Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-31
ORWELL.

rev Gays the guest OF MT. ana MIS- r T.
Lille.
The severe snow and wind storm of
early Sunday morning seriously crippled
the telephone service in this town.
Twenty-Five poles between the village
and Purcell's Corner were blown to the
ground; the wires and cross-arms lying
for the most part in the road. The line
men have been working faithfully, but
it will be some few days yet before the
damage is all repaired. Several of the
large poles recently set by the Hortonia
Light and Power Co. were slightly listed
and because of the storm it was fourd
necessary to turn off the electric current
for several days till readjustment could
be made.
Miss Alice Warren was visitor in
Middlebury on Monday.
Glen Sperry of Cornwall, who has
been assistil Mr.. Prescott in the cream
cry for the past month, returned home
last week.
There was family gathering at T. p
Dee iadon's on Christmas day. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Howe and little daughter,
Edith, of Cornwall, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Walsh of Castleton, Miss Emma Desja
don, who has returned from Vergennes,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Laf1l4y of
this town all being present.
Robert Hack, student at Mt Her
mon, who has been for few days with
his uncle, w. G. Hack, went on Monday
to Albany, N. Y, to visit his sister, Mrs.
George L. Needham.
Miss Mary Williams returned last week
from Waterford, N. Y. Her sister, Mrs.
S. c. Bull, it is expected, will arrive
sonp and naka h,lr homp hare
Those students home from school for
the holidays are Milton Rowe from
Brandon, Leon Lille from Mt. Hermon,
Mass Miss Blanche Belanger, Miss Mil
dred and Roy Phelps and Charles Nc
Questen from Burr and Burton Seminary,
| Manchester, Miss Rena Dundon from
Rutland, Miss Alice Jennings from God
| dard Seminary, Barre, Miss Thelma
Lille from Gushing Academy, Ashturn
ham, Mass. and Miss 1leen and Matthew
Conway from Albany Business College.
Miss Maude Smith, teacher in the
public schools of Springfield, Mass, is
| spending the holidays with her parents,
Mr.. ami Mrs. q. l. Smith.
Dewitt Doane of Manchester is the
guest of Henry and Harold Purcell.
| Ralph Cookie will move on February
resided for the past five years, to Sails
bury, where he has position as mana
ger of a stock farm.
| The next regular meeting of the Home
| Department of the WOmsns Missionary
afternoon, January 5, at 2 80 at the
home of Mrs d. L. Wells. AT this
meeting the society will begin the study
for the coming year: THE Kings High
way. Reports will also be given of the
Missionary conference held at Burling-
ton in November. All ladies are urged
to be present.
w. b. Needham and sister. Miss Leno,
were guests at H. R. Cartons in Poult
ney for a couple of days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. DIN b. Root visited in
Proctor on Wednesday and Thursday of
last week. Mr.. Root while away pur
chased a fine work horse to take the
place in his team of the one he recently
lost.
Miss Florence Dundon returned last
Friday from New York, where she has
been with relatives for the past month.
Miss Blanche Doane is home from
Albany to spend few days with her
people here.
The Christian Endeavor society has
received an invitation from the Whiting
society to attend "a G. E. rally at the
Whiting Congregational church on Sun
day evening, January 2. The societies
of Cornwall, Shoreham, Sudbury and
Orwell being invited.
H. d. Branch, who has been spending
a week with his daughter, Mrs. John
Clark of Wells, has returned. Mrs.
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turn the last of the week.
Mrs. L. F. A. Oulette was in Rutland
one day last week.
The electric current of the Hortonia
Light and Power company was turned
on for the first time at nine o'clock on
Wednesday morning of last week. The
houses and stores which had been wired
presented fine appearance duing the
evening.
The Christmas tree and exercises to
have been given at Eagle Inn hall by the
children of ST. Paul's church had to be
given up because of the illness of Mrs.
j. A. Lavery, who had the affair in
charge. Mrs. Lavery was taken serious
lY i'll on Tuesday of last week. Dr.
Cummings of Ticonderoga was called on
Wednesday to consult with DIR Rowe.
Appendicitis was at first feared but at
this writing Mrs. Lavery is much i'm
proved.
The boys basket ball team played
Brandon High at Brandon on Tuesday
evening. Several from town accom-
panied the team to witness the game.
The Christmas tree at the Congrega-
tional church on Friday evening was
somewhat different from any given by
the Sunday school previously. The SER
vice white Gifts for the King" was well