Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-15
QUEER CHAPMAN.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF,

Miss Viola Branerd has gone to Clare
mont, n. H.. to VISIT
Philip b. Stewart of Boston has been
the guest of his parents during the
week.
Presiding Elder j. j. Noe of Rutland
held services in the NJ. E. church last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cartmell have
gone to Thompson's Point for the
summer.
Mrs. Charles Wright and daughter
have gone to Akron, o., to spend the
summer.
Mrs. J. NJ. Slade left on Tuesday for
the west. She will visit relatives in
Wisconsin.
We had a narrow escape from frost
Monday night, the mercury getting
down to 80 degrees.
F. j. Hubbard, head clerk at Pine
Hall, is spending a weeks vacation with
relatives in Whiting.
Miss Sophie Wilds met with a painful
fall from her bicycle Tuesday, which re-
suited in dislOcated shoulder.
Married, at the NJ. +. parsonage, July
0, by Rev. j. c. Gooding, Oscar NJ. Farr
and Iona Richards, both of New Haven.
Mrs. D McGregor Means gave a large
ly attended tea last Friday afternoon at
her summer home on Washington street.
Several carloads of marble chips have
been unlOaded on the new marble mill
side track, to be used in walllng the
same.
Rev. w. n. 7. Dean is about to move
back to Orange, Mass. He advertses
his residence for sale in our local notice
columns.
Prof. Samuel Sheldon and family
reached here from Brooklyn Saturday.
They will spend the summer at Lake
Dunmore.
Mrs. Junius Severance of Colorado,
who has been the guest of Oliver Sever
ance for short time, left this week to
visit other relatives in New York state.
East NIddlebury has a new firm in
Yale q Turner, wood-wOrkers. They
make their bow to the public in an ad-
vertisement in this issue of the REGISTER.
Mrs. George Beatty left last week to
join her husband at Stonebridge, Conn.,,
where he has been appointed station
agent on the New Haven and Hartford
road.
Died, at his home in Bridport, early on
Friday morning, July s, 1898, Nathan
S. Bennett, in the seth year of his age.
Obituary will appear in next weeks
issue of the REGISTER
Prof. j. w. and Miss Frances Chicken
ing returned from the Adirondacks We'd
nesday. They will spend part of the
the summer visiting Prof. Chickering's
daughter, Mrs. Beaded.
The college corporation will erect
new dwelling house this summer. 1t
will be located south of the students
eating hall, and when finished will prob
ably be occupied by Prof. Wright.
The farmers of the vicinity have i'm.
proved the fine weather of the past two
weeks to do their haying. Many loads
have been brought to town on contract
and the village scales have been in great
demand for weighing.
The grass and weeds have grown to
NOhSiuOio blC hClSht dlOuS lndu1 slut
walks in the village, and besides being
unsightly are apt to soil the skirts of
ladies passing on the sidewalks. The
owners of property facing the streets
should see that the grass is kept cut.
William Matthews, a resident of this
town, had a stroke of apoplexy Monday
afternoon and died at an early hour
Tuesday morning. His funeral was held
at o'clock Wednesday afternoon from
his late residence, the remains being
taken to his old home In Cornwall for
burial.
The MlddlebuTy band has been en-
gagged as the official band for the State
Firemen's Association tournament, which |
takes place here on Thursday next. |
Already there has been large number
of entries for the hose races, and the |
indications are that the tournament
will be one of the most successful in the |
history of the association.
Much trouble is being created by the
unusual low water in Otter creek. Just |
year ago this week the water was
above the danger line and floods were