Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-09-16
CHAPMAN g. GO.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs f. Il. Clay is visiting friends in
Plattsburg, n. Y.
Or. c. NJ. Mead of Hartford, Conn,
was in town visiting relatives this week.
An auction sale of some fine horses
drew a large crowd to the bridge Mon
day.
Arthur Bryant returned to his studies
at the Worcester Polytechnic academy
this week.
Prof. NJ. r. Sanford of the local col
lege has returned from his summer va
cation trip.
The Logan House is having a steam
heating plant put in, preparatory for
hard winter.
Prof. and Mrs. McGilton reached
home Wednesday afternoon from their
vacation trip.
Miss Ella Perkins of Montreal and 7.
b. Brougham and wife of Chicago are
guests OF Mrs. +. B. Cliff.
Miss Mary Bott. who has spent a
month here and at Bread Loaf, returned
to Ithaca. y. Y, this week.
DR.. W. 5. Dewey and wife returned to
Ann Arbor, Mich, Monday, after several
weeks spent in this village.
Miss Adelia Hammond, who has been
visiting for several weeks with relatives
in town, has returned to Boston.
W. a. Wilcox of Washington, d. c.,
is spending a short vacation with his
mother and sister in this village.
J. NJ. Bosley, who has been on a ten
days business trip to New York and
/ Baltimore, returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. y. J. Childs has returned to her
ST. Louis home. after spending the sum
mer with the family of G. f. Chids.
Married, at Mlddlebury, Sept. l, by
Rev. A. W. Dickens. John W. Porter and
Mrs. Hattie Wiley. both of Ticonderoga,
! y. Y.
Mlddlebury college opened on Thurs
day for the fall term. About 80
young men and women form the enter
ing class.
\ gang of bill-posters of car No, 3 of
Walter Z. Main circus were in town
Tuesday and pretty thoroughly dated
the village.
Mrs. and Miss Evelyn Tilden have
gone to Brooklyn, where they will pass
the winter with Mrs. Tidens daughter,
Mrs. y. L. James.
Mrs. Mary HamlIn Ladd of Water
bury, daughter of former president of
NIiddlebury college, is the guest of Mrs.
Beadell This week.
Krempest, the three-year-old stallion
of II. c. Potter of this village, took the
first premium in his class at the Bur.
lington fair last week.
Mrs. Philip Manchester, who has beer
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Dugald Stew
art. for month or more past, has re-
turned to her home in Connecticut.
There will be a meeting of the W. c
T, L. in the lecture room of the Metho
dist church on Saturday afternoon at
o'clock. a full attendance is desired.
The mercury succeeded in getting
below the freezing point last Saturday
night, and a frost resulted. 1t was 81
light that very little damage was done.
Miss Mary Gee and Mrs. j. A. Calvin
are in New York this week buying {
stock of goods for the Gee Sisters mil
linery store. They went down Satur
nay.
Miss May Powers. daughter of JOIN
+ Powers, who has spent the summer a
! her home in this village, has returned t
e Boston, where she is taking course il
music.
Kirk Piper of the cruiser Detroit is il
e the village visiting his parents, Mr.. ant
70 Mrs. A. j. Piper. His vessel is at Boston
j. and he has secured a ten-days' "shor
= leave"
Miss Laura A. Hebb, trimmer for Mrs
i Lawrence, stopped over Thursday il
town on her way to New \ ork, wher
she has gone for the fall and winte
j. styles.
While at the cracker-cutting machln
in the Kldder & holland bakery on Tues
day morning, George Kidder got hi
a hand under a stamper and had the end o
+, a finger taken off.
n 1t is expected that work on the new
; steel penstock at the falls will be ia
: enough advanced by the latter part o
= next week to permit the starting up o
e the electric light plant.
:. Letters with the following addresse
d are at the postofiice unclaimed: DR.. A
i Clark, j. IL. Felch, Mrs. Emma L
I Hodges, Mr.. J. A. Jennings, Miss lisa
4 bella Sims, Ebert A. Sinclair.
Q f. n. White of Holyoke, who has bee
r visiting at F. A. Bonds, returned HON
Wednesday noon. He took with hin