Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-01-31

Bristol OF Bristol spent Sunday In town.
They were formerly clerks for r. S.
Benedict In his grocery store.
j. d. Lapine, an employe of the Bran
don Italian Marble company, had his
right arm badly bruised while assisting
In moving block of marble last Friday.
e. p. Cushman, j. N. Stewart and
Alfred Woodward we're among those who
attended the banquet Of the Fish and
Game league held at Burlington last
Thursday evening.
The senior class of the Vergennes high
school had straw-ride to this town on
Wednesday. After taking supper at
The Addison the party returned home
by the light Of the moon.
Rev. Il. w. Darling has received word
of the death of his brother, Il. L. Darling
of Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr.. Darling was
successful In the music business there
for the past thIrty-two years.
Letters addressed as follows are at
the postoffice unclaimed: Miss Mary
Boyse, Miss Sue L. Griggs, Miss Clara
G. Smith, Mrs. III. Traind, Frank Bit
ney, Edgar B. Moore, Julius Roberts, Q.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin Rider left Mon
day for Cooperstown, N. Y, where they
will be the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
e. Bissell. From there they 60 to Bel
lows Fall, where Mr.. Rider will assume
the management of Towne's hotel.
Harmon Perkins, long time resident,
died at his home on Case street Tuesday,
from the effects of stroke of paralysis
which he suffered last week. Mr..
Perkins had been a prominent farmer
and Merino sheep breeder. His age was
6S years.
The Womans Foreign Missionary
Auxiliary will meet in the vestry Of
the Congregational church on Tuesday,
Feb. 4, at o'clock p. m. The subject
to be discussed will be the first of the
united missionary studies, Paul to
Constantine. All cordially invited.
The ladies of st. Mary's church held a
largely attended "donkey" social in the
Forester's hall on Monday evening. Dur
ing the evening refreshments were
served. About S32 was realized, to be
applied to the fund for the new church.
Gilbert King, aged Sc years, long
time resident of this town, died on Tues
day at his home on Munger street. He
Is survived by wife and several grown
children. He had been in bad health for
Ia long time past, but was not confined to
bed until few weeks ago.
Albert w. Varney, who graduated
from Middlebury college in the class of
1886, and has since been engaged in
teaching in Minnesota and as instructor
and superintendent of schools in Burling-
ton, has accepted the position of princi-
pal of the Bennington high school.
The funeral of Mrs. Walter V. Wright
was held from her late home on South
Pleasant street Saturday afternoon at
80 o'clock. Rev. Thomas Simms, pas
tor of the Congregational church, ollici-
ated. The interment was in the family
lot in the Maple Grove cemetery at Wey-
bridge.
The ladies of st. Stephens church held
a largely attended "guess who" social
In the basement of the town hall on
Wednesday evening. During the even
ing musical program was given and
refreshments were served. At the close,
dancing was INDUCED in for two hours.
There will be special song service at
the Baptist church next Sunday evening
at o'clock. The subject will be 1.-The
old, old story" and a short sketch of
the composers life will he read, and the
facts connected with the writing Of the
song and influence it has had in the
world.
1t is very important that all users of
the village water observe the same pre-
caution as when the water was being
taken from the river. The water will
not be safe for drinking until the hyd-
rants have all been flushed and the mains
washed entirely clean of the impurities
brought from the river.
Mrs. Jennie Ford Judd, wife of E. w
Judd, died at her home on Seymour
street Wednesday night, after an illness
Of five days with pneumonia. She
leaves husband and three sisters-Mrs.
c. F. Langworthy and Mrs. Robert
Cartmell, who live in this village, and
Mrs. Timothy Neville of Vergennes.
Mrs. Ida II. Read of Shelburne, state
president of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, will speak in behalf
of that organization at the Methodist
Church Wednesday evening, Feb. 8, at
7 80 o'clock. Music will be furnished
by quartet under the direction of
A. G. Woodward. All are cordially
invited to attend.
The REGISTER gave an account re-
Gently of very rare book lately dis
covered near Bennington, but our
museum man thinks he can go one better
with a postage stamp that no collector
has been able to procure for many years.
1t is one-penny stamp of King Edward
of England recently issued and supposed