Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-12-18
MlODLEBURY LOCALS.


Shriners meeting Tuesday.
The public library will be closed Fri
day December %.
The High and graded schools will close
Friday for a two weeks vacation.
Mrs. Ellen Wright spent Sunday in
Burlington.
Mrs. Henderson has returned from
Bridport, where she has been caring for
Mrs. Dumas for the past three weeks.
Mrs. Harry Cushman has returned
from Burlington.
The Christian Endeavor society will
hold its Christmas meeting Sun
day evening at 6:45 in the vestry of the
Congregational church. Leader, Miss
Marion Thomas.
Mrs. Fred Owen of Bristol visited
friends in town the first of the week.
Henry Awkward has gone to his home
in Ludlow on account of illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Tabor of Yer
gennes recently visited Mr.. and Mrs
and Mrs. A. C. Tabor.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Blair have re-
turned to Vergennes after several
months visit in this village and Airing
ton.
President John NJ Thomas of Mid
dlbury college supplied the pulpit at
the Congregational church at Brandon
Sunday morning.
Judge J. f. Weeks was in Vergennes
Saturday and visited the State Indus
trial school.
Miss Marie Norton of Vergennes was
the guest of Miss Marjorie Phelps Of
Hillside for few days.
Miss Ruth Cheesman of East Orange,
n. j., who has been the guest of Prof
and Mrs. w. W. McGilton for several
weeks, has returned to her home.
Charles j. Bullock has returned from
few days in Montpelier.
L. Mddlebury college will close for the
Christmas vacation on this friday and
will reopen on January 5.
Benjamin w. Fisher of Vergennes,
who was a week end guest of the Delta
Epsilon fraternity, has returned to his
home.
E. H. Thomas, who is at the Mary
Fletcher hospital at Burlington, where
he underwent an operation a month ago
is doing as well as could be expected
Monday, market day, eggs brought
40 to AZ cents per dozen and butter % to
81 cents per pound.
w. A. Willard of Addison, who has
been the guest of relatives here, has
gone to New Haven, CT, where he has
secured employment.
Miss Esther Bullock of St. Adams is
the guest of her sister, Miss Sadie
Bullock.
George f. Russell is confined to his
home with an attack of grip.
The concert given by the Women's
Glee club of Middlebury college in the
Music hall on Weybridge street We'd
nesday evening was largely attended
by townspeople and students.
Mrs Peter King has gone to Ticon-
deroga, N. Y, where she will undergo
a surgical operation. Her husband ac-
companied her.
Martin Barrows, who underwent an
operation in a hospital in New York
city recently, is steadily improving.
The funeral of Mrs. Josephine Coun
ter, aged IS years. who died at her
home on Pleasant street December 9,
was held Saturday morning at S o clock.
Rev. Thomas J. Leonard pastor of St.
Mary's church officiating Burial was
in the Catholic cemetery.
Edward Calvi, student at the Uni
versity Of Maryland, will spend the
Christmas recess here.
Prof. Eugene l.. Eddy of Shoreham,
who has been the guest of his brother.
Superintendent A. W. Eddy, has re-
turned.
Mrs. Thomas p. Brennan of Seymour
street has gone to st. Adams where
she will be the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Brennan for several days.
Mrs. William Cady of Seymour street,
who underwent an operation a few
weeks ago, is improving.
Edward Ash has returned much i'm
proved from the Mary Fletcher hospi-
tai in Burlington, where he has been
for treatment
a Modest Request
A fond "Grandp" of Middlebury has
just received the following modest re-