Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-08-18
& Dickinson
BATTELL BLOCK,
MIDDLEBURY, VT.
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

James are III OU. AlDanS Oh WISH.
Miss Susan Parker and DR.. Albee left
Tuesday morning for Orr's Island.
Mrs. A. c. Westall of Morristown, n.
j., is visiting relatives and friends in
town.
L. o. Allen has appeared with a cab
running for his new: hotel on Washing
ton street.
A class of about fifty children were
received In first communion at st. Mays
church on Tuesday.
Theo. Monroe was in the village dur
ing the week on short vacation. He is
now located in Boston.
Miss Alice Miner returned early in the
week from Crown Point, where she had
spent couple of weeks.
The outside press was well represented
in town Tuesday gathering facts of the
shooting of the night before.
Rev. John NJ. Thomas of East Orange,
n. j., will preach in the Congregational
church next Sunday, Aug 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank a. Farnsworth
have gone to Osterville, Mass, where
they will pass a couple of weeks.
Miss Chickering of Washington and
her sister, Mrs. Beadell, started Tuesday
morning for Kennebunk Beach, Me.
Daniel Sullivan, who died in Bristol
last Friday, was buried at the Catholic
cemetery in this village on Monday.
Miss Mabel Kingsley is home for
two weeks vacation from the Metropol-
itan Training school in New York city.
A four-in-hand team with party of
young people from Bread Loaf Inn
passed through town on Monday, bound
for Snake mountain.
+. President and Mrs. Ezra Brainerd
have issued cards of invitation indicat.
ing the marriage on Aug. 30 Of their
daughter, Miss Bertha Brainerd, to
Charles A. Adams.
r. S. Benedict and family spent Sun,
day in Burlington, the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Benz. II. Blcknell, whose mar
rage we recently noted. Mr.. Blcknell
is Mrs. Benedict's brother.
The nights during the past week have
been unseasonably cold. A frost was
noticeable in the low lands Wednesday
morning, and IS degrees was recorded
by the thermometer of the local weather
observer. The drouth continues and the
earth is dry to a considerable depth.
Yesterday morning an officer of Starks-
boro telephoned to misplace for officers
| to look through the 40 train from the
north for one John Thompson, 10 or 45
years old, . it. 6 or in. in height with
sandy moustache. The message said he
had nearly killed man at Starksboro,
and was seen to 60 through Ferrisburg.
The Middlebury Electric company ex.
pect to have l25 horsepower gasoline
engine in operation by the middle Of
September, as an auxiliary power for the
electric plant at low water times. This
will be the first gasoline engine of such
power in Vermont. 1t will be erected
by the Westinghouse, Church, Kerr &
Co., of New York city.
The water in the river is at almost I'M
precedented lowness and the electric
light and water companies have had
trouble in consequence. A gang of men
was engaged last Friday and Saturday in
removing rock from the entrance to the
flume. No cessation in the water sup
ply has occurred, but the electric light
plant has run on "short rations."
People on this side of the mountains
are very much interested in the extern
sion of the Rutland railroad The COM
pany will give all an opportunity next
Wednesday, the 23d, to see the work
now in progress in Grand Isle county.
An excursion will be run through the
lake aud around the islands on that date.
Round trip tickets from Middlebury 81 /;
children soc.
Miss Julia Phinney, aged ~ years, died
op Monday at her home on North Pleas
ant street. She had not been In good
health for some time, and the death of
her sister short time ago affected her
condition for the worse. Her funeral
took place on Tuesday afternoon at 3
O'Clock. Rev. Mr.. Gooding, her pastor,
officiating. She was member of the
NJ E. church for many years.
Mrs. c. F. Wheeler of Burlington,
daughter of the late Rev. F. w. Ohm
stead, '3S, Middlebury college, we'll
known teacher and clergyman of Yer
mont, and herself teacher of 20 years.
experience in private and boarding
schools, has opened boarding school in
Burlington, which she advertises In the
REGISTER today. We are assured that
Mrs. Wheeler has the requisite knowl-
edge and equipment to make her school
a success, and we call the attention of
our people to her advertisement.