Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-29
QUEER CHAPMAN.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Theodore Monroe is camping with
party at Lake Dunmore.
Harry and Theodore Wells are in camp
near Ferrisburg this week.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. a. II.
Bristol on Wednesday of this week.
Prof G.. b. Wright left yesterday for
Boston, to be gone for couple of
weeks.
G. :. Wainwright spent Sunday and
Monday with the fishermen on knights
Island.
Prof and Miss Chickering and Mrs.
Beadell are visiting friends at Water
bury, Vt.
Services will be held at St. Stephens
church next Sunday, conducted by Rev.
Mr.. Cliff.
Mrs. Philip Manchester reached here
Tuesday for visit with her aunt, Mrs.
Dugald Stewart.
District Attorney L. p Hale and wife
of Canton, n. Y, are guests at H. \.
Peck's this week.
Rev. NJ. l.. Severance, who has been
in the village since commencement week,
has returned home.
Benjamin H. Bickwell, clerk in Cush-
mans store, is spending his vacation at
his home in Bristol.
c. NJ. Wilds has been in attendance
at the L. 5. circuit court sessions this
week az Brattleboro.
Seymour Edgerton of Chicago left for
New York Wednesday, after a months
visit with his mother
Pres. Murkland will go to New Haven
Sunday to hold services in the Congre-
gational church there.
Rev. VIM. B. Cliff and family of Ke-
vance, ILL.,, are expected to spend Sun
day at Mrs. Edgerton's.
Miss Estelle NJ. Williams of Bridport
recently spent several days with Mr..
and Mrs. X. 5. Benedict.
Rev. and Mrs. A, w. Dickens have left
for their summer vacation. They will
spend it at the sea-shore.
The laundry firm of Gorham & Goodro
has been dissolved, and Mr. Gorham will
conduct it alone hereafter.
Pres. and Mrs. Ezra Brainerd left We'd
nesday morning for South Hero to spend
a week in camp near there
Miss Hattie Mead accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. f. H. Thorp on their outing at
the head of the lake last week.
Rev. S. S. Cobb of Morrstown, n. y,
will preach in the NJ. f. church next
Sunday at the forenoon service.
Mrs Timothy Neville of Vergennes
has been visiting at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Negus, during the week.
The summer school of methods for
teachers begins its sessions at Bristol
pext Monday and continues until
Aug. ID.
Miss Sara Barnes accompanied Presi-
dent and Mrs. Brainerd to Knights
island on Wednesday for short outing
in camp.
Mrs. Mary Hale of St. Paul, Mimi.
after a visit of several months at her
brothers, Col. A. A. Fletcher's, left
Wednesday.
The work on the new marble mill is
progressing rapidly. Grading the land
is the principal occupation of men and
teams at this time.
Mrs. r. B. Langdon of Minneapolis
| recently visited friends and relatives in
town. She leaves soon with her daughter
for European trip.
Roy Howard occupies the position of
clerk in a seaside hotel at Rye Beach.
He is not so very far from the Spanish
prison camp at Portsmouth.
The announcement is made of the
birth of son to Mr.. and Mrs Robert
Mills of Brandon, formerly of this place.
The event occurred the 23d inst.
Several cases of typhoid fever are re-
ported in the village. Miss Madeline
Foote, daughter of Fred Foote and
Julian Reynolds are among them.
Rev. w. n. T. Dean and family left
yesterday for their former home in
Orange, Mass. Mr.. Dean has sold his
property here to Mrs. A. c. Beach.
Ex-Gov. j. w. Stewart was in Rutland
Tuesday to attend the annual meeting
of the Rutland railroad stockholders.
He was reelected to a position on the
board of directors.
The residence of John Sperry at Corn
wall was DESTROYED by fire on Wednes-