Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-08

rent year: Foreman, George Kidder
first assistant, William holland second
assistant, Charles f. Rich treasurer, E.
E.. Turner; clerk, George w. Rose.
OF the % persons who died in the viii
lage and school district during the past
year, four were over so years old, four
between 20 and so and six between GO
and 20. Four died of old age, the oldest.
James Roach, being 81 years and 3
months.
As will be seen by the notice in an.
other column, the membership fee of the
Ladies' library has been reduced to 81 a
year, for which sum 1t hould be under
stood that any one, woman or man, may
have the use of the books for a year.
The library will be open only on Satur-
days from now till May.
George Cove of East Middlebury had a
hearing at the probate office here on
Wednesday on the charge of having set
fire to the house Of II. II. Ellis in East
Middlebury on Monday night. Suf-
ficlent evidence was not forthcoming to
warrant the holding of the respondent,
who was discharged.
The funeral of Mrs. L. II. Stowe was
attended at 10 o'clock yesterday morn
llR lIOIl lnG ItSlltICG VI utI uduRlltI,
Mrs. Braine:d II. Lane, Rev. d. A. Bon
mar, the rector of st. Stephens, con-
Quoting the service. Mrs. Stowe, who
had been in falling health for a long
time, died in Burlington on Tuesday.
Her age was GO years.
There will be a meeting of the Ethan
Allen chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution mex Saturday
afternoon, Jan. 0, at 3 o'clock, at the res
idence of Mrs. Fletcher Chapman. A
paper upon Ethan Allen will be read by
the chapter historian, Mrs. McGilton,
and business of importance transacted.
Letters addressed as follows are at the
post.office unclaimed Don G. Need
ham, Mary II. Vanderbilt, G. L. Thomas,
Paul Shackett, Alison Norton, Il. w.
Sellman, Il. L. Patrick, Messrs. Z. Nc
Avity & Sons, d. NJ. Goshen (3), Victor
King, John j.. Geary, Mrs. Edwards,
Henry Eastman, O. b. Cushing, Henry
Cook, Mary Jane Casey, Jacob Sleeper.
An alarm was sounded shortly before
midnight Thursday, Dec. 81, because of
the discovery of fire in a barn OF the
premises of Mr.. l.. y. Howard, Seminary
street. The tiremen turned out promptly,
but the structure was almost entirely
consumed. The origin of the fire is un-
known. The alarm almost created a
panic at the town hall, where the Odd
Fellows dance was in progress.
The c. f. of the Baptist church will
have the fourth number of its lecture
course on Friday evening, January 10;
subject, "rhe soldier and the Citizen
by Rev. c. B. Atwood, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Whitehall, n.
Y. He is not a stranger to many of our
people and comes highly recommended
by those who have known and heard
him elsewhere. His lecture treats of
patriotism in its ~genuineness.
These officers for the ensuing year
were elected at the annual meeting of
the Battell Hose company, which was
held Tuesday evening: Foreman, Mark
Bissette first assistant, Patrick ROtch-
ford second assistant, Frederick Nassau:
treasurer, Frank Il. Stone; clerk, Cyril
Brunette; pipemen, Frank X. Stone,
Gilbert Dumas and Richard Bedor; hv-
drant men, Joseph LamOrder, Frank
Trudeau and Cyril Brunette; delegate to
State convention, Cyril Brunette.
A new timetable will go into effect on
the railroad next Sunday. The only
changes are in the afternoon and even
ing rains south. The mixed, which
now arrives here at 1896 in the evening,
will under the new arrangement leave
Burlington at 40 in the afternoon and
arrive at Middlebury at 3 ;5S; while the
passenger train now reaching here at
i 20 in the afternoon will leave Bur-
lington at $3.50 and get here at G:5l.
The time of all other passenger trains
will be the same as now.
The blizzard which ragged the first of
the week from Kansas nOrthward into
Minnesota was much diminished in force
when it reached us Tuesday night. The
temperature went below freezing and
Wednesday morning enough fell
to whiten the ground. In Nergennes
there was a fall of nearly a foot. while
Bristol got six inches. The roads about
here, which had been hard and smooth
for weeks, are rough and bad in conse.
quence of the thaw on Monday and
Tuesday. The ice harvest on the creek.
which was well under way last week,
had to be suspended on Monday and has
not been resumed.
Mr.. A. h. Carr, the produce buyer, IN
an interview yesterday on the situation.
said in substance: prices of all articles
of produce saleable in Vermont are and
will cOntiBue to be very low and the
sooner producers know this fact the
Deller IL VIII oe LOT Jnehl' as they nau
better sell perishable products now
rather than hold till later, stand the
shrink and sell them at the same price.
At this station potatoes must sell at 20
cents or be let alone. Apples are scarce
ly saleable at any price, but 80 or GO
cents a barrel would be an outside price.
Onions are better and GO TO - cents
could be paid for them. Hay cannot be
handled at over So down to Sc. Live
stock continues on the same basis Hogs,