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similar course there for four years. Miss
Mack is a recent graduate of the local
high school,
The Middlebury Farmers club held a
well-attended meeting with the president
at his home just south of this village
Monday evening. Miss Bertha Holden
OF the home economics department Of
tho extension service of the State College
of Agriculture spoke.-Thc fall term Of
the Middlebury village schools. includ-
Ing the high school and tho graded
schools, opened Monday morning with all
the teachers, with n largo attendance
in the various rooms and Eradcs-Alfred
Bouvicr Is said to be the champion
fisherman on Otter creek so far this sea-
son, having taken from the same n
pickerel which measured four feet and
two inches. weighing little over six
pounds.-Erwin c. Piper and Thomas r.
Burns. End, started by automobile for
Boston Monday forenoon. Mr.. Burns
will drive home new auto.--Mrs. Leona
l.. Lawrence has returned to Lincoln
after passing the week here as the guest
Of Mrs. L. NJ. Morrison.-Mrs. A. c.
Stone Of Troy, y. Y, is visiting in Mid
dlebury and vicinity.-John Turner. Will
liam Barron and Henry Gero have gone
to Poultney on g. few days business
visit.-Mr. and Mrs. John L. Clingman
and son. Arthur. and daughters, Mar
jorie and Lucille, of Albany. N. Y, are
visiting in town for two weeks.-Miss
Bessie Dixon Of Essex Junction is in
town to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Earl A. Frost
Joseph A. Peck of Hartford. Conn.,. is
in town for few days with his wife,
who has been spending the summer with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Brew
ster.-Mrs. Eunice Meeker of Pittsfield,
Mass. is the guest OF her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles J. Cady.-Phillip T..
Crane and Edward Seymour have gone
to Suncook, N. H., where Mr.. Crane will
visit for a few days at the home Of her
mother, Mrs. M. L. Munsey. Upon his
return he will be accompanied by his
wife and daughter. who have been visit
ing there for a few weeks--The regular
monthly meeting of the Middebury Suf-
Trace Study club will be held at the
home Of Mrs. L. c. Russell Friday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock. Senator Foote will
address the meeting. All members and
with their Red Cross work, and ten cents
for their Red Cross fund.-Miss Laura
Meade, who has spent the summer at
Belgrade Lakes. Me-, has returned
Mr.. and Mrs. Eben c. Ryder have re-
ceived word from their son, Lieut.. Rob-
! ert G. Ryder. that he had received
Oricrs to report for duty at once at
| Camp Spartanburg, s. c., where the New
York State troops are to train for the
winter. Lieutenant Ryder. describing
Camp Upton at Yaphank on Long Island
where the New York troops have been
mobilized. says that the place looks lik;
an old frontier fort, the camp having
been pitched in clearing. recently GU
| - 10 M SngvS ~~~1k
| which the easterly end Of Long Islant
is covered. There IL no towa Of any siz
within IS miles of the camp.-Mrs Pete
Boise has returned from Troy, N. II
where she has been for six weeks.
Arthur Goodro has returned from Bur
lington,- where he has been visiting hi
sister, Mrs. Damon Champagne.-Stanle.
Rose has gono to Albany. n. Y, fOr
few days.-Lewis Kidder. who has beel
visiting his brother. Toussaint Kidder
for ten days, has returned to Worcester
Mass.-Street Commissioner and Mrs
James McGlinchey left Tuesday 70
Lowell. Mass. to spent two weeks. The.
will make the tip by automobile.-Mr
and Mrs. II. Fl. Stone have returned from
Vergennes, where they have been to visi
relatives.-Judge and Mrs. Charles
Button left Wednesday morning for tn
seashore. where they will enjoy a shor
vacation.-Monday. market day. egg
brought from 40 to A cents and butte
80 to 35 cents.-Mr. and Mrs. Edwart
Stowe Of Harding. Mass, are in town.
F.. J. Perkins. clerk at the A
Calhoun Son store. is takinl
his annual vacation.-Mrs. Thomas J
Hughes Of Providence, r. l., is here t.
visit her father. Edward Burns. and othe
relatives in town. She Is accompanied
by her young son. Thomas. and he
aunt. Mrs. Patrick Burke, also Of Provi
dence.
The farmers in this part Of the count
have made pretty good headway this wee
with their harvesting Of grain. Such graf
crops as they have to harvest were neve
before seen in this part Of the State. /
order. however. to attend the grain crop
many farmers have been obliged to aban
don their haying and this is due almos
entirely to a lack OF sufficient help. Th
result will be that a great many fields q
grass worth from $400 to somewhere abou
81, 200 each will not be cut at all this sea
son.
A we'll attended meeting was held Tues
day evening at the offices of Judge Charlie
I. Button to take measures for giving
send-off to Addison county boys who wi
make the first section Of the drafted me
, to 60 from this county into the nations
, camp next week Wednesday. the 1911
The demonstration will be given Tuesda
evening, beginning with banquet at tn
, Addison House for 81 men and ending wit
D public meeting at the town hall. whic
: will be addressed by Judge Frank L. Fisl
I the Rev. l.. A. Vexina Of Vergennes an
President John NJ. Thomas of Middlebur
College. The committee on speakers wei
, Arthur Hinman, DR.. p. l.. Dorey an
Editor Charles f. Crane. Allen r. Sturt'
|, want was appointed finance committee ar
r he Is to appoint a subcommittee Of or
. for each town In the county.-Mrs. Pet,
: Kings, her children, and her mother, Mr.
Mary Cregan. have gone to Bellows Fal
to visit Mrs. Robert /. Twitchell.-Dr ar
Z Mrs. Rollin Worden of Montgomery Gel
I ter were In town Tuesday to visit M
Warden's nephew. Earl Pelsue.-Pet,
, King Of Rutland. former resident
v this village. is in town.-Miss Grace Burr
. has returned after a 10 days visit In Ru
land and West Rutland.-Mr. and Mr.
, Abraham Lent and sons. Donald ar
Mark. OF Lawrence. Mass, are visiting
, Middlebury and vincity.-At a recent vi
lage meeting a motion was made and ca
ried that the old Washington Hand Engir
z No. be housed In some proper place
that It could be pyoteOfed thereafter fro
: the action Of the elements. This, howeve
/. has not been done and the machine hs
: been exposed to the weather for sever
) months. The result Is that II has bee
: denuded of much Of it's brass mounting
: and now looks as though the German
had been at 1t. This engine. with its ere
OF Middlebury men. was some 60 yea
ago or thereabouts first-prize vim,
In may contests In this State,-T, G. Ea