Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-22

In this week. After little painting, the
Battell Block will be complete In detail.
! Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Bond left yester-
day for Lewiston, Me-, where they will
visit their son. W. II. Bond. Mrs.
Bond will go from there to Holyoke,
while Mr.. Bond goes to Boston on
business.
Parker Williamson, class of '95, Mid
dlebury, who recently returned from
trip to Europe, has secured a position at
Princeton university as an instructor In
duties this week.
Genevieve Hunt, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. l.. Hunt, died Monday morn.
ing from fever. She was 13 years of
age. The funeral took place on Tues
day forenoon at the residence, Rev. Mr.
Gooding officiating.
Cards have been received by the friends
of Joseph r. Wetherbee, announcing his
marriage to Miss Margaret McClung at
Eugene, Ore, on the 9TH inst. Their
future home will be at Chicago, where
Mr.. Wetherbee has position.
The rains of Tuesday and Wednesday
nights and the continuous downpour of
yesterday may prove the ones we were
looking for; but the drouth was so ex.
/ tensive that more rain will have to come
to bring conditions to the normal.
Rev. Father Gelot, who has had charge
of st. Mary's parish for the past seven
years, has announced his transfer to
Underhil Centre. He will conduct the
services at st. Mary's for the last time on
Sunday next. His successor will be
Rev. Father Shannon.
Ever since the sensational killing of
Frank Fem, the demand for copies of
the REGISTER containing the details of
the case has been steady. We printed
several hundred extra copies at the time
and only few now remain. An early
call will secure the last of the lot.
School district No. was organized in
!. 1878; brick school house was erected
IN 1922 opposite the Episcopal parsonage.
1t was sold to Caleb Ticknor about
1866, who used the brick In the present
residence of Col. T. NJ. Chapman. The
total expense of the district in 1850 was
: S30S 80.
There has been talk of arranging for
: the temporary lighting the village by
: running wire to the Beldens plant.
The delay in securing an engine for the
local plant, due to the order being for
, one of unusual size, has caused the COM
pany to look up the matter of securing
outside help during the low-water
, period.
: Mrs. D. King, who was so badly iniur-
ed last week by being thrown from a
buggy while out riding, was able to sit
up for short time early in the week.
The accident was occasioned by her
team being run into by one going In the
opposite direction. She was thrown out
and had one shoulder injured, besides
being badly shaken up.
The season of auction sales is once
more on, for proof of which see the adj
vertlsements on another page of sales by
Col. A. A. Fletcher, agent, and Lewis A.
Skiff, executor. These ads. will be read
by thousands more people than will see
the posters of the sales. Advertising In
the REGISTER is as sure a way of getting
a crowd as can be fOnnd.
. At the time of the burning of the old
! cotton mill much iron machinery was
buried in the fallen debris. This has
remained in great part until this week,
when 1t was dug up and carted off for
old iron. If the big hole were filled to
grade at that point on Main street it
would make an attractive and desirable
building site for business block.
Next Monday evening at o'clock. in
the lecture room of the Methodist
church, Mrs. Mable Wing Castle OF
Honolulu will give talk on the Ha-
waiian Islands, illustrated by lantern
slides. No admission fee will be
charged, but any contributions however
small to the Wellesley college endow,
, ment fund will be gladly received by
r Mrs. Castle.
[ In DR.. Sheldon's window can be seen
the silver cup offered by Richard A.
., McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life
5 Insurance company of New York, to the
/ agent writing the largest per cent of his
quota in the United States and Canads
: for the year 1898. The cup has beer
o awarded to G.. l.. Greene, special agent
( for above company at this place. We
before have mentioned Mr.. Greene's
. success in beating other agents of the
= New Hampshire district but to win Out
q against every agent in the United
States and Canada is the acme of success
9 1t will be recalled that several years
:, ago there were in our public schools two
: Young Enuits from Alaska, George and
William Fredricks. They were sent here
by Rev. John Chapman, missionary al
: Anvik, Alaska, and the late Albert Chap.
man had charge of the boys during their
schooling. Their father, local manager
of the Alaska Commercial company al
4 Anvik, took the boys from here to San
r Francisco and placed one in a business
. college and the other in a machine shop
as an apprentice. 1t will crafty those
f friends who were instrumental in bring.
e ing them here and starting them on the
: way to fuller mental development 10
know that one now has a respon-
sible position with the Alaska Com.
mercal company and that the young
machinist was engaged in the construc-
i, ton work of our famous battle-ship, the
Oregon.