Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-08-25
MIDDLEBURY LOCALS.

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town for short visit with relatives
and friends.
The Vermont Marble Go. $ works in
this village will shut down ON tuesday
for the balance of the week, during
which needed repairs will be made to
the plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Carpenter of
Newton, Mass, are visiting her mother,
Mrs. John Avery of South Main street.
H. E. Merrill and daughter, Mrs.
Hemenway, of Manchester are in town.
Felix Roch and Louis Hope, who
have spent the summer at Syracuse, N.
Y, are visiting their parents.
Miss Mable Shaw of Auburn, N. Y,
is visiting Miss Anna Beatty of Wey.
bridge street
Miss Mable Huestis, cashier of the F.
w. Beckwith store, returned Wednes-
day from a ten days vacation spent at
Lake Dunmore.
Mrs. James Hughes and Mrs. F. A.
Hughes and son are visiting relatives IN
st. Adams.
DR. and Mrs. w. c. Watson and
children have returned to their home in
Bridgeport, Conn.
j. W. Abernethy of Burlington was a
business visitor in town Thursday.
Miss Agnes NJ. Crosbie of Asbury
Park, NJ j., is visiting Mrs. O. A.
Bicknell on Seminary street.
Edward Bowler left on Wednesday
for short stay with relatives in Green
field and Turner's Falls, Mass.
Persons wishing to rent rooms to
college students may send description
and term. to Professor Howard,
The wer-known horseman, E. c.
Ryder, has been offered and accepted
the position of head marshal in charge
of the horse department at the Vermont
State fair.
John Higgins has returned from Ar
lington where he was called Wednesday
on account of the death Of his sister-in-
law, Mrs John Robinson. The burial
was in Salem, N. Y.
Word has been received here of the
marriage in Chicago Saturday Of Ivan
Drake Hagar, graduate of Middebury
college of the class of '09, son of Mr..
and Mrs. II. B. Hagar to Miss May
Elida Williams, formerly of Brandon.
They will live in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Bruya and three
children of Montpelier are the guests of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Napoleon
LaPan of Seymour street.
Mrs. Charles Hooker, who has been
spending the past two months with her
husband in Boston, has returned to town
and opened her house on Seminary
street.
Ray Hubert of Lynn, Mass, is in
town for visit to his mother, Mrs.
Alice Hubert on South Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Robbins of Glens
Falls, N. Y. are in town for few
weeks.
Mrs. Frank A. Ruff, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs o. H. Cush-
man, has returned to her home in ST.
Louis, Mo.
Rev. Richard B. Esten, pastor of the
Memorial Baptist church in this village,
returned from Old Orchard Me-, and
Pawtucket, R. l., Thursday, where he
has been with his family for three
weeks vacation. Mrs. Esten and fam
lily will return little later.
During fair week the drug stores will
be closed on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday from II 80 until 4:30 p. m. The
merchants have also agreed to close
their places of business during the
afternoons of the fair.
The Rev. Thomas Simms, formerly
pastor of the Middlebury Congrega-
tional church, andrecently of Braintree,
Mass, has received unanimous call to
the pastorate of the First Parish church
of Gorham, Maine, the seat of the larg-
est normal school in the state. Mr..
Simms will probably accept
Mrs. Brooks B. Cooke, while crossing
the railroad bridge on Main street,
stubbed her toe on the large wooden
timber that is placed along the foot
path and fell against the side of the
bridge. She was dazed for a few min
utes and was finally taken in a team to
her home on Elm street where she was
cared for. She was badly shaken up
from the force of the fall.
G. w. Mead, who has been in attend
ance at the State Forestry school, at
the Downer State farm in Sharon, Vt,
returned this week. He reports a good
number present and an interesting ses-