Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-12

first and second sweepstakes were award
| cd to users OF Champion Evaporators.
| This being the seventh annual victory for
| this cvaporator's product, makes it very
plain as to the kind of an evaporator sugar
| makers should use Grimm 81 Co, Rut-
! land,- VT, decerve credit for enabling SUI
gar makers to produce maple sweet in It's
| highest state of perfection.
Mrs. Jane Lander. aged so. died Of old
age at the home of her daughter. Mrs
l.. Lamothe, on Elmwood avenue at $3.50
o'clock yesterday morning. The funeral
will he held at ST. Joseph's church at
o'clock tomorrow morning. The inter-
ment will be in Mount St. Joseph's ceme-
terry.
Daniel r. Donnely, who has been en-
ployed in the cloak department of IL. Il.
/ Clarkson e Co. for nearly four years, has
resigned his position, to take effect jan
nary 18th. During his stay in this city
Mr.. Donnely has made many pleasant ac-
qualntnnces, all of whom will regret his
resigna ton.
The annual meeting of the Excelsior
! Ice Yacht club was held at Hotel Cham
I plain last night and officers elected a fol-
lows: Commodore. w. y. Craven; vice.
commodore Harry Chambcrin; secretar%
and treasurer, o. T. Chilson. The club
4 adjourned to meet when the ice in the
lake becomes suitable for boating.
Miss Mary H. Johonnott, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w. Johonnott, and
Edison A. Church were quietly married
yesterday afternoon at o'clock by Rev.
C. l.. Hall. The ceremony was perform
ed in the presence of a few relatives
and friends and was very simple, owing
to the Illness of the brides father.
state Geologist G. II. Perkins returned
yesterday morning from Shelburne, where
he gave lecture the night previous on
/ THE Geology of Vermont and the Cham
plain Valley" The lecture was given in
Trinity parish house as one of the num-
bcrs in their lecture course The next
number will be given by the Burlington
| quartette on January 25th
Patrick Murphy aged e., died at 1880
| o'clock yesterday morning of pneumonia
| at his home on Ptkin street. Mr. Murphy
was born in Ireland and came to Bur-
lington when a young boy and has always
lived here since The deceased leaves
wife and five sons and two daughters, all
of whom live in this city. The funeral will
be held at St Marys cathedral to-mor-
row morning at o'clock.
Peter German, aged So died Thursday
at o'clock at the st. Joseph's Home after
an illness of five weeks. Old age and grip
were the cause of his death. Mr. German
was born in Canada, came TO Burlington
about GO years ago, and started black
smith shop on the Willston road in South
Burlington, which he managed for many
years. He leaves number of children.
The funeral services were held at St.
Joseph's church Saturday morning.
f. II. Prouty received a teegia am Tues
, day announcing the death of his uncle
: Luther f. Prouty, at Rutland Mr.. Prou-
| ty was born in Jericho and removed about
80 years ago to Casteton. About ten
years ago he went to Rutland. where he
has since lived. He was about Is years
: of age and leaves son and daughter
The funeral will be held at Rutland on
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.
Chairman d. j. Foster of the board of
railroad commissioners and states Attor-
neY r. T.. Brown went yesterday morn
ing TO Richmond. where the railroad COM
mission held hearing to ascertain the
, facts connected with the death of Mrs.
Susan Green of that place on November
18th by being run over by an engine Nine
witnesses were examined and their testi-
r mony indicated that the railroad COM
, pany was not responsible for the accident.
The receipts of the Burlington postoffica
5 for the year beginning January and end
. ing December 81 1898 We're the largest
ever recorded and amounted to 500 2jS. i3.
The fiscal year of the postoffice depart
ment ends on June Goth. The success OF the
South burlington free delivery system is
apparent from the fact that 10, 604 pieces Of
there during the month of December This
delivery and collection is constantly in
, creasing.
T The funeral of the late David Osgood
was held from j. W. Roberts undertaking
t rooms Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
Rev c. l.. Hall ofiiciated. The bearers
were T.. l.. Davis, Peter Wood, Michael
Murray, Edward Ramsay, John Ryan. jr.
, and c. S. H. Holdstock. The Champlain
EbOpc closed 61riupr tbp funeral md
. almost all of the employees attended. The
, remains We're taken on the $50 train to
Rutland, where the interment took
place Wednesday in the family lot.
= G. A. Sinclair, who recently returned
from the klondke gold region, who is now
stopping with his people in Essex, was in
this city Thursday. Mr.. Sinclair states
that he believes the stories of the imme nse
gold finds much over-estimated. He is a
carpenter and went to the gold region
> about year ago. He was n member of
the party who were destroyed by the land
slide of the Chilkoot pass but he had
i gone back to visit the camp occupied by
the party the previous night and thus es-
G capped,
g Yesterday morning equalled it's pre-
= decessor in records from the thermome-
= tiers in many places while in others it
was not SO cold as on the previous day.
p, At the Mary Fletcher Hospital, tho point
which took the record with Il report of 20
degrees below zero ON Tuesday morning,
the mercury stopped at the same figure.
r Generally speaking, the register was high
T. or up in the scale than on the morning
n before. At the United States weather
e station the thermometer registered -lC
i as against IL on Tuesday morning
" The sympathy of many friends will &c
$ out to Mrs. w. X. Walker on account OF
!. the death of her mother, Mrs NJ. A. Stew