Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-07-20
c NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Mrs. F. f. lockwood visited friends in
Burlington the past week.
Mrs. F. \. Farnsworth has been visit
ing in T%iconderoga during the week.
Merritt Stowe has gone to Lake George
and Saratoga to spend several weeks.
Miss Lizzie Bowman of Hyde Park,
Mass, is visiting Mrs. George Hammond.
The millinery store of Gee Sisters
on Main street is being overhauled and
repaired.
Miss Mary Z. Bacon of Court street is
spending several weeks in Montreal and
St. Johns.
Miss Hortense Drake will sing at the
morning services at the Methodist church
on sunday
Three carloads of live stock were sent
south to the Brighton market from this
station on Monday.
Prof, NJ. Il. Sanford has gone to his
old home at Bridgeport, Conn. to pass
a part of his summer vacation.
Mrs. a. f. Aldrich of Brooklyn, y.
y. is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. r. Kingsley of South street.
Warren Brand and family of MORA, y.
Y, were the guests Of Brainerd II. Lane
on Academy street the past week.
Many people have been arriving the
past week for Bread Loaf Inn, and that
popular resort is rapidly filling up.
Mrs. Byington of Albany was the
guest of Mrs. p. F. Chapman during the
week, She returned home Wednesday.
Miss Mary Evans, who has been a
guest at L. NJ. Chapman's homc, has re-
turned to her home In Lockport. y. Y.
Miss Waterman of Brattleboro, who
was the guest of the Misses Bond over
commencement, returned home Friday.
Our weather-watcher records 9S de-
grees Monday afternoon and 90 degrees
on Tuesday. And it felt every bit of it.
Mrs. A.. W. Dickens and Mrs. F..
Farnsworth visited Mrs. Beckwith and
Mrs. Cushman at Thompson's Point last
week.
Reid Langdon Carr of the senior class
in college is spending his vacation in the
law Office of Hon. d. J. Foster of Bur
~lington.
Letters addressed as follows lie I'M
claimed at the postofice: Mrs. H.
Brush, L, f. Smith. Mr.. Frank l."
Stcarns.
Charles +. Pinney, cashier of the local
hawk, is on his annual vacation, which
ho IS spending at knights Island, Lake
Champlain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore G. Munroe of
New York reached here Saturday and
viii pass the remainder of the month at
NJ. a. Munroe's.
The good soaking rains of the week
came none too soon to save garden truck
and lawns in the village, as well as the
farmers crops without.
L. d. Twitchell, whose barn was
struck by lightning and burned last
week, will rebuild at once and is making
arrangements with that end in view.
Col. A. A. Fletcher is special agent of
the ensus department at Washington
and is engaged in looking up the manu-
featuring industries of Burlington. lie
commenced the canvass last week.
The summer residents at Thompson's
Point have formed an athletic association.
Fred Beckwith of Middlebury is secre.
tary and Harry Cushman was made tenn
porary captain of the baseball team.
Miss Rebecca Russell and Master Rus.
sell Sanford, who have been visiting at
DR.. Z. p. Russell's, have returned to
Somerville, Mass, where Miss Russell is
staying with her sister, Mrs. W. o. San
ford.
About twenty eXcursionists from this
place took in the Ausable Chasm boat
trip. The cool waters of Lake Cham
plain made the day an enjoyable one,
when compared with the sweltering
land.
DR.. and Mrs. B. C. Balm of Arkadel-
phia, Ark, reached here Saturday to
spend the summer with DR.. Bain's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Balm. DR..
Balm formerly conducted a dental office
in this village.
Mrs. ]. F. Farr and daughter and Mrs.
Flowers OF Columbus, o.. who had been
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. F. \. Bond,
left or Saturday for Brandon, where
they are visiting a short time before re-
turning to Ohio.
The Columbian Marble company OF
Rutland are furnishing the blue and
white marble for the Warner science hal
of Middlebury college. They have an
SIS 900 contract. Work on the hall is
progressing rapidly.
The hot evenings of Monday and Tues
day drew bathers in large numbers to
the waters of the Otter, both up and down
stream. The old swimming hole
ahove the railroad hridpe mr.. sented q