Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-11-21
WINTER PROGRAM Y. M. c. A.

The seasons activities of the county
Y. M. C. A. opened with the corn show
at Middlebury this fall under auspices
of the Grange, Y. M. c. A. and schools.
The occasion aroused much interest.
On the closing day 300 people gathered
to listen to Col. F. l.. Greene and ex
anime the exhibits. The contest was a
decided success. The exhibits from
Cornwall were forwarded to Windsor,
where they were entered in the state
corn show. Cornwall took more prizes
than other town in the state.
The local associations in Middlebury,
North Ferrisburg, Bristol and Whiting
are in healthy condition and ready to
begin their winters work. In connec-
ton with the Middlebury association
Woman's Auxiliary has just issued a
fine winters program.
A class for foreigners in Middlebury
are studying English under the leader
ship of A. E. Cole of Middlebury col
lege.
Arrangements have been made with
the Home Correspondence school,
Springfield, Mass, by which the Brooks
correspondence course in agriculture is
made available at a very low price.
A committee has been appointed
which controls the comforting of de-
grees upon boys for acts of heroism,
self-sacrifce and moral, mental, and
physical attainment.
The committee through their secre-
tary and state secretary of Y. M. c. A.
have arranged for a series of addresses
by prominent speakers and have offered
to provide at least three speakers in
every town in the county during the
winter. This offer has been accepted
by the following towns: Whiting, Corn
wall, Salisbury, Ripton, Sudbury,
Shoreham, Addison, Starksboro, Pan
ton, Vergennes, Bristol, Lincoln and
Monkton.
Arrangements are nearly completed
for several institutes in this part of Ver-
mont, one at Starksboro on potato
culture by Commissioner Brigham and
his force of experts and two at central
points in Addison and Shoreham on
Hay and Grain Culture in Clay"
Summer Soiling," and 1.-The Robber
Cow" Several lectures have already
been delivered Col. F. L. Greene of
Washington is to open the course in
Shoreham this friday evening in an
address on THE New Vermont.
A meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary
to the Y. M. C. A. of Middlebury was
held at the Y. M. C. A. rooms at three
o clock Monday. Noteworthy was an
address by Mrs. Corkran of the M. E.
church in which she recommended that
the Middlebury Brotherhood help in the
solution of the boy and young man
problem of Mddlebury. She also recon- |
mended that the Y. M. C. A.. rooms be
made homelike, ETC., and kept open at
least twice week. The auxiliary voted |
to furnish and decorate the rooms and |
to give a banquet in honor of all the
young men of Middlebury, especially |
the football team, Immediately after
the Federation fair. The following |
women were present: Mrs. John E. |
Weeks, Mrs. R. S. Benedict, Mrs. Cas-
well, Mrs. C. M. Hanks, Mrs. o. E. Chill
son, Mrs. j. E. Crane, Miss Crane,
Mrs. F. C. Dyer, Mrs. Arthur W. Eddy, |
Mrs. A. E. Lambert, Mrs. George
Rose, Mrs. Ira M. Taylor, Mrs. John
Wright, Mrs. j. A. Morgan, Mrs. H. M.
Seely, Mrs. Mckinney, Mrs. John
Chapman, Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. John M
Thomas, Mrs. Eddy, Miss F. Eddy,
Mrs. Phillip Crane, Mrs. Corkran, Mrs.
Bristol