Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-11-15

the deer. afterwards selling 1t for the
State.-Edward Buxton has moved from
the Lavere house to the Chadwick house.
Frank Wallace has moved from the Chad.
wick house to the Arnold house. Lyman
Cone has moved from White River juno
ton into the Chase house.-Mrs w. L.
Fish will rent her house on Church stree,
and will take rooms in Lowell, Mass, and
keep house for her son, Leonard Fish
who Is secretary of the Lawrence mills
The Rev. w. B. Dukeshire of St. Alban,
was here Sunday and Monday in connec.
ton with the campaign for the retired
minister's endowment of the Methods
Church.-Mrs. Pearl B. Dewey of Roy
alton died last Friday at her cousins
Mrs. r. w. Morse, to whose home sh,
came Tuesday to visit. The next day
she became seriously Ill with diabetes.
She is survived by her husband and five
The funeral was held Monday
with burial at South Royalton.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION.
The first deer killed in town in the sea.
son that opened Saturday, was shot by
Dewey Lyman on his farm in the Jericho
district. The dressed deer weighed no
pounds. and Mrs. Stewart Cheney
to town and the Junction House
Saturday and theirs is a hearty welcome.
Lieutenant Cheney is in charge of the
local recruiting office-Mrs. George w
Burns and sister, Mrs. c. w. Bennett. OF
Montpelier, were at Camp Devens this
week visiting the formers son, Francis
C. Burns, and niece, Miss Nellie Agan. OF
the camp telephone department.-Howard
c. Re Carr leaves White River Junction
the coming week for Newark, N. j.,
where he will be employed in an electro
cal machine factory.-C. l.. lie Bourveau.
cashier of the First National bank, and
Charles B. Ward Of the Cross-Abbott
company's office force, were in Island
Pond Saturday deer hunting.-Napoleon
Baslier an escaped inmate Of the Water
bury asylum. was found here Saturday
evening. He was returned to the asylum
Sunday.-H L. Pride, teacher of manual
training in the Hartford high school, and
family are new tenants in the Robert
Brown house on Gates street.-George B.
Carpenter, treasurer of the Hartford Saw
ing Bank G. Trust company, was on
deer hunting trip to Stowe Saturday.
George A. Chedel. one time district SUI
perintendent of the Champlain Realty
company, was in town Monday.-Fred B.
circuit. formerly of Newport and lieu
tenant Of it's militia company. First YER
mont regiment. had call to Boston Sat-
urday for examination as a prospective
commissioned officer in the aeronauticaI
division of the signal corps. Lieutenant
circuit was in the Spanish-American War
and Is nephew of Senator John w.
Weeks Of Massachusetts,.
On Tuesday a conference Of the North
Windsor County association of Congre-
gational Church was held at Hartford
The especial purpose of the gathering was
to consider church work as it relates to
present day war conditions. The minis
ters present were the Rev. Joel F. Whit
ney of Royalton. the Rev. j. H. Moseley.
South Royalton, the Rev. E. r. Gordon,
Lyme, N. H.. the Rev. Francis Parker,
Hartland and Enfield, N H., the Rev. w.
II. Mcbride, Rochester, the Rev. George
H. Ladd. North Pomfret. the Rev. R. w.
Barstow, Woodstock. the Rev. Burton
A. Lucas. Windsor. the Rev. F. G. AL.
ger, present supply of the Hartford
Church. the Rev. John E. Hunt. West
Lebanon, n. H., the Rev. Donald Frazer.
Wells River, and the Rev. Herbert Dixon
Of Norwich. The lay delegates included
Horace c. Pease. Hartford and chairman
of the committee Of arrangements, ]. H.
Loveand. Norwich, and Corydon w.
Cheney, Sharon.-Corydon W. Cheney Of
Sharon and graduate of the Hartford
high school. has taken a position as clerk
in the shipping department Of the Boyle
Brothers store and will begin Tuesday,
Mrs. Clayton c. Gould is visiting her
sisters in Haverhill and Boston, Mass
N. P. Wheeler. manager of the Junction
House. was on a business trip to Boston
this Week.-Mrs. Alberta Wilson Of St.
Johnsbury has taken position as clerk
In the union station. Miss Wilson Is the
first woman to be employed in the juno
ton office.
SHARON.
Mrs. Luvia A. Fay. born in Sharon,
August g. 1929. and a lifelong resident,
died at the home of her brother, Niles
Mosher. November 6, aged "a years and
three months. Five minutes before her
last breath she repeated the Lords pray
err. Mrs. Fay was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Alanson Mosher, early settlers
Of Sharon. In early womanhood she was
married to Jacob Fay. who died at the
age Of AZ years. Three children, two sons
and daughter were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Fay and all three died prior to their
3Oth year. In Sharon Old Home days she
was ever present and in these recent
years as the oldest person in town. Par
ticularly hearty were the congratulations
on the last Old Home day because Of her
entrance into her 95th year. The funeral
was at the home Thursday, the Rev. T..
l.. NJ. Barnes Of South Royalton officiat-
ing. The interment was in the family
lot of the Robinson cemetery Hymns
were sung by Miss Mary Noyes, William
+. Heath and Frank Cook. The bearers
were two nephews. w. Howard Chillson
and G. A. Chillson. both of Sharon, w.
f. Heath and Frank Cook. Besides he,
brother and nephews, Mrs. Fay is sur
vived by niece. Mrs. T.. A. Blake OF
South Royalton.-The Congregation
Church was represented at the confer.
ence of the Windsor County Association
Of Congregational Churches in the White
River Tavern. Hartford village, Tuesday
by its pastor. the Rev. Paul A. Moyes, a.
the ministerial delegate. and Corydon w.
Cheney as the lay delegate.
SOUTH ROY ALTON.
The Rev. G. A. Lamphear and the Rev
8. X. Arbuthnot. who are working In
Vermont under the direction Of the board
Of conference claimants of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. have been In
town and assisted in the canvass for
the endowment fund for retired preach
ers. On this charge Sl155 has already
been secured for that purpose.-Alva p,
Campbell and Florence r. Howard OF
Randolph were married at the Methodist
parsonage November 8. They were at
tended by Mrs. q. c. Stevens, sister
Of the bride. and Raymond Campbell.
brother of the groom.-The Rev. G. 8.
Smith of Randolph Center preached at
the Methodist Church Sunday In ex-
change with the pastor.-The Rev. and