Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-06-03

hand in the Burlington postoffico an,
this class Of mail has never been yer,
heavy through the local office
Twenty members of the Vernon
branch Of the alumrac of Smith Colleg,
met Tuesday afternoon at the Tea Gu,
r Inn at the Richardson for luncheon
after which the annual meeting with cleo
9 tlon Of officers was held There wer,
IA members Of the branch present from
. places outside of this city. The officer.
elected to serve the ensuing year ar,
as follows President, Mrs. Charles Con,
ot liartford vice-presdent, Mrs. NJ. y
Nhttenden or this city; secretary. Miss
NaroiNn orinsbee of Brandon treasurer
MISS Emily Perkins of Rutland: council.
ior' MISS Carolyn Ames of Bellows
Falls
"A hearing was held before Referee ]
|, 1. Stcarns Tuesday on the question of
the allowance of claims against the bank.
rupt estate of Thomas T. Clay of this
CITY IN fhvor of Samuels Brothers OF
view YORK and 8. Grabfeder & Co. of
i"uIsViilc' hN" wholesale liquor dealers
rHdaE mas been set as the date for the
maj nearing of creditors on q petition
lor uischarge In the case of H. H.
| rei'ipere' formerly of the Hub cigar
s.ore' Inc first meeting Of creditors OF
"nham a. Pollard OF Jericho will be
.eiu June T. The hearing on petition
Tor discharge in the case Of G. I
lhorilas OF Burlington will be held Juno
IS.
a pretty party wa given to Miss Clara
d. ChurchiN superintendent of, nurses at
the Mary Fletcher hospital, Saturday
evening by her friends at the hospital
Ihe affair was given to show their APP
probation of her work there, and gem
erous purse of gold was presented to her
MISS thurchill has resigned her position
as superintendent Of nurses and leaves
the hospital after % years of service
during 10 of which she has been superin-
tcndent She will leave on June for an
extended trip to California, where she will
attend the meetings of the American
Hospital association and American
Nurses association to be hole at San
Francisco
+. H. Burgess returned Friday from an
extended business trip ii New York
lie has secured for the Horatio Hickok
company from the Canadian Car & Foun-
dry company an additional contract for
the manufacture Of wooden boxes for
hoNitzer and shrapnel shells for the
Russian government. This contract is for
$4,000 boxes The first contract was for
10000 boxes Extra machinery is being
installed in the Champaign shops, part
OF which is to he occupied for the work
( The work will be completed in seven
months, dating from June l. One hum
dred extra mon will be employed. bring
| ing the total up to 225.
The Sleeping Beauty" was given n
Colonel John IL. Mimms has resigned
his position as Official reporter for Wind
sor county court. which he has held for
twenty years. He will continue TO act as
reporter for Chittenden county court.
for the September term al least. he SAYS
He has opened an office for the
practice of law in this city, having en-
gagged rooms at the Metropolitan build
ing on Main street. Colonel Mimms desires
TO make permanent home at Burling.
ton and to be free of the discomfort of
travelling about the State as he has done
for many years past During his period
Of service Colonel Mimms has been off
cial stenographcr for all of the county
courts in the State at one time or H.
other.
James r. Henderson YESTERDAY pre-
scented Chief Stockwel Of the fire de-
partmcnt with the flag Of the Volunteer
Hose company. ne also gave him the
complete records of the old volunteer fire
department from the time it was or
Eanizod until it dsbantlei. These INCLUDE.
letters, cuts, records of meetings. tourna-
Of
Sto"kwen as custodian for the DEPART
mont The flag mentioned Is a hand
some silk affair and cost 500 II bears
tho stripes of the national flag but If,
the union instead of stars are tho words
Huntington Volunteer Hose Companv.
Number one organized June .. 1864. Tho
da'e' II VIII be seen, was Just i5 years
ago yesterday.
The steamer Vermont Of the Champion
TRANSFORMATION company's line came over
to the King street wharf Saturday from
Sheihurnc harhor and at five O'Clock in
the afternoon went to Plattshurgh. from
which port she started on her regular
summer schedule Monday. making
the trip from Plattshurgh to Montcalm
Landing and return. The stea mer Uor-
con started on her trips Monday morn
ing on Lake GcorRe. the Mohoan having
opened transportation on that lake May
l. The Vermont is again in charge OF
Captain +. II. Rockwell with f. NJ
Rockwell as first pilot. William Nolan as
second pilot j. j. Mooney as purser and
Edward Pierce as chief engineer. To-
day the regular Memorial day rates will
prevail on the lake.
A small boy named Roy Nichols was run
avenue and South Union street Yesterday
and mira culously escaped death. He
was playing in the roadway in front of a
house which is in process OF construc-
ton when farm wagon. driven by a
man named Borctte from South Burling-
ton, came along. The forward wheel assed
over the boys body without the driver
seeing him. Somebody shouted at Bor-
cite and he stopped. Then somebody
shouted for him to back up and the wheel
again passed over the boy. once more
somebody shouted and once more the
wheel passed over the boy. BY this time
the lad was dragged out DR. c. II. Nor
gan was summoned and after an exami- |
nation discovered that nothing was the
matter with the boy. The explanation Of
the fact that no injrries resulted is that
the ground under the boy at the spot
whore the wheel passed over him was soft
and there was a depression in the soil.
VERMONT ACADEMY.