Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-11

the Sons of Veterans Auxiliary to at
tend the Memorial Sunday services at the
Methodist Church Sunday morning. May
eS-The following delegates have been
elected to attend the RUTLAND county
Sunday school convention at Rutland
from the Methodist Church: The Rev.
George a. Kerr, Mrs. c. NJ. Carpenter
and l.. A. Severy.-Dr. and Mrs. w. II.
Wright and Mr.. and Mrs. g. II. Young
left Monday noon for New York. Wash
ington and southern points They will
be away about two weeks.-Benrietta
Nichols, who suffered a shock OF paralysis
some weeks ago. was improved enough
to be able to be moved to Watervillc
Me. where she will remain with her SIS
ter, Mrs. Harry Ferris.-A1rs. Eta NJ
Moody went Sunday to Chester, called
there ny the illness of her uncle.--Mrs
Leslie Severy went Saturday to Troy.
n. Y, called there by the death Of her
sister.-Roy Breese broke the ligaments
of his right ankle Sunday afternoon and
is compelled to be about his farm on
crutChes for the present.-Mrs. Edith
Balch Wright, corresponding secretary OF
the Vermont Sunday School association,
who has been in Brandon for several
days taking the Sunday school census
went Monday morning to Winooski
W. G. Stay has leased the
Douglass house near the depot. which
has been closed for several months, and
! will reopen IT. He will conduct n hotel
| and boarding -house.-Frank Button,
! young son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. But
! ton, fell from his bicycle while riding
down Seminary hill Monday afternoon
and broke one bone in his left
arm.-Thc new steam roller, which
was recently purchased by the
selectmen and the road commits
soner has arrived and the old roller
| will be shipped to Buffalo to apply
towards paying for the new machine
f.. u. Hetherington is moving from Park
street to the Ross house on Franklin
street. which he recently purchased
The summary and report Of the house
to house canvass made last week by Edith
Balch Wright for the Vermont Sunday
School association resulted as follows
Total number of families visited, 0l, 3lS
Protestant and 10 Roman Catholic. The
number giving UNCONVENTIONAL preference
were as follows Congregational i03. Bap-
fist go, Episcopal 213, Methodist 1870. Wes-
leyan Methodist II, Roman Catholic. 413,
other preferences S. The church popula-
ton Of the town was given "a follows;
Protestant. 1903, Roman Catholic 413.
The church membership IL given as fol-
lows: congregational 1884. Episcopal 115,
Methodist 100, Baptist Sc, Wesleyan Meth
odist 3. Three hundred and seventy-four
stated that they attended church rcgu-
larly.-Examnation for pupils outside
the graded school district for free tut
ton to the local high school will be held
to-day and Friday in the rooms of the
! Dunmorc Hose company and Will be In
charge of Superintendent of Schools W.
l.. Douglass. There will be regular
convention of Silver Lake Lodge, No. 40,
X of p, this evening in their rooms in
the Hill block. There will be work on the
first rank.-Alr. and Mrs. II. +. Bissell
went Wednesday to Antrim, n H. where
MIR. BisSell is to manage the Cray Stone
Lodge Hotel this summer.--Miss Gladys
Howard has gone to Walden, where she
has a position as teacher in the public
school-Mrs. A. W. Kellogg is at the
Brandon Inn for several weeks.