Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-02-14
VERGENNES NEWS

The infant child of Mrs, Cecil Bris-
tol who has been seriously i'll, is some
what improved.
dance will be given at city hall
next Wednesday evening by Morgan's
orchestra.
Mrs Ira Hebert of Rutland is visit
ing her sisters, the Misses Susan and
Ruth Merrill
Mrs E. A. Lee has closed her millin-
cry store and gone to visit in Canton
and Potsdam, N. Y
Mrs Nathan Oppenheim has gone
] to New York City, where she will be
the guest of friends for a month
Miss Lucille James, who has been
guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George d. Middlebrook, has returned
to New York.
Miss Eva Tucker has completed
work at the L. F. Benton company
factory and has entered the employ of
the Norton house.
A card party will be held at the hall
of st. Peters court, c. o. F., the even
ing of February IS, for the benefit of
st, Peters parish.
Mrs. lavender Rock and daughter,
Marjorie, went Wednesday to Mid
dlebury, to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Signor
Ezra Valway who bought the Sedg-
wick Preston farm in Ferrisburg short
ly after his return here from California
has sold the property to George Tatro.
Mrs. Frank NJ Warner, who was able
to be out Saturday after three weeks
illness with influenza, has suffered a
relapse and is again confined to the
bed
Mrs George w. Casey is teaching
in the junior high school, succeeding
Miss Bernice Towne, who has resigned
and gone to join her people at Plain
vile, Conn.
Mrs Bertha Brooks, Of Worcester,
Mass, who has been a guest of Mr..
and Mrs. R. D. Goodridge, has gone
to Rutland to visit before returning to
her home.
Leonard Tadeless, who has been at
Winsted, Conn, for nearly wear, has
returned and resumed his former posi-
ton with the Green Mountain Lime
company.
Charles Noonan, who went to Buffa-
10, N Y, before the holidays to visit
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Noon
an, has returned to the home of his
uncle, William Noonan
Mrs Edward Daniels, who has been
making her home with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Larrow, since the
death of her husband, has gone to
Burlington to reside, having secured
employment there.
Arthur Daniels, elder son Of Capt,
and Mrs M. H Daniels of Vergennes,
who is with the A. E. F, overseas, is
now located at Verneuil, France He
has recently been made bugler of the
prisoner of war escort corps.
Donald H. Sears of Monkton was a
visitor in the city Tuesday, Mr.. Sears,
who was recently discharged from the
military department of TUFTS college,
Medford, Mass, is to enter the college
ldltI lOI d COuISC vi Sluu1.
A son, William Theophilus, was born
Monday at hospital in Lowell, Mass,
to Mr.. and Mrs Walter c. Middle
brook Mr.. Mddlebrook is a former
Vergennes boy and is now treasurer of
the Mortified Trust company, North
field
Mrs. Thomas Austin of Brattleboro
is with her daughter, Mrs. Bernie L..
Nichols, at the latter's home, while
she is packing her household goods
for shipment to Brattleboro, where she
will reside.
Mrs. Valerie Anger of Cohoes, N.
Y, is a guest of Mrs. Charles L. Le-
Bouef Mrs. Anger is a niece of Mr..
LeBouef and came to visit her uncle,
who is at the Fanny Allen hospital.
Mr. LeBouef seems to be improving.
Guy A. Beach, superintendent Of the
Haviland Shade Roller company plant,
is forced to be about on crutches, owing
to injuries received at the plant, last
week Tuesday afternoon, when bar
rel of brackets fell five feet and struck
Mr. Beach in the face, cutting his
cheek, and the force of the blow caus-
ing him to fall to the floor the barrel
landing on his legs, spraining his left
foot and dislocating the right knee.
Mrs. Robert Moorby died at her
home in West Addison Saturday, after
an illness of few days with pneumonia,
following influenza. Mrs. Moorby
was before her marriage Miss Kate
Merrill, daughter of the late Rollin H.
Merrill, and was born in West Addison,
September Is, 1892 She was married
to Mr.. Moorby in July, 1909. Besides
her husband, Mrs. Moorby is survived
by four children, Helen, Frederick,
Kenneth and Mary, the latter being
only two weeks old; her mother, Mrs
Robert Mulholland of Mineville. N.
NJ; four sisters, Mrs. Ira Hebert of
Rutland and the Misses Marion, Su-
san and Ruth Merrill of Vergennes,
and two brothers, Walter of Cornwall,
N. Y, and George of Vergennes Flu
neral services were held at the house
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev.
W S. Mulholland, pastor of the Yer
gennes Methodist church, officiating
The bearers were Ira Hebert of Rut-
land and Charles W. Fisher Oliver