Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-07-20
HAPPENINGS IN VERMONT


AIMS Guild will hold a food sale in
the stoto formerly occupied by Coons
& Hawley on Saturday, July 90, com
mencing at two oclock.-Mrs. j. II.
Mills and son. Malcolm. of Toronto.
Ont. are visiting at the home of Mrs.
Mills parents. Mr.. and Mrs |. New
ton Jancs.-Mr. and Mrs. Arthur f..
Masse and Miss Anna Arms of Grand
Iigne, Que, arrived last week and will
pass month at the home of Mrs.
Masses mother. Mrs. w. G.. Scofeld.-
Mrs. w. J. Harvey and daughter, Miss
Marion Harvey, went to Freeport, Me-,
where they expect to make their
home.-Miss Isabelle Dixon of Provi-
dence. r. l., is visiting at the home
of her grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs.
William Impey, of Eastern avenue
Mrs. Hattie Campbell and daughter,
Miss Ethel Campbell. visited rela-
tives and friends in Abbite Corner re-
cently.--O. A. Hagan, deputy collector
of customs, is supplying in the office
at Highgate during the vacation of
Pearl johnson. deputy collector of
customs in that place.-Mr. and Mrs.
Hobart Kendall and Miss Pearl Estey
went to Bethlehem, N. H.. Saturday for
a two weeks vacation.
The new highway bridge at South Rich
ford was completed last week. The new
structure is of reinforced concrete with
a 35-foot span, 16-foot driveway and bat
Elements three feet high and a foot thick.
The cost of the bridge was 1850, of which
sum the State pays $500. The work was
done under the supervision of the select
men, the plans being furnished by the
State highway Observation-Disclosures
forenoon as Lawrence Carpenter son OF
Mr. and Mrs. c. F. Carpenter, WAS at
work for the Richford school building
committee, drawing gravel with span OF
horses, the neck yoke broke, throwing
the wagon on the horses, which frightened
them. The driver was thrown out and
sustained a compound fracture of the
left leg between knee and ankle. Doctors
Pelton and Lunderville attended him. lie
was taken to his home about one and one
half miles from the vilage.-Miss Elsie
Douglass, who has been visiting friends
In Montreal during the past week, return
ed home Monday evening.-Miss Emma
Bethel. stenographer for the Richford
Manufacturing company. went to the
home of her parents in Maiden, Mass,
Saturday for two weeks vacation.-Mrs.
Matthew G. Wright, daughter, Eleanor,
and son, Harold, have returned home
from a few months stay at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Wrights daughter, Mrs.
Walter Bliss, of Omaha. Neb.-Miss Eva
and May White have moved into ii. f.
Hardy's tenement house on Troy street
formerly occupied by Mrs. l.. E. Ham
mond.-Mrs Laura Merrill and daughter,
Miss Idell Merrill, of Rutland, came to
this place last week, where they will make
their home with Capt. A. ]. Merrill.-Mr.
and Mrs. Delos NJ. Buck and Mr.. and
Mrs c. II. Aiken and daughter. Miss
Lucille, visited in Newport over Sunday.
The Rev. S. Harrison Green. pastor of
Cavalry Baptist Church, Washington, d.
C., and Mrs Green were guests at the
American House last week.-Among the
q young doctors who appeared before the
State board of medical registration at
Burlington last week were Arthur E. Per-
ley and Cleland A. Sargent of this place.
graduates Of the University of Vermont
medical school in June.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Peabody Of Farm
ington, Conn, are visiting relatives and
friends in this place.-Mr. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Beaton. of Grover. N. H., are visit
ing at the home of Mrs. Beaton's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wilson--Mr. and
Mrs. II. f. Wilcox have returned home
from a visit with relatives in Randolph
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sullivan and children
of Medford. Mass. are visiting at the
home of Mrs. Suivans mother. Mrs. Alma
Ayer-Mr. and Mrs. Jethro Gross of
Enosburg visited in this place Monday.
c. A Powell accompanied the Rev. and
Mrs. E. NJ. Fuller and son, Robert, to
North Stratford, n. H., Tuesday, where
Mrs. Fuller and son will pass the remain
der of this month and the month of Aug
ust at the family home in that place
Mr.. Fuller will pass his annual vacation
during the month of August with his fam
fly. The trip was made in Mr.. Powell S
automobile --Miss Eta Stanhope went
Tuesday to Island Pond, where she Will
visit at the home of her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham.-Miss Dorothea
Shepherd is visiting relatives and friends
in North Troy.--Benjamn Read and
James Kelley are visiting relatives in St
Albans.-Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Simmons
and son, Frank. and Mrs. F.. b. Elias and
daughter, Grace Elias, have returned from
camp at Lake Carmi. Franklin.-Mr. and
Mrs. George Star of Los Angeles Cal,
are visiting at the home OF Mrs Stars
mother, Mrs. Deyette. and other rela-
tives in town.