Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-26
CHAPMAN & 60.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fred Beatty, the Western Union mes
senger, is down with the typhoid.
DR.. Norman Seaver will preach in the
Congregational church next Sunday.
Miss Mabel Bond sang at a concert
given at Brandon on Tuesday evening.
Hon. f. j. Phelps was in the village
this week on his way to Bread Loaf Inn.
Geo. McIugh of Boston, formerly of
Middlebury, is passing his vacation in
town.
Mrs. w. II. Nichols from Rensselaer,, n.
Y, is at II. a. Peck's for a two weeks
visit.
President and Mrs. Ezra Branerd are
spending the week in Boston and
vicinity.
Alfred Woodward of the Sheldon
pharmacy is taking a well-earned rest of
a couple of weeks.
A good soaking rain was that of Tues
day and Wednesday, and it freshened
things up amazingly.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Lane of Troy. n.
Y. have been spending a few days with
relatives in this village.
En- Bssel was in the village during
the week. He has Just returned from his
annual trip to Australia.
Prof W. b. Wright reached home
Wednesday evening from a three weeks
visit in Boston and vicinity.
| Merlin Morrison leaves for his home
/ in Albany today, after having passed
ten days with his mother here.
spending the past month on the Maine
coast, is expected home this week.
Miss Grace Ware returned Monday
morning from two-weeks vacation
spent at her home in Massachusetts.
c. NJ Wilds was in Burlington Tues
day in attendance in the meeting of cred
itors of the defunct Vermont Investment
company.
The work of tearing out of the old
wooden dume and the replacing by fire
steel one began Monday and is progress.
ing rapidly.
y. j. Piper and wife will next week go
to Boston. They expect to meet their
son Kirk there on the arrival of the lit
tie warship Detroit next Tuesday.
The season for prize vegetables is at
hand, and we start the ball by Offering
two tomatoes weighing together three
pounds from the garden of John Hayes.
Jesse II Campbell, who for some weeks
past has been engaged with an Atlantic
City orchestra. returned on Monday and
reassumes his place in Attorney Bliss
office.
VIM. and Ed. LarOck stopped of to
visit their parents when the Brandon
company of volunteers passed through
here Sunday They went on to camp
Monday.
Edgar w. Payne is in the county
bastile charged with horsestealing, John
Geary being the plaintiff. He is held
for the next term of county court in de-
fault of bail.
Fred Nash and Martin Hayes, two of
the Vermont volunteers from this viii
lage, were home on a twenty-four hours
leave on Tuesday. The former is out of
the hospital, after a siX-weels' sickness.
The marketing of this years shearlng
of wool has given a good opportunity to
Judge of the extent of the industry in
this vicinity. Huge loads of the fleece
may be seen on our streets almost daily.
DR.. and Mrs. Leigh Hunt of New York,
who have been passing a month at Bread
Loaf Inn, left yesterday noon for the
south. They will visit Great Darlington,
Mass, for few weeks before returning
to New York.
Readers interested in the weather re-
ports will notice popularity in the
figures for AIiddlebury Wednesday.
About noon there was a Jump of seven
degrees in fifteen minutes, and the wind
shifted to all points in a very short time,
Letters with the following addresses
are at the post office unclaimed Wallace
} Dewey, Miss Josephine Gibson, Mr.. j.
Kirkpatrick, Cornelius Ladue, Leno La
deau, Mrs. Jennie Perkins, Mr.. George
Sanders, w. E. Storms, Lizzie Witherell.
Prof. j. w. ChIckering left Saturday
for Burlington, where he filled the pull
pit of the first Congregational church on
Sunday. From there he went to Boston
Monday to attend the meeting of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science.
The Vermont troops arrived In the
state from the south Sunday and passed
through Middlebury during the after
noon. Among the sick are listed Fred
Nash and VIII Buckley of this village,
They are being taken care of at Camp
Olympia near Burlington.