Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-04-09

stripes ana the troop standards. Inc fol-
, lowing officers and ladies were in at
| tendance. Major l.. T. Morris, Capt ltar-
die and Miss Hardie, Lieut.. and Mrs.
| Heard, Lieut.. and Mrs Caldwell and Lieut..
| Andrews. a dancing order OF q figures
was carried out with a short intermission
for lunch.
A reunion and banquet will be rendered
by the Wlnooski Steamer company to the
| Volunteer hose company and Winooski
steamer company of 1876 at the Hotel Am
| crican Thursday evening. The reception
committee consists of G. II. Stevens, w.
o. Dyke +. n. BIgvood, Ira Lavigne. and
George Mcdonald Gen. w. L. Greenle"f
will be the toastmaster and the speakers
will be Sayles Nichols, l.. l.. Reynolds, G..
c. Mayo, Or. L. f. Burdick, T.. c. Ken
ncdy $. Bigwood and T. S. Peck.
Mrs. John Geary OF Leadville, Col. on
account of ill-health has been obliged to
return to Winooski for a little while.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Graves are all
smiles over the birth of their first born,
nice little girl.
The annual village meeting was held last
| evening at Concert hall AS had been
anticipated "A very enthusiastic and pro-
| gressive meeting was held. 1t was very
evident that the way village matters were
! discussed and voted upon that the village
| residents are very favorable TO any step
| that will make the village progressive and
|
called the meeting to order and read the
warning. Tho first action was upon the
reports of the village officers. These were
all accepted and adopted with the excep-
ton of tho recommendation Of the chief
of the fire department that the Village
purchase 1000 feet OF new hose TO be di-
| vided between the two companies. 1t was
voted to exempt the firemen from paying
village poll tax. Voted to pay village tax
| directly to village treasurer. Voted to put
an electric light at the corner OF Barlow
| and Plat streets. Voted to remove La
fayettc Hose house from the land owned
by j. w. Lavigne. Voted to instruct trus-
tees to purchase land and erect hose house
in west ward to be occupied by Lafayette
| Hose company. Voted TO instruct tho
| trustees to purchase two or more lockups
or cells and lease a room to place the same
| in. 1t was voted to have the chairman APP
| point a committee Of five to investigate
the matter of procuring an electric light
| plant to be owned by the village. The fol-
lowing men were appointed: o. w. Peck,
| Samuel Bgwood, George D. Nash, Jo-
seph w. Lavigne and Peter Desautcls. 1t
| was voted to have electric lights and to
] instruct the trustees to make contract
for ii are lights for one year or less. 1t
was voted to raise 80 cents on the dollar on
the village grand list. This will raise be-
tween $4,000 and 5000. After this came the
election OF officers. Through an error in
| checking the check list OF west ward tho
voters were Obliged TO rebalot for trus-
tees and fire warden, The following Is the
result of the election: Moderator. l.. F..
BiEwood clerk II. v Horton; treasurer,
A. A. Graves; auditors. q. b. Little. f.. l..
Graves, H. n. Deavitt: collector Of taxes,
| #. T.. Bigwood, Fire wardens, south
ward. William O'Day; west ward, Louis
Mongeon: east ward, r. A. BurdiclS; trus-
tees, west ward, Fred Bleau, Peter Went;
south ward, O. W. Peck Daniel Creamy;
east ward. John Eastwood. Samuel Big
wood, on the first ballot Hugh Flnnegan
was elected fire warden, in the second
ballot Louis Mongeon was elected. About
300 votes were cast last evening altogether
which is by far the largest ever cast at
any village meeting.
| The preliminary meeting of the town
republican league will be held at the
Journal Office Tuesday evening, April II,
at s o'clock. The meeting is called by O.
w. Peck, president of the league. and its
object Is to discuss league matters and
make plans for the State and presidential
elections Committees are to be appointed
to canvass for new members, etc A week
later another meeting will be called TO
elect delegates to the State convention,
which is to be held at Montpelier Tuesday,
April 2S.
Miss Evelyn Morrow of Colchester, who
mas been visiting friends and relatives for
the past 10 days, has returned to her home.
Miss Geneva Thompson. who IA attend
ing the johnson State Normal school, is
visiting her parents for few days,
Mrs. A. w Reed of New York city is In
town visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
s. p. Sake.
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert l., Pariseau, who
were married Monday, have returned from
a short wedding trip. Last evening the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Lavigne, rendered the couple n pleasant
reception, After receiving the congratu-
latons of the guests, the hours were
whiled away with dancing and social in
tercourse. During a short intermission a
light collation. was served, Among those
from out of town present We're Mr.. and
Mrs, John Pariseau and Henry Pariseau
and Mr. and Mrs. F. Minor of st. Adams