Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Middlebury college will open for the
year next Thursday.
Miss Gee is in New York this week,
buying for her millinery business.
The local market is now well supplied
with home. grown fruits of all kind
Miss Viola Brainerd has returned to
her school work at Claremont, n. H.
Fred Beckwith returned on Tuesday
to Worcester, Mass, where he is attend
ing the academy.
w. H. Sheldon and wife have been in
New York this week on a combined
business and pleasure trip.
Remick & Dickinson are enlarging
the shelving capacity of their new store
by utilizing the first basement.
Duck, partridge and squirrel hunting
is now on. No particularly large bags
have been reported to this time.
Workmen were engaged Monday in
repairing the dashboard at the edge of
the falls, to save water for the mills.
Miss Fannie Williamson left Tuesday
night for Salem, Mass, where she will
engage in school work for the coming
year.
Local merchants are receiving large
quantities of new goods these days,
which indicates their belief In big
trade this fall.
Last Thursday officers raided the
Pierce House and Hotel Addison bars,
but were unable to discover anything of
a contraband nature.
Chips from the first block of marble
sawed at the new mills were cut up into
small paper-weight blocks and dis
tributed as souvenirs.
Judson A. Wright and Cushing Hill
on Friday last shot nine partrldges over
Landlord Higgins's finely broken, thor
oughbred pointer, "Silk".
All members of Lake Dunmore lodge,
l. o. o. F., are requested to meet at their
room at l o'clock this afternoon to at.
tend Judge j. Nj. SHADES funeral.
Capt. D. E. Barrett of Washington is
visiting his sister, Mrs Peter Champagne.
He is in the pension Office at the capital
and is taking his annual vacation.
H. Richard, Mr.. Lester Thompson, Mr..
Archie Watson, and MIR. Eugene Wick
ham are at the postofflce unclaimed.
The 5-months-old boy baby of Mr..
and Mrs. William Unworthy of High
street died last Saturday morning and
was buried on Monday, Rev. Mr.. For
sythe officiating.
Comrades of the G. A. r. are requested
not to forget the reunion on Saturday at
Bristol of companies F and B, Fifth Ver-
mont volunteers. Headquarters at base
ment of town hall.
Mrs. Abercrombie, sister of President
Brainerd, who has been visiting in the
village since the Adams Brainerd we'd
ding. returned yesterday to her home
in Worcester, Mass.
Main street, south of the asphalt pave
ment, is being torn up preparatory. to
putting down stretch of macadam,
similar to that on Seymour street. Com
missioner Buttolph has the work in
charge.
The Hebrew new year began this
week. The nearest synagogue is at
Burlington, and the Hebrews of that
city celebrated the new year. Isaac
Shapiro and family Joined them from
Middlebury.
Mrs. w. IL. Nichols was at H. A.
Peck's last week, and Mr.. Nichols and
and son Charles over Sunday. They re-
turned to Rensselaer,, n. Y, Monday.
Mr.. Nichols is editor of the Rensselaer,
Herald.
F. III. Button of Middlebury has been
made one of the five committeeman to
personally walt on Admiral Dewey on
the occasion of his coming to Vermont.
The admiral is to be requested to fix
Oct. II or 10 as the day for the celebra-
ton.
At its meeting Wednesday night the
village board appointed a committee to
look into the matter of establishing a
fire-alarm system such as before has
been described In the REGISTER. The
committee will report at a future
meeting.
Miss Jennie F. Nash, who has been
visiting her father and many of her
Vermont friends during her vacation,
returned last Saturday to New Haven,
Conn.,, where she has for some time had
charge of the graduating class of the
Welch school.
A special train of sleepers went
through here Monday forenoon, bound
southwark. 1t carried the members of
the Association of Railroad and Steam
y