The Middlebury Register And Addison County Journal

Whiting.

Mrs. F. D. Douglas has gone West to see her mother and sisters. Mrs. Ann Simonds' pocket-book contained about $20, instead of $8.25. Ed. Baker has just received another invoice of four-legged washboards. Jim Wilson captured his first fox last week. He caught five black skunks and a fox, all in one day. Stevens Brothers are still working their hay press in town. They are now pressing straw at A. Ketchum's barns. Warren Ketchum has just finished threshing between 900 and 1000 bushels of grain for A. Ketchum & Son. One of our old townsmen, Darwin Walker, is here again. It is said he is to remain here through the coming winter. Carl Williams has gone to Wisconsin to visit friends, and, perhaps, locate. It all depends upon how he likes the country when he gets there. Onions smell a little stronger. Instead of being worth 50 cents, they are worth 60 and there is a good prospect of their being worth last winter's prices-from 75 cents to $1. Judging from the present look and state of the weather, several pieces of potatoes will remain in the ground until it is plowed in the spring. Cabbage, turnips and beets are still out by the wagon load and also some winter apples. J. E. Parker & Son have shipped in care of Col. J. B. Mead 300 of their patent bag holders to the International Exposition at New Orleans and have obligated themselves to furnish from 300 to 1000 a month as they may be ordered. Last Sunday morning your correspondent saw a man drive a bay horse past going north; in the afternoon he observed the same man returning south with a white horse. Whether the horse changed color or the man swapped horses he did not learn, but certainly there had been a great change.