Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

Former Governor Stewart came up
from Boston uesday for short stay.
The Hawthorne club will meet Tues.
day evening with Prof. and Mrs. Nc
clifton.
II. f. Merrill has returned from visit
of ten days with relatives In Albany and
Glens Falls, n. Y.
Attorney c. NJ. Wilds has gone to
Florida for rest. DR.. Pratt of Shore
ham accompanies him.
George Langworthy, who has spent
several weeks in New York state on
business, is once more at home.
Last Friday morning the thermometer
of our weather man read 20 degrees be-
low zero. Other thermometers went as
low as 80.
The Middlebury orchestra of nine
pieces has been engaged to furnish music
for the Gotham Comedy company enter
tainment this evening.
DR.. Clarendon, who is now at the Ad.
olson house. wishes to call attention to
the fact that his office hours close at
o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Agnes McQuivey Leeds was the
guest of her parents a few days during
Stamford, Conn, yesterday.
Miss Smith will hold her usual
assembly Saturday evening In the base
ment of the town hall; also her juvenile
dancing class on Saturday afternoon
at 2.30.
Fordyce Moore of Middlebury, one of
the several graduates from the Albany
Business college from this vicinity, has
recently obtained employment with
Denniston & Dryer, Albany, n. Y.
Miss Miller, who has been the guest of
Mrs. Carlson on Court street for the past
two weeks. left on Wednesday for her
home in Brooklyn Rev. Mr.. ca lson is
expected back from Washington state
next week.
The roads have been lined with log
ging teams the past week, bringing In
pulp logs. The lateness of the shedding
weather will force contractors to make
an extra effort, and there Is plenty of
work for the willing.
Letters with these addresses are at the
post Office unclaimed: Miss Lena Bour-
deau, Mrs. Emma Gale, Miss Sadie Good
rich, Miss Lillian Goodrich. M. w. Hall,
Henry 5. Harper, Harper & Bros. Jas.
Moore Harper, Mrs. Mary Hill, Fred
Pratt, Esq.
The Ledgevile Poultry yards in
Weybrdge have remarkable record for
January in the number of eggs laid by
so light brahma pullets. The figure
reached 14l0 Perhaps this accounts for
the slump in the egg market prices dur
ing that month.
Speaking of the Gotham omedy COM
pany, which is to appear at the opera
house tonight, the Middletown Conn
Tribune says: "If applause is any indi-
cation of appreciation then the company
is certainly success. Each and every
act introduced asst evening was well re-
ceived. This company presents good
clean performance that any person may
take his wife and mother to see.'
The item we copied last week from the
New York Sun concerning DR.. Harry
Wells and Prot. Atwater's calorimeter
had received very general circulation
through the Associated Press. 1t was
good, live item; but it appears that it
had one fatal defect-it was not fOuded
on fact. Dr. Wells writes that he isn't
contemplating any such experiment.
This is case where "If you see it in
the Sun, it amt So"
V. w. Blanchard's latest invention is a
metallurgical plant for the instantan-
eous and inexpensive reduction of re-
fractOry gold bearing ores. The REGIS.
TER job department recently printed for
him a pamphlet explaining the working
of the Invention, which invention he
says has been fully tested. The princi-
pie of the plant is the acceleratiOn of ma
lures method. as eXemplfled IN the dis
Indignation Of rocks and stones on the
surface of the earth by the action of the
elements.
The Woman's Home Missionary society
of the Methodist church held very
pleasant meeting at the parsonage on
Friday afternoon, Feb. 2. Mrs. John W.
Chapman of Anvik. Alaska, spoke of
that "Great Land its climate resour-
ces, and the manners and customs Of the
native population, but more particularly
of mission work and the transforming
power of Christianity upon the lives of
the people. A social hour and an early
tea followed Mrs. Chapman's very inter
esting address.
The College Glee club had a splendid
reception at the opera house Wednesday
evening on the occasion of the "hOme
concert The remark was general at
the close of the program that the singing
was much superior to that of last year
good as the latter was. Every number
on the program pleased the audience,
but special mention must be made of the
medley entitled "a Basket of Chestnuts"
by the club, the singing of the quartet,
the solo by Mr.. Barnard and MIR. Bots
ford's reading. A dance followed the
concert and was well attended by the
young people.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.