Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-12-16

Ira H. LaFle Eur was called to Boston
Saturday night by legal matters.
A daughter was born last Saturday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin McNorton.
Misses Helen Atwood and Myrtle Clip
son spent Wednesday in Montpelier.
Monday, market day, eggs sold for 40
cents dozen, while butter sold for 80
cents a pound.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Chaffee were
IN Proctor this week where they were
called by the death of a relative.
Mrs. w. H. Bliss was in Mortified
Saturday evening, having been called
there by the sudden illness of her
father.
Mrs. Thomas Manning, who has been
visiting her parents here for the last
ten days, has returned to her home at
Hartford, Ct.
Mrs. Mary Boylan, who has been
spending few weeks with her son,
Mark, at Niagara Falls, N. Y, has re-
turned home.
The cattle shipment from this town
Monday consisted of three carloads of
cattle, sheep and hogs for the Boston
and New York markets.
The Middlebury shops of the Vermont
Marble company will shut down Satur-
day night, December "a, and start up
Tuesday morning, January 3. This APP
plies to the entire plant in this village.
About thirty members of Father
Daley Council, X. of c., went to Rut-
land yesterday to witness the working
of the third degree on large class of
candidates.
Regular convocation of Potter Chap
ter, No. %, R. A. M, will be held
in Masonic hall Tuesday evening, De-
cember 20, at o'clock. Official vista
ton of the D. D. G. H. P.
While cutting down large tree in
the rear of his house Saturday after
noon George Abbey found large swarm
of bees and several pounds of honey in
the lower part of the tree.
Deputy Sheriff Edward Hemenway of
Hancock brought James and Charles
Eubar of that place to the Addison
County Jail Monday. The men are
charged with petit larceny.
The body of Patrick Costello of Corn
wall, who died at the Fanny Allen hos
pital Tuesday morning, was brought
here on the :57 train Tuesday evening
and taken to his late home. He was 65
years old and is survived by mother,
wife, three sons and five daughters.
Some of the water pipes in the build
ing occupied by the Y. M. C. A., on
Seymour street were frozen Tuesday
night and burst and Sheldon Smith and
family who occupy the rooms in the
lower part of the house were flooded
before the water could be shut off.
Hardly dry piece was left in their
apartments.
Earl and LeGrand Gorham have re-
turned from two weeks in the West.
Most of their visit was spent in Chicago,
where they attended the international
stock exhibition. They also visited
Wayne, ILL.,. and Madison, Wis.
r. c. Sanders, after brief stay here,
has returned to Brandon being unable
to continue his work on the new ladies'
boarding hall at the college on account
of the inability of the contractors to
get the needed brick here according to
contract.
Mrs. Andrew Ducharme of Rutland
was taken suddenly ill Wednesday
night at 9 O. clock, and was rushed to
the hospital in that city, where an oper-
alton was performed by DR.. M. R.
Grain, who was assisted by Drs. A. H.
Bellerose and ]. M. Hamilton. Her
condition Thursday morning was favor
able
Attention is again called to the Fore
fathers celebration at the Congrega-
tional church, next Wednesday, Dec. q.
The address will be given promptly at
five O'Clock and supper will be served |
at its close by the Labaree ladies'. Ad-
mission to the address is free, the sup
per tickets will be fifty cents each. To
both the address and the supper all are
cordially invited.
Friday and Saturday nights were the
coolest experienced in this section this
year Thermometers ip some parts of
the town registered 20 degrees below
zero. Otter creek is frozen over, and
in many of the ice ponds the ice is about
ten inches thick. The local icemen are
we'll pleased over the cold weather,
which will allow them to begin the har-
Vesting of ice this week,