Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-04-17
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.


Jericho Centre.
Clark Douglass has gone to Minneapo-
lis where he has n situation Mrs. Hart
has returned from visit to Massachu-
sets. There is more than the usual
amount of sickness in town. There were
five funerals last week.. The roads are
in the worst condition for years at this
season. Several men have been kept at
work for the past week shovelling snow
miss Cora Chaplin is to spend the sum
good deal of complaint about the new mail
agent on the Burlington and Lamoille.
Some days we get the EREE PRESS, and
some days we do not...A telegram from
the West, Tuesday, announced the death
of Osman Stimson, brother of Giles Still
after an illness of only few days.
At the annual school meeting in
district No. 1 the following officers
were elected: Moderator, Lyman Stimson /;
clerk, NJ. II. Chaplin collector, j. NJ. Car
committee, S. ). Thompson, F. H. Cilley,
Asa Church Voted to have thirty-four
weeks of school, Tax, eighteen cents.
Miss Mary Church has been engaged to
teach the school in district No, /, this
place, Saturday ; Shelah Bently, father of
e. II. Bently, an aged citizen of jericho,
SO years of age, and Emily Backman,
whose body was found in Essex, Satur-
day. She was the last of the Blackman
family in this vicinity :. There is great
scarcity of hay. Many are entirely out,
and do not know where to get what they
need to winter out their stock. Some are
also out of coal and can get no more of
the dealers =. f. II. Bently thinks Of sell
ing his farm and going to Florida. He
has one of the best dairy farms in town.
Essex junction.
In the account of the Hapgood case
printed in the columns of the FREE PRESS
yesterday, the name of Miss Ella Gotta was
enormously used for Miss Emma Gotta.
This explanation is due to Miss Ella COta
who is spoken of by all who know her as a
young lady of most estimable character.
Essex Centre.
The monotony of ordinary events was
pleasantly broken, Wednesday evening,
, by the marriage of Mr.. Wilfred Jodoin,
of Vergennes, and Miss Laura A. NJ.
Chapman, daughter of Mrs. l.. NJ. Chip
man of Essex, at the home of Mrs. Chip
man. Mr.. w. &. Fairbank, superintsnd-
ent of the Vermont Reform school, and
friends from Huntington, Hinesburgh,
Burlington and Essex The ceremony
was performed by Rev. A. 5 Gilbert of
Hinesburgh, assisted by Rev. N. w. Wild
, er of Essex. Many beautiful gifts attest
ed the great esteem in which Miss Chip
tful collation. the newly welded pair took
the train for Montreal. Mrs Chapman
5 Will soon leave this place for Nergcnnes,
the future home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jodoin.
Hinesburgh.
The town has purchased the right OF
f reversion in the village grave yard of Mrs
, Nlele for 500. =. Mr.. +. Bssonette has
been engaged as cheese maker in the Val
: ley factory. The factory will open as
l M har ho.
r been lively time with the sugar makers
: lately Good maple syrup has been sell
ing at seventy-five cents gallon. The
' meeting of the w. C. 7. O., with Miss
NJ. f. Miles was a very pleasant affair
Next Thursday the Union will meet witt
:: Miss c. A. Douglass. The location OF
., the new school house in the village, anC
the appointment of postmaster, divide
o the attention of the average citizen, a
o present.
5 The trustees of the graded school ar,
e making thorough repairs on the schOo
+ building. The old board of teachers, j
t r. Wheelock, principal, Clara j. Brown
in the intermediate, and Nora Austin
primary, are again engaged for the com
ing year. The work of completing tn,
Methodist Episcopal church is progress
# ing rapidly, under the supervision of j
G. Squires -: Rev j. +. Bowen has re
his pulpit in the Methodist church las
7, Sunday George Ashley has moved hi
3 office into the old Ashley & Howard store
v IA. b. Comstock is moving his stool
:, of goods into the store of d. S. Meeker...
II II. H. Rankin & Co., are earring anothe
e load of potatoes.
!. j. =. Clark has rented his grist and plas
ter mills to Hiram McNoll Of Fairfax, TO-
y one year. Mr.. McNoll has also purchase,
= Of Mr.. Clark the house and lot, corner O
l. Main and River streets, now occupied b.
l.. K. L. Holbrook. Mr.. McNoll is an ener
t getic, wide-awake business man, and de
( serves the same liberal patronage that tn
10 mills have always enjoyed under the oil
management. -. The funeral of the lat
:, Mrs. Giles Jackson was held on Thur da
y at 2 o'clock, Rev. Mr.. Woodward official
:; ing.
?, Winooski.
Messrs. johnson G. Shipman expect t
e have finished and occupy. their new. sta
t. bes about May / -. The boys are talkin
n number of good musicians among tn
IS young men of the town and they woul'
e no doubt form good band. Mr.. j. j
S Costello and family left town Thursday.
+ Mrs. Sibley, who lives on the Mallett
q Bay road while entering church, Sunday
l; met with bad accident. She had alight
q ed from her sons carriage, and Will
y crossing some ice before the church door
slipped and fell. very seriously injurinl
e her hip. Mrs. Sibley is 76 years old, an,
n is an aunt of Mr.. H. Eugene Sibley O
n Burlington
=, Underhill.
ID The roads have been almost impassabl
ID from melting snow, ice, and torrents whic
K, flowed into the roads from the hills bu
ly are now somewhat improved. Farmer
he are hard at work in their sugar orchards
o. the deep SHOWS making it very Difficult
re gathering the sap. Some have not tar
ly ped at all, which fact will probably kee
the price at a high mark, as less quantit
III than usual will probably be made in tn
as State. Oliver Edwards, who is awaitin
trial in Burlington jail writes home i
quite jubilant strain that he has "got
al smart lawyer and will soon be bac
ty home" 1t is loudly whispered that,
he the law does not reach him an enrage
90 public will take the matter into it's ow
" hands, and there has been a mass meetin
,e' to that effect, at which there were b.
Sc tween one and two hundred men presen