Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-04

Frank Schackett, who recently bought
the Sullivan e. Ryan meat market, took
possession Tuesday. William Beatty, |
formerly member of the firm of Wright
& Beatty, Is in charge.
A maple sugar party will be held at l.
! O. O. f. hall this (Friday) evening,
April 4. All are cordially invited. All
the sugar on snow or otherwise that you
can eat for paltry sum.
The many friends of Hiram Tyler of
Burlington, former resident, will be
pleased to learn that he has had his pen
sion increased to S17. Mr.. Tyler was a
member of the 1Ith Vermont regiment.
Milo Race, whose peculiar disappear
ance was mentioned in the REGISTER last
week, reported on Sunday. He had been
with friends In Bridport. This is another
evidence of prompt results from adver-
Using.
Gasca II. Balm, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. II. Balm of this village, was married
on Easter Sunday in New York city.
His bride was Miss Florence E. Hunt of
New York, and the ceremony took place
at the Church of the TRANSPORTATION at
O'Clock in the evening.
Frank Monroe, former proprietor of
the steam laundry, is moving this week
with his family to Springfield, Mass,
where he has a position. Rev. w. Il.
Forsythe has taken possession of the
house where Mr.. Monroe lived and
Asa Hemenway of Bridport is to occupy
the house made vacant by Mr.. Forsythe's
removal.
j. A. Wright & Co. shipped to New
York two Durham bulls, two Holstein
bulls, 80 Holistein cows, 10 Durham
cows and one Jersey COW. They are to
. be taken to South Africa. Lewis Nara
, bone and G. f. Allen went with them.
y The cost of transportation alone will
be $50 head, as reported. Fifteen cars
:, were required for shipment to New
t York.
G. Mathews has a freak in the shape
! of an animal with the body of a calf,
}, the short head, short ears and prOtrud-
ing under jaw of bull dog, carnivorous
t teeth and curly tail. The monstrosity
+ is weak in it fore legs, and as the cattle
+ are afraid of it the owner feeds 1t as a
"bottle baby" A large number of curious
?, people have been to the Mathews farm
:, to look at it.
V Alonzo Hatch's moving picture enter
tanment on Monday evening was well
n patronized. The pictures were much
,, more moving than the vocal solos, but
n the audience took it all in good part and
:, enjoyed what there was to enjoy. The
Hatch entertainment had been here three
. =, or four times before, and it is but fair to
# say that the deterioration was wholly
8 unexpected. The ladies of the Labaree
society realized about $50 from the even.
>. ing.
e At the Congregational church next
o Sunday evening at : 80 o'clock the pas
y tor will preach the first of a series of SER
- mons upon character building, 1.-THE I'm.
portance of Character" "Foundation
Work in Character Building,' "The
q Architect of True Character" Essen
e tails in Character Bulding-(a) Pur'
y pose, 90 Truth, (c) Purity" Special
q music may be expected each evening a
- quartet will sing by request, "Now the
day is over" next Sunday evening.
Katherine Calhoun, the 1l-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cal
houn of High street, came out of an at
tack of mumps with blindness in the left
eve. Last week she was taken to Bur.
lngton for examination, and at that time
!. it was believed the eye could be saved
Il but not its sight. On Sunday last the
eye became worse, and second visit tC
{ Burlington resulted in the opinion that
the eyeball would have to be removed
IS The time of the operation was set fol
today.
r DR.. F. f. Farmer, who for the pas
Is two years has held a responsible position
in the State Hospital for lInsane al
Il Waterbury, will shortly locate in Mid
1t dlebury for the practice of his profession
DR.. Farmer was graduated lpby the
y medical department of the University
a of Vermont in 1899, and afterwards hat
two years practice In the hospita
y for criminal insane at Bridgewater
n Conn. He will be remembered as Ont
of the physicians from Waterbury who
IS attended the Eastwood murder case here
n and gave testimony, expert and other
wise, in that famous trial. He is {
E. young physician and surgeon of pro
IS nounced talent.