Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-06-04
VERGENNEs.

Memorial day exercises were held
Saturday under the direction Of Ethan
Allen Post, G. A. r. At $50 p m. the
procession was formed and headed by
the Nergcnnes band marched through
the principal streets, to the opera
house when the exercises were held
and an excellent address delivered by
the Hon. H. s. Peck OF Burlington.
The business places and several resi-
dcnces were decorated in honor of the
day and the usual services were held
in the different cemeteries w. r.
I.arrow of Swanton Is visiting In town.
Dana Woodman OF Rutland is pass
ing n few days with his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. w. d. Woodman-Miss Grace
f.. Kingsland and cousin. Miss Wini-
| fred G. Knowles OF Potsdam took tho
| steamboat trip to Ticondcroga from
Westport. y. Y. Saturday.-Thc com
| mencement exercises at the Industrial
| school Friday evening wcrc we'll at
| tended. Judge !. F.. Weeks. trustee.
made short address prior TO his leav-
| ing before the close Of the exercises
and Trustee Chaffey presented the d-
plomas in his stead Letters Of re-
| gret at inability to attend were rc-
| ceived from Trustee Hulhurd and
| Gov. Fletcher u. Proctor.-Mrs. Cyrus
Horsford Of Charlotte is making n few
| days visit to her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
| William Croshy.-Mrs Russell BRISTOL
and children OF Bellows Falls are Wis
| iting Mrs. T.. 4. Lee.--Mrs. John Cor
| don was called to Rutland Saturday
| by the serious illness of her brother
Samuel Pratt s. Fisher o. Bur-
| lington passed Sunday with his moth
err Mrs. j, G. Fisher.-Mrs. Lawrence
Bartlcv OF Burlington passed Memor-
ial day with her sister. Mrs. Thomas
| Mack.--At the annual meeting OF tho
| Ladies' Aid society Of the Methodist
| Church with Mrs. ]. G. Fisher Frida V
! afternoon. officers as follows were
elected Mrs Fred Norton. PRESIDENT,
Mrs. Allen Burroughs, vice president: ::
Mrs. Roy Yattaw, secretary: Mrs H.
B. Slack treasurer.-Mr. and Mrs Raw
mond Caisse of Burlington visited his
father. c. f.. NJ Caisse. Saturday.
Thomas Jones has gone to West Berk-
shire to visit his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
G. A, Joncs.--Mr. and Mrs. j. n. Bax-
ter Of Syracuse arc guests OF Mr.. and
| Mrs. Harry V. Sears.--Mrs. Robert Nc
G.aughlin spent Memorial day with her
sister, Mrs. Henry Hitchcock of Or
well.-Miss Mary l.. Pierce of Shell
burne was in town Saturday.
Miss Sarah Foss left Monday for
| Keeseville. n. y, where she has a posi-
ton as bookkeeper for a telephone com
pany,JOseph Carter, who has been con-
fined to tn" house for two weeks from
being kicked on one knee by a cow, is
able to ride out--Mr. and Mrs. F. NJ
| Crosby have returned from St Johns
bury, where they were called TO attend
the funeral of his father.-E c Bacon
OF Schenectady n. y, visited his brother
in-law. Napoleon Rivers, Monday.-H
w. Spooncr, vice-president of the Yer
mont State Letter Carriers association
was in Bennington Saturday and ssisted
in organizing the Remington County Let
ter Carriers associa tion. - Albert
Laduko OF Providence, Il. l., Is visiting
his sister-in-law. Mrs. Joseph Ladukc-
Royal ingalls, is moving to rooms in the
Barrows tenement house on Main stree.
lately vacated by George yatt-Miss
Josephine Rushlow is i'll with pneu.
monia.
Mrs. r. l.. Kingsland and daughter
Grace, and their guests, Miss Winifrcd G
Knowles OF Potsdam, n. y went Tues
day to Bennington to look over the
battle field and other points OF historic
interests and to visit the farm on which
the first trouble occurred between those
settling under the New Hampshire grants
and the inhabitants of the province o
New York. and which resulted in th'
formation of Vermont. The farm at tina
time was owned by James Breckenridge
a. great grandfather OF Mrs. Kingsland S
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