Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-26
,u,TrENDEN COUNTY.
NcstfOrd.

Wcstford.
Rev George S. Guernsey Will preach
this town. next Sunday, Jau. 2sth, forenoC
and afternoon.
b. r. STANLEY left for Devils Lake, Oak
Monday morning.
Mr. Milo ID mgluss returned Saturda
from Minneapolis, Mimi, where he had bee
to attend the funeral OF his son, Henry II
Douglass.
h is scarcely within the memory of on
coolest inhabitant" when our roads bav
bon so blocked with snow-drifts rs the,
ware last Sunday morning utter the terribl,
lgalc OF the night previous.
Among the many beautiful wedding gift.
received by Miss Kate NJ. Beach on the &C
cAsion OF her marriage TO Mr. Charles w
Vaughn OF Plattsburgh, last WcdncsIa,
afternoon, was beautiful silver ice pitcher
AMI goblet presented by the "socicty and
|clpir OF the Second Congregational church
asa token OF their appreciation of her SER
yi"s as organist since the organization OF
III society.
| 'he donation and oyster supper last Thus.
daycvening, for the benefit OF Rev, DeFor.
res Stafford of the Baptist church, was mos,
successful the net proceeds thereof amout.
ngo about $50. A fur ovcrcoat for Mr..
Salord and clock for Mrs. Stafford were
amng the gifts received.
/ Bailey Williams has received the ap.
poihmcnt of Postmaster vice j. A. Per
civa resigned.
Jmes ii. Hutchinson, who has been con-
iind to his house for the past week, is able
to l. out again.
lie down freight, yesterday evening. got
| stut in snow drift near the gravel pit and
| remained there until Sunday noon, when they
| wer relieved by assistance from Burlington.
WIIiiston.
The ladies of the Congregational Society
viii give an oyster supper in the Town Hall
p Nllliston, on Friday evening, January 30
Re-. j. A. Bates will give an account of an
oyster supper on the island of Ceylon.
OF Elliot S. Miller, native and lifelong
resdent of this town, the Springfield Mass.
Duly Union says: Mr.. +. S. Miller, who
ol nearly three years past has been will
James l.. johnson, the local general agent Of
h. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company, has been appointed general agen1
If that company for the State Of Iowa, anc
will remove with his family TO Des Moines
la, about February lst. Mr.. Miller is
Yale graduate of the class of 1878, aud be
ore coming 10 this city was principal Of til,
li5h school at Chcopee Falls. lie is ma,
II good business ability and excellent per
,onal character, and has earned his promo
ion by faithful diligence. Mr. Miller
many friends here will regret his departure
5rt they congratulate him upon his appoint
nnt 10 so responsible position and Civ
INN their best wishes for his future.
| The town has been somewhat excited owe
| i1meslic quarrel which had serious end
ing between Milo Phillips and his wife, wit
live ut Muddy brook. II seems that tn
woman shot Phillips in the arm on one da
and on the next day lie complained Of Hines
AID she gave him n dose of something where
upon he shortly aiterward died. Some .
tie ncighbors think that it was strycbnin
she gave him; but the attending physician
DIR. Ferrin, says the man died of heart dis
ease, and the doctors opinion is worth an,
quantity of floating gossip.
Charlotte.
Some OF the severcst weather OF the scasol
the past week, with heavy winds.
| The Congregational Sunday. school has 70,
ed to use its penny collections the curren
lyear in aid Of Sundiy-sc'loOs on Western
Frontiers.
1t is safe to say tina, with the exception G
the large cities the Charlotte Four Corner
has one of the bravcst and most active fir
departments in the State Though small an
with ancient appliances il makes up in n,
what is lacking in hunters AMI its effort
have thus far been uuintcrruplcdly success
full. A few days since the boot and shO
establishment of Charles Bernard was menat
ell by the elements til c)nilagration original
! ing in box o. ashes that the shoemaker
with commcndable economy, had careful
deposited at +hc foot If his seasoned stow
woDd a few feet from the door. As result
the wood pile was in fair way OF addin
itself TO the collection OF ashes AS abov,
when the wild glare of the mic
might flames caught the eye
a venerable citizen who immediatel
summoned the department, when fireme
Dodge, Jones, Mcguire, EIgcr,on, Russell
Willard and others pc'tcd that pile of woo
with such Alps of snow that further on
door burning was impossible. The use
snow may le accounted for by the fact tn
the department had not time TO hitch up au
draw water from the lake distance
about three miles. And no later than Tue
day morning the elements again sought
sport with the Barnard establishment, I'LL
time by way Of the roof in the immedia
. vicinity OF the stovepipe serving in lieu Of
chimney. This happened in broad du
light, in face and eyes of the department
and just after breakfast The tirem,
, swarmed around that building, and hav.l
! borrowed u couple of pals of water, fair
: laughed AZ the flames One intrepid mel
i, Der procured ladder six feet long, mount
r he roof and poured those two plilsfull doy
, the stoyepipe, extinguishing the fife in t
stove below and in the pipe above at I
same time. 1t is imp ssible to tell wi
, might not have occurred but for
: presence of mind of one of the tirem
who seized a tub used for soaking boot Ia,
and not unfrequenty rs n spittoon, aud 81
ceeding not only in getting some of it on t
inside pipe but thoroughly drcnchlng ,
cutting table and everything else in the
entity, so that stray sparks had nothing
a feed on in that direction. Bui brave de.
need no eulogy.
Ice men are busy getting ready for
crop that can soon be harvested in the bay
Mr. Alonzo Baldwin proposes going
Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the Spring TO
: gage in business in that city.
: Late winds have made the east and "
:, roads very bad for heavy teaning.
C The johnson Normal school.