Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-08-16
MIDDLEBURY

Stanton Harris has gone to Pawlet
on a ten days visit
Mrs, Mary Williams Of Peoria, III,
is visiting Mrs, Silas Jewett
James Mitchell has taken a position
with the Hortonia Power Co.
Nelson Gotta is unable to work ow-
ing to illness caused by boils.
Miss Gladys Brown and Agnes
Leno spent the weekend in Nergennes
Miss Eveline Coursey has gone to
Burlington for a weeks visit with rela-
tiveS
Miss Elizabeth Pinney and Miss
Mary Leonard were in Burlington Tues
day,
The National Bank of Middlebury
is closed today, Bennington Battle Day
Mr.. Shuel of Seymour St, intends
going to Maine where he has employ
meut
Mr. and Mrs John X. Dyer have
returned from a weeks business trip to
New York.
Nelson A. Seymour is taking a va
cation this week from his duties at the
Register office.
Miss Gladys Mohan of Orwell, has
been visiting in town. She formerly re-
sided here.
J. Z. Crane has gone to Auburn and
Walpole, Mass, where he will address
meetings of the Bee Keepers in those
two places
Mrs, John Burns has returned from
a visit with her son, Thomas F. Burns,
who is a member of the national army
at Camp Dix, Wrightstown, n. J.
-Pittsford and Claremont will play
baseball at Meehan's Dunmore Park
next Sunday at clock, with fifteen
piece band on hand to furnish music.
Miss Emma Fuller, home demon
stration agent, has gone to Stepney,
Conn, on a visit to her brother, who
expects to go overseas in a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul T, Torrington
and their nieces, the Misses Lucille and
Flora Torrington OF Mddletown, Conn,
are in town for a stay of several weeks.
Mrs. Charles Miller of Vergennes
and Miss Katherine LaMorder of Bur
lington have returned to their homes
after a few days visit to friends in
town.
Miss Mabel Meade, who has been
visiting relatives in town, has returned
home to Proctor, where she has a po-
sition in the Office of the Vermont Mar
bic company,
William P. Russell Circle, No. s.,
Ladies of the Grand Army, held a well
attended meeting in their hall in the
Dyer block Tuesday evening and the
initiatory degree was conferred on two
new candidates.
Ezra Brainerd, D. D., former presi-
dent of Middlebury College, who has
been confined to his home for many
weeks with illness, is able to be about
the village again and apparently is well
and brisk as ever.
Russell F. Barton has returned
after five weeks spent in Enosburg
Falls. Next week he plans to go to
Lebanon, N. H., for the annual Adven-
lists camp meeting, Frank Hamilton of
New Haven accompanying him.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Crane and
their friends, Mr. and Mrs E. F. Van
Buskirk of Brooklyn and Miss Edith
Smith of Woburn, Mass, have engaged
the Sanford cottage at Lake Dunmore
to spend vacation there the coming
week.
Norman S. Foote has purchased the
barns on the estate of the late Daniel
Stewart, situated on the shore of Lake
Dunmore. The land has shore front
age of 81 feet. Mr.. Foote intends t.
remodel the buildings into a summer
cottage.
Mrs. E. j. Ferguson, young son and
daughter, will leave the latter part of
next week for Hartford, Conn, where
they will make their home. The Mis-
ses Ruth and Eleanor Ferguson have
been employed in Hartford for the past
few months.
Word has been received from Sergt.
A. E. Thompson, grandson of W. L.
Cady, that he is we'll and has been cho-
sen for detached duty, and that he is
proud of our home boys over there.
Both he and his brother John, who is
in the marine service, are in the midst
of hard fighting.
Edward Hopper, an employee of the
Hortonia Power Company, had the
first two fingers of his right hand badly
smashed in the gears of an electric der
rick about 2:30 Saturday afternoon
while at work at the company's plant
about a mile north of the village. Dr.
Flagg was called and after rendering
first aid removed Hopper to his Office
where he dressed the hand and took the
man to his home on Seminary street.