Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-10-18
LAM0|LlE COUNTY
STOWE.

The Stowe Free library will be closed
until further notice on account of the
polio cases, by order of the health officer.
District Superintendent w. Il. Dukeshiro
preached at the Methodist Episcopal
Church Sunday mornlng.-Miss Inez Smith
Beatrice and Harvey.-Miss Inez Smith
returned Saturday from the Mary Flet-
cher hospital. Miss Smith is doing well
after an operation for goitre.-Mr and
Mrs. william Nye Smith returned to
Montpelier Sunday after visiting Mrs.
Smiths parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 3. M
Brush.-Mrs. Mary Fleetwood OF Came
bridge returned Saturday after VISITING
her brother. S. NJ. Brush.-Mrs. c. A.
Adams and children, Charles. Russell.
Everett Meade and elizabeth Meade
Adams, and Miss Farrar Of Somerville.
Mass. are visiting Mrs. Adams parents.
NJ. and Mrs. NJ. p. Russell. at the lower
village.-E. n. Woodwork of Montpelier
came Saturday to visit his daughter. Mrs.
]. b. Boyce, of West Branch.-Messrs.
McDougall and Patterson of Wallaston
and Mr. McKilvery of Quincy, Mass,
were guests at NJ. l.. Poor's last week.
About fifty attended the Grange picnic at
the home of the master and wife. Mr..
and Mrs. Hermon A. Parsons, Saturday.
An oyster dinner was served. During tho
afternoon program of recitations and
guessing contests was carried out Dy the
lecturer, Mrs. Louise Fuller.
DR.. Taylor was called here Friday night
and pronounced the illness of Violet, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George E.
Brush, as infantile paralysis. The child
who is II years of age Is paraiyzed in both
| legs and is not yet out of danger. The
Brush home is two miles from the village.
Miss Dorothea Cummings Of Stowe high
school, daughter Of the Rev and Mrs. II.
w. Cummings, has been quite i'll for a
| week at the Congregational Church par
sonage. Typhoid is feared.-Mrs. David b.
| Slade and sister, Mrs. johnson. of Fail
River. Mass. visited Mr.. and Mrs. c. l..
Gale and Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. c. Lovejoy
Friday. Mrs Slade was formerly the owner
| Of the Gale farm-Miss Caroline Swift.
former teacher in Stowe. has secured
| and gone to a position as supervisor or
nurses in the Wesley hospital at Kansas
City, Mo.-Mrs. Clara Peck gave a chain
party for the benefit of the Red Cross FRI
day afternoon.-Principal p. p. Jones u
passing the quarantine vacation at hia
home in Windham.-Raeburn Mcmahon
and Gale Shaw have visited the formers
brother. Donald M, at Dartmouth College
this week.
There will be an old and young Folks
ball with music by Shacketts orchestra
at hotel hall Friday EVENING". A. Riley
and w. A. Knight are on a business trip
to Boston.-Robert Carrigan of Meredith.
N H.. is visiting his aunt. Mrs. A. L. Gale.
and family.-C. p. Scribner has returned
from Worcester. Mass, where he has
visited his daughter. Mrs. A. p. Cate. and
family.-George c. Hart Is building barns
30 by 40 feet. to take the place OF the onl
destroyed by fire when It was struck BY
Ilnr to pplAr
some of the timbers from the old distric1
school house in his neighbcrhood. which
has been out OF use for many years and
has now been torn down. The school house
was the first one attended by the Hon.
, Leslie NJ. Shaw. who became secretary
, of the treasury under President Mckinley
Mrs. f. r. Bigelow will entertain &
. chain party for the benefit of the RED
Cross Thursday afternoon.-Jameo
r Hutchins received news Tuesday Of the
. death of his sister. Mrs. Minnie Hutchin&
Cross, wife of James Cross of Morristownt
at a quarter of one at the Fanny Allies
hospital. where she went for an operation
' seven weeks ago. Mrs. Cross was about y
years and was formerly for several year(
resident of Stowe.-The re-opening a
the village school has been postponed an1
other week in consequence of the secon(
, case OF polio.-The condition Of ViolsQ
Brush, who is Ill with infantile paralysi4
. is now thought to be improving.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Presson r. Gale kept opel
. house at their hosptable home on WesI(
. Branch Saturday afternoon and evening ID
: honor of the 5Oth anniversary of theil
v marriage. A large number of relative(
: and friends were present and many cons
= gratulations were received. The parlot
Q where Mr.. and Mrs. Gale received theft
h friends was decorated with autumn leavc>
! and In the dining room. whore refresl'
Q ments were served, the decorations wer<
/. of gold and white. Four granddaughter
4 (Centinued % Dags feuSl.