Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-04-22
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Hyde, formerly of Middlebury, is
in town.
\ son was born to Rev. and Mrs. a. b.
Potter on Tuesday.
Misses Daunis and Barnes spent We'd
nesday in Burlington.
George F. Mullen spent Sunday in
Simonsville with his brother.
The Fortnightly club met Tuesday
evening with Mrs. T. NJ. Chapman.
Postmaster Thorp was confined to his
home with a severe cold during the week.
The Hawthorne club will meet at
Professor Eaton's next Tuesday evening.
Work on the extension of the sewer
system is expected to be resumed next
week.
George Abbey has been paving the
cutters in front of the Addison House
this week.
c. w. Earl, whose wife died a short
time ago, is moving in with his parents
on Court street.
Stowell and Leslie Witherell reached
home last Monday from far-oh' Cape
Town, South Africa.
L
L. of Addison county will be held in
Bristol June 10 and l6.
The street-sprinkler began work Mon
day, and life on our main thoroughfare
once more has been worth the living.
The spring water mains near South
Main street have been replaced this week
with iron pipes, the old wooden ones
bo ,,;pc, boooD,o Jooo,oJ
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Bliss went to
Rochester last Saturday. Mr.. Bliss re-
turned Tuesday, but Mrs. Bliss will re-
main there for two or three weeks.
Last Saturday, an operation for appen-
dicitis was successfully performed on
w. H. Baldwin by local physicians, and
he is now reported as getting along
nicely.
Fishermen are overhaullng their tackle
and getting in shape preparatory to a
descent on Lakes Dunmore and George
May |. Catches are expected to bear
fair proportion to the stories told of
them.
William 7. Smith, aged So, who died
suddenly at st. Louis recently, was pres
ldent of the Lackawanna Trust company
of Scranton, Pa, and prominent in the
business affairs of that city. lie was
native of Mddlebury.
The first "chainless" bicycle to appear
in town was exhibited on our streets
Monday by l.. Caswell, representing the
Pope Manufacturing company. The
wheel attracted much attention, and its
easy aud steady running mechanism
received much favorable comment.
Announcement Is made of the marriage
at Worcester, Mass, on the 18th inst,
of j. NJ. Cheney and Mrs. Mary Arms.
They are to make their future home In
that city. Mr.. Cheney was, until about
a year ago, an insurance agent at this
place and Mrs. Arms has resided here.
E. G. Brown, who took rooms in the Y.
NJ c. A. building couple of weeks ago,
threw up his lease last week and returned
TO his former place on Seymour street.
Mr.. and Mrs. La Reau, who formerly
conducted bakery in the old REGISTER
building, are to occupy the rooms thus
vacated.
Next Wednesday evening, April ~, an
entertainment for the benefit of the relief
fund of Addison encampment, |. o. o. f.
will be given, consisting of an operate
scope and Edison photograph. The for
mer promises to be something new in
the line of animated pictures, "The Lone
Fisherman" being the subject.
The small audience which gathered at
the Methodist church on Tuesday even
Ing had a rare treat in the lecture, "Our
Neighbors Across the Sea-" Scenes of
historic interest were portrayed so
wildly and persons and places presented
so clearly that one seemed to see them
as in a panorama. 1t was well worthy
of crowded house.
The boys whose humOr takes a de-
structIve bent have been strewing tacks
on the bicycle paths about town. They
should keep a strict incognito, for the
offense is one liable to land them in Yer
gennes's favorite educational institution.
There is no difference in point of law be-
tween throwing a brick through a store
window and purposely destroying a
bicycle tire.
We understand that the Epworth
League have secured another date with the
Alonzo Hatch AnimOtOscope company.
This is the company which about a year
AGO gave the DeODle of this vicinity the