shelving, extending
to the ceiling, is to go In, the office will
be removed to the rear and cash sys-
TEN will be added.
A petition asking for the appointment
of Sheriff X. w. Merritt of Shoreham as
United States marshal for the district of
Vermont is IN circulation and is being
signed by almost every one.
The listers, Messrs. Oliver Severance,
c. w. Matthews and Allen X. Fooe, be-
gan their work on the lst inst. Mr.. Sew
erance is looking af er villagers and the
other two the people outside.
Next week the REGISTER will contain
an interesting humorous story, entitled
"Jolly Uncle Josh" in which a number
of our merchants will be represented.
Everybody should look it up.
The bank will be closed all day today,
the post-office will be open only from Z
to 80 a. m. and 4 to 6 80 p. m, and
most of the stores will do no business.
There is to be no union church service.
Mr.. c. l.. Greene, the special agent of
the Mutual Life Insurance company OF
New York, on Monday paid Mrs. l.. n.
Howard S2OOO, the amount or the policy
held by Mr.. Howard at the time of his
death.
The supper served at the lecture room
of the Congregational church on Friday
evening by members of the Labaree
society drew out a large number and
added a considerable amount to the
assets of the society.
The executive committee of the
Ladies' Library association had a meet
ing with Mrs. p. F. Chapman on Wed
nesday afternoon to consider proposed
changes in the method of keeping ac.
count of books loaned.
There was slight fall of snow
Wednesday night, just enough to whiten
, the ground. The weather of the past
week has been mild, TOO much so for the
maple sugar business. The last good
run of sap was on Sunday.
The senior class of the high school will
give their drama, "a Scrap of Paper, .
on Friday evening, April %. The class
have been making thorough preparation
for this, and those who have seen the
| play pronounce it bright and interesting
The arc dynamo at the electric light
works broke down Thursday night, q
piece of the machine breaking and flying