Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-05-14
Chapman & Co,
LOCAL NEWS.

A pension has Just been granted to MIR.
James Howker of this village.
The foundations for the addition to the
Addison house have been completed.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Adams are re-
ioicing over the birth of a nine-pound
son last Monday.
Rev. r. G. Russell of Roadstown, N.
j, who officiated at the Baptist church
last Sunday, will preach there again
next Sunday.
An operetta is to be given at the town
hall on the evening Of June 3 under the
auspices of the ladies of the Congrega-
tiona church.
Fred Taylor, employed in the upper
mill of the Green Mountain Pulp COM
pany, was hit on the head by a large
block of wood and quite severely hurt
last week Thursday afternoon.
The Labaree society will hold a meet
ing at the lecture room of the Congrega-
tional church at o'clock tomorrow (Sat-
urday) afternoon. Important business
is to come up for consideration, and
full attendance is desired.
The w. c. T. L. will hold their annual
meeting in the lecture room of the
Methodist church on Wednesday, May
| 10. at 3 o'clock p. m. full attendance
is earnestly requested. Members will
please bear in mind that the annual fee
is due at this time.
The village and school district meet
! ings at the town hall on Tuesday even
/ ing, the 18th, should not be forgotten.
The committee on the water-works in
take and that appointed to prepare plans
for providing additional school accom-
modations will then report.
There were frosts here Friday ard
Saturday mornings, the mercury falling
to - during Thursday night and to %
Friday night. Warmer, rainy weather
has prevailed since Monday. MANY
fruit trees are in blossom and vegetation
of all sorts is coming forward rapidly.
The town of Salisbury has the honor
of having once been a slave-holding
town. A family coming from Connect
cut in the last century brought a slave
with them that lived and died in that
town. The Sheldon museum has the
bill of sale. dated 1888 The price
named was go
The Westport. y. Y. base ball nine
and the college club will play game on
the college grounds here at 30 o'clock TO.
morrow afternoon. These two clubs
had game at Westport on Saturday last
of which the Westport men were winners
by score of to 6.
The water works will be shut down at
noon tomorrow Saturday and will
probably remain shut till Sunday noon
The object is TO clean out the wheels and
also to permit the committee appointed
to report on the intake to make a thor.
Ough examination of the whole plant.
The village trustees at their regular
meeting on Wednesday evening passed
the following vote: THAT bicyclers be
prohibited from riding on the sidewalk:
from the Congregational church to the
school house, from coasting in the parl
in front of the Addison house. and from
riding on any sidewalk at rate of speed
exceeding six miles an hour-this bylaw
to be rigidly enforced by the village
police"
Mr.. VIM. Jackson now knows that HI
+. doesn't care for hedgehog as pet IL,
formerly entertained the contrary opinion
, and asked some of his friends out east Il
bring him Que. While he was at churcl
: last Sunday hedgehog was left at hi
home, and on his return he let the ami
NAL loose. Before the artist had learned
TO drive the hog the latter succeeded il
! getting a slap at Mr.. Jackson's leg Will
Il its tail. The artist and his family spen
the rest of the day in pulling the quill
l. out of the leg, - of them requiring eX
:. traction.
The Rutland Railroad company has is
sued a handsome book, 1.-The Heart o
. the Green Mountains. 1t has 1876 page
p 8 by IL inches, and nearly 80 large half
> tone reproductions of photographs ant
crayons. The letter-press, much o
which is of permanent value, describe
e the towns on the line from Bellows Fall
}; to Burlington, and also places of interes
u reached by this route. There is also
list of summer hotels and boarding
houses and much other matter of interes
to people who travel. No finer work o
l. the sort has ever been issued In NeN
c England. One copy of the book will
! sent to any address for II two-cen
l. stamps by E. B. Aldrich, G. P. A., Rul
land.
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