Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-12-20
WATERBURY,.

ne Edwin posi- elCCbel Olll-
GERS as follows: Thomas I. Farrell, com
mander; Daniel Russ, S. V. c.; Charles O.
Humphrey, l. V. c.. j. w. Sleeper, O. D.
Joseph Hutchinson, chaplain; Edwin M.
Bowman, sergeant Henry c. Phillips, o.
g. delegates to department encampment Mt
Rutland, Charles O. Humphrey and John
Knapp; alternates, !. II. Elliott and Charles
Wrsley.--T schools close for three weeks.
Prof Davis says that he had two fox traps
broken by panthers on Scrabble Hill near
Camels Hump. The village trustees have
been testing the water works since the late
fire. We may again have a fire company.
Frank Elliott is at home this winter, but
will attend the Montpelier seminary again
in the spring. -'rhe lecture committee failed
to secure Bishop Vincent, but have
secured Prof. Churchill to give
reading December 27-The Y. 2.
$. G. +. of the Congregational
church held Christmas sale Friday eve
ming which was well attended. Among
successful teachers examined at Montpelier
last week were Helen Willoughby Of Middle
bury, and NJ. l. Kimball of Mortified,
both of whom are teachers in our village
school. H E. Boyce has moved to the
house he bought of Lydia Woodward
on the old Reform School grounds -
long visit in Lowell, Mass.-Mrs. John
Cofrrain has gone to Plymouth N. H.,
where Mrs VIII Nicholas. her daughter,
resides New books are being added to the
library. Fred Hawley has returned to
Norwich and Mrs. H. NJ. Bruce, his moth
er, went with him. Henry Marshall
and wife of Elizabethtown, n. Y. have
been visiting Ira Marshall, his father. The
estate of the late Sally Pineo is being apprais-
ed by James Burlegh and Walter White
She left $500 in gold and silver sewed up in
an old dress. Oscar W. Bowman Of Barre
and Clara j. Blake of Mortified, recently
married, are living here.--A large snowy
owl that is mounted and in the window of
c. E. Richardson's store was shot by DIN
King and measured four and one-half feet
from tip to tip of his wings. Sheriff F. IL.
Atherton and wife are visiting in Massa-
chusetts.
Mrs. Lynn Of Richmond is visiting her
son George Lynn who works on the railroad
and boards with Edward Farrer. Emma
Stevens of Bolton who teaches the school in
the Joiner Brook district had a genuine sur
prise on her 21st birth day by a large party
of friends who left her presents to the
| amount of $40.
There is good deal Of excitement in
gent, an old soldier, now farmer in Straf
| ford and a widower about 40 years of age,
married Miss Clare Dunval, who was a lady
of excellent reputation, about 80 years old.
| They were married last August and came to
Waterbury and bought "a house and were
having happy honeymoon so lar as any
one could see. Last Monday evening he
said he was going to the Shoe shop,
kissed his wife goodbye and stepped
out. He went to the barn, and there put
on his best suit of clothes, took his extra
wooden leg, and boarded the train for
| STAFFORD, sending word to his wife that he
should never live with her again. The next
day Lawyer Simonds of White River June
| ton appeared and wanted the deserted wife
to settle and separate. She replied that her
church discipline taught her that such di-
vorces were wicked, and she would never
agree to it. She is Methodist and he g
Baptist. He has a daughter in STAFFORD,
who says that no one can see her father, but
must deal with her. She bitterly opposed
the marriage, and said she would break it
up. Sargent had visited this daughter the
week before he left. 1t is a crushing blow
to this deserted wife.
Governor w. =. Dillingham; has gone to
attend Windsor County Court at Wood
stock.-Miss Nettie Moody has returned to
Springfield, where she is first assistant
teacher in the high school, -George W.
| Kennedy went to Chelsea Monday to at
tend Orange County Court, which convenes
! Tuesday.