Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-12-18

Robert Hope is helping at the sbre OF
ii. +. JOY during the holidays.
Mrs. J. II. Lovett, who has been II for
a few days, is better.
Joseph Calvi has installed fin, new
National cash register in his store.
Harry Smith of Bellows Falls i, visi
ting his parents ON Washington stt ct.
Miss Julia Carroll has gone to Wilton,
N. H., where she has entered the employ
of Mrs. j. Walter Sylvester.
! A successful rummage sale was held
Wednesday in the former Baptist church
by the ladies of the Methodist society.
Miss Ethel Barrows has gone to Lin
coin where she will teach school.
George Hammond of Boston came yes
terday for visit to his son. W. +. Ham,
mond, at the Government farm i'm Wey-
bridge.
A second child, daughter this time,
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Law
renee of North Pleasant street Tuesday
morning.
The fall term of Middlebury college
will close t. day for the Christmas vaca
ton of II days.
The annual Sophomore hop will be
held at the town hall this evening. The
Stafford and Mellow orchestra of Rut
land will furnish the music and the
luncheon will be served by Landlord
Higgins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Phillips and
daughter, Mrs. Ethel Goodroe, have gone
to Jacksonville, Fla, where they will
spend the winter.
o. F. Hurlbut has gone to Santa Maria,
California, to spend the winter with Mr..
and Mrs. 7. j. Williams.
Brandon lodge of Odd Fellows was
the guests of Lake Dunmore lodge We'd
nesday evening, when they worked the
first degree, after which refreshments
were served.
Cyril Brunette has moved from the
William Langworthy place on Wey bridge
street to the building in Bakery lane
from which George Kidder has recently
moved to occupy the house of Touissant
Kidder on Cross street.
Letters as follows are at the postoffice
unclaimed Mrs Ella Kingston, Mrs
Emma Nichols. Mrs Myrtle Powell,
Miss Mable Sanford, Miss Margaret
Smith, Miss Agnes Thomas, Mr.. Jas.
Howe, j. II. Wabridge. "
The marriage at Utica, n. Y, is am
nounced of Fred C. Watson, younger son
of Mr.. and Mrs. William ID. Watson of
East Middle bury and Miss Mary Davis Of
4 Utica, both being nurses in the State hos
! pltal for the insane in that city.
MIR. Harry Willoughby. whose adver-
tisement appears in another column, is
former Middlebury boy and is very well
and favorably known here. Mr.. Will
loughby has this fall put on tin roofs for
Henry w. Brewster and Charles Balm
and has Just this week finished placing
gravel roof on the Hotel Logan.
DIR. John NJ. Thomas, president Of Mid
dlebury college, has accepted the com
mittees invitation and will be the orator
for the celebration of the Lincoln cen
t"nary to be held at st Alb ans February
-, 1909 1t is expected that suitable
Observances will take place in the schools,
with public meeting at the city hall III
the evening.
Calhoun & Son are putting up four
fire escapes on the school building, which
are to be constructed of gas piping. The
escapes are to be made in the same shape
as stair with treads of wood. There
are to be four of them, and they will run
from the first floor to the ground on all
four sides of the building. With the
longer escapes now on the building in adj
dition to the new equipment, running
from the upper stories, the schoolhouse
is now as safe as it is possible to make it.
Forefathers' celebration next Tuesday
evening, Dec. %, promises to be an es-
pecially pleasant affair. Doctor William
Hayes Ward is a distinguished Milton
scholar and his address on Milton will be
Of corresponding worth. The programme
of speeches and music following the sup
per is an attractive one, while as for the
supper itself it is enough to say that the
ladies of the Labaree are preparing it.
The exercises in the room above will be.
gin promptly at haIf-past five.