Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24

pneumonia after an illness of but five
days He was buried with Masonic
honors sunday afternoon. Rev. VI. u,
| Bell of Morrisville otliciated, and preached
Il very able and impressive sermon. f..
| NJ. Kemp conducted the Masonic CcrcmOn-
les. The funeral was very largely at
tended.
Morrisville.
J c. +. Sweeny, telegraph operator at the
! depot il succeeded by &. VI Bcttis. ... Mr..
and Mrs W. f. Whipple Mr.. and Mrs, q.
d. Mears. Mr. and Mrs X. v Burke, Mrs
! VI. B. Reed, Miss VI. NJ. Slayton and Miss
/ Hattie Bundy are visiting in Boston and
vicinity.
\ Miss Haskins, one of two aged maiden
| ladies living together for many years ON
| the opposite side of l.amoilc river from
the village, has been taken violently in
sane and made a serious attempt to take
! the life of her sister, but was prevented
! from SO doing. Mrs. NJ Fisher will
| spend the winter with friends in Butte
the firm of Clement X Whipple, whose
/ store was hurglHriZcd ON Friday night, re
turned home from Boston with his wife
ON saturday evening.
Members of MOrriSVillc COrnct band,
with their ladies. accepted an invitation to
spend Monday evening at the farm house
of H. f.. Allen. whose daughter Kate is at
home ON Il visit from Providence. X. |.
The band turned ont in good numbers and
Il very pleasant time was enjoyed, the
party returning home AT about ! p. m.
Mrs. G.. W. Hrndrr and Mrs. j. +.
Brown are attending the missionary meet
ingS at Rutland. Mrs. Montgomery, one
of the speakers. was a former resident of
this place, and is better known here as
Miss Emily RcddingtOn.. Rcv. NJ. =.
Bell returned home on "Wednesday morn
ng. having been called to attend and
funeral a NlnnIt.S y
and Bristol, Nt....A skating club and Il
young mems club with rooms in the
Grout building, are two organizations re
Gently formed.
Isle LA Motte.
Farmers have already done considerable
fall plOWiug Prof. u. &. Tucker and
wife, of Illinois, are III toWn.... Duckand
goose shooting is reported to be good this
season. several fine specimens of gpc~t
have already been procured Potatoes
are selling ut - cents per bushel On
account of the abundant apple crop tn,
price is corrcspondingly small. Graft ap
pies are selling from y to $50 II barrel
and common apples 10 cents per buShcl
... Capt. f. b. Rockwell of the steamer
Reindeer. will spend the winter i'll thi,
burgh.
East Fairfield.
\ painful accident occurred late ON Sat
| -
sulting in the loss of an arm. Truman
Mitchell, while at WORK with the ballast
ing train. which at the time of the aCCi
dent was at sheldon Junction. on the St
+ .IOhnSbury and Lake Champlain road
, was thrown between the cars while in tn,
act of drawing the PIN, and eight car
. passed over him, crushing his left arm al
the elbow. He was Immediately taken Il
his home and ampUtatiOn was performed
sunday morning by DIR. Flagg of Cam
bridge, assisted by Drs. Stickney an,
} Green of this place. Other injuries of les
t Importance were sustained about tn,
; head.
l Sorthfield.
T. The annual target-ShOut of the militi;
5 company came off Friday afternoon, al
. though the weather was unfavOrable. Tn,
r. result was as follows lst prize, gold med
| al, Capt. f.. II. lIOweS 2nd prize, hangn.
lamp. Walter llaSSam; 3rd prize clock
f. j. Eastman best single shot, tret-silw
ed cross, Walter llassam; poorest singh
| shot ON target. j. T. Johustun-tO whom
| was awarded the leather medal Th
: second and third prizes We're given by thu
: company, and for the best shot by TIM
p Judges. Mes~rs. T.. O. lIurSton and II. !.
! Kenyon
Th" Accident Record.
r Allie liodgkns, Il ten year old Brown
, inLtOu boy. while at Il nrighbur'S barn
. got his hand caught in the gearing %
. Il horse power, and - Shockingly manglc,
= that the arm had to he amputatcd abUv,
the clbuW.
To- Mrs. Burrows. nu aged lady of Brown
), iugtOu, died ON the Ith from the effects o
- broken limb, which she received NV,
weeks previous.
NJ j. Francisco. of Rutland. was thrown
= from buggy ON Friday evening and sus
, tanned Il fracture of the hip. The aCCi