Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-05-06
P, F, CHAPMAN
SOLE AGENT F0R THE EASTERN STATES.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Prof. D. MEG Means and family have
opened their summer home in the village.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Coffin are at home
from visit of several weeks with friends
in Boston.
The ball!nine Of the local college will
play tomorrow with the Proctors at the
latter town.
President Ezra Brainerd will deliver
the morning sermon at the Shoreham
Congregational church next Sunday.
Miss Ehie Daunis went to Langdou,
n. H., last week to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Albee, and remained during the
week.
The first "barefoots" our reporter has
seen on the streets this season were a
couple of little girls, who appeared on
Monday.
Mrs. w. H. Button, who has been visit
ing her son in Washington, D. c., for
some weeks, has returned to her home in
Middlebury.
Tonight the Citizens band will play a
new march entitled "Russel Post, G. A.
R." The march was composed by Jesse
Campbell and dedicated to the local post.
The Abernethy meat market has
changed hands, George Summers being
the new proprietor. The shop is being
renovated and altered for the new owner.
The question of exempting the Italian
Marble company from taxation If it
locates here will come before a special
town meeting called to convene on
May u
Great preparations are going on among
our heep-breeders incident upon the
annual shipments of Vermont merinos to
Australia and other far distant sheep
countries.
The Perry institute ball team of Rut-
land was most numerically beaten in
the game played here last Saturday
against the local college nine. The score
was Il to O..
On Monday evening, May l6, concert
will be given under the auspices of the
Labaree society by five boys from South
Africa. Further particulars will be
given next week.
f. j. Waterman, 90, of the local col
lege is a member of the Brattleboro
company, V. N. G., and has been ordered
to join his company this morning and go
into camp at Fort Ethan Allen.
George Dunlap, foreman of the log
drive, was badly injured on the left knee
by number of logs rolling off from a
pile. He was piling logs at the first
pulp MILL The accident happened on
Tuesday morning.
During April there were IS days in
which the W ind blew from the north all
day, seven days part north and only two
days with south wind all day. Nearly
an inch of rain fell during Tuesday
night and Wednesday.
Although the first week of the trout
fishing season has not yet passed, large
strings, and rumOrs of large strings, have
come into town. G. E. TOwne brought
in a splendid string of big beauties on
Tuesday, and we learn of others equally
lucky.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kinney, Sunday school
missionaries for Vermont are spending
some time here organizing Sunday
schools in the rural districts of this
county. A number were invited to meet
them last Friday evening at the home of
Miss Mary Phelps.
A recent publication of the United
States department of agriculture gives
the results of exhaustive metabolsm ex-
periments, compiled in part by c. F.
Langworthy, PHI. D., of the class of 81,
Middlebury. The work is highly spoken
of for its thoroughness.
If every effigy hung were real Span
lard, the mortality among members of
that race would be terrific. Another
old suit of clothes was strung up dur
ing Monday night, this time across Main
street, and swayed in the breeze all Tues
day before being cut down.
One hundred and fifty dollars more is
wanted on the subscription list to bring
the Firemen's Tournament here next
July. This sum must be raised before
Tuesday next, the 10th inst. Many have
given literally and only little assist
ance is asked to help raise the needed
amount.
The repetition of ga Proposal Under
Difficulties, which is to be given at the
opera house tonight fer the benefit of
the Citizens band, will be rendered with
the same cast of characters as originally
given couple of months ago. A varied