Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-07-16

a business visitors in town Thursday.
F. NJ. Dean and wife of Boston are in
town for few days calling on friends.
Mrs. A. Branshaw of Rutland, who
has been visiting relatives and friends in
town, has returned to her home.
N ID. Bissonnet and wife of Burling-
ton were in town over Sunday, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Crosby.
John Stiles, chief clerk in Sheldons
drug store will leave on Sunday for a
short vacation at his home in Morrisville.
John Walsh and wife of Bennington,
who have been visiting relatives and
friends in town for few days, have re-
turned home.
w. II. Norton and John H. Donnelly
of Vergennes were in town Thursday on
business.
NJ. r. Burt has sold his house on South
street to Eben Ryder of Weybridge.
Mrs. L. S. Knight is visiting at Mrs
J. NJ. Snyder's at Cuttingsville.
F. w. Beckwith is spending a ten days
vacation in Boston and the coast of
Maine.
Rev. F. M. Wilson and family are in
camp at Long Point. They expect to be
gone several weeks.
B. F. Brunette, wife and children.
Burton and Marion, who have been visit.
ing at l. Lavonche, Jr., the past week,
have returned to their home in Lancas-
ter, Ohio.
Mrs. Walter j. Rose was quite ill
Thursday, the result being a severe at
tack of heart trouble Wednesday night
Miss Bertha NJ Shaw of Pittsford has
returned to her home after spending a
few days in town as the guest of friends.
Thursday was one of the hottest days
this summer. the thermometer register
ing 90 degrees at o'clock in the after
noon.
Mrs. F. R. Button and Mrs. E. H. But
ton of Brandon have returned to their
homes after spending few days in town
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. c. l. Button.
Bartholomew Landers of the marble
MILL is spending his vacation with rela-
tives and friends in Pittsford.
George n. Shambo of the firm of Ives
G. Shambo was in Rutland Thursday on
business
Mrs. George Fassett has returned from
a visit to her brother Joseph Burk in
Granville.
B. Cobb on the corner of Main street and
Bakery lane is about completed and will
be one of the finest in town, On the
upper front of the structure is a tablet
which bears the words cobb Block,
1909"
Mr.. and Mrs. Phelps Coolihan went to
Lake Dunmore Thursday for an outing,
where they joined their daughter, Miss
Edith, who is camping there with
party of Young friends for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. James +. Brown and
three children of New Haven, Conn, a
former resident of Middlebury are visit
ing Relatives and friends in East Mid
dlebury and vicinity.
Prof Raymond MacFarland, who will
occupy the chair of pedagogy in Middle
bury college, is in town attending the
session of the summer school. Mrs. Mac
Farland and young daughter who is in
Worcester visiting her parents, will ar
rive later. She will be remembered as
Miss Mary Bacon, a former Middlebury
girl.
Quite large number of Knights Tenn
plar of Mt. Calvary Commandery went
to Burlington last Thursday where they
took part in the parade of the tercenten-
AIRY celebration.
Middlebury is experiencing building
boom this summer. There are no less
than six dwelling houses in the course of
construction about the village besides the
several business blocks, some of which
are rapidly nearing completion.
Miss Agnes Halpin and niece, Mildred
Watson, of Bridgeport, Conn, are visi-
ting Miss Halpin's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
M. Halpin for a few weeks.
Mrs. w. j. White is at the Mary
Fletcher hospital. Burlington, where she
underwent an operation, She is report
ed as doing as well as can be expected.
Miss Agnes Hughes, who has been
visiting her brother, Frederick Hughes,
and family of Rochester, n. Y. for sew
eral months, has returned home. She
was accompanied by Mrs. Fred Hughes.
Emery E. Wisell, the coal dealer, had
the misfortune to lose one of his large
draught horses Wednesday night from
collie. This is the third horse that Mr..
Wisell has lost since he entered the coal
business about year ago. The horse
was valued at about $3.50.
The Proctor band will give an excur-
sion to Pittsburgh and st. Adams bay
Saturday, July "a. The steamer Chat
eaugay has been chartered for the trip
on Lake Champlain. The band will ac-
company the excursion party.
NJ. w. Brown, who was for the past IS
months with B. G. Ryder in business
here has gone to Ticonderoga, N. Y, his
former home, for a visit and will go
from there to West Wardsboro where he
expects to go into business.
Prof. Vernon Harrington of Oberlin
college is visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary
Harrington.
A daughter, Elizabeth, was born to
President and Mrs. John NJ. Thomas
Thursday. July s, the seventy fifth ami
versary of the grandfather birth.
Ralph G. Holmes, of the local post
office, is receiving congratulations from
his many friends on the splendid show
ing he made in Glass No. of the Free
Press Yukon contest. While he did not
win out for first honors he will receive
one of the consolation prizes which was
offered by the Free Press in the contest.
Mr.. Holmes stood second in his class in