Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-06-10

| the members of Queen City Hive, No. Z.
Lady Maccabees, at knights of Pythias
nail Sunday afternoon. Two members
ot the organization have died during tho
year, Mrs. Mary Bullock and Miss kath-
crime Walsh. The services were under
The direction of Mrs. Myrtle Parker, com
mander, assisted by her officers and MEM
bers of Winooski Hive The address was
given by the Rev. j. S. Brakcr. Lead
| Kindly Light" was sung by Miss Halle
Brownell and Jasper Tousey sang Face
to Face"
decree of distribution has been made
| by probate court in the estate of James
e. Stnson of Newburyport. Mass, OF
which j. II. Mimms of this city was
administrator for this State, the terms
| of the will having been complied with
and the property heretofore used for the
benefit Of the widow, now deceased,
turned over to Jacob II. Choatc of
Amesbury Mass in trust for Raymond
:. Stinson. the testator's son, who will
receive the income thereon until he Is
% years of age, when he will receive the
principal.
The annual meeting of the Graduate
Nurses association of the Fanny Allen
hospital was held Tuesday afternoon at
the hospital. when officers were elected as
follows: President, Mary l.. Murrin
vlce-presdent Mrs. A. l.. IArner. score
tary. Mrs. Henry Harrington: treasurer
the Rev. Mother Monnhan. At the close
of the business meeting a pleasing pro-
gram was given. 1t included march by
Miss Laura Mears n solo by Miss Kath-
| n tu.i
by Mrs. r. a. Lawler, and a solo by Mrs
James Dover. a bountiful lunch was
served in the nurses dining room Miss
Lucinda Smith catered
| At meeting of DeGoeShriand Council,
knights of Columbus. Monday night in
st Mary's hall, about ~ candidates were
given the third degree. the work being
put on by District Deputy Jerome T.
Donovan and staff of New York. There
were number present from out of this
city. among them state Secretary Stephen
Driscoll and Grand Knight John Mahoney
of st Adams Grand Knight c. f. Nc
Mahon and District Deputy John r.
Flanagan of Montpelier and State Dep
MY c. F. Mann of Brattcboro. There
was an attendance of about 800 al the hail
and covers were laid for 200 for ban
quet at the Hotel Vermont following the
eXemnlhcation of the degree.
Stephen Martin was taken to Windsor
| Tuesday TO complete n sentence of not
less than two nor more than three wears
for Jail breaking. The Jail breaking WAS
committed some time ago when Martin
was beng worked out" during which
time he took advantage Of his temporary
llHerty to escape. He served part of his
sentence and was paroled by the Governor
Lately he was arrested for intoxicaton
and has Just completed "A 30 DAYS sen.
tence AS this intoXcation was viola
tion of the conditions of his parole he
was arrested on Governors warrant
ana returned to states prison to serve
out the original sentence. While out on
his parole, Martin sustained the loss Of
his wife, who eloped with another man
Both parties were arrested and sentenced
to do time also.
during the month of May "A large num-
Der of children was born in the city Of
burlington, the total being 30, of which
the girls had the better of it, there
being 81 OF them to % boys The young
est mother was II years old, and there
We're four of that class. The oldest was
~ and there We're three mothers in that
class. Seven mothers were in their teens.
:" in their Dos. IA in their 3Os and three
IN their los. The number of first born
children was %. second born 70. third
born six, fourth born three nth born
three. sixth born one, seventh born two
eighth born one, ninth born three. In
addition 10 this there were two cases
in which the new arrival was the twelfth
child. The number of deaths in the month
of May was IS, of which % were males
and 10 females The excess of births over
deaths was H.
Mrs. G. F. North was the victim of an
automobile accident TUESDAY afternoon
at the corner of Church and Bank streets.
the automobile being driven by Richard
Ballard of Montpelier, a student at the
university Mrs. North was about to
cross Church street in front of Stearns's
drug store and was watching an an
preaching automobile but did not nav
particular attention TO the one driven by
Mr.. Ballard. which was coming down
Church street on tho west side of the
street rs she stepped from the curb
the machine driven by Mr.. Ballard struck
her and threw her down and against the
curhing, She fell on her right side and
was severely bruised. especially about the
arm. She was taken to her home on
Hungerford terrace and a physician
called but did not develop that any bones
were broken. 1t IL claimed that the auto
mobile was not going very fast and that
Mrs. North stepped i'm front Of the ma
chine. Mrs. North says that the driver
OF the machine did not sound his horn