Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-07-14

the grand lodge Knights of Honor held
in Hardwick this week. They returned
Wednesday night.
A. II. Hubbard of. Whiting, Martin f.
Sprague of Weybridge and Henry c.
Roscoe of New Hagen have been ap.
pointed by the county Judges as road
commissioners for the county for the
ensuing two years.
DR.. Stanton 5. Eddy came up from
Boston Saturday for short vacation at
home. He recently has received another
promotion and is now the chief physi-
clans of one of the divisions of the
Boston City Hospital.
p. F, Chapman has "stepped into the
breach made by the failure of the
Citizens band to organize this year, and
has formed drum corps of four snare
drums, one base drum and two flies.
They will make martial music "to beat
the band.'
The Women's Foreign Missionary
society will hold their thank offering
service in the NJ. f. church Friday after
noon, July 81, at 3 80 o'clock. Refresh.
ments will be served from ) 80 to 80
All holding envelopes are expected to
bring them at that time.
Miss Jessie Lane of Cornwall gave a
dance In the town hall at that place on
Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Daisy
Cushman of MIddlebury and Miss Me-
Kinnon of Menasha. Wis. who are her
guests. Quite humber of young people
from this place drove over to be in at
tendance.
The Rutland railroad will sell excur-
sion tickets to the firemen's tournament
at Bennington next week at S2.75 for the
round trip from NIiddlebury. Chief
Stone has made arrangements for a
special car for the firemen and friends
from here. 1t will be attached TO the
II 10 night train south on the 10Th.
DR.. Charles J. Bullock. formerly
principal of our schools and recently
appointed to the chair of political
economy in Williams college, has for
some time past been engaged in the re-
vision of his text book OF political
economy and it is now in the hands of
the Boston publishers for a new edition.
L. Roy Howard started for Rye
Beach. n. H., on Saturday morning
last, but was recalled by the sudden i'll
ness of his mother, He returned the
same afternoon. Mrs. Howard was so
much improved by Monday that Roy
took his departure then. He will spend
the summer at the Beach and probably
enter for profession in the fall.
The organ rectals at the NJ. E. church
by DR.. Minor C. Baldwin, mention of
which was made in these items last
week, will take place on the evenings of
July 25 and 26-Tuesday and Wednes.
day. Tickets will be on sale soon. DR..
Baldwin is among the finest organists IN
the world, and his playing will be a
treat for our musically-inclined people.
P. F. Chapman is erecting at the rear
of his lot on Washington street what will
be, when completed, handsome cottage
with all modern improvements. 1t will
be occupied Sept by Rev. Mr.. Forsythe.
Mr.. Chapman is setting an example
which could be followed with profit by
other citizens with surplus means. Such
houses will never be left unoccupied.
Those buff brown moths with the deli.
cately traced bands on the wings, which
you see flying about these nights in great
numbers. especially in the electric lights
on the streets, are our old enemies, the
forest worms, in their latest form. Don't
let their beauty cause you to spare them
when you get the chance to kill. Each
may represent 400 worms for next year.
The 3 10 and ) 40 passenger trains
from the south on Monday afternoon
were both very late and each had
attached long stri?g of extra coaches
from the Fltchburg system, filled with
passengers. These passengers were
French excursionists and Italian and
Russian immigrants. the former from
Massachusetts towns and the latter
from New York port of entry, all bound
for Montreal. The 3 10 train consisted
of 10 cars, while the flyer had on five
extra coaches.
c. l.. Greene, the special agent of the
New York Mutual life insurance com.
pany, stationed at this place, seems to
have perpetual mortgage on the Man.
chester district prizes offered by the
president of his company for the most
insurance written. The announcement
comes that for the third time he has won
the half-yearly prize. He had a hard
fight this time, though, being led up to
two weeks ago by Keene On. H.
agent, for whom, however, the pace on
the home stretch proved little too rapid.
The REGISTER during the week has
received several communications, with
out the authors names. Those con-
taining news items would be printed
gladly, if we new the author; but the
rule must be adhered to. Probably the
items were written by those whose
prevented the signing of the same. This
is all wrong. Newspapers exist for the
publication of the news, and they are
| only tnn Glad to secure items at first