Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
G NEWS IN BRIEF.

Geo. Z. Marshall was in New York
this week on business.
A letter addressed to Mr.. Daniel Rey-
nolds is at the ~postoffice unclaimed.
Miss Dean of Boston is home, taking
care of her sister, Mrs. s. B. Aines.
DR.. Brainerd will preach In the Con-
gregational church at Ferrisburg next
Sunday.
Robert Boylan is the new baggage
master at the railway station, succeeding
p. L. Gulley.
Miss Susan Parker has returned from
her winter in Washington and other
points south.
Mrs. p. F, Chapman, who has spent
several weeks past visiting in Albany, is
once more at home.
Is Middlebury to celebrate the Glorious
Fourth this year? If so, now is the
time to get to work.
Toe steel casing for the turbine wheel of
the marble company was placed in the
waterway this week.
Miss Hortense Drake is home from
Philadelphia, where she has spent the
winter III lne STUDY Vi music.
H.. Hunt and A. II. L~angworthy at
tended the grand encampment of Odd
Fellows at Brattleboro this week.
Mrs. Barbour of New York city is
visiting at the home of Professor w. w.
Eaton. MIR. Barbour also spent Sunday
here.
F. A. Bond returned Monday from a
ten-days' trip for business and pleasure
to New York, Boston and Holyoke,
Mass.
The logs of the Green Mountain Pulp
company which had collected in the eddy
below the falls were moved out during
the week
a. w. Woolley came up from New
York last week and joined his family in
their summer home. He returned to the
city this week.
Prof and Mrs. D McGregor Means
have arrived from their New Jersey
home and have opened their summer
residence for the season.
The equipment of the hose companies
of the village will be made more effective
by the addition of 800 feet of new hose
when tne DOard mas ordered.
TOussant Kidder is in Sherbrooke,
Canada, to attend the funeral of his
brother, who died early in the week. His
son George accompanied him.
The Maryland Public Health a~ssocia-
ton held a meeting in Baltimore last
week. and DR.. C. Ford L%angworthy was
called upon to read a paper OF the
values of food.
A game of ball was played oil the
college diamond last Friday afternoon
between the town boys and the public
school team. The town boys won by a
score of l6 to Il.
Miss Jessica Stewart has returned
from Boston, where she has spent the
past winter. She leaves for Europe on
the 9th inst, and will be accompanied
by Miss Mary Bott.
Mrs. Guile leaves for New York today,
where she will be Joined by her brother,
w. l.. Sackett, editor of the Morris
(Ill.) Herald. They are expected in
M%iddlebury on Monday next.
The annual convention of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society will be held
in Brandon mex Wednesday. A reduced
rate is offered by the railway for those
who desire to attend from here.
The bare expanses of wall in the
~postofice lobby have been greatly re.
lieved by a large and handsomely
framed steel engraving of the city of
Jerusalem, the gift of Mr.. Battell.
The mercury got below the freezing
point on three nights during the week.
So far as reported no damage to early
garden truck has resulted from the cold
weather, beyond retardlng growth.
Improvements in front of the Hotel
Logan have been going on for some time,
the latest being the construction of a
concrete sidewalk connecting the hotel
and the Slade block on Main street.
On account of the presence in town of
so many visitors, the water commission
ers have decided to shut down the water
works tomorrow instead of today. 1t
will take several hours to make the
necessary repairs.
Prof. r. c. Flagg of Ripon college
RIpon, Wis, was the guest of Judge j.
, M. Slade for a few days during the week.
| He was a member of the class of go of
I the local college, and conducted chapel
services Monday morning.
The practice of cigarette-smoking
small boys-cnd some not so small
of gathering about the doors of the
opera house on performance nights, to