Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-18

Rev. Father Cloarec officiated and tho
Rev Father Superior Fouillct of Swanton
assisted. Tho interment was in Mt.
Calvary cemetery.
A local fruit grower has found that a
mixture of sulphur and lard placed around
the trunk of "A tree will efectually keep
the worms off, after they are once shaken
to the ground. The mixture should be
( applied in a strip about four inches wide.
a short distance from the base of the tree.
Miss Heua Edgerton Of the New Erg-
land Telephone and Telegraph company's
Office returned to this city yesterday after
a several days stay at her home IN Char
lotte. Miss Edgerton has recovered from
the effects Of her recent accident when
she was thrown from a wagon during the
progress of a runaway.
At the meeting of Catholic Court No.
SOP, c. O. f.. Sunday afternoon IS APP
plications for membership We're received.
These applicants with II others who are
waiting for admission to the Court will he
initiated by the high court officers If
Chicago on the Goth of June at the begin
ming of the National Convention.
j. e. Fitzgerald sold yesterday his gro
Gerry store on the corner of North Cham
plain street and Smiths Lane to II. G..
Harvey, formerly of the Citizens Coal
Co. MIR. Harvey will continue the grocery
business and has also rented the adjoining
store in which he will open a meat market
the latter part Of this week.
The funeral of Alexander fraser or
Hi%nesburgh was held Thursday afternoon
az . o'clock with burial in Hincsburgh.
Tho service was well attended AMI music
was furnished by a mixed quar;ette in
which were Mrs. Martha Read, M!s.
Frank Andrews, j. II. Allen and MIR. Mar
tin. Mrs, Harris acted as rganist. Mr..
Fraser died May 9.
Miss Mary Ann Mclaughlin died at the
residence of James b.. Scully on George
street Monday morning at . O'Clock. The
deceased leaves a sister. Miss Margaret,
and a brother, Rev. Father Mclaughlin
of Waterbury,. The funeral took place
from st. Mary's cathedral at 0 O'Clock
Tuesday morning. The interment was in
Mount st. J~oseph's cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wells, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Wells and Miss Wells and DR.. J.
ID. Tanner will leave this city this
noon for New York and sail on the fol-
owing Tuesday upon the Kaiser Frede-
rich to spend the summer abroad. Mrs. j.
d. Tanner and daughter of Winooski leave
Sunday night for New York and sail with
the party.
II. G.. Lane recently launched a novel
craft, which consists of a saw mill built
on a Hat bottomed boat or scow, with an
upper story in which a family will live.
This novel combination of house-boat and
floating saw mill naturally attracts no
little attention wherever it goes. Mr.. Lane
has taken his craft up the Lamoille river,
where he will saw some logs and later will
visit various points along the AXE.
A hearing was held Monday afternoon
in the case Of Peter Grove VS.. Agel broth
ers in tho settlement of a book account.
Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff
for about s65. Judgment was entered for
the plaintiffs in the following: McKan-
non Bros. * Co. Va Celley Hamilton, j.
q. Reed * Co. VS.. Langlois * Preevy and
Chamberlin & Wood VS.. Langlois & Pree-
Wy. The suit of DR.. w. G. i. Flanders VS..
Robert Noble was continued for one week.
Serene S. Pratt and John Clary, for
mer Burlington boys, arrived in the city
last evening for a brief visit, coming on
their wheels from Great Darlington,
Mass. Mr.. Pratt, who has not been here
for % years years, is the New York
correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger.
Mr., Clarey, until recently, in newspaper
work in Ira, is now editor OF the Eerk-
shire Courier. They are guests at Mr..
Clarcy's father-in-law j. O. Northrop's in
North avenue.
There was a hearing in Probate Court
Saturday on the application of relatives
of William Early of Essex Junction that
a guardian be appointed over him, he haV-
ing arrived at a state mind and body which
made his appear advisable. The matter Of
who the guardian should be was not set
tied and the hearing is continued until
next Wednesday on this account. Ellen l..
~IIosford was appointed the administraix
of the estate Of her late husband, William
Hosford Of Charlotte and given a license
to sell personal property.
Mrs. Fred Devoit of North Ferrisburgh,
who is visiting Mrs. Edward Shequin OF