Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-04-24
MIDDLEBURY LOCAL NEWS

last week.
Miss Ruth Bowdish has been spending |
the past few days in Burlington.
Mrs. Patterson has returned from
visit with relatives in Putney.
Miss katherine Shea is teaching the |
Pulp Mill school in Weybridge.
Harry Shaw returned Tuesday from a
short business trip to Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Silas H. Kendall has returned
from few days stay in Rutland.
John Stewart made a short business
trip to New York the first of the week.
Mark Boylan, of Rutland. spent the
week with his mother, Mrs. Michael
Boylan.
Miss Cecile Child has gone to Albany,
n. Y, for few days visit with rela-
tives.
Bernard, the little son of Edward
Seymour is quite i'll with acute indi-
gestion.
Mrs Carrie Hadley gave a luncheon
Friday at her home on South Pleasant
street
Herbert Sheltus went to Portland,
Me-, Friday, called by the death of
sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Thomas and two
children have returned from a visit with
relatives in Bristol.
C. l.. Nutting. of Boston, Mass. a
former resident, visited friends in New
Haven this week.
c. \. Earle has had an American steam
heater placed in his residence by John
II. Stewart.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. d. Wilson of Beebe
Plain, p. O., have been the guests of the
Addison for week past.
Mrs. Robert Barton has returned to her
home in Greensboro, after spending the
past week with Mrs. Ira Taylor.
Mrs. James Warner has returned from
an extended visit with Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Alien Warner, in Albany, n. y.
Scott Cooling has returned to his
home in Rutland after spending the
week in town with friends.
John II Stewart is putting one of the
Advance hot water heaters into the fine
residence of A. w. Norton at Nergemes.
Charles Westall, Jr. has returned to
his home in Jonesville after visit in
town with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Westal,
| Frank Munroe of Springfield. Mass,
visited friends in town this week. lie
| was a former resident and proprietor of
the Middlebury Steam laundry.
Victor Bruce of Fair Haven succeeds
| Mrs Houghtaling as the operator in the
! Western Union Telegraph Office in
George +. Marshall's store.
Mrs. J. E. Crane entertained the Pi
Phi fraternity and number of High
School young ladies Saturday evening
at her home on Washington street.
Read the want" and For Sale
columns in this paper. They may name
Just what you are seeking or show
purchaser for just what you have to
sell.
There is much pleasure expressed
around town at the return of Rev. E. j.
Guernsey as pastor of the Methodist
church by the bishop for another year.
He is very popular with all classes.
Weeks & Williamson shipped 210 veals
and 80 hogs Monday. The price paid for
calves was 3 to 5 cents per pound, the
latter being the top notch price. Hogs
brought from 81 to cents per pound
A Typographical Union was organized
here Monday evening of last week with
the following officers: President. Ed
ward Seymour; vice president, l.. NJ
Lillick; secretary, Frank E. Spear;
treasurer. Miss Jessie f. Robinson; SER
geant-at-arms, S. d. Surprise.
Rev S. w. Bidwell says his grand
father, George Bidwell, from Canaan,
Conn, was the first settler in the town
of Starksboro. He came there April s,
! 1888. He was soldier in the Revolu-
tionary War and was at Ticonderoga,
n. Y, at the time it was captured by
Ethan Allen.
In 1903 liquor license in town costs
$500, besides twenty-five dollars for
, United States license. During the fifty
years of prohibition most of the licenses
were for internal revenue when all bust
ness was taxed. Previous to 1850 Yer
5 mont licenses We're granted by the Judges
, of the county court. In 1913 the fee was
$50. in 1898 it was 81, and from 1900 tC
that time it varied from 81 to 50. In
1905 Joel Boardman paid $3.50 for {
license at his old home and tavern stand
= Daniel Sanford paid 81 cents to sell in hi'
store in Cornwall from June % to the
: close of December court in 1914. Moses
Sheldon, merchant in Saybrook, Conn.
5 Ct los. for a years excise on spirits il
1860.
Frank TrudO, of Pleasant street, had {
fine present last week Thursday, whei
his highly bred mare Addition, by
Ambassador, Dam Fanny Essley b,
Night Hawk, dropped a filly foal by H
t c. Potter's horse Krempest. It's adven
: had been anXiously expected, and Will
5 all the more anxiety because the dan
had lost two foals previously. We saw
the little miss last Sunday. when onl,
four days old, and have seldom LOOKED
at one more toward at that tender age
She stood like rock on all four feet