Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-05-22
MIDDLEBURY LOCAL NEWS


West Rutland.
Walter Shea has returned from Colo
RADIO Springs, Col.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Jewett were in
Burlington Friday.
Col w. T. Chester was down from
Bread Loaf Saturday.
Miss Josephine Dooley visited friends
in Burlington Saturday.
The weather Sunday and Monday was
very hot and vegetation suffered greatly.
Middlebury has been "wet' yet ex
ceedngly dry for the past week.
Mrs. Charles Severance, who has been
i'll since November, is now just able to
be out.
Joseph Peck of New York was called
here last week by the serious illness of
his father. c. c. Peck
Remember the "Rummage Sale" at
the vestry of the Congregational church
today and Saturday.
DR.. L. E. Mellen was in Enosburg
Falls this week attending the annual
encampment of the Grand Lodge |. o.
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The village trustees have just received
600 feet of new hose, which they have
divided between the two hose COM
panies.
A petition is being circulated among
the business men to have them close on
Memorial day and it is being literally
sigued.
DR.. w. II. Sheldon has accepted the
position as tenor in the Congregational
church choir and sang for the first time
last Sunday
Ernest Huestis has purchased the
Daniel Shea house on Weybridge street
Price not given. He will move his fam
lily there this week.
Col. Frank p Merrill of Boston was in
town Tuesday. He has been very i'll for
some weeks but is now able to be out
and call on his many friends again.
c. W. Ross has the contract for laying
the foundation walls to the new block Of
the Methodist church. He commenced
operations Monday and has same well
under way.
Quite number from here will attend
the nth annual meeting of the Woman S
Home Missionary society for the Troy
Conference district at Burlington next
week Thursday.
The extreme dry weather has rendered
garden making the past week an
arduous task. jackson says he had to
plant his peas with a pick axe.
Rev. Thomas Simms will preach the
conference sermon at the annual meet
ing of the Addison county Congrega-
tiOnal churches at Vergennes next week.
Iron shutters have been placed on
the windows of the Sheldon Museum
next the Logan House, for protection
against fire.
Quite number of the base ball en-
thusiasts went to Vergennes Saturday
afternoon to see the Middlebury high
school team defeat the Vergennes high
school 81 to s.
w. II. Bliss has sold to H. c. Potter
his three year-old tilly Modjeska for
three hundred dollars. Modjeska is a
daughter of Krempest and Jananschek.
by Ben Franklin. She is standard bred
and among the best.
Friday was the last day in which to
license dogs and there are some i'll town
that will be shot as soon as the dog
killer can find them. The owners will
also pay all expenses of the killing, in
l Guiding search and Sl5 fine. Better kill
that dog yourself and save some S25.
The funeral of Mrs. Henry Bougar OF
FNVey bridge, whose death was noticed
last week in the Weybridge items was
held from St. Marys church Friday
morning, and the interment was in the
Catholic cemetery. Rev. j. d. Shannon
officialed and Piper & Goyett had
charge.
DR.. Daniel George eillv, class of 1S91
Middlebury college, is winning success
at Dalton, o., in his profession The
Dalton Press says editorially that "Dr
Reilly is fine gentleman and an abl'
physician.' He is booked for a place
on the new health board of that city
under the new administration.
Dr. B. E. Marshall of Albany, N. Y
son of George E. Marshall, sent his fathe
two interesting relics this week. One i
a thermometer such as was used by ply
sicians over one hundred years ago in tax
ing the temperature of patients. 1t re
sembles the ordinary metal thermomete
: of TODAY, except that the metal plat
containing the scale is in two parts witt
with hing so it can be bent back ant
the bulb placed in the patients mouth
1t was used by DR.. Marshals great
great grandfather, DR.. John Rogers il
1919. The other relic is a worn diplom
! from Dartmouth college Issued IN l1iO L
Austin George, another relative. Bot
are interesting curiOs of the olden tim
and are on exhibition at the Sheldon Mu
> scum.
= The Vermonter for May contains as it
leader am article by DR.. Charles S
Caverly of Rutland Medicine am
Surgery" in Vermont. 1t is histories
and biographical and very interesting
Among the prominent physicians of tn
5 past it places DIR. Iacheus Bass, VIII
for sixt y-six years practiced medicin
in Middlebury and was prominent /
the affairs of Addison county. He wa
l present at Plattsburg as surgeon. Th
4 article says of him: His reputation a
safe and skillful practitioner and con
3 sultant was wide. OF cheerful and eve
playful disposition, he took the deepe'
interest in all who applied to him. Lik
= SO many of his contemporaries i'll tn
i profession, he did not underestimate til
: value of happy greeting and homel