Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-10-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Thomas Duff has gone to Boston,
where he has a position.
Mrs. \. f. Hammond of New y ork is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. 7. M. Chap
man.
The court house is in the hands of the
plumbers, and is being piped for steam
heat.
Mrs. j G.. Goodng was a delegate to
the State Sunday School convention at
Bennington this week.
Hon. J.'W. Stewart was in New York
on business during the week. He re-
turned home Tuesday.
Miss Cox, who for some time has been
the cashier and bOokkeeper at Bond
Bros store, has gone to Boston.
f. 4. Bond has doubled his advertising
space in this issue of the REGISTER. The
business of Pine Hall is in proportion.
G. NJ. Fletcher of Clarendon Springs
was visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
4. y. Fletcher, in the village this week.
Water mains are being laid near Frank
lin and Main streets, and the new sewer
work has progressed for a couple of
blocks during the week.
The Rev. Mr.. Bonnar having gone
away for a couple of weeks vacation,
services will be held in st. Stephens on
Sunday mornings only at 1915 o'clock.
Rev. Thos. Rogers, pastor of the NJ.
+. church of Nergennes, will preach in
the NJ. +. church here next Sunday in
exchange with the pastor, j. G. Gooding-
The auction sale of E. p. Lee, which
takes place on the 9th inst, will be an
unusually large aud interesting one in
point of amount of property and grade
of stock.
The Addison House is in the hands of
the painters, who are putting on an eX-
ternal coating of a light color. No
country town in the state has so fine a
hotel as the new Addison.
A fact in connection with the nOtori
Gus Luetgert trial in Chicago which may
be of local interest is that Judge ruthill,
who presided at the trial, graduated at
our college in 1868.
A large delegation of Masons went to
Burlington from this point Wednesday,
over sixty tickets being sold for the trip.
The occasion was the laying of the cor
ner stone of a new Masonic temple.
Last Friday and Saturday broke the
record for warm weather in the second
week of October, the weather depart
ment of the government having no fig
ures coming within several degrees of it.
E. p. Seymour of the REGISTER force
and sister, Miss Margaret, are in New
York on a two weeks visit to relatives.
+. 2. says this Is the first vacation he
has ever taken and 1t is his purpose to
make the most of it.
The advertised realism of the play
! orix niu ru
fused young man of this town, and it
is told that he went to the depot expect
ing to see the pay train hauled in
attached to the . 40 local.
The Chi Psi fraternity of the local col
| lege Initiated three freshmen last Friday
evening. They were G.. II. Drake of
New Haven, E. c. Lawrence of Bristol
and l.. w. Lawrence of Auburn, n. Y.
Several of the college alumni were pres
ent at the ceremony.
VIII Waugh Is carrying his face
around i'm sling these days, and all be.
cause his wheel broke down last Sunday
afternoon while he was riding on the
asphalt. His nose and upper lip were
badly damaged, having come in forcible
contact with the stone curbing.
AT the Baptist church next Sunday
the pastor will speak in the morning on
the subject "Buried Talents" and in the
evening on "Why are Men Lost?' The
Sunday School meets at II o'clock and
the Christian Endeavor society at 6. Al
are welcome at all these services.
The state has recently published Gil
mans photography of Vermont, which
gives Middlebury credit for 2G9 publica
lions. The Sheldon Art Museum has a
list of over $50 publications which may
properly be called Middlebury bibliogra
ply, nearly all of which are In it'
library.
The last sad rites were performed over
the remains of Mrs. A. B Mcdowell al
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Columbus Smith, In West Salisbury last
Tuesday morning, and the body was con