Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-11-11

ing at the home OF friends In That village
and hopes to be able to return home
Rev. f. H. Morgan was here
from Boston last week.-Warren Pres
ton has returned to Burlington after a
three weeks visit herc-The district
meeting Of Rebekahs last Thursday was
attended by 1876 persons a banquet was
served at Harrington parlors by the
ladies Of the Universalist Church A n.
Merrill has begun extensive improve
ments upon the house lately bought Of
q. w. Buck. He has g. T.. Blake and
David tombstone at work on 1.-THE
iirst entertainment in the Womans club
course was given Monday night by
Clifton Mallorys company-Several
relatives and frisnds of the late Ray
Messer of Robinson attended his flu
neral last week Wednesday, T.. l.. Messer
was here from keene, ~ H., for that
purpose. Elmer j. Cotton o. Rensselaer,
Falls y. Y, who moved from Barnard
TO that place week ago, is in a hos
pital at Ogdensburg y. y, for an oper-
ation.-John Noble and G.. o. Spaulding
are candidates for the postmastershlp at
this place.-Upwards Of 80 cases Of
chicken-pox have been reported to Health
Officer o. V. Greene All the cases are
mild. There are five cases Of scarlet
fever In one part of the town of Bar
nard, all light cases.-Charles Miller, one
OF whose legs was crushed a month ago
on the Central Vermont railroad track
near the Woodbury. Granite company's
clearinghouse, and who was carried
to the Randolph santarium for an oper-
alton, has recovered sufficiently to walk
with the aid of crutches and is boarding
at c. Il. Noble .-Miss Kate Bullard is
out after a severe attack of neuritis.-
Mrs. Josephine French has gone to New
York for the winter and has closed her
summer home-J. J. Carney and family
have vacated Hope cottage" for the
winter and have returned to Haverhill,
Mass.--Miss Mary Tewksbury spent Sun
day with friends in Stockbridge and
Miss Mildred Masse with friends In
Montpelier
20 months old child, Clarence. of Ell
Paquette of Bethel Gilead was drowned
last Saturday by falling into a watering
kettle near the house. His older brother.
aged SIX found him with his head under
water and pulled him cut. His father
was away and his mother, who had
missed him, was searching elsewhere.
Doctors from Randolph and this village
soon arrived but their efforts We're un-
availing The funeral was held Monday
afternoon, the Rev. NJ 5. O'Donnell Of
nciating, with burial in the Catholic
cemetery in Randolph.-Mrs. D. f.
Bushey and daughter of Chelsea, Mass,
are visiting her sisters, Mrs Bertha Hart.
we'll and Mrs. II. C. Wilson. and from
here will go to visit relatives in High.
gate and Swanton.-Mrs. Ira Allen Rogers
and her son, Burnham, who have been
spending few days In Rochester, re.
turned home Monday.-Mrs. Jennie
Hubert of Seattle. Wash, who has been
visiting relatives in Mortified, spent
Sunday at Eugene II. Perry Sc. l.
Gaskell spent last week visiting relatives
in st. Johnsbury and West Burke.-Mrs.
W D. Walker of Montpelier was here
Sunday to visit her mother, Mrs. Isabel
Donovan, who is ill.-Work is being
rushed by the contractor on repairs to
the Gaysville Light & Power company's
dam in the river at this place. and the
cement power house to take the place OF
the old wooden power house. About 80
men are employed.-Mrs. George Nichols
has returned from visiting her mother.
who is Ill in Springfield.
rest Monday on complaint of Grand Juror
j. A. Graham charged with the theft Of
carriage robes from the wagons of f.
H. w Owen and II. D. Davenport at the
Congregational Church horse sheds last
Saturday night He appeared in mu-
nicipal court Tuesday morning before
Judge Arthur G. Whitman and pleaded
not guilty and his case was continued
ktt-n tri,- No a'c
an opportunity to investigate the facts
Earl Davis, alias Frank Jones, aged %,
recently from New Hampshire. who works
for Rogers on his farm in Tunbrdge.
came into court and was permitted 10
plead guilty to the identical ofrense with
which his employer was charged. He
denied that Rogers knew anything about
the theft Most of the missing property
was found by Officers Putnam and
Wheeler on Rogers premises before the
arrest was made on Monday. Mr. Rogers
has a sentence for selling mortgaged
property hanging over him from some
time last year.
Guy NJ Page and II. Il. Shaw Of
Burlington called on Cashier z. A.
Davis at the National White River bank
Wednesday.-C. r. Bancroft of Mont.
pelier will be az the Bethel Inn from
Saturday to Monday to assist prospec-
tive applicants for first and final cit-
zenship papers, Later a session Of
United States court will be held here
in case enough applicants are found
In the current number of "Etude" APP
pears an instrumental composition by
Ernest II. Kittridge-Mr \. r. Clark
is visiting friends in Worcester and Bos-
ton-The Fisher Chrome Tanning CONF
pany has signed with a Cincinnati firm
of contractors an agreement by which
the latter will at once begin to build
for the former 5000 gallon water tank
upon loo-foot steel tower for the pro-
lection of its manufa curing plant at
this place from fire. The contract price
Is s. 900 and the time limit is ten weeks
r.. c. Cowdrey has repaired and paint
ed his buildings on the farm recently
bought from Verdi and Schiavo.-
County Game Warden Billings of sharon
has appointed Fred c. Putnam, w c.
Whitaker, r. o. Quimby and Myron
j. Buck to receive reports of deer kill
ed during the approaching open season.
j. G. Fuller has gone to East Gram
Vile, where he is to have employment
for the winter at the Eastern Tale COM
pany's MILD. w. Washburn has
finished work at r. d. Quimby's and
has gone to Rochester to work for tho
Eastern Tale company,-Mrs ). F.
Lyman. accompanied by her daughter.
Mrs. Hiram Scott, has returned from
Elgin, H., and will board the coming
winter at Mrs. Luela Kidder's.