Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-05-17

N FREE PRESS, THURS.
worst of the kind ever experienced in this
valley, doing much damage to fences, build
ngs and growing timber. Mr.. and Mrs X.
II. Forbes and son. accompanied by Miss
Anna Barber, spent last Saturday in Bur
lington.
EAST CHARLOTTE.
Among recent pleasant events in this com
munty was the marriage, Thursday even
ing, May 10, of Miss Fannie NJ Cove and
Mr.. George A. Hammer of Lincoln, al the
home of the brides parents, MIR and Mrs.
NJ. f. Cove. Rev. r. Mott Of Burlington,
a long time friend of the bride and her fam
lily, bound the nuptal tie Many beautiful
and useful presents testified to the esteem in
which the bride is held by relatives and
friends Mr.. and Mrs. Hammer are to re
| side in Lincoln and Will he 'at home' to
any and all friends after June |.
Mrs. Emily D. Prinlle left last week for
visit in Wisconsin aud Kansas. The
funeral of the Young son of j. =. Murphy of
| Burlington was held at the Roman Catholic
church May g.
HINESBURGH.
viii Patrick sold his Ben Hawk horses to
! Frank Clifford of Burlington Friday.-The
| Limebo company gave an entertainment at
| G. A. r. hall Tuesday evening.-W. \. Be
mis- of Boston has opened iewelry store in
| Sanctuarv's block -Rev William Fuller
went to Barre to attend a ministerial coun
| Gil last week. The cyclone last week de-
molished several chmneys and unroofe1 o.
| II. NrightS barn.
George Armstrong went to New Hamp-
LII. Iyl,,,
who was nearly gored to death by vicious
COW and is not expected to live.-E. w.
Wvman of Starksboro has been planting
potatoes in the south part of the town for
tho farmers. with his new Aspmwall potato
planter --George Morrill, was considerably
injured by bull belonging to a. Wertheim
| recently. Henry Ross has the grip.-Corn
| PLANTING is nearly done. There was frost
| three nights last week, which did little dam
age. unless il be to fruit trees, which have
| bossomed very full Miss Katherine Page
of the University Of Vermont spent Sunday
in town E. H. O BrieD, who will gradu-
ate at the coming commencement of the
Burlington High school, has made arrange
ments to enter law office in Burlington in
the fall. Andrew Somers is putting the
roads in shape with full force of help, and
doing some permanent work in the way of
building stone sluiCeS.
COLCHESTER.
Fred Wolcott is digging the cellar for a
new barn l0x60 feet.-F. p. Smith is re
modelling. charging and uniting his two
cow barns into one large barn 44xlOO feet.
Mrs s. y. Marsh died quite suddenly last
Thursday morning Mrs. j. 4. Wolcott is
slowly recovering from the effects of an
operation performed last week by Dr. Lund
of Burlington W. Wells is spending a
few weeks in Huntington. r. j. White is
painting his house There will be no ser
! vices at the Congregational church for the
next four weeks, because of repairing anC
painting inside.-Miss Mary Severance is al
the hospital, being treated for deafness
She has entirely lost her hearing from the
effects of scarlet fever. Anna Landor
is seriously ill., severe frost Monday
night destroyed all garden vegetables aboy,
ground.
, JERICHO CENTRE.
Jed Stiles and lady returned to Brattle
boro Monday morning, after few day
. visit with his parents. Frank Ransom will
a gang of men and teams is at work on thu
. highways of the tOwn.-Mrs. Newell Marsl
u of Colchester wa, buried here Saturday af
ternoon. Her funeral was held i'll TIN
church, Rev. Austin Hazen of Richmond
officiating. The Mill Brook cheese fac
tory has caught fire twice within the pas
9 week, the last time Monday morning, whel
. it came very near burning Henry Hal
had one of his eyes operated on by DR.
= Woodward of Burlington few days ago.
PLEASANT VALLEY.
p Mr. Williams is in i'll health. -Evangels
o Rev. n. NJ. Shaw is to preach here May >
before the &. \. II. Services at this poin
will be conducted by Mr.. Shaw each Sun
day at 2;jO p. IN.
\ JERICHO.
- The burial of W aldron Wilbur, only so
s of Mr. and Mrs. f. B. Wilbur of Water
vile, formerly of this village, took place o
Thursday from the Congregational churcl
The children from both schools under charg
of Mr.. Stevens and the teachers met at tn
station and accompanied them to the Churcl
> Bert Booth is at the Mary Fletcher hosp
: tai where he was operated on Saturday b
DR. Wheeler successfully for sciatica. MR.
% Homer Rawson and Mr.. Alexander Mile
J. are quite sick.
y \ special town meeting was held Tuesda
, afternoon to receive and act upon the r.
ports of the board Of school directors an
board of selectmen, appointed at the annu'
meeting in March, to see if the town woul
III vote to build school house ut Nashville
and, second, to see if the town would vol
to instruct tho directors to open school
!, the school house in what was known as di
- trct No. 9 and furnish 26 weeks school f
~ y. the ensuing year. The boards reported tn;
~ they had decided to build the school houi
~ at Nashville and the town voted that the
"a be instructed to delay this action until aft
- the next annual meeting. They also vote
- that the directors be instructed TO furni'
W the school in district No, . and if they r
- fused to do so that the selectmen be iustruc
.' ed to furnish it, Two of the school dire
~. .1 tors, +, B. Jordan and +. Z. Fay, tender'
." their resi- gnat ions.
m RICHMOND.
49, Leonard johnson lost valuable hor
Il, last week. The annual communication
tie North Star lodge, f. and \. NJ, was held
ur their rooms Tuesday -Arbor day was o
It's served by the citizens in the village
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