Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-01-05
MlDDLEBURY LOCALS.

cnurcn was nelu IN the cnurch parlOrS
Tuesday, January 2, at o clock.
| G. w. Rose has returned from a few
days stay in Bellows Falls with friends.
F. E. Foote has returned from Maine
where he purchased carload of apples
which arrived here and were sold from
the car.
| Gorham brothers are now shipping
stock to the city markets every week.
They shipped two carloads last Friday
afternoon to New York city.
Word has been received here from
Westfield, Mass, of the sudden death
of Miss Nellie O'Donnel in that city
after only weeks illness with pneu-
monia at the age of 49 years. She was
former resident of this village.
Nine Middlebury members of the
Order of Elks went to Rutland New
Years day to take part in the annual
exercises of sending greetings to the
grand exalted ruler.
w. Kirk Eager has moved from the
Hayward block on College street to the
farm which he recently purchased in
the east part of the town.
About so couples attended the New
Years ball which Landlord Clinton w.
Tisdale gave at the Green Mountain
house in East Middlebury Monday night.
Vittum's orchestra provided music and
all report fine time.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Chatterton and
Miss Della E. Seeley have returned to
Rutland after spening the holidays in
town with relatives.
Miss Bertha Smith, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
B. Smith of Washington street for the
past week, has returned to her home in
Manchester.
E. j. Murphy has returned from a
short visit with friends and relatives in
Boston.
New Years day passed off very
quietly in the town. The National bank
and most of the stores as well as the
pulp mill and the marble mill being
closed all day.
Miss Carolyn E. Swiney returned to
Holyoke, Mass, on Monday after a two
weeks visit with relatives at the Sar-
gent house.
Miss Maria Douglas, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Robert Towle,
for the past week has returned to her
school duties IN Vergennes.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilcox and Mrs.
Joseph Kelley have returned from
visit with friends in Pittsford.
Prof. Edward d. Collins will lecture
at Richmond this Friday evening in the
college extension lecture course.
Harold Hebert, the young son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Hebert of Washington
street, was taken to the hospital at
Burlington Monday for an operation.
He was accompanied by his mother.
Miss Mary E. Tulley has returned
from Fair Haven after a two weeks
visit at the home OF her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. E. Tulley.
Mrs. Charles H. Pratt, who has been
seriously i'll for the past two months,
has begun to improve within the past
few days.
Miss Grace O'Connell, who has been
spending the holidays here with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John j. O'Con-
nell of the Sargent house, returned
Monday morning to New York city
where she is engaged in teaching.
Mrs. H. M. B. Leahy, who has been
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Lavery on Seymour street, has
returned to her home in Saratoga,
N. Y.
Frank Allen and Edward Smith, who
were arrested by Officer Jerry Degray
for tramping, were up before Judge
Fred M. Foote and each given ten days
in the county Jail.
Bernard Burns, a student at HOLY
Cross college, has returned to his
studies.
The winter term of the Middebury
graded school will commence on Mon
day, January 8.
Parsons Billings, one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens of this town,
died at his home on Case street Sunday
afternoon at the age of SO years. He
had lived in this county the greater
part of his life. He is survived by a
wife, one son, Walter, with whom he
had lived for number of years, and
three daughters. The funeral was held
from his late home at II O'Clock We'd
nesday morning and the burial was in
the family lot in the Case street ceme-
terry.