Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-29
ESSEX JUNCTION.

ESSEX JUNCTION.
The Union Memorial Sunday services
at the Methodist Church Sunday were
attended by an audience that filed the
house. The Rev. DR.. G. II. Sisson
preached one of the most excellent ser
mons the old soldiers ever heard. Spe-
cial music was we'll rendered. The
church was attractively decorated with
flags, bunting and flowers,
The concert and dance given Friday
evening under the auspices of the VIII
lage Improvement society will add s42 to
the high school piano fund. The excel
lent concert was given by the pupils of
Mrs. Alexander 7. Arkley.
Work will be commenced immedi ately
on the artesian we'll which Is to be built
for the village water system 1t is to b,
located near the storage reservoir about
half mile from the village. 1t IS expect
ed the we'll will be between 800 and 800
feet deep and will furnish 200 gallons a
minute, The work is TO be done by the
Artesian Well g. Supply company OF
Providence. r. /.
william r johnson & Son of Lake
Champlain creamery paid sl5S for stand
ard milk for the month of April
The 33rd annual convention of the Chit
tenden County W c. T. U. will be held
at the Methodist Episcopal Church Tues
day and Wednesday of next week. An
executive meeting Tuesday morning and
a basket lunch at noon, furnished by the
local union, will precede the appointment
Of committees at the afternoon session.
! At two o'clock the report Of supeIin-
| tendents will be given and at three Mrs.
| IL o. Wheeler OF Burlington will speak
| on Work Most Needed to Be Done in
| Chittenden County the Coming Year"
| The Rev. c. G. Adams and Mrs G.. II.
| Sisson will welcome the convention and
Mrs. Ida Read will respond Miss Elsie
| Pease will address the Loyal Temper
ance Legion and there will be a demon
| stration at the childrcns hour by Bur-
| lington and Essex l.. I. is. Addresses
will be given in the evening by NJ SIS
| Pease and the Rev. f. NJ Sawyer, with
q demonstration by the boy scouts. Re
ports and the election or officers will &C.
cupy the morning session Wednesday,
following a physical education demon
stratlon by Mrs. f. NJ. Sawyer. Memorial
hour at 80 p. m. will be conducted by
Mrs P. E. Hammond and at two O'clock
a paper will be given by Mrs. O. r.
| Cox with discussion of Best Plans
| for a Local Union" The executive COM
mittee will report at four O'Clock and
| adjournment will follow.
Following is the program for the 18th
Memorial day exercises of r. S. Sherman
Post G.. y. r.; At 900 a. m. delegated
comrades wi, decorate the graves IN
Essex Center and Williston, At 100 p.
| m. the line viii be formed at the Pa rk
| street sChoolhouse in the following order:
| Essex junction Are department, town
and village officers. veterans and speak
ers, Woman's Relief Corps. Sons of Vet
Grams, school children and citizens The
line Of march will be to tho cemetery
, where the graves will be decorated by
the veterans. The column will then
march to the Congregational Church
where the exercises will take place as
follows: Saluting the flag; invocation
by the Rev. c. c. Adams: reading, Lin
| coins Address at Gettysburg: music; adj
dress by the Rev. l. C. Smart OF Bur
| lington; music, singing Of America" by
the audience; benedicton.
| The program for the high school grad
uation is as follows: Sunday, June S,
: 80 p. m. sermon to the graduating class
by the Rev. DR.. g. II. Sisson in the
Methodist Church; Wednesday, June II,
ESQ p. m, class day exercises in School
house Park on Prospect street with the
following program: Presidents address,
Miss Emory Gates; class history, Miss
Barbara Hunt; class will and presenta-
! ton, Lawrence Martin. class poem, Miss
Dorothy Bates; class prophecy, Miss Ella
! Johnson. Thursday. June IL, 500 p. M
graduation exercises at Congregational
| Church. Bartons orchestra Will furnish
music and :he following members of the
! class will read essays: Ruth Gates, Idr
| Roberts. Helena Fitzsimonds. Edward
! MIDGET, Harris Metcalf and Florence
| Buxton. FRIDAY evening, June 10, 500 p
~, senior class reception In Music hall
! The senior class honors have been award
ed 10 Miss Florence Buxton of Jericho
Valedictorian and Miss Ruth Gates o
Essex junction, salutatorian
| Principal T. j. Berry has received no
ticc Of the secretary Of the New ENGLAND
college entrance certificate board tha
the certificate privilege OF Essex junction
high school has been extended for a per
iod of three years This is based upor
the standing Of the school; upon the mum
Der of pupils who go to college and upor
the scholarship of those pupils while ir
| college. This announcement means that
graduates from the high school may en-.
ter the New England colleges without
| taking entrance examinations,