Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-11-03
MlDDLEBURY LOCALS.

South Main street.
The Century club met at the home of
Mrs. M. H. Eddy on Weybridge street
on Monday evening.
Clarence E. Fuller and Miss Esther
j. Carter, both of Burlington were
quietly married at the Methodist Epis-
copal parsonage Thursday evening.
Rev. DR.. d. H. Corkran, pastor of the
church, performed the ceremony. The
bride has many friends in Burlington.
The groom has night charge of the de-
pot restaurant in Burlington. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fuller will reside in Burlington for
the present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian j. Gardner of
Newark, N. j., returned to that city
Friday night, after a month visit with
relatives and friends in Middlebury and
neighboring towns.
The oldest residents say that they
have not seen the water in Otter creek
so high as it is at this season of the
year for at least 20 and perhaps 25
years. All the manufacturing plants
down the stream, have plenty of water
now so that they can run "a hours a
day.
Mrs. Charles A. Lyman has returned
from ST. Adams, where she has been
for several days visiting relatives, with
her brother, Wilbur C. Bingham and
Mrs. Bingham of Bristol. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bingham returned to Bristol Saturday.
Ice formed Friday night on standing
water in this village to the thickness of
about one inch, and Saturday morning
the mountains in the surrounding neigh
borhood were seen to be covered with
good depth of snow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt L. Spencer and
children of East Middlebury have moved
to Bellows Falls, where Mr.. Spencer
has taken an important position in a
manufacturing plant.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl L. Davidson and
their daughter, Jesse, and son, Robert
L., arrived in town Saturday evening
from Scranton, Pa, and expect to re-
main for about three weeks with rela-
tives.
Mrs. Page G. Potter went Saturday
to Hartford, Conn, for a couple of
weeks visit to. her. son, Page Potter.
William M. Foote, who has been for
the past two months visiting his sister
at Medford, Mass, returned to town
Friday night.
The weekly cattle shipment from
this station Monday consisted of about
three cars of cows, calves and hogs for
the New York and Boston markets.
Mrs. Milo X. Moore has returned to
her home here after visiting at the
home of Mrs. G. L. Abbey in Rutland.
f. C. Woods and young daughter,
Jennie, of Worcester are in town and
intend to make East Middlebury their
home during the coming winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip B. Cloyes and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Thomas started
Tuesday for an all winter visit through
the South and West. They will spend
the greater part of the time in Texas
and California.
The close of navigation this year on
Lake Champlain will be about the middle
of DECEMBER, as the Ticonderoga will go
out of commission at that time. The
water in the lake has not fallen to any
extent in the past few weeks and the
fear that Plattsburg harbor would be
too shallow for navigation before the
close of the season will not be realized
this year.
Quite little disturbance was created
here the latter part of last week by an
examination into the milk shipment.
There had been various reports and
rumors to the effect that there was
something wrong, and w. E. Aldrich of
Rutland, representing the Boston Dairy
ing company, spent a good deal of time
here and in the neighboring towns in
vestigating. He had the assistance of
Dr. D. c. Noble, the health officer of
Middlebury. 1t was ascertained that
farmers in this section had been water
ing the milk furnished by them to the
company and had. skillfully made such
substitutes as to make.it appear that in
nocent milk men were the actual
offenders.
Fifteen Italians, who came here from
Glens Falls, N. Y, to work on the job
of reconstruction of the passenger
station and the necessary outlying work,
supposed to be done this fall, and who
started work Thursday morning, quit
and struck at five O'Clock Thursday
night. They claimed that they had
been hired to work only nine hours
day and wouldn't do another tap after