Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-08

church at West Cornwall, will preach at
the Baptist church next Sunday in eX-
change with Rev. a. b. Potter.
Misses Helen Simpson and Alice Nash
of Burlington were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Stems the first of the week.
They left yesterday for Orwell, where
they will visit Miss Simpsons sister.
William w. Hope and wife, formerly
of this place. left June 20 for Saratoga
Springs, n. Y. Mr.. Hope has accepted
a position as steward at the Hotel Ameri-
can-Adelphi during the summer season.
Edward Barber of Chicago is a guest
of Columbus Smith at his home is Sails
bury. He spent few days in town the
early part of the week. Mr.. Barber left
Middlebury in 1862, and this is his first
visit here since that time.
The Addison County Summer school
for teachers will be held at Bristol Aug.
l to ID. Competent instructors will be
employed and an unusually large at
tendance is expected. The prospectus
will be issued in few days.
A large number of forest worms have
attached their cocoons to the sides of
the opera house, and their vivid yellow
forms sharp contrast to the red of the
bricks. Red and yellow are the colors
of Spain and should be dissolved.
Manager Stone of the opera house is
arranging to have five firsr-class COM
panies of the New York Theatrical Ex-
change come here during the season.
They play "SIeeping City" "Side
Tracked, "Widow Brown" 1.-The Circus
Clown" and "The Country Merchant"
Rev. George l.. Perrin, D. D., pastor
of the Shawmut avenue Every Day
Church" Boston, Mass, accompanied by
his family. arrived in town Thursday
evening and will pass the remainder of
the summer season at the Hotel Logan
with Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent, Rev Mr..
Perrin and Mr.. Sargent having been ac-
quaintances for a number of years.
The terrible heat wave which swept
over the eastern states on Sunday last
was unprecedented in the records of the
weather service in many localities. In
Mddlebury the strong wind which pre-
vailed saved us from feeling the full
effects of the heat. The thermometer at
one time during the afternoon stood at
shows the rest.
John McIIugh, aged about Go years,
died very suddenly last Monday night.
His funeral was held Wednesday morn
ing at the residence of his brother. Den
mis- McHugh, the burial being in the
Catholic cemetery. He is said to have
been a veteran of the Crimean war, and
served in our war of the rebellion. He
was a member of w, p. Russell post G.
A. r., of this place, and the post attended
his funeral.
The ninth annual convention and
tournament of the Vermont State Fire
mems association will be held in Mid.
dlebury on Wednesday, July 20, and
Thursday, July 81. The prize of $50
announced in the posters for the best
appearing hose company was intended
to include and does include the best APP
pearing hose company accompanied by
a band, and all papers which have got II
otherwise should make the fact of the
band prominent.
At the time of the gathering in this
village in March of the Latin teachers OF
the fitting schools of Vermont, a very
elaborate imitation of a Roman chOru:
was feature which added very greatly
to the success of the convention. Pro
fessOr Sanford, to whose untiring effort;
the chorus owed its perfection of detail
subsequently had the procession forming
the chorus photographed in costume by
William Jackson, the Middlebury pho
tographer. 1t was, of course, impossible
to reproduce the entire procession in one
negative of the size contemplated, the
largest negative being only 1lxl4. Con
sequently the choristers were divided In
to six groups and photographed seper
ately, the utmost care being taken to re-
tain their exact positions, with proper
intervals, in order that the several pic
lures should make harmonious whole
That this was not easy of accomplish
mont is indicated by the fact that nc
less than fourteen sittings-or standings
rather-were required before satisfactory
results were obtained. The posing wa;
another very difficult problem which hac
to be worked out, no two figures of the
thirty-two in line appear draped alike
Much fortitude of the real old Roman
kind was brought into play in this pro
cess, for the characters were obliged tC
stand immovable for considerable lengths
of time while they and their mates were
being posed and togas and drapery
properly folded and arranged. The re-
product of the photographers art, with,
out doubt the largest piece of portrait
work ever completed In a Vermont pho
tographic studio. 1t is seven feet in
length by eleven inches in height; and
framed in oak, will make an invaluable
adjunct to the study of the classics, 1t
is, we believe, the intention of Prof
Sanford to deposit the picture in the new