Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-01-25
MIDDLEBURY

Mrs, Emily Eddy, who has been con
find to the house for several days
with an attack OF the grip. is able to
be about again
Mrs Carrie NJ Nash, who has been
i'll with the grip for the past week, is
slowly improving
Mrs John II Sargent has gone to
Brooklyn, N, Y, where she will spend
several weeks with her niece, Mrs
Henry DeFries,
Peter J, Donnelly returned Monday
from Rutland, where he went on Sat
urday. His younger daughter, Ruth
Donnelly, underwent a successful oper-
alton for appendicitis at the Rutland
city hospital
Patrick McCabe Of Ferrsburg was
brought before Judge Albert W, Dick
ems in Municipal court Tuesday after
noon on a charge OF not sending his
child to school The court continued
the case on a promise from McCabe
to see that the child attended school
The annual meeting Of the Congre-
gatona church will be held in the
vestry on the evening OF Tuesday,
January 30 The program will consist
of a covered dish supper which will be
served at $3.50 and will be followed
! by a business session, including brief
reports of the years work, after which
the Rev, {, {. Merrill Of Burlington,
secretary Of the Vermont Congregation.
al Conference, will speak, Mr.. Merrill
has chosen for his subject the ques-
ton as the Church Any Longer
Needed"
County Fish and Game Warden,
George H. Chaiiee, on Tuesday arrest
ed Albert Euber in Salisbury on the
charge of trapping rabbits with steel
traps EuBar was found to have set
several of the traps baited with hay
seed, and when hailed before Judge
Dickens of the Municipal court he
pleaded guilty to trapping four rab-
bits He was fined $500 and costs of
sos which he arranged to pay.
J. R. Renfrew, venterinary surgeon,
who for the past two years has had
his Office and home at SO Main street,
has been accepted for enlistment in
the Medical corps of the United States
army, and will leave shortly for TT.
ObltNHOIDti ia MI INNullNN w DO bli
the list for the next draft but obtained
his transfer for enlistment He has
closed his home and Office and left
Tuesday night for East Berkshire, this
state, with Mrs. Renfrew, who during
her husbands absence, will remain at
the home of her parents in East Berk-
shire.
Edward DeCoursey of Panton was
brought before Judge Dickens in NUM-
cipal court Tuesday OH a charge of
cruelty to animals by not giving them
proper shelter He pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to the house of correc-
ton for six months and to pay a fine
of $50 The jail sentence was sus-
pended upon condition that DeCour-
sey at once repair his buildings and
pay the fine.
William Merritt of Middlebury, who
was arrested a few days ago for non.
support of his wife and who had been
out on bail, was surrendered by his
bondsman Tuesday. He was brought
before Judge Albert ". Dickens in
Municipal court, pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to the house of correc-
ton for not less than three nor more
than nine months.
At the annual meeting oil the Ladies
Aid society of the Methodist church,
held at the home of Mis-, George Rey-
nolds Tuesday the following officers
were elected: President Mrs. Homer
Balm; vice president, Mrs. +, H.
Martin, and Miss Mary Cady; secre-
tary, Mrs Hartwell T Myrick; finan-
cial secretary, Mrs, Arthur Human;
treasurer Mrs d. L. Robinson; chair
man of the executive board, Mrs, Fred
c. Smith