Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-24
MlDDLEBURY LOCALS.


several days visit with his family in
Arlington.
A. ]. Morris has returned from Bur-
lington where he was called by the
death of relative.
Mrs. H. B. Dutton has returned home
after three weeks stay with her
parents at Fort Jackson, N. Y.
Mrs. Louis st. Mary has gone to
Rutland for ten days visit with rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs. E. L. Huestis has returned from
the Mary Fletcher hospital at Burling-
ton, where she underwent an operation
some three weeks ago.
A furry of snow occurred in this
section Monday and fully two inches of
snow fell on the mountains north of
here.
Robert Lynch, who has been i'll at the
home of his parents for the past month
with pneumonia, has recovered suffi-
GENTLY to be about again.
Fred Flanders of Ripton has opened
shoe store and repair shop in the T.
Kidder block on Merchants row.
M. X. Moore, jr., has returned from
weeks visit with relatives and friends
in Rutland.
Miss Nellie Higgins is in West Rut-
land on visit to her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Higgins.
John Morcomb has returned after a
visit to the family of his brother, Will
liam Morcomb, jr., in Rutland.
Mrs. James Farrell of Rutland is here
for visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Patrick Mcmahon of High street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harrington have
returned from visit to relatives in
Rutland.
Mrs. M. G. Grady and son have re-
turned from Johnson, where they have
been visiting for the past few weeks.
James McNulla has purchased the
llSHIy NODplho ploSC VII OCyhlOu
street, which he has occupied for sew
eral years.
The cattle shipment from this section
Monday consisted of three car loads o.
cows, calves and hogs for New Yorl
and Boston markets.
James Barron, foreman of the nigh
shift at the Vermont Marble Co. plan
here, had his right leg badly jammed b.
a piece of marble and is confined to tn
house from the effects of same.
Mrs. Charles R. Cheney and daugh
ter, Mildred, are visiting at the hom
of her parents in West Rutland. Mr.
Cheney also spent a couple of day
there this week.
Frank Holden of Clinton, Mass, VIII
has been here for the past week OF
business in connection with the settle
ment of the estate of his late father
Harrison R. Holden, returned to Clinton
Monday noon.
Mrs. V. M. Vosburg and Mrs. Eft
Harrington have returned from Wood
stock where they attended the sessio
of the Rebecca assembly, /. o. o. F.
which was held in that town on Frida
last.
Prof. w. w. McGilton, who has bee
in Montreal, Can, for the past year flo
the benefit of his health, expects to re
turn to his duties at Middlebury colleg
this week. With his family he will oc
cupy the Stair house on Washingto
street.
Mrs. j. S. Moran has returned froI
Burlington, where she went to visit he
husband, who is at the Mary Fletche
hospital in that city, where he under
went an operation for appendicitis an
is rapidly reco\ ering.
In consequence of the heavy an
continuous rains in the past two week
many of the farmers have not been abb
to get their grain sowed while few
who have been able to get their seed in
are afraid they will have to plant owe
again.
Chief of Police Frank C. Warren an
Officer Z. j. Piper arrested Elmer Neil
who gave his home as Springfield, Ill.
Saturday night and placed him in tn
county Jail, where he spent Sunday o
charge of vagrancy. He was i
Judge Dickens court Monday morning
and was given 80 days in the count
jail
The house belonging to the Calvin es
tate on the East Middlebury road wa
burned to the ground some time earl
Sunday morning. The fire is supposed t
be of incendary origin, as Mr. Calvin ha
not lived in it for several months and a
the present time he is at the Mar
Fletcher hospital where he recently un