Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-02-17

BILE horse Sunday by getting its head
caught fast in It's feed trough, in some
way, and then falling breaking its neck
scross the edge of the plank ...... The .
annual festival of the CONGREGATIONAL .
ladies', held last Thursday evening, was
very pleasant and financially very CRAFTY
ing, resulting in Il gain to their treasury
of 800.
Koxbury.
DR.. Mayo of Northheld is in town..
The village school closed last week .....
Miss Ada Nichols Is i'll with heart disease.
...... .Bennie Hines who has been EN-
ployed in the insane asylum at Danvers,
Mass, is home again 49,. De- James OF
Waterbury is attending Miss Matte Ed
wards who is in adecline.
North Hero.
Clinton, son of John Parker, fell down
a steep ladder Saturday, and sustained
quite serious injuries. .......A democrat
postmaster has been appointed in TINS
ceeding II. II. Hathaway
ONE DOLLAR
will now buy the Weekly Free Press
one year. Tell your friends.
Keeler's Bay.
Mr. Ford of Georgia occupied the pull
pit in the Methodist church at South Hero,
last Sunday The blanket trot came
OF last Saturday on K"eler's bay. The
best blanket went to w. VI. Phelps the
second to James Dorlthy. ...... There is
| expected to he lively tunes at our next
! town meeting. Let all LEGAL voters be
present The most important question is,
! shall We keep the town school system or
| return to the old district system.
stowe.
The village schools closed Tuesday. In
| he evening there were public exercises Mt
| the town hail, consisting Of music, dia-
| loGues and deClamAtiOuS. .... Mr.. and
| Mrs Lyman ChurCHlll are visiting in BOs
! ton......The new creamery building VIII
| ~tAud i'm the rear of Miles u McMahOn's
| store. II will he ready for occupancy
| May drst....J. II. BiXbv viii teach Il
| spring term of school, beginning Feb, %
| Hemau Wlnters's buildings burned We'd
| day morning., February S....There will he
| a creamery in stowe. .... school closes
| Tuesday. .. There was a lyc2Um Tuesday
evening, February :, when it was deCid
ed that the North suffered worse by the
| last war tnan the south.
| Middlebury.
Miss Minnie Byeingtou of Albany is he
| guest of Mrs. George Chapman. b.
| L. Brown ot the senior class at the college
will become principal OF the sherman
ac tdemy at Moriah, n y, March IT,. ..
| The ladies of the town gave IA leap year
| ball ut thetown hall Friday evening.
Roxbury.
| The village school closed on Wednes-
| day, February ;. .......Juhn II. Senter OF
| Montpelier has been in tOwn..... Charles
! Spaulding, who has been under the wealth
| er for some time, l. on the streets again
| Dr.. Winch OF Mortified has been visit
| Ing patients i'll tOWn....... Clayton Nor
gan who has been suffering from a broken
| limb il ont on Crutches ........ Miss Bessie
Marsh VINO has been in Burlington with
her sister, Mr.. Waterman, through her
late illness and sad ai1iction is home again
and very sick.
| Waterbury,
A well filled house attended the band
concert, Tuesday evening. The FREE
PRESS march by George ID. Sherman of
| Burlington, and the galop "Uber Land
Und Nicer" were very finely rendered. a
good deal of amateur dramatic talent was
exhibited in the "Close Shave" and "The
Balloon ASCENSION" The Montpelier
band will give the next concert. .Jo-
seph Thompson, aged 81 years, died from q
closing up of the passage from his stomach.
........ Mrs, Henry James is spending a
few days in Boston. Miss Eva Evans
mas gone to birmingham, Mass, to attend
school in company with Miss Carrie
Washburn .....Mrs. G. f.. Richardson
is visiting friends in Boston.
The Methodist society will hold an
oyster supper at the residence of q. Il.
2 Moody Tuesday evening
Cambridge.
Mrs George Wells will close her winter
, term of school with an exhibition on the
= evening of February L., ut the home of
: her father. Post 10, q. a. r. has de
tailed some of its members to assist in
caring for their sick comrade, Jason
/ French, who is in II very bad condition
! from injuries received in the army.......
Mr.. and Mrs. b. X. Convey We're very kind
{ ly remembered on the evening of theil
10Th anniversary as a large company OF
relatives and friends met at their nome
4 and spent The afternoon and evening in
| pleasant social intercourse. The young
>. | folks passed tn evening in playing game.
h ana singing SONGS. They presented the
| happy couple with beautiful hanging
:, lamp, an extension table, and two SETS OF
glass among other things. Miss Myrtle
Y Bushie has so much improved in health a.
n to resume her school. ....... Miss Hattie
!, | Mcfarland who has been away ATTENDING
n | school is now at home visiting her mother
! | ........ Alvin Perham and his mother o
l. Fairfax, visited friends in Cambridge las
n week
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hulburd VISITED
= friends in St. Adams laSl week ...... Mis-
n Ella Holmes and others from this plac,
s attended the closing exercises of thu
L school at MOrrisVille on Tuesday.....M Mis-
Il Marion Hubbard Is at MOrrsVlle visit
"a ing trlencS this Week...... Willis Uub
bard and Cora Davis have given up thei
kschooi~ uu account OF illness. The iOrme
was teaching at Morristown. Georg,
u Harrington OF East Fairfield aud &c r.,
DOwuer We're in town last week to atten,
e the funeral of sister, Ms II. ". Far
> rjuStol, who died after long illness
g Rev. Edwin WheeloCk utliciA,ed, as7i-te,
s. by Rev. d. f BoWeu......Nrs. johns
= of jericho has been spending few day
I, with her daughter Mrs. d. Buker....
II Robert Thomas of WHtprVilla who b4