Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-01-20
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Scatter ashes or salt on the sidewalk.
Chief Engineer Stone has reappointed
John Boudreau to be assistant chief.
The college glee club is to appear at
the opera house next Friday evening.
An addition is being built to the Piper
meat market, extended from the rear.
The Century club will meet with Mrs.
E. C. Bryant Wednesday, Jan. %, at
o'clock.
The thaw of the early part of the
week spoiled the shedding in many places
along the highways.
Attorney F. H. Button, who has spent
the past two weeks in Washington,
reached home yesterday.
Fordyce Moore, son of NJ. X. Moore,
went to Albany last week to enter the
Albany Business college.
All coons don't look like the one in
Marshall's window, but it is sufficiently
lifelike to be very deceptive.
At the annual meeting of the Congre-
gationa society on Tuesday the old
board was reelected for another year.
The steel framework of the new marble
mills is being put up, and already some
idea can be had of the proportions of the
structures.
Miss Susan Brewster left Monday to
pass the remainder of the winter visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Charles Wheaton, in
Aurora. Ill.
The Young Peoples club of Cornwall
are arranging for presentation of
"Josiah's Courtship" at the town hall in
Corn wall next Wednesday evening.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Home missionary society of Burlington
district will be held in the NJ. f. church
on Thursday, Feb. 2, Further notice
next week.
Letters with the following addresses
are at the postOffice unclaimed: Mr..
N. NJ. Bennett, Mr.. Z J. Courser, Mrs.
Felix Conwell, Miss Maude Mack, Mrs.
L. B. Taft.
A chess club of - members has been
organized among the students of the col
lege. Chess enthusiasts should note
that Champion Pillsbury is to visit the
WiDooski chess club shortly.
The store-room in the new addition to
Battell block to be occupied by B. F..
Wales's china and iewelry store is
rapidly nearing completion, and Mr..
Wales expects to move in next week.
A long and hard Job of thawing out a
water main on Main street was under
taken this week. The main had to be
dug out through the solidly-frozen earth
and the steam apparatus brought into
play.
The death of Mrs. Albert Merrill oc-
Cured last Monday at her home in this
village. The funeral took place on We'd
nesday morning at the Episcopal church.
The remains were taken to New Haven
for interment.
Anthony LaDhke, who died in Burr
lington on the 9Th inst, at the age of IS
years, was an old time stage-driver. His
route was between Middlebury and Bur-
lington when the stage coach line ran
from Boston to Montreal.
The Fremen's Standard, published in
Boston. has a very'good half-tone cut of
Fire Chief Stone and well-written
biography, from which 1t appears that
Mr.. Stone has been in the local fire de-
partment for over % years.
Miss Ella Bond, who is studying
vocal music in New York, was recently
called to Springfield, Mass, to fill for a
couple of Sundays a position in the
choir of the church in which her sister,
, the late Mrs. Carrie Bond White, former
ly sang.
This week it is f. A. Bond of Pine
Hall who is stirring up the alleged dull
| season by making some hard-tO-resist
bargain offers before stock-taking. A
perusal of his half page advertisement
elsewhere in this issue will prove in
teresting.
Miss Gertrude Morey left yesterday fol-
> Springfield, Mass, on her way to Macon
Col, whence her parents will follow Sat
= urday. Mr.. Morey has situation in q
gold mine, and as the climate greatly i'm
proved his health he decided to remove
to that state to live permanently.
I President Brainerd attended the ninth
( annual banquet of the Brooklyn society
o of Vermonters on Tuesday evening anG
responded to the toast: "Vermont as
n Good State to Emigrate From" Many
Q prominent men were present. A poem
5 written by Edna Dean Proctor was read
n Another aged citizen passed away OF
J, Monday last, David Moore, who's
! re. idence was on North Pleasant street
n He was about 81 years of age. TIT
funeral took p' ace Wednesday morning
the remains going by train to Shelburne