Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-09-23
CHAPMAN g. co.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.


Charles Severance is spending a fort
night in the Adirondacks.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. a. Fletcher have been
spending a week in the Adrondacks.
Miss L. \. Goodrich is in New York
this week buying goods for her millinery
shop.
The arc electric lights were turned on
for the first time since the shutdown last
Monday night.
E.P. Cushman has been in New York
this week on business. He is expected
back tomorrow.
Dr. /. f. Melen and VIM. Duncan at
tended the great Odd Fellows meeting
in Boston this week.
Geo. Barton has been improving his
house on Seymour street by coat of
paint, outside and inside.
Misses Jessie Branerd and Maud Mel
len left Oh Monday for Northampton,
Mass, to enter Smith college.
Miss Sadie Kimbal went to Everett,
Mass, Tuesday, where she will attend
The Home school the coming year.
Dan McCarthy's Irish Comedy COM
pany is booked to appear at the opera
house on the evenings of Oct. and 6.
Rev. VIM. T. Snyder of Washington is
expected to hold services with COM
munion at st. Stephens, next Sunday.
The Rlpton election contest, called for
Monday before Justice Moore, did not
take place. The matter was settled at
home.
Misses Daisy Cushman and Jessie Lane
have entered a young ladies school at
London, Ontario, and left for that city on
Monday.
Mrs. C. L. Nutting and son Harold left
Monday morning for Independence, Ia,
to visit Mrs. Nutting's mother, Mrs. NJ.
A Bissell.
Mrs. Abby Piper wife of thelate David
Piper, is with her daughter, Mrs. W. W..
Carr, in Adams, Mass. She is in quite
feeble health.
Rev. Geo. E. Ladd of Waterbury on
Monday joined Mrs. Ladd, who was Wis
iting Mrs. Beadell and remained over I'M
til Wednesday.
f. A. Locke of Brown university and
Mr.. Morse of the Boston "Tech will
coach the Middlebury college football
team this season.
The Y. w. G. A. of the local college
gave a reception to the young ladies of
the entering class last Saturday at the
associations rooms.
Miss Rietta Allis, who has spent the
summer at Bread Loaf, left Tuesday for
! mil ir1a xt-ith
an aunt on Long Island.
Monday afternoon was marked by eX-
ceedingly black clouds and fog to such
an extent as to require the use of lamps
in the middle of the afternoon.
The members of the college faculty
and their wives were pleasantly enter
tanned by President and Mrs. Branerd at
Springside last Friday evening.
F. F. Shepard is once more behind the
register at the Hotel Addison. Hermon
Smith leaves for the L. V. NJ. next week.
DR.. Ernest Albee, who has spent the
summer here, returned on Monday to
Ithaca. n. Y, to resume his duties as an
instructor in Cornell university.
Quite number of the members of
Lake Dunmore lodge, |. o. o. F. went to
Vergennes last Friday to assist in the
institution of new lodge at that place.
Mrs. S. Patchen and Miss Reynolds of
New York left on Monday for their
home, after spending part of the sum-
iner as the guests of Col. and Mrs. A. A.
Fletc cher.
Deputy Sheriff Cobb went over to Port
Henry last week and returned on Thurs
day with one Twombly, charged with
horse stealing. The prisoner was incar-
cerated in the county lookup to await a
hearing.
Frank Shackett was at last accounts
hunting for single carriage with horse
attached thereto. During the circus he
hitched the horse near the court house
and it wasn't there when he went for it.
Judging from the reports of speed
: made at the various fairs throughout the
state, none have been able to meet the
figures made on the Middebury track
during our fair-not within five or six
seconds.
Before 10 o'clock of Tuesday night
mond's barn on Washington street and
distracted therefrom. a couple of horse
blankets and pair of overalls. 1t was
cold night
Letters with the following addresses
= are at the post office unclaimed; Miss
Florence NJ. Drake, Miss E. B. Dullea
Mrs. Emma McCurtey, Mr. c. E. Rea, d