Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-01
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Miss Merle Brooks of Bristol is a guest
of Mrs. NJ. A. Brooks.
H. E. Bissell of the Addison was in
New York over Sunday.
Miss Ethel Waterman of Brattleboro
is guest at F. A. Bonds this week.
Fred Becllwth is home from Worces-
ter, Mass. He is student at Worcester
academy.
Mrs. Theodore Henckels is entertain
ing her sister, Mrs. Verbeck of SYRIA
cuse, n. Y.
W. w. Wood of Boston, Mass, arrived
on Saturday last. lie is with his family
at the Addison.
Miss Alice Lyman of Orange, who
has been visiting at Chas. Lymans, has
returned home.
Carl Mead, who has been attending
the Harvard Law school the past year, is
home for vacation.
Mrs. J. NJ. Thomas of East Orange, n.
j., is with her parents at the family
home on South street.
Mrs. John Higgins. who has been
visiting in Arlington for a fortnight
past, is once more at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Wood and daugh-
ter of Boston are guests of Prof. and
Mrs. McGilton at the Addison.
Miss Harriet Williamson started on
Tuesday for Minerva, n. y. where she
has position for the summer.
A new laundry has been started in the
basement of the Mcleod block under the
firm name of Gorham & Goodro.
Misses Ella and Mabel Bond returned
home Monday, the former from Holyoke
and the latter from New York.
The country roads are in a very dusty
condition, an evidence of poor road-build-
ing material entering into them.
Misses May and Anna Sullivan have
returned from Boston, Mass, where
they have been for several months.
Prof. and Mrs. w. W. Eaton were in
attendance at the commencement ex-
ercises of Amhurst college this week.
Dennis Rochfort is home for the sum-
mer. He has been attending the Bur-
lington Business college the past year.
j. H. Campbell started yesterday
morning for Atlantic City, n. j., where
he has an engagement for the summer.
Marcus Allen of Boston is here for a
months vacation. He is the guest of
his wife's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Buckley.
Prof. and Mrs. E. H. Higley of
Groton, Mass, are visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Higley on
South street.
George G. Gill, formerly of the REGIS
TER force, has gone to Bethlehem, n. H.,
where he has position in a summer
hotel as menu printer.
Bread Loaf Inn and the Lake Dunmore
hotels are filling up for the summer.
The hot spell is driving the city people to
the country
Yesterday mornings trains carried
away the bulk of the transient popula-
ton which was with us during COM
mencement week
VIII Commo of Cornwall, who has
been working at X. A. Foot's, had his
second finger taken off by hay-carrier
pulley running over it.
Hon. A. B. Hepburn of New York has
presented the local college with a check
for $500 to be applied to the fund for
erecting a science building.
James Chatterton had his left hand
badly lacerated by meat-hook in
MoOre's market on Monday. The hook
passed completely through the hand.
By the payment of twenty-five cents,
any scholar in the public schools of Mid
dlebury may draw books from the Ladies'
library during the summer vacation.
Seymour Edgerton, class of 'ss Middle
bury, is among the alumni who have
been drawn back to the old town by
commencement. He is now practlcing
law in Chicago.
Henry II. Seeley, who was among the
honor men of his class at the medical de-
partment of the University of Vermont,
Wednesday took his degree of NJ. d. at
the university.
The Glen House at East Middlebury
will give dance on the evening of the
July 4. 1t promises to be up to the
standard of that hostelry, and will give
the young people pleasant close to the
day.
The pestiferous forest-worm has about
disappeared. He will, however, soon
transform himself into a moth and lay
enough eggs to insure his multiplying a
thousand fold next year. Kill him.
Prof. and Miss Chickering of Washing
ton reached here on Wednesday after