Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-29
MIDDLEBURY LOCALS.

Carbon paper for type-writers at
Register Office. Ad If
w. II. Thomas 81 Co. expect car of
stock salt next week.
Miss Ray and Miss Robinson, of Bran
don, were in town last week.
The January thaw arrived Jan. %
several weeks off schedule time.
Mrs. Cushing Hill gave "A tea Saturday
afternoon to a number of friends.
f. II. Button, esq, of New York was
in town last week on legal business.
Miss Flora Needhan, of Boston, is in
town for a few days, the guest of friends
and relatives.
Miss Nellie Button. of Wallingford,
was the guest of friends in town the
latter part of last week.
Mrs. A. A. Fletcher and her daughter,
Mrs. T. d. Wells entertained number
of friends at whist Friday.
Frederick Button, formerly of this
town, now of Brandon, spent "a few days
in town the last of the week.
The Young Ladies' Glee club will give
concert at Cornwall this friday even
ing under the auspices of the Grange.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox has given up
her rooms at The Addison and will move
to Chicago where she will make her
home
There will be an informal Masonic
social at the Masonic parlOrs, Wednesday
evening Feb. Bird MasOns and their
families are invited.
Mrs. NJ A. Munroe has returned from
a two weeks stay in Boston, where she
was called 10y the death of "a brother-in-
law, Theodore b. Hapgood.
Mrs. Asa Hemenway and grand
daughter, Helene Campbell, started
Monday for Philadelphia, Pa. where
they Will remain Tor several months.
The Masonic dance at the town hail
Thursday night was ana unqualified social
success and il was thoroughly enjoy by a
very large nunher of VI; sons and their
ladies.
c. Z. Stevens Matched out a large
brood of chickens with his incubator
during the cold spell last week, and has
succeeded in saving most of the numer-
Gus family.
JOY & Hullett of the enterprlsIng
agricultural implement dealers OF West
Salisbury were burned out but they are
still doing business and can furnish
anything you want in short order. AID
John Donah of Shoreham was sur
rendered by his bond man last week and
he is now guest of Cobb's hotel. He
was placed under $1,000 bonds on a
charge of attempting to shoot William
Stokes at Shoreham Jan. Is.
Dennis Rockford, who for several
years has been i'll the employ of the ex-
press company, has resigned his position
and left last Friday for Holyoke, Mass,
where he has secured a similar position.
His place will be filled by Edward Hop
kins.
The Port Henry Republican says: 1T
would be pleasure, indeed, if space per-
mitted, to give in full the article appear
ing in the last weeks Middlebury Regis
ter concerning Father Burke, his life and
work. as well as report of "A Sunday
service held in St Mary's church and the
reception rendered him the following
evening at the X. of G.. hall by that or
ganization and the town generally 1t
did give a very full synopsis of the article
however.
cat no time since the beginning of
winter has there been any danger of sun
stroke on the mildest DAYS, and but very
rarely have the caves dripped in the noon
day glare of ii pitiless sun that has hung
in the heavens as warm and genial as a
bOardinghouse furnace in a coal strike,
says Miss White. the local editor of the
Randolph Herald, "Tuesday morning,
Just two weeks from the cold wave that
sent thermometers to 40 and 40 degrees
below, came another consignment of
arctic weather and the spirits of the Their
mometer at Allan Chadwick's on Central
street, near Aver brook, sank to 80 de-
grees below. while in other parts of the
village reports ranged from 30 to As de-
grees below. A chilly citizen, thrashing
his arms to restore the circulation, was
heard to remark that the bureau ought
to give dark blue trading stamps with
such kind of weather." The same re-
marks apply to Middlebury except that
the thermometer here did not register
as low figures into 10 to 90 degrees as at
Randolph.