Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-03-19
\ HAPPENINGS
IN YER MONT
Local Items Of Interest fvoEl
All Parts Of the Green
Mountain State
THE NEWS BY COUNTIES
From the Island in the Lake 10
the Passumpsic. Along OF.
ter Creek and Shores
of White River.
The NEWS BY COUNTIES
ADDISON COUNTY
MIDDLEBURY.

MfDDLEBURY.
Three young boys arrived a,
the railroad station hore Fri
| day afternoon, having been ticke&ed
| through from some place in Hungary 20
! join relatives here, out arrived before
they We're expected. After two hours at
he station their relatives were discover
| ed by railroad officials. The eldest of the
three only eight years Of age-Thc
! Anne Story Camp Fire Girls had an en-
| joyable meeting at the homo of Miss
Theodore Crane Saturday afternoon.
| Miss Catherine Calhoun has gone
| to Boston for two weeks.-The condition
| Of Mrs Walter j. Forbes, who has been
Orostrated since tho death of her young
| 'on by burning. is much improved
| Robert Hope went Monday to Proctor,
where he has taken a position in the
| service department OF the Vermont
| Marble company.-Miss Stella Wooster
| teacher IN the Hnesburg schools, IS
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. John -
| Wooster Municipal Judge James r.
! Donoway has returned from business
| visit In Bellows Falls and nearby places
Preparations are being made for the
annual dinner of the Middlebury board OF
| trade, which is to be held at the Addison
| House Thursday. March 2s Clark W
Fits, former States attorney general, Of
| Brattleboro, has accepted an invitation
to make an address.-NIiss Mabel Wales
| has returned to Mortified to resume her
duties in school after brief visit i'm
town. 1t is expected that the family will
| resume their residence I'm town the COM
ing spring.
Mrs. Ezra Brainard and daughter,
have returned from Boston and
vicinity. where they have been ON an
extended visit-Mr. and Mrs. Iair,s r.
| Fordyce of Providence. r. l., with their
two young daughters are visiting in
town.Miss Faith Walker has completed
her school engagement in Bridport and
is for the present at the home of her
parents, Mr., and Mrs Henry G. Walker
The season for the maple sugar makers
is the best for many years and work ts
now generally going on in the orchards
Not much of the product has been
brought into the village and no prices
have been established as yet-Charles L.
Rich. who has been confined to his home
for several days with neuralgia of the
face, was so much improved Monday that
he was able to come down to his place of
| '"S'il'SS IDl a SiIOfl time Ill IHe AFTER
noon.-Miss Grace Hanley of Rutland is
in town.-Mondav butter sold at from -
to Is cents per pound and eggs for % to
. cents per dozen.-The cham.
pion basketball game between the Brld-
port and Middlehury high school teams,
played at Bridport. resulted in a victory
for the Middlebury boys by the score OF
% to 20-Mrs. f. f.. Grant of Buff Bay
-,
as an associate member with the Middle
bury CONGREGATIONAL church. will give an
address IN the church Thursday evening
at 7:30 o'clock and his subject will be.
The Typical Jamaican Negro. Daniel
De Barge has returned from West Rut-
land. where he has been visiting his
parents.-John w. Morgan of san Fran
cisco is spending two weeks here.-Miss
Jennie Mccormick has returned to
Burlington after a brief visit here to Mr..
, and Mrs. John II. Burns.-President John
NJ. Thomas ard Dean Edser Wiley have
returned from Boston. where on Satur-
day night the" attended the 3Sth an
) nual reunion of the Boston Alumni OF
Middlebury Collezc.
The special grand jury continued in ses-
sion throughout the day Tuesday. There
are large number OF witnesses here to
appear before the jury. Stat6s Attorney
Frank W. Tuttie OF Vergennes Is oonduct-
ing the investiGation.-Arhur Goodro re-
t turned Tuesday afternoon from Wlnchen-
don, Mass. where he has been since las.
fall. He will resume his former position
as pressman In the office of the Middle
bury Register and American Publication
company.-Harry Brou.seau, who has
been visiting in Poughkeepsie. " Y, and
Now York for three weeks, returned Tues
day morning. -Richard Fradett has gone
to observation-disclosures Royce, who
has been in Boston for q few days, has
returned Ernest lavonche has taken II
large farm in the northern part OF the
state and will soon move his family there.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
Church held a we'll attended ST Patrck's
soclahle In the church parlors TUESDAY
evening.
The Middlebury board of trade viii hold
a dinner at the Addison at 6:3D p m,
Thursday. March 2G. at which former
Acknowledgement Clark c. Fits will bo
the guest of the board lie will deliver an
address Other prominent men are eX-
pected to speak Appropriate music will
be secured for the occasion. On tho 26th
many business men and prominent farm
ers OF the county will he in town ana in
vltations viii 10 extended to them. Ths
local board is gaining in members, many
desirable additions being made to the
original list L. is believed by tho orig
inators of the idea that M'ddlebury will
have substantial reason in time to appre-
ciatc the benefit OF such an organization.
Mrs. David Wissell and two children
have gone to Burlington for II week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Selleck are visiting in