Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-01-25
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF.

George Steele has started trunk
wagon.
Merritt Stowe spent Sunday in Bur
lington.
william A. Bump of Salisbury was in
town on Monday.
A. D. vittum of Vergennes was in
town on Monday.
William Beatty is ill at his home on
Weybridge street.
Edward Walker spent Sunday in Bris-
tol with relatives,
r. W. Fletcher of Bridport was IN
town on Friday last.
George Hammond was in Beldens last
Saturday on business.
Miss Ruth Wright, who has been very
i'll, is rapidly recovering.
John Donnelly of Nergennes was in
town last Friday on business.
NJ. A. Wheeler of Bridport was in
town on Monday on business.
Wilbur Bingham of Bristol made the
county seat Il visit on Monday
F. c. Dyer of West Salisbury was
business visitor in town on Monday.
James Condor has resumed his duties
at Beckwth & Co.'S, after a short i'll
ness.
Mrs. Il. Washburn of East Middle
bury visited friends ia town during the
week.
Miss Daisy l.. Cushman has been
suffering the past week from an attack
of tonsllitis.
Miss Margaret Barrett entertained
number of her friends at her home last
Wednesday evening.
Miss Maud Hutchins and Miss Julia
Bene diet spent Sunday at the latter's
home in Cornwall.
Mrs. John OConnell and son Sargent
of Ticonderoga, n. V, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. John Sargent this week.
Mrs. j. W. Goodel OF Burlington re-
turned home on Saturday last, after a
short visit with Mrs. George Sanderson.
Mrs. Mary L. Tilden returned on Sat
urdav from Brooklyn. n. V, where she
had passed the last four weeks with
Prof and Mrs. \. l.. James.
F. w. Dutton of Northfeld, VT,
one of the leading business men of that
town, visited his brother and sister, Mr..
and Mrs William Jackson, on Monday.
Frank Forest who was up before
Judge Foote on Saturday last, pleaded
guilty to a charge of intoxlcation and
was fined 81 and costs. He disclosed on
Jamaica ginger and three per cent beer.
Mrs. A. A. Thayer of Randolph, Mass,
W har
of her sister. Mrs. Truman Wilcox of
Salisbury, and who has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Z. C. Brown of Seymour
street since that time, returned home
Tuesday noon.
Miss Hattie Wheeler of the Addison
County Telephone company's Office was
in Bridport on Tuesday to attend the re-
dedication of the Congregational church
of that town. Mrs. NJ. II. Burt took
charge of the telephone Office during
Miss Wheeler's absence.
Edison Burns returned on Tuesday
from the Mary Fletcher hospital in
Burlington. He has been in the hospital
since the 9th of December, suffering
from bad case of blood-poisonng
caused from cut sustained in dressing
some sheep. The doctor tells him that
they think it Will be necessary to am
putate finger little later
l.. b. Boardman, farmer living In
the east part of the town, had the mis-
fortune to lose very valuable COW one
day last week. Upon examination to
find the cause OF death a very strange
fact was brought to light. a few inches
from the passage of the throat into the
stomach was found double handful of
gravel stones. Where the COW got them
at this time of year and why she should
take 10 such a diet is mystery.
Z Tuesday noon there was a bad coastins
accident aC the foot of College hill. A
double ripper, owned and managed by
Clifford Bacor, the young son of Samuel
Bacon, came down the road from the col
lege. In making the turn toward the
graded school the forward sled slowed
and ran into a tree, throwing its load
/ in different directions, smashing the tray
erses and injuring the passengers severe
! ly. Prof. HOwes and his sister-in-law, ,
Miss Clarke. were badly bruised, Miss
Clarke being made unconscious for
some time and having one of the small
bones in her foot broken. Stella Farrell,
the ten-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. william Farrell, was severely in
iured. At first it was feared that her
/ legs were broken, but an examination by
DIR. Noble revealed only bad bruises