Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11


Extensive repairs are being made on
the Huntington house on South street.
Charles Williamson. the younger, has
returned from Lake Placid.
Hathorne Bros store window fronts
are being lettered in gold leaf; A. G..
Taber doing the work.
Frank Winans of Basin Harbor was
visitor IN town this week.
The news dispatches tell us that our
old acquaintance, j. w. Ketcham, has
returned to Vermont, located with his
family in Bristol and says he is going TO
stay there.
Prof. and Mrs. Winckler and son,
Percival, of Cleveland, o., are at S. B.
Aines'. Prof. Winckler is to instruct in
mathematics at Middlebury college.
Miss May Calhoun was the guest of
friends in Burlington Tuesday She will
attend the Plattsburgh Normal school.
Miss Emma Frost has resumed her
duties as stenographer in the office of
Pres. j. NJ. Thomas, after a stay of two
weeks at her home in st. Johnsbury.
James Sullivan of Boston visited rela-
tives in town this week.
Mrs. Mary Aikey of Burlington is the
guest of her mother, Mrs. Bitney.
Miss Catherine Neary has returned
home to Shelburne.
John P. Halnon, graduate of Middle
bury college of the Class of 1895, after
wards taking a three-years' course at
Boston Law school, has returned to this
village and entered the law office of
Davis & Russell
Russell Myrick has resigned his posi-
ton as salesman in the l.. S. Knight
clothing store, and will shortly make his
home in the West. Mr.. Myrick is a
young man of excellent character and
will be missed here.
Anthony Rock, who was arrested last
Saturday on the charge of stealing $50
from r. II. Hulett during the Addison
County fair, was given a second hearing
before Justice A. w. Dickens Tuesday
Owing TO lack of evidence he was dis
charged.
A new well has been opened at the
government farm in Weybridge, which,
with the aid of a gasoline pump, is ex-
pected to produce 80 gallons of water
per minute. The work around the build
ings and grounds is being pushed so as to
be complete before snow comes
The Christian Associations of Middle
bury are issuing the Students Hand
book, a compendium of invaluable infor.
nation especially well adapted for the
use of the students, though it will be of
value to everyone, as the little work
shows that generous amount of consci-
entious labor has been expended. 1t is
certainly credit to the compilers.
F. Russell Spear, son of Mr.. Frank
Spear, formerly resident in town, dis
tinguished himself in Bellows Falls on a
recent Sunday by rescuing two promin-
ent ladies from drowning, at the immi
nent risk of his own life. The ladies
were bathing in Saxtons River, and one
of them got far beyond her depth, as the
river at this point is deep and treacher-
GUS. Young Speare heard her cries and,
running distance of two or three hun
dred feet, dove off the rocky bank and
held up the women till canoe picked
them up, after which he went down and
was taken from the water unconscious.
John A. Fletcher received telegram
Tuesday morning from st. Paul, Mimi,
saying that his Oldest brother, Paris
+ letcher, was instantly killed Monday
afternoon and his wife seriously injured
| by the upsetting of their motor car at
Minnesota. Mimi. The accident occurred
at the bottom of steep hill. Mr.. Fletcher
was pinned under the car and crushed
across the abdomen. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fletcher left their home in st. Paul Sat-
urday for trip through southern Min
nesota, expecting to be gone about ten
days. MIR. Fletcher was the second son
of the late Col. A. A. Fletcher of this
town. He is survived by two brothers,
John A. of this town and Harry II. of
Forsyth, Mont, and one sister, Mrs.
Theodore Wells of New York. John A.
Fletcher started for st. Paul Tuesday
noon.