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

A new telephone has been installed
at the home OF the Chief OF the FIRE
department, George T. Kidder, The
call number is 6i-3
Frank Bullock, one Of the city mail
carriers, who has been confined to the
house for a few weeks, has so far re-
covered as to be able to resume his
duties,
In accordance with orders from
Washington nearly all stores and other
places OF business in town were closed
after noon-time Monday, and some OF
the offices and Office buildings were
closed all day, Monday h the mar
ket day here and the farmers did not
like the breakup Of their weekly bust
ness excursion to town, The Middle
bury bank remained open all day, as
usual
The first meeting Of the newly or
ganized Board of Water Commission
ers of Middlebury Village was held
Saturday with the appointment Of
Henry +, Joy as collector and reap
pointment of James McGlinchey as
superintendent, The present Board
is composed of c, c. Wells, G., n,
Shambo and Professor p N, SWEET,
There will be a card party in the
Federation building, next Monday cv-
ening as a benefit for the Knights Of
Columbus fund to which everyone Is
invited, Each lady is requested TO
bring eight sandwiches.
II viii interest many Middlcbury
people to learn that the distinction Of
being the youngest officer in the naval
Service of the United States at the
present time belongs to Ensign A, A,
Mccormick, Jr, a grandson Of Ezra
Joseph Warner, who was donor of
Warner Science Hall at Middlcbury
College, Young Mccormick is the son
of Alderman Mccormick of Chicago.
He is only 10 years old, and won his
rank as ensign through hard study and
close application to his duties as an
enlisted man. He was at Yale when
the war broke out, and he enlisted with
Yale Unit No. 2, After training at
Buffalo he was sent to Pensacola, Fla
where he is now serving as an aviation
instructor.
The Middlebury Suffrage Study
Club will meet at the home of Mrs
c. +, Haynes on Court street, Febru-
airy ! at 2:30 O'Clock to do Red Cross
work for the Suffrage Y, NJ {. A.
Fund Members and their friends are
invited to come with their Red Cross
work and ten cents for the Fund.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Middlebury Suffrage Study Club will
be held at the home of Mrs. Roy Rus
sell on l'ebrury $ at $3.50 p. in. The
subject of Town meetings will be care
fully studied at this and the March
meeting and a special invitation is ex-
tended to the new women voters to
study this subject with the club, with
the view of preparing for the coming
Town meeting in our village
Judge John L. Weeks at the open
meeting Of the Woman's auxiliary of
the V NJ c. A. this week told the in
teresting story Of the early history of
Windsor prison From book publish
ed in 1872, which contained a report of
the building of the first prison, Mr..
Weeks read many interesting passages
which told of the opening of the first
prison and the celebration, which was
accompanied by the roar of cannon and
a great parade W ]. Van Patten of
Burlington, who was to have addressed
the meeting was unable to do so on
account of illness. The Womans
auxiliary voted to appropriate S2j from
its treasury toward the V NJ. c. A.
war fund. The meeting was held at
the home of Mrs. L. A. Frost and was
largely attended
A. r. Slader and Son of Rutland,