Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-03-04
CHAPMAN & CO.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Jesse Campbell has entered the law
office of w. II. Bliss.
j. w. Stewart was in Boston on bust
ness during the week.
The Fortnightly club will meet with
Miss Jessie Brainerd next Monday.
There was kinetoscope entertainment
at the opera house Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Charles Dewey of Burlington
spent few days this week with Miss
Calender.
G. d. Miner left Tuesday for New
York on business trip, to be gone all
the week.
Miss Bertha Cady is in Brooklyn, n.
Y, visiting friends. She expects to re-
main some time.
Mrs. Alice Rawson of Saratoga was
visiting friends and relatives in the vii
lage during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. JAS. Nancy, who have
been visiting in Rutland for some time,
returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. B. F. Sutton and Miss Frances
Sutton will entertain the senior class of
the college this evening.
Mrs. John Thompson and children left
Wednesday for West Rutland, where Mr..
Thompson has position.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Abernethy has gone to
Brooklyn to spend several weeks with
her son, DR.. J. w. Abernethy.
Fred Langworthy, who has been visit
ing for couple of weeks in New York
state and POultney, has returned.
Miss Susan Mead of Burlington was
the guest of Miss Mabel Kingsley the
past week. She returned home We'd
nesday.
Miss Alice Brainerd. who has been
visiting her sister at Great Darlington,
Mass, since last December, is once more
at home.
The next meeting of the Century club,
which is also the last for the season. will
be held at Prof. Burt's Wednesday even
ing, March 8.
President Brainerd was in Easthamp-
ton, Mass, on Wednesday to lecture be-
fore the students of an educational in
stitution there.
Letters with these addresses are at the
postoffice unclaimed; l.. B. Allen, Mr..
Ii. Clay, John Celet, Henry Bourgeois,
Mr.. E. l.. Brown, Il. l.. Kinney, Rewben
Remele.
Horse-buyers from Rhode Island were
in town this week looking for driving
stock for the Providence market. They
found about dozen good horses which
they shipped from here
Miss Bertha Brainerd, who has for
some time been preceptress of school
at Great Darlington, Mass, has left that
position and is now instructor in history
in the high school of Natick, Mass.
Clifford Sear'es of West Cornwall was
IrF ,I,o 1
with illegal voting, it being alleged that
he is under age. He waived examination
and was released under bond of 500.
A big four-in-hand sleigh-load from
Brandon, consisting of twenty ladies
and gentlemen, were in the village We'd
nesday evening and took supper at the
Addison, returning home by moonlight.
The Y. 2. S. c. E. of the Baptist
church wish to express their thanks to
their many friends whose assistance
made it possible for them to entertain
the recent County Christian Endeavor
convention.
The names of the boys who took some
silver coins from the Sheldon museum
without permission are now known.
We are requested to say that they or
their parents can settle by leaving the
SOluo III pOobOlhSS'
The debate at the Case street school
house last week on the subject OF the
liquor law was decided in favor of pro-
hbition, as against high license, on the
merits of the question as presented by
the debators.
Notwithstanding the storm of Wednes-
day night of last week, between sixty
and seventy of the friends and neighbors
of d. G. Foster gathered at his home in
the south part of the town to remind him
that it was his fOrtleth birthday and help
him to celebrate the event. :
Mrs. W. b. Rose, aged n years, died
Sunday evening at her home on Court
street. Last Friday she suffered stroke
of paralysis from which there was no
recovery. The funeral was held at the
family residence Tuesday afternoon,
Rev. A. w. Dickens officiating. The
remains were laid to rest in the West
! cemetery.
S>Ehe matter of introducing the card
catalog system into the ladies library is
under advsement. The system is In use
in all first-class Libraries, and the man
ayers are of opinion that the local insti-
tuition has reached a size which makes
the system not only desirable but a
necessity for the proper classification
and shelving of books for prompt and
easy location.
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