Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-01-06

/ MEXICO ana It's People, NJ tne y ulNeT'
sa i-t church in Wiiliston on Friday even
listpu should all attend, for il is always
instructive TO hear the story of traveller
( who goes through a foreign country Will
his eyes open.
wILLIsTON.
School has been closed several days or
account of the sickness of the teachers
aud people are very sorry TO learn tha'
they are not coming back into the schoo
again, AS it has been very successful un
der their management. AT last accounts
no teacher bad been secured. The
| North WllistOn mills have been repaired
and are about ready to start again. H.
| H. TalCott Is taking between $500 and 1000
pounds of milk to the Richmond cream
cry, daily.
The Weekly Free Press from
this date is reduced one hait-ii
is now only ONE DOLLAR a
year.
HINEsBURGU
BIZ. Field of White River Junction is
at home for the holidays. .....M. j. Muir
ply is home, poor in health and looking
rather thin but he reports his business on
the road very successful and he will leave
again the latter part of this week.. ...
Lewis DIVER has bought of James Miner
SSU acres Oh WHAT WAS Tue ANODleS ldIlU
and land adjacent for $1,000. ...... The
Ladies' Aid society elected the following
officers at the annual meeting President,
Mrs. II NJ. Wilson viCe-president, Mrs.
Leonard Andrews; collectors, Mrs. j. 5,
Patrick, Miss Helen Weller secretary
aud treasurer, Mrs. H. NJ. Hull .......
| Prof. Perkins gave a very interesting lee
ture on fishes in the Methods. church on
Friday evening. His next lecture will be
about birds. ......M Miss NJ. "A. Kendall on
her recent visit to New York spent day
in Brooklyn With Mrs Dr. Hunt, lately
Mrs. Fuller of this town, and found her
very pleasantly situated. The doctor has
a good practice ana Is building MN new
house. .......1 The Valley Cheese factory
has settled with its patrons. The cheese,
$500 in number of an average weight of
80 pounds We're manufactured for ~
cents per pound. This gave handsome
dividend to the stockholders, while the
milk averaged for the season "a cents
net per 100 pounds of milk ....... Dr. Pat
rick has moved into his new house, which
for its many convenences and beauty of
architecture aud location Is one of the
finest country residences in this part of
the State........LOgs have come to the
saw mills rapidly since snow came. The
forest fires last fall killed "A great deal of
timber so that it has to be cut to save it,
.......T The week of prayer will be Oh
served by union meetings held at the diff
terent churches alternately .......The la
dies have declared war on the billiard
saloons and are circulating a petition to
the selectmen to close them. There are
three billiard saloons in our little village
and for some time back there has been
grevious complaint that boys whose pa
rents supposed them in school and Others
who ought to he at home, spend their
time playing billiards.
HUNTINGTON
The Huntington corpet band meet We'd
nesday and Saturday evenings for prac
tce in the town house at the Centre.
&. ). Bickford Is on the sick list with neu-
ralgia in the head .... John b. Ellis kill,
ed Il yearling steer last week at the Cen
tie that weighed $40 pounds. .... The
thermometer registered 30 degrees below
zero here, Friday. ..... Harry SmalPs four
year-old Percheron stallion, which he has
recently transported from Michigan, is
one of the fiji ST ever brought into town.
....John Sprague and wife are in pos
session of the Green Mountain hotel at
the North village for a short time ......
CameIs Hump house, i'll the near future
for the benefit of Rev. w. II. Lyster.
.Wyram Crane is in very poor health
this winter and is confined to the house Il
good deal of the time ...... The Free VIII
Baptist monthly conference will be held
in The Union church at the North village,
Saturday at 2p. m. Delegates will be
elected to attend the quarterly meeting.
wEsTFoRD
The blockade of snow on the cross roads
has been immense ......l4. W. Irish has
bought the Chates farm in the east part
of the town. Mrs. Slade has returned
from Windsor where she has been visit
ing her daughter. Owing to the in
clempnrV in 10 of
john ALIENS house was postponed one
week. ...At a justice court, Saturday,
in case of Scion Il Castle VS.. Levi Rush
ford, judgment was rendered in favor of
the plaintiff.
JERICHO.
Mrs. II. Il. Percival of Burlington is
visiting at II. A. Percival's ... Miss Julia
Galusha was at home from the Normal
school at Johnson for New Years. The
little daughter, of William j. Gibson, who
died Thursday of last week, of spinal
paralysis, was buried Sunday Among
those who are confined by sickness are
Mrs. II. c. Galusha, Homer Ransom and
W. w. Booth ......E b. Taft, ESQ, of
Burlington will deliver his lecture on
Mexico, here, Wednesday evening the
llth: ..... Messrs. Merrick, Howard and
Judd, with their wives, from Georgia,
were in town last week visiting friends.
-. The lecture of Rev, Dr. Halves of Bur
lington, Wednesday evening of last week,
was well attended. The subject of the
lecture was European Mosaics"
The forethought and good judgment ex-
ercised by our seectmen in causing the
removal Of the fences and substituting
wire instead, along The highway, so apt
to drift badly, was admirably exempifled
after the recent severe storms The
funeral services of Dr.. f. H. Carter who
recently died in New York city, were held
at the Methodist church Saturday after
noon, Rev 9. Wedgeworth officiating.
The body was brought here for burial in
the village cemetery where two of his
children lie, his two remaining daugh-
tiers accompanying the remains. DR.. Car
ter who formerly resided in this village
was one of the original members of the
Methodist society here, and aided sub
stantially toward the building of the
church edifice, some 25 years ago. He
moved to Burlington and built what was
known as Carter block on Main street
removing from there to New York city
where he died. A wife and two unmar
ried daughters survive him.
Don't Fail
To let your neighbor, who does not take