Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-05-24
MIDDLEBURY

teTs are visiting III Burlington
Misses Marjorie and Mildred Mar,
tin spent Thursday in Burlington,
Madam Button OF Brandon spent
Sunday with her son, c, /. Button,
Miss Ruth Boulia is in Arlington
for few days with Mr., and Mrs, d
| p, Mccormack
Mrs John Stewart has returned
from a three weeks visit with her son
Dugald, in New York City,
Fordyce Bowles has returned from
the Mary Fletcher Hospital where he
went for an examination,
Mrs o, H. Cushman is spending
the week with her daughter, Mrs. Nor
timer Drake in Ticonderoga, n, Y,
Harold Hebert has resigned his
position at the n, J Boudreau store
and is employed at the Middlebury
creamery,
Mr. and Mrs, Archie Mattison, Of
Albany ~ y, are visiting at the home
OF Mrs Mattson's parents, Mr., and
Mrs Allan Calhoun,
Mrs, Cleary who has spent the
winter with her daughter, Mrs George
Haynes Of Court street has gone to
Massachusetts, where she will visit
relatives
The Junibr Department Of the
Congregation Sunday school held pic
ME yesterday at the home OF Mrs {. l.,
Harris,
| Carlton Warner who IS employed
by the American Steel & Wire Co, Of
Worcester, Mass, is visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs, f. II, Warner in
Cornwall,
Frank J, Donahue, who has been in
Virginia and North Carolina, for four
months, mapping for the Sanborn Map
Company of New York, returned
Wednesday
Mr. and Mrs, A. f. Shedrick and
family, who have been visiting Mr.
Shedrick's parents, Mr. and Mrs Geo
Shedrick, for several days, have re-
turned to Pttsford,
George Daniels of New York who
has been at the home of his sister, Mrs.
James Condor, has gone to Platts-
burg n Y, to visit Mrs +. A. Tobin
and Miss Alice Daniels
-Nittum's orchestra will go this eve
ming to New Haven for the graduation
exercises of Beeman Academy. Mrs.
Gushing Hill will render a solo.
Prof. Frank w. Cady is in Peacham
today delivering the Commencement
address at Peoples Academy. The
principal of the school is Carroll G..
Ross, Middlebury 'l6, who is under
lruIt 1pI Uhn 1aaxFoe ~ tptY, tho pplare
today. CAROLS brother Malcolm Ross
is in the Navy Radio Training School
at Harvard.
A consignment of n cans contain
ing 100000 pike perch fry arrived in
Middlebury Wednesday noon from the
[. S government hatchery at Burling-
ton. They were distributed in the wa
tiers OF Fern Lake. The consignment
was accompanied from Burlington by
county fish and game warden, George
II Chaifee,
The Sunday services at the Memoir
ial Baptist Church will be held at the
usual morning hour and Prof Raymond
Nc Farland will give his report of the
Northern Baptist convention held at
Atlantic City. In the evening there
will be union services at the Congrega-
tional Church and the Rev Roy E.
Whittemorc will oficiate.
The Middlebury fire department
was called out about 7;30 o'clock We'd
nesday evening for a practice drill by
chief of the department, George f.
kidder The department was called by
an alarm and responded very promptly.
While they were out they tested all the
fire hose on hand
old false teeth will help win the
war. The platinum pins with which
false teeth are set are worth about 20
cents piece, or, in other words, the
government is paying sos an ounce for
platinum which is so greatly needed in
airplane manufacture Mrs. Z. M.
Saunders has collected five sets of
these old teeth and is sending them
away for war contribution. She would
be glad to have others interested in this
communicate with her.
Over $3.50 was realized from the
sale held at Mrs. K. M.
Prices home on Pleasant Street last
Saturday. The articles disposed of
were all obtained by Mrs. Price and
her daughter, Mrs E. NJ Saunders,
by ransacking their attic and store
rooms, and included furniture and a
of things for whsch there were
eager buyers. The proceeds will go to
the French War Orphans Fund, infor-
nation concerning which Mrs Price
or Mrs. Saunders would be glad to fur
nisb to all Interested, and portion of
the money will go to the local Labaree
Society.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Y. M.
c A. held their annual meeting this
week at the home of Mrs J. E. Weeks,
and although most of the young mem
bers OF the local Y. NJ. c. A. organiza-
ton are off to war, the Ladies' Auxil-
larry voted to keep itself intact and re-
elected its board of officers, including
Mrs. F. c. Dyer, president, Mrs. J.E.
Weeks, vice-president, Mrs. H. L. Aver
i'll, secretary and Mrs. Charles Bing-
ham, treasurer. There are now 50 mem
bers in the Auxiliary. 1t is announced
that S25 had been sent recently to the
Y. M. c. A. fund and an additional S.
was forwarded, the result of the meet
ing
The division manager for New Eng
and of the American Red Cross has
granted authority to organize an Add
son County chapter. Uu to this time