Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-08-17
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

lOCRE NGWS I'm 0NlGT,
Spring Grove camp-meetlng will begin
on Thursday next, the 23d.
Carl Mead, who is now located IN Chi
cago, is in town for visit with his
parents.
Miss Florence Fisher of Hartford,
Conn, is spending a month with Mrs.
Z. w. Judd.
! Mrs Charles L. Davis of Chicago is
spending week with her cousin, Mrs.
l.. II. Stalker.
Miss 5. L. Archibald has returned
from visiting friends in Massachusetts
and New Haven.
ii. a. Baker of Columbus, O., is the
guest of his sister Mrs. Florence Smith
in the Battell Block.
Robert Mills has been in town the
past week after an extended trip in be-
half of the marble company.
The Beldens Falls Marble company's
mills have been shut down for the past
week for repairs on the machinery.
DR.. L. E Mellen and family, who have
been spending the past month on the
Massachusetts coast, have returned.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Douglas have is
sued cards announcing the marriage of
their daughter, Stella NJ. to Clyde V.
Olmsted.
Mr. and Mrs. w. II. Nichols who
have been the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ii.
A. Peck left Yesterday for their home in
Rensselaer,. \. Y.
Au Uncle Toms Cabin show gave that
time-houored play in tent on Wednes-
day. A street parade with band WAS
feature of the show.
Miss Ethel Dunlap OF Bellows Falls
reached here Tuesday to spend three
weeks with her cousin, Miss Sadie Dun
lap of Seymour street.
Miss Alice Miner left Wednesday
morning for Long Point, on Lake Cham
plain. as member of camping party,
principally from Cornwall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Cochran of YORK,
Penn, are visiting with Mrs. Cochran's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. q. 5. Wainwright.
Mr.. Cochran came last Saturday, Mrs.
Cochran having been here some time.
The vacancy caused by the death of
Clark l.. Pierce, superintendent of the
/ Rutland railway, is being filled tempo
rarily by c b Hibbard, recently APP
/ pointed as general passenger agent of the
| road.
| II l., Sheldon, the historian and anti
quarian, celebrated his 79,h birthday
Wednesday by opening for the benefit of
some friends bottle of wine which he
had himself put up fifty years ago,
Aug. -, 1850.
The Vermont militia has been in camp
at Fort Ethan Allen this week. Last
saturday three coach loads passed
through here on the Rutland road bound
for the camp. They were from Benning-
ton, Rutland and Brandon.
Letters addressed to G. NJ. Boyle,
Franklin Friedman, Rodman II. Robin
son, j. +. Smith, Bessie l.. Sheldon, J. \.
Bates, A. A. Sargent. Hon. Henry F.
Severens, F. B. Scott, Walter Thompson
and Albert g. Webster are at the post
Office unclaimed.
The county fair is only a little more
than week of. Those who contem-
plate making exhibits should have them
ready promptly to enter for prizes. If
you wish to know what prizes are being
offered. write to G. 5. Dana, secretary,
New Haven, or call at the REGISTER
office and get premium list.
Last Saturday Mrs. G. f. Rich, while
engaged about her household duties,
was overcome by heat and fell to the
time. and was discovered by the little
daughter of neighbor, who AT once
gave the alarm. Medical assistance was
called and Mrs. Rich was soon brought
out Of danger.
The executive committee of compau-
les F and b, Fifth Vermont regiment,
civil war veterans, held meeting Friday
afternoon al Middlebury to complete the
arrangements for the annual reunion,
which will be held the last of the month.
The survivors will meet at Long Point
on Lake Champlain, where they will 60
into camp for week.
While John kenworthy was in swim
ming one day last week, he fell upon a
lot of broken glass and cut a cash in his
left arm, severing an artery. He was
taken to George Dunlap's house, where
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunlap dressed the wound,
which afterward was sewed up by the
doctor, five stitches being required. The
wound bled profusely until kenworthy
received the assistance at Mr.. Dunlap's.
DR.. George II. Martin, who many
years ago practiced In this village with
DIR. Currier and with him moved to San
Francisco, has started a fight against the
burdensome course of study prescribed
in the city schools, which cOmpels young
boys and girls 10 struggle along under
load of fourteen or fifteen daily recita-
tons. The San Francisco Examiner on
a recent Sunday gave him full page in
which to utter his protest.
In India, the land of famine, thousands
die because they cannot obtain food. In
America, the land of plenty, many suffer
and die because they cannot digest the