Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-12-02

| Thomas at 1880 o'clock Wednesday even
| ing, December 1.Butter took n drop of
| two cents "A pound from the prices paid
week ago. or to "3 cents on market
| day, Monday. Eggs were unchan sed. the
top price being a. cents per dozen. The
receipts of each were extremely light
| Charles Persons of Salisbury has
purchased the home place Of Mr. and
| Mrs Elijah Lal}ounty two miles east
| of this villnge.-Mrs. V. r. Whitconb and
| Miss Dorothy Whjtcomb of Rutland have
returned home after visit here to Mr..
! and Mrs. Charles ChencY.-Special Officer
Jerry DeGray on Saturday night arrested
man who gave the name OF Thomas
| Clark and said he belonged in North
| pownnl. Clart who is CO years old. was
| UP before Justice r. VI. Foote Monday
and was given 90 days in the Addison
| county ja.l for tramping.-Miss Frances
Piper Is I'm Rutland-W Wilbur l.. Hamilton
of Rrdport c1me Monday and will spend
tine winter at the Logan.
". l.. Hamilton has unearthed n
cuIiosity in the form Of a well pre-
served cory Of "Thc Now York Daily
| Gazette" for FRIDAY. May l. l7S9.
The paper WAS "rublshed by J. ana
g. McL"an. at their printing office.
| ! IHHh III : ii'd', No. Al. hanover
square" and was . four page sheet.
the paper being 1919 by 14ia in. size
The issue. which was No. 147 was
printed on the day following
Wahsingtou's first inaururation as
president and its whole news
section. cmbodying only about one
Of the small pages. was devoted
to that event and included the inaugti-
! raj adress.-ThirtY head OF thor
oughbred Southdown sheep, including
one ram which cost 1900, arrived here
! Monday for the government farm in
I Wcyhridge which has hitherto been
engaged exclusively in an attempt to
propagate and improve the Morgan
breed OF horses-rhe Moosalam
| club Will give a Smoker" this
evening-Miss Bertha Stillson has re-
turned from Proctor.--Mrs. Ellen
Wright is slowly recovering from a
severe attack OF tie Rrip.--Robert G.
| Boylan has returned to Fowler.---Al-
! fred Germain. who has been empio ,ed
! in the printing department of the
| Register company for the past year.
! has returned 10 BurlinRton.-New ar
| rivals in town are r. l.. Mayhew of
| Brandon, Frank Mayhew and Merrill
q. Field of West Cornwall, Charles II.
Delong of Shoreham. George y. Spen-
Ger of Manchester, y. H.. and Arthur
| ShurtloH of Pouehkeepsic. n. Y
! Harrison Holden. who nearly died Of
heart failure on the street last Fri
day. is gradually improving. Mr..
| Holden IS - years old-Miss Emma
Higlcy and Miss Alice Brainard have
returned from visits with relatives in
/ Castlcton.
The funeral services Of Mrs. Charles L.
Youtt were held a. two o'clock Wednes-
! day afternoon at the Methodist Church.
OF which she was for many years de-
voted member. conducted by the pastor
the Rev. j.. II. Cochran. y. u. There
was very large attendance of relatives
ard friends and Il large disrlav of flow
ers beautifully banked about the pulpit
! William p. Russell Circle. Ladies OF the
G. A. f.. of which organization Mrs
| Yout was a charter member and past
president, were present in body, and
they contributed magnificent bank of
! flowers. The interment was in the Wes,
| cemetery and curtains were drawn in all
/ the store windows on Main street and
| Merchants row during the passage Of
the funeral procession. Tho pail bearers
were Edison T. Williamson. Martin Bar
rows. Jerome Noland, Allen Calhoun
George r. Iangworthy and Charles La
morder At the cemetery the ritual serv-
! ice OF thc Ladies OF the Grand Army was
read unoer the direction OF the president
I Mrs Joseph +. Nash.-Mr. and Mrs.
Richard r. Parker Of Ogdensburg, " y,
are visiting relatives here.-T'he report
and catalogue Of the Middlebury high and
| graded schools for the year l9oa-'1o has
been issued. It shows that there are in
the whole school 46s pupils distributed
as follows: High school. ISL first grade
50; second grade, 35 third grade. A.
fourth grade, AZ: fifth grade 32: sixth
grade, 3S; seventh grade. S,; eighth
grade. %, and ninth grade which en-
braces the recently established CONNER
cial course, IL Mrs. Eva McKirryher ot
Rutland is visiting Mrs. Walter J. Rose
charles II. Welch OF Philadelphia, Pa
is visiting J. II. Sargent.-Willis Seegnr
Of the Brandon Italian Marble company
, Is visiting in West Rutland Tile boa I'd
OF pension surgeons had ono old soldier
before them for examination at their
| monthly meeting on Wednesday.-Am e
the visitors in town are Dr. II. L. Town
send of Bridport. Jasper u. Page and A.
W. Eddy Of Bristol, J. W. McClellen OF
Troy. n. Y, John q. ITefron Of Boston.
John c. Clark Of Auburn, y. Y. and NJ
= Merrill Of Rrooklyn. y. Y.-The Yer
mont Construction company Of Rurling-
ton on "Wednesday completed the cree
ton OF the new fire escapes for the SEQ
ond and third stories OF the graded
school building.
VERGENNES
Mrs. Judith LanGevin died at the home
| of bar 1n,phter Misc Lon