Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-12-25

us DblIlit nus, WHO Is Il student II
Smith college, is at home for the holi
days.
Milton Severance, of Burlington, was
the guest of friends in town during the
week.
Miss Elizabeth H. O'Brien went Thurs
day to Boston to spend Christmas with
her brother.
r. L. Carr, Esq. of New York city is
spending a few days with friends in
Middlebury.
Mrs. Fred Crane, of Bridport, is the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Asa
Hemenway.
Miss Lizzie O'Leary of Lawrence.
Mass, is a guest during the holidays of
Mrs. Z. II. Mcmahon.
Miss Heloise Brainerd, a student at
Smith college, is the guest of her mother.
Mrs. Charles Brainerd.
Rufus Wainwright, Jr., of Cleveland.
O is the guest of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rufus Wainwright.
Percival Wilds, who is a student in
the Harvard Law school, is the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Skiff.
Frederick j.. Beatty, operator of the
w. L. Tel. Co. at st. Adams. visited his
lliONllDl anu NINltl ONtI SUNDAY.
Miss Daisy Cushman, who has been
spending the past three months in Boston
ana vicinity, has returned home.
Mrs. Warner and Miss Frances. her
daughter, are spending the HOLIDAYS with
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Warner, Of Addi-
son.
\ meeting of the Century Club nHl
be held with Mrs. Aines at the home of
Mrs. Gasca Rich, Wednesday evening,
Dec. 80.
Miss Martha Bowdish, who is teaching
in Wilburham, Mass, is the guest of her
mother, Mrs. NJ. j. Bowdish, on Semin-
airy street.
y number of handsome English Toy
spaniels have been shipped from the
BONITA Kennels to different cities tor
the holiday trade.
E. f. Rich received word from Wash
ington, ID. c., to take his place as mail
carrier of r. f. ID. No. 4 Tuesday morn
ing, which he did.
The ladies of st. Stephens church will
give a dime social at Mrs. r. Cartmell's,
on Tuesday evening, Dec. 30. All are
cordially invited to be present.
The Christmas concert of the Congre-
gational Sunday school, which was post
poned from last Sunday, will be given
next Sunday evening at 7 o'clock.
Arthur Smith, who was accidentally
shot sometime since while out hunting,
died Tuesday night of liberation of the
arteries and internal hemorrhages.
Miss Genevieve Mcmahon, who is a
student at Villa Marie convent, Montreal.
arrived Tuesday to spend the hold V
vacation with her parents, Mr.. and NJ j.
Z. II. Mcmahon.
j. l.. Turner fitted up the old express
office in nice shape, painted and i'm
proved the interior and opened it Mon
day night as a first class lunch room. 1t
is opened daily till -, midnight.
Among those from Burlington WHO
came Monday to attend the meeting f
the Western Vermont Congregational
club were w. j.. Van Patten, II. s.
Howard, the Rev. and Mrs. G. II. Beard.
Prof. 5. +. Emerson and Prof. and Mrs.
G. b. Stetson.
The social event of the past week was
the sophomore ball at the opera house
Friday evening. Doring's orchestra, of
Troy, n. Y, furnished the motive power
for thirty couples to trip the light fan
tastlc till the early hours of Saturday.
All report a fine time.
The Central Labor Union has COM
pleted the arrangements for their second
annual concert and ball which will be
held in the town hall on Thursday even
ing, December 81, New Years eve).
The Howard Opera house orchestra will
furnish music, which is a guarantee that
it will be the best ever heard in Middle
bury.
The business men, almost without ex-
ception, have had a big Christmas trade
and are more than pleased with the
result: Business at the Register Book
Store has been double that of "A year ago
all of which goes to show that the people
of this town and county are prosperous
and happy, and wish to make everybody
else happy.
Unless all press reports are misleading
the play along the Kennebec," to be
presented here next Saturday night
will be well worth seeing. The Mont
pelier Daily Journal says: Those who
value a play by the number of laughs il
causes, must rate both the play and
players of along the Kennebec," as
presented in Blanchard opera house on
on Friday evening, away above par.
Laughs were scattered at frequent inter
walls all through the piece and the inter-
walls between the laughs were so slight
as to make the merriment almost con-
tinuous. The duel in the third act, in
which one OF the men was afraid to tight
and theo other burst not, was a scene of