Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-06-29
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

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daughter. Mrs. Beadell.
Miss Julia Carroll is home from a two
weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. Joseph
Butler, in Providence, II. |.
The "Champions' again defeated the
East Middlebury boys last Saturday, but
only by the score of % to ID.
Misses Ella and Mabel Bond are in the
village for commencement week, having
come up from New York Monday.
G. W. Morse of Albany, special pen
sion examiner, is in the village on bust
ness connected with his department.
W. II. Nichols. editor of The Herald,
Rensselaer,. y. y, and wife have been
visiting at II. \. Peck's the past week.
Joseph Peck, now of Chicago, is
among the gathering clans of Middle
bury college. lie is with his father, c.
c. Peck.
Col. +. NJ. Chapman was made a mem
Der of the Republican state committee at
the state convention held in Montpelier
Wednesday.
DR.. Henry Wells has returned for va
cation from Middletown, Conn, where
he is engaged as instructor in Wesleyan
university.
Henry Nichols of Philadelphia, who
has been visiting relatives and friends
here for some weeks past, has returned
to the Quaker City.
Copies of the Middleburv booklet are
on sale at DR.. Sterns's and Miss Good
rich's. They contain II views, including
one of Starr Library.
Mrs. Il. T. Woodward of Warrensburg,
y. y, is visiting her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. j. r. Williamson. Mr.. Woodward
will Join her Saturday.
Miss Viola Brainerd has returned from
her school duties in Claremont. y. H.,
and will spend the summer vacation at
her home in this village.
Tomorrow is the last day for the CEN
sus enumerators. It is probable that
Middlebury village will show consldera-
BILE increase in population.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles \. Adams of
Knoxville, H., arrived in the village
Wednesday and are at President Brain
erd's for commencement week.
The Rutland railway will Il excur-
sions TO Bellows Falls and Burlington on
July /. fare one way for the round trip.
Both those cities will celebrate.
Letters addressed to Il. II. Benedict,
Miss Grace IIullet. Master Jesse Kellogg.
VIM. 5. Morgan, and Miss Josephine
Pecott are at the ~postofice unclaimed.
Prof. A. f. Higley, who has been
spending the past winter in Europe,
reached Middlebury last week joining
Mrs. Higley, who has passed the winter
here.
\ crank piano. the first one of the kind
to visit the village. made its appearance
an the streets yesterday, to the delight
of the children Il mild curiosity of
their elders.
Miss Davies of Nergennes, who has
been studying music with Mrs. McGilton
the past winter. gave a recital yesterday
afternoon at Mrs. McGilton's apartments
in the Addison.
Miss Grace Potter, class of 90, Mid
dleburv, reached the village from Boston
Tuesday and willremain over commence
ment week. She Is the guest of Miss
Viola Brainerd at ''~Springside."
Mrs. W. p. Nash. who has been spend
ing the past winter with her sister, Mrs.
SWEET, in Cambridge, Mass, has re-
turned to Middleburv for the summer.
Mrs. SWEET and family are with her.
The Rutland railway company has had
a gang of men at work this week COM
pletely renewing the Main street bridge.
In default of an iron or stone structure, a
new wooden affair is received with thanks.
Misses Gertrude and Rena Smith, ac-
companied by their uncle. Frank Correll,
of East Douglas, Mass, are visiting rela-
tlves and friends in town. Miss Rena In
tends to 90 to the White Mountains from
here.
The baseball game between the under
graduates and alumni of MiGdlebury col
lege, scheduled for next Monday after
noon, will be s'worth coming miles to
see." The grads all were '%'stars" Ia
their day and have regulations to main
tain.
Dennis Calvin of Weybridge street has
been so seriously i'll the past week that
his daughter, Miss Kate Calvin, and son,
John Calvin, both of B~rattlebero. were
called to the village. John Calvin is
chief vice ranger of the state court of the
Catholic Order of Foresters, and he visit
ed the newly instituted Addison court
Sunday.
The married employees of the Register
Company are indebted to George F..
Marshall for a box each of his mammoth
homegrown Strawberries. Mr.. Mar
shall's berries long have been famous in
this section, and the Register Company
men appreciate the gift all the more from
the knowledge that ordinary mortals can
secure this fruit only by placing an order
days in advance.
The Odd Fellows memorial Sunday
was observed in Mlddlebury by Lake
Dunmore lodge. They repaired In a
body to the Episcopal church where they
listened to a discourse by Rev. Mr.. For
sythe. They then took up their march
to the West cemetery, where they deco
rated the graves of dead brethren. The
lodges of Brandon, Bristol and YER
gennes were represented by visiting
brothers.
An unusually high temperature, ac-
centuated by humidity of the atmos-
phere, has prevailed here since Tuesday.
The mercury made some big contrasts.
On Tuesday the lowest was Il degrees