Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-04-06


votes over Nothing like an object
lesson to show the utility of these
pavements.
New maple sugar and syrup are on the
local market in quite sufficient quanti-
ties to fill local demands They appear
to be of good quality. Prices for syrup
range from so cents to Sll0 a gallon;
sugar, II cents a pound.
The first number of the Bristol News,
a paper Just started by J w. Ketchum
at Bristol, with James NJ. I.ul as editor,
put In its appearance this week. 1t is
bright and clean sheet. full of local
news lnvitingly displayed.
The concrete sidewalk in front Of Or.
Sheldon's store on Main street caved IN
on Sunday afternoon, making hole
half dozen feet in diameter. The earth
foundation had been undermined by
water, which occasoned the mishap.
Mrs. Abigail Allen Rogers will be %
years old the 18th of April. She Is
''rea daughter" of thc Revolution. and
has the gold spoon which was presented
by the national society of y. \. Il. She
resides with her son. Isaac l.. Rogers
Mr.. Thompson, the engineer who for
several weeks has been in the vi lage TO
superintcnd the installing of the huge
gasoline engine for The electric light
company. left for home in New York on
Wednesday evening, having completed
his work.
The Citizens band held their second
meeting of the season on Monday even
ing of this week. With the financial
assistance rendered by the village and
the increasing membership of the band.
the outlook for this year is quite en-
couraging.
The lower c'assmen of the college
were out bright and early Tuesday morn
ing with bogus program of the Junior
/ Fix. held that night. The characters at
/ trbuted TO the juniors bv name were not
all complimentary. At the exhibition that
night they scattered the usual rams
/ During March there were II days of
north wind, 13 clear DAYS and o days of
snow or rain. About 80 inches of snow
fell during the month. There were five
days Of below zero weather, the lowest
being 20 degrees. on the 18th. The high
| Isl punt itdNll'Nl Nv bil' NV u y Wa -
degrees above, on the 18th.
The Christian association of Middle
bury college will give course of lee
tues next term similar to those given
last winter. They will be given by Pro
fessor Howard April 20. President
Brainerd May ,, and Professor Burt May
II. The proceeds will be divided among
the two associations and will be used to
defray the expenses of delegates to the
various student conferences.
County Examiner +. +. Royce. who
last week completed his spring eXamlna.
tions, says that the whole number eX-
amined in Nergennes. Bristol, Middle
bury and Shoreham was 81, and the
largest number at any of the four places
was Is. at Shoreham. OF the 81 exam
med, only n secured certificates. rhir-
teen of the 81 who were candidates were
Young men and Is were young women.
The annual report of the Century club
shows that they raised by their own
gifts and personal solicitation the sum of
Sl3j for the care of the Phinney sisters.
Fifty dollars of this was given by rela-
tives and friends at a distance, and S25
by the Masons. While the club were
unable to pay for their care the last few
weeks of their lives. they did pay the
burial expenses of both.
With the first of April the firm of
Bcckwith & Co. completed 10 years of
uninterrupted business life in Middle
bury. They began business in 1850 in a
building which stood on part of the site
which is now occupied by the Battell
block For l. years they have occupied
their present connections quarters. Only
one other firm now in business in this
village ante dates them II. W. Brewster
e Co, who began about six months pre-
vious 70 Beckwith & Go.
East Middleburv is to have double
daily mail on and after Monday next.
In addition to the present service be
tween here and that Office there will be a
mail leaving here at l0:l5 a. m, arriving
there at | 30 and, leaving there at p,
m. arriving here AT 2:lj p. m. in time to
CONNECT with the afternoon mail north
The additional service was granted with
in week of the receipt of the petition
by Congressman Powers, who gave the
matter his immediate personal attention.
Mrs, Mary l.. Baldwin, aged - years
died at l2;lj o'clock yesterday morning
at her home on River street, the cause of
death being paralysis She had been a
sufferer from paralysis for the past foul
years. The shock which brought on her
death came last Friday. She was twice
married. Her first husband was Isaac
Goodro, who died % years ago; heI
present one Philip Baldwin. She was
the mother by her first husband of elev-
en- children, ten of whom are now living
in this village and vicinity. The funeral
will he held saturday n O'Clock
The Lincoln q Bristol Telephone com
pany held its annual meeting at the of
flee in Battel Block on Tuesday. The
report of the business manager indicated a