Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-04-08
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.


in Brandon.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Seely is visiting friends
at Orange, n. j.
A canoe will be given this evening at
school-house hall.
George Hammond is up from Boston
for the week. He will return on Monday.
Bisbee's pharmacy is being painted in
side and out, very much improving its
appearance.
Miss Bertha Brainerd was at home
this week from her school work at
Natick, Mass.
Benedct's silver "drawing" took place
Tuesday and Mrs. J. IIrisko secured the
tea set of silver.
Mrs. George Walker, who has spent
several weeks in Washington, returned
home this week.
Moseey & Bigelow, the Burlington
merchants, have resumed their advertis-
ing in the REGISTER.
Sheep men of the surrounding towns
are busy getting llocks together to ship
to Australia for the July auctions.
President Brainerd will fill the Con-
gregational pulpit at Shoreham on Easter
Sunday and the Sunday following.
II. A. lIinman is representing the Chi
Psi fraternity Of the local college at the
national conclave in Philadelphia this
week.
DR.. Noble has removed his Office from
the Addison house to the residence of
Edward Brown near the Congregational
church.
/ A new tobacco store has been opened
in the rooms formerly occupied by G. f.
Elliott's music store in the Y. NJ. G. A.
building.
/ Mrs. William Jackson was in Randolph
during the past week to attend the funer-
al of a cousin, the wife of Professor
Morrell
Allan Calhoun is in New York looking
up the Blanchard stove business with a
view to starting a foundry here at an
early date.
Garden making, yard-ceaning and
house painting indicate that in spite of
the weather our citizens believe spring
has arrived.
Professor Burt delivered a paper on
j ICSilO uuSl VI NNlilOhN pNACiN biN
/ Harvard botanical club at the university
in Cambridge Tuesday.
There will be a social at the parlors of
the NJ. +. church Friday evening, April
10 general good time is expected.
All are cordially invited.
Fast Day being "A legal holiday, the
post office will be open to-day Only from
to 10: 80 a. m, and from to 80 p IN.
The night mail will close at 6 80.
Mrs. w. w. Beadell took the Tuesday
night sleeper" for New York where she
will spend week visiting before going
on to Washington for a months stay.
At the special village on Tuesday even
ing last il was voted to contract with the
Mddlebury Electric Light company to
light the village streets for the next ten
years.
Mrs. \. W. Wooley and Miss Edna
Wooiey are home from New York,
They are at the Addison House while
their home is being put in readiness for
the summer.
The matter of the Brandon marble
company coming to Mddlebury is in a
fair way to a successful issue. When
matters are settled finally we shall have
more to say on the subject,
Cuba and the war question formed the
subj ct of the morning sermon at the
congregational church, and in the even.
ing j. w. Stewart and Prof Howard
spoke on the same matters.
There are many methods of advertis-
ing, but one less calculated to "draw"
than that of the glass.front cabinet filled
with teeth, which a travelling dentist dis
played on the streets recently, it would
be difficult to find.
Attention is called to the advertisement
in this issue of the Burlington savings
bank. The state has called upon all saw
ings banks to call in deposit books and
verify them, and this bank desires to full
fill the requirements of the law.
The first printed almanac in Europe
was prepared for the king of Hungary in
1875 A. D, and continued until 1906.
The Sheldon museum has one bound in
one volume from lGil to 1870; also as ct
from 1880 to the present time.
John Murphy has bought the Rafferty,
place on South street of the Martin es-
tate. Consideration $3.50 He will at
once commence to tear down the re
mains of the house now on the premises
and will build new house this summer.
Last Saturday the pulp-mlll's great
float of logs was started down the river.
Crowds gathered on the bridge to watch
the big timbers go over the falls. A
small jam was formed against one of the
piers of the stone bridge, and the efforts
of gang of lOggers to dislOdge it also
proved an interesting spectacle. Most of
the logs caught in the basin below the
falls and still remains there.