Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-05
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
The Hawthorne club will meet at Prof.
McGilton's Wednesday evening, March
10.
The main Office of the Western Union
is and will hereafter be at Mr.. Marshall's
store.
The meeting of the Essay club will be
held at Miss Pinney's Monday at 3 80
o'clock.
The Apollo quintet and the col eye
orchestra will give a concert at the town
hall on the evening of Friday, the l2th
inst, for the benefit of the high school
athletic association.
Monday morning the mercury was
down to l3 or If below zero. Wednes
day morning, IS hours later. it was rain
ing. March came in like lion, but
grew lamblike rapidly. ara
Prof. Turner, well-known lecturer,
will speak at the Catholic church on the
evening of Wednesday, the 10th inst,
on the Passion play at Oberammergau.
The lecture is to be illustrated with a
stereOpticOn
Rey. A. W. Dickens attended at
Burlington on Monday meeting of the
committee to arrange the programme
of the next general convention of the
Congregational churches of the State,
which will be held here in June.
The committee appointed at town
meeting to consider and report upon
plans for refunding the town debt re-
quest holders of town orders issued on
account of the stone bridge and town
hall to communicate with Mr.. c. f.
Pinney.
The annual exhibition by the junior
class of the college will be held at the
town hall on the evening of Tuesday,
( the Both inst. The class has decided not
to Issue a Kaleidoscope. but to put out,
/ instead, a souvenir containing views of
| the college and its surroundings.
Mandy Donahue died Tuesday evening
at the home of his sister, Mrs. James
Mcmahon, aged 60 years. He had been
a helpless invalid for b years and totally
blind latterly. During all those years
he has been cared for by Mrs. Mcmahon.
/ The funeral was attended from the
| Catholic church yesterday morning.
Mrs. |. V. Woodbury., representing the
| American Home Missionary association,
/ spoke at the Congregational church sun
day morning on missionary work in the
mountain regions of the South and in the
evening talked of the work among the
Indians Tuesday afternoon she addressed
the ladies' of the local missionary society
at the Congregational parsonage.
- Philo 5. Severance died Wednesday
evening at his home three miles elst of
the village, aged d wears. He had been
i'll only since saturday with pneumonia.
| Mr.. Severance was an exceptionally
capable, upright and useful man, whose
death is a serious loss to the community.
The arrangements for the funeral have
not been made as we go to press.
On Wednesday evening, March l., at 5
o'clock parlJr musical under the direc-
ton of members of the Ladies' Library
association will be given at Prof. McGil-
toms residence on Court street: admis-
sion, 30 cents. The public is cordially
Invited. The programme will consist of
vocal and Instrumental selections, two
pianos being used in duets and quartets.
These officers of Union lodge, No. =,
F. and A. NJ, were elected March l &:
Charles j. Matthews, w. NJ; Edward H.
Martin, ). W.; Robert NJ. Mills, j. w.
Charles E. Pinney, treasurer; VIM. II.
Brewster, secretary Daniel G. Noble, S.
D.; +. ID. Cloyes, j. D.; }. +. Weeks,
chaplain; +. j. Hubbard, marshal; J. q.
Dickinson, S. s.. j. E. Buttolph, j. S.
j. NJ. Peck. tyler.
Mr.. Darwin Rider on Wednesday sold
the Addison House and all its belongings
to Messrs. Robert Cartmell and Allan
Calhoun. The new owners will take
possession April l. They VIII thor
Oughly repair the house and barns,
fitting the house with steam-heating APP
paratus and making a new dining room
Their plans for lettering the property
are not, however, fully perfected MS yet
Mr. Bissell, the present excellent land
3 lord, is TO remain.
3 The Lenten services at st. Stephen:
Episcopal church will include morning
, prayer every morning at $3.50 o'clock
) evensong every afternoon at 1 :l5 O'Clock
with Instruction on Tuesdays and on Wed
nesdays meditation by Father Grabal
of Vergennes. Friday evenings at 30
y o'clock evensong and address follow
ed by "The Penitential Office" A
K st. Marys Roman Catholic churcl
there will be mass on Ash Wednesday
at 0 o'clock, and on every other weel
# day morning at s o'clock After mas
:. on Sundays and at 80 o'clock every
Friday evening there will be the sta
tions of the cross and benediction.