Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-09-09

will start from in front of DR.. Sheldon's
residence on Main street and run to the
river below the falls.
f. II. Winch, whose plucky little mare,
Sarah Jane, came In second I'm one of the
heats of the free-for-all at the fair last
week entered the animal for the Man
chester races this week
Miss Chckering, who has been spend
ing the summer at Bread Loaf and with
her sister Mrs. Beadell, In this village,
left Wednesday for North Andover to
visit at the summer home of W. II.
Russell.
Mrs. \. a. Smead of Salisbury has
night-blooming cereus, six feet in height,
which has borne seventeen large bios
SONS the present season, eight bios
SONS opening one evening and six
another.
Letters addressed as follows are at the
post office: Miss Josephine Beuregard,
Mr.. VIII Croake, Mr.. 5. b. Kendall Mr..
G. w. Miltmore, VIM. Pecu, J. r. Row
land, F. A. Tatro
Fred Beatty. the Western Union tele-
graph operator at Marshall's, who has
had an attack of typhoid fever, is now
much improved. Oeta, the daughter of
A. II. Langworthy, who also had the
fever, is gaining rapidly.
Melancthon Turner, brother of Miss
Juliette Turner of this village. died at
his home in Amsterdam, y. Y, on Mon
day, and the remains were brought here
for interment on Wednesday. He for
merly resided here and was 60 years of
age.
Miss Mabel Bond left for New York
Friday night to resume her vocal studies.
Her duties In the church choir required
her singing couple of solos last Sunday,
an engagement which she fulfilled in
spite of the intense heat of that day in
the metropolis.
During the shower of Tuesday evening
there was one stroke of lightning of eX-
traordinary vividness, followed at an in
terval of several seconds by clap of
thunder of stunning violence. Our Rip
ton correspondent refers TO it, and it may
have struck over in that direction.
The work of tearing down the thick
stone walls of the old cotton mill near
the falls began last Saturday. The
method followed was that of looping a
chain over sections of the wall and pull
ing them down with a windlass. The
process has been watched with interest
by crowds during the week.
We would once more call the attention
of our citizens to the necessity and de-
STABILITY of keeping down the weeds
next the side walks in front of their
properties. At this time the weeds are
going to seed, and if left to themselves
will be much more difficult to handle
next season.
The usual election night phenomenon
was witnessed last Tuesday evening"
when a large number of citizens were
overtaken by that dread disease, locomo-
tor ataXa, and had to be assisted home.
A popularity of the disease in Vermont
is that it is customarily accompanied by
an odor strongly resembling alcohol.
The first letter pOstmarked at the new
postoflice at Anvik. Alaska, was received
at the Middlebury office Sept. ,. a
mail route has been established by the
government through the Yukon valley,
and now letters are carried from the
head waters of the river as far as Tanana
once in two weeks, and from that point
to st. Michael once a month.
a reunion of the members OF COM
panies B and f, 9TH Vermont volunteers
of the Civil war, will be held in Middle
bury on Sept. lG. Headquarters will be
at the room of the w. p. Russell post on
Mill street. Comrades of the 9TH and
other regiments are invited to attend.
All should come with canteens and
haversacks filled. Communication may
be addressed to Pres. j. ). Chandler,
Ripton, or G.. 4. Youtt secretary, Mid
dlebury.