Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-04-24

EdnpTpnc. MI. buTHpll was WIN " ~"
Hyacinthe, p. O., but had resided in thi'
vicinity for about A. years. lie was the
father of CAPTAIN George Burnell whose
death occurred in Washington, d. c.. four
years ago tomorrow. Mr.. Burnell Is sur
vived by his third wife, four daughters
Mrs. Bouchoir and Mrs. Matte Boudwin
of this place. Mrs. Mary Ladue and Mrs.
Octava Delbeck of Burlington. and ono
son. Nelson Burnell. of Montreal. The
funeral was held at the Church of the
HOLY Family Tuesday morning at 80
o'clock.
Mrs. Sarah Northrop, who broke one
leg near the hip 10 weeks ago, Is able to
walk a little with the aid of a chair.
Mr.. and Mrs. L.. L. Drown of Lynton,
Ind. are occupying n part of Mrs. j.
Gaines's house on Railroad avenue. Mr..
Drown is a foreman for Snair & Treat
who are to build the big dam.
Mrs. circuit, who has been occupying n
part Of Mrs. Gaines's house. has moved
to the house recently purchased by her
father. Levi Peck.
l.. G.. Atwood has bought a building
lot on Pearl street of r. H.. May and will
begin a bungalow soon. The lot is one
which Mr.. May bought of j. A. Donohue.
Fred Holmes and family moved from
Frank Davis's house on Elm street to the
Gillett house on Upper Main street, which
he recently bought.
Horace Marvin, son of Or. and Mrs.
David Marvin, was taken Saturday to The
Fanny Allen hospital for an operation for
appendicitis.
Joseph Ladue has moved into the stephen
Thompson house bought by II. E. Wright.
William b. johnson & Son of Lake
Cha nu1aip Creamery nnid 81 10 for stand
ard milk for the month of April.
The annual meeting of the Essex
Junction public school union was
held in the village trustees rooms
Tuesday afternoon. H.. p. Day of
Essex was elected president and
Frank Talcott of Wiiliston secretary.
Mss Minnie Hays was reelected
superintendent. The union includes
Essex, Essex Junction, Colchester,
Williston, South Burlington and
Shelburne. All were represented Tues
day with the exception Of Col
chester. 1t was voted to hereafter
hold the annual meeting the
third Tuesday in May. A visit
was made to the new school
house, and while there the fire alarm
was given, the pupils leaving the
building in GO seconds.
The first annual meeting of the
Ladies' Village Improvement society,
which was organized 10 months ago,
was held in Music hall Monday. The
society has about $3.50 in the bank,
$3.50 of this will be in oiling the
streets, and will also buy six gal
vanized refuse cans to be placed in
different parts of the village. 1t was
also voted to put a room in order
for the village library and a place
for the society's meetings, providing
the village will allow it the use of
a room in the brick hotel building.
A cleanup day" for the entire viii
lage will be held in connection with
a white elephant sale" The society
has paid s1S5 on the fund for the
piano. which has been bought for the
school. The officers for the coming
year are: President, Mrs. d. NJ.
Johnson; vice-president. Mrs. w. c.
Stevens; secretary, Miss Josephine
Fay; treasurer, Mrs. j. C. Hartwell.
The marriage of Percy w. Baldwin,
son of Mrs. F. w. Baldwin, and Miss
Marion Burritt will take place at the
Episcopal Church in Pembroke, Ont,
Thursday evening at $3.50 o'clock.
1Ihey Will arrive here Friday night
for a brief visit with his mother. Mr..
BALDWIN is a paymaster on the Grand
Trunk Pacific railway.
A horse used by j. l.. Palmer in
drawing water pipes to the meade,
back Of I brick hotel barn Tues
day broke through a few feet of
ground that covered a forgotten well.
The animal managed to scramble out.
1t is supposed that the well was
built So years ago. 1t is well stoned
up, but the boards that covered it
had rotted away.
Mrs. L, S. Beach, mother of Mrs. G. B.
Drury. who has been seriously i'll with in
digestion for three weeks. is GONZALES
cling, but remains very feeble. Mrs. Beach
is in her seth year.
Browns river creamery paid SL70 for
standard milk during March.
= a.. & Co. early Yesterday
received telephone messages stating that
a woodlot at Essex Center, on which
they had several hundred cords of wood,
had been set on fire. They Immediately
sent help and with the assistance of Fire
Warden David Demag succeeded in
smothering the fire that had been set in
eight places. As soon as possible an in
Vestigation was begun, and John Slater
was iOtdttu on BrlSnAm NIL, about five
miles away from the scene. It is alleged
that he was in the act of starting an
other fire in a sugar bush on the farm
belonging to p. T. Tomlinson. He was
taken by Officer Demag to the county
jail at Burlington for safe keeping.
Slater is said to have a record in sew
eral courts.
Walter b, johnson is contemplating
building a hotel on practically the site
of the Johnson House which was burned
in the early winter, If he does build the
house will be of brick, three stories high,
80 sleeping rooms, "A of which will be
connected with baths, and will be built so
as to allow more frontage and a lawn
at each side.
SHELBURNE.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. j. Hodgkins returned
to johnson Monday after spending a few
days with their parents, DR., and Mrs.
Stoddard.-The weekly prayer meeting
was held Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Ebert Nash.-The mems
DIbto ,Io., ,,I1 hold thair monthly p1aat-