Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-01
Russell II. Conwell, Feb. 10.


to party February 8.
The lenten season of forty days begins
two weeks from last Wednesday.
On Monday, market day eggs were
quoted at 81 cents and butter 25 cents.
One of the sleeping cars on the sleeper
Sunday night had to be set out here on
account of broken journal
The cattle consignment from this sec.
ton Monday consisted of two carloads of
cows, calves and hogs for the Brighton
market.
Saturday night was the coolest of the
season, the mercury touching the IS be-
low zero mark.
The ladies' of st. Mary's church gave
social in the Federation building Mon
day evening which was largely attend
ed
Miss Emma Lewis of Salisbury is pas
sing few days in town the guest OF her
sister, Mrs. Edward Severance.
Officer Butterfield arrested John
Lowell for assault Monday evening.
Tuesday morning before Judge Foote,
Lowell pleaded guilty to the charge and
was sentenced to not less tn IN 90 or more
than 30 days in Jail.
Several from here went to Bridport
Tuesday to attend the funeral of the
Rev. w. N. Bacon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter j. Rose are con.
fined to the house with grip.
Frank Mayhem has returned from
Winooski after a few days stay with his
daughter, Mrs. Charles Adams.
Addison Court, C. o. F., will give its
seventh annual concert and ball in The
town hall Wednesday evening, Febru-
airy 6.
Noyes Pressor, who visited his mother
and sisters at Hague, N. Y, the past two
weeks, has returned. The family will
soon make their home in Middlebury.
c. j. Matthews, who broke rib, is
able to be out
home in Brandon after few days stay
in town on business.
Robert NJ. Mills, travelling salesman
for the Brandon Italian Marble Co., is
spending a few days at his home on
Court street after six weeks trip.
Mrs. William Mccoy has returned
after ten days visit to her parents in
Bridport.
Mrs. A. j. Backmer is ill at her home
on Main street.
A large delegation from .Middlebury
went to Brandon Wednesday evening to
attend the annual Masonic ball.
Mrs. Mildred Campbell and Mrs. Fred
Crane are guests at the home of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Heminway.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist church will meet
with Mrs. o. II. Atwood Wednesday
afternoon, Feb. 6, at 8 o'clock.
The ladies of st. Mary's parish have
not "a yet exhausted their resources in
regard to furnishing novelties in the way
of socials, for they will give Buster
Brown" social in the parlors of the Fed
Grafton building on Monday evening,
Feb. 4. The admission fee will be low
as usual and the quality of the enter
tainment will be high.
Letters addressed as follows are at the
postoffice unclaimed: Miss Elaine
Amundson, Mrs. Henriette Skiff, Joseph
F. Browne, Mr.. T. H. Craw, Henry Gotta,
Mr.. George Douglass, j. Hill, Geo. II.
Lucia, John C. Randall, Mr.. Harrison
Smith.
At the fourth quarterly conference of
the local Methodist Church, it was unan-
imously voted to request the presiding
elder. the Rev. P. l.. Dow, who was
present. to use his influence for the re-
turn of Rev. w. II. Washburne another
year. The following were elected trus-
tees: Willis N. Cady, Charles G.. Cady,
Prof. H. NJ. Seely, w. K. Foster, Prof.
NJ. R. Sanford, NJ. H. Eddy. H. A. Peck;
stewards, S. B. Aines, c. H. Balm, NJ.
E. Damon, Horace N. Dow, S. s. Eddy,
Albert Foster, Andrew Franklin, S.
p. Hoyt, George E. Marshall. Charles E.
Youtt, Ernest M. Severance, Prof. H.
NJ. Seely, Homer NJ. Balm; missionary
committee, Willis N. Csdy, DR.. S. S.
Eddy, Mrs. A. F. Barker; on church
extension. w, K, Foster. Mrs T r.
Ford, Horace N, Dow, Homer NJ. Balm:
on freedmen, G. H. Balm, c. f. Youtt;
Sunday school, II. A. Peck, Mrs S. S.
Eddy; tracts, the pastor; temperance, Mrs.
l.. ID. Dyer. Mrs, c. E. Youtt; conference
claimants, S. B. Aines, S. S. Eddy; par
sonage and furniture, Mrs H. NJ. Seely,
Mrs. NJ. II. Eddy, Mrs. o. p. Moore, Mrs.
A. F. Barker; estimating pastors salary,
w CaI, II Daoi. II NJ