Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-05-10

Lumbra has been called to shefford, Can,
TO see her brother-in-aw, Mr.. Beaure-
guard. who is seriously il.-Mr. and Mrs.
ernest Combs have returned from Thorn
ton, Ind.-Mr. and Mrs. La Bell of Bakers
neid were recent visitors at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. La Bell Miss Emily
Libby spent the weekend with Miss Lu-
Gle Pratt.-Mr. and Mrs. N. s. Parker
ana Miss Alice Clapp motored to Richford
Monday.-Mr. and Mrs. William Aerial
were In Richford Monday.-Howard DOM
Ina, who has been suffering with a severe
sore throat. is now better.-Carl 8. Parker.
who is In the st. Adams hospital for an
operation, is progressing favorably.
HILL WEST.
The Rev. Clyde Sumner returned to his
nome In Ephratah. N. Y, Thursday.-Mr. .
and Mrs. Edward Shangraw of Richford
visited at Clyde Shangraw's Sunday.-A
daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. d. H.
T. Bonthwick Thursday.-The cottage
meeting will be at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs Israel Hawkins Friday evening"
Dewey Rushford visited on the Hill SUM-
day.-Gerald Broe has gone to Richford.
WhSie ho HAS cII1piOyHent-Mr. ana Nlre.
John Ariel visited relatives in Mont
gomery village Sunday.-Diatha Murray
OF Hectorville visited at Fred Jewett's
over the week-end.-Heman Wetherby has
recently purchased the Rainville place
near the Enosburg line.
EAST FRANKLIN.
Mrs. s. B. Whitney visited her son at
Franklin Center this week.-Mrs. B. H.
Gilbert was in St. Adams Monday and
Tuesday. called there by the illness and
death of Mrs. T. F. smith.-Mr. and Mrs.
/ w. B. Freer Of Richford were at the
home OF E. II. Chamberlin Tuesday.-Mr.
and Mrs. James Collins and son, Foster,
visited In Berkshire Neutrality-suspicious.
80 people from here attended the funeral
OF Mrs. T. F. Smith at West Berkshire
Thursday.-E. W. Olmstead returned from
st. Adams May 9. the jury having
been dismissed.-Everett Grant visited
at the home Of his brother. D. A. Grant,
Thursday.
| At the annual meeting of the Cemetery
association. held Saturday forenoon, the
following officers we're elected for the
ensuing year: President, W. c. Noble;
clerk and treasurer, F. e. Thomas: sex
ton, F. c. Weld; trustees. z. H. Cham
berlin, G. H. Pomeroy and F. C.weld.
Officers for the meeting house associa-
ton for the coming year are: President
F. E. Thomas; clerk, F. E. Thomas
treasurer D. A. Grant; trustees, 8. R.
Whitman, A A. Dewing and F. E. Thorn
as.-Quite lot Of wheat has been sown
A few farmers have raised their wheat for
two years. but this year. number Of
others are following suit.-H. r. Ohm
stead. e. H. Chamberlain and E. W. Ohm
stead went Tuesday to Highgate Springs
Tor two days fishing trip. Miss Ruth
! Olmstead returned with them.-Mr and
Mrs. H. c. Glidden and Master Richard
! were in st. Armand Centre, Que, Sum
day.-Sunday guests in town were Mr.
and Mrs r. P. Olmstead at the home of
e. w. Olmstead; C. P. Collins, Misses
Mae and Elizabeth Collins, Mr.. and Mrs
Ray Stanley and Master Harold Collins
at the home of James Collins; Mrs Han
nah Bockus and Carmi Bockus Of Rosen-
burg, Que, at the home OF Clarence Guth-
rie.-Mr. and Mrs. H. r. Olmstead and
Miss Ruth Olmstead were in Highgate, at
the home of NJ. X. Judd for the week.
end. Miss Olmstead remained for a few
| days.-Mrs. "A. A. RENDER is Ill with cry
slpelas.-Miss Marion Gilbert visited in
Richford last Week.-Mrs. Wilma Powers
Is quite sick with whooping cough. The
other members Of the family are suffer-
ing with very severe colds.-Claude and
Gertrude Tibbits, who have been visiting
In Cowansville, Que, for few days, have
returned home.-O. E. Bridge recently
passed several days at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. A. E. Freer, in Richford.
w. G. Brown of st. Adams preached
here Sunday evening. While here he was
entertained at the home of c. A. Dewing.
The Rev. Aler. a theological student,
who has come to Abotts Corner, Que,
to supply the Baptist Church there. during
the summer months, preached here Sum
day afternoon. He will continue to preach
here every alternate Sunday at o'clock
p. m. while at Abott's Corner-The
Woman's Home Missionary society met
with Mrs. Priscilla Dewing Tuesday af-
ternoon-The Ladies' Aid served supper
Thursday evening at the church.-At the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
meeting Saturday afternoon. the follow
ing were elected delegates to attend the
county convention at Montgomery. May
"a and %: Miss Laura Feldman, Mrs Sar-
ali Olmstead, Mrs. Priscilla Dewing, Mrs.
Lucy Colcord and Mrs. Marion Wright.
FAIRFAX.
Mrs. c. W. Brush spent the weekend
with friends in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
travelling salesman with a tobacco COM
pany Of Burlington, spent the weekend
with his sister, Mrs. G. C. Parris.-Mrs.
Purdy OF Richford. D. D. G. NJ. visited
Fairfax Unity Chapter. No. II. o. E. g..
recently. While in town Mrs. Purdy was
the guest OF Mrs. NJ. L. Hicks.-Mrs B.
NJ. Ballard, who has passed the win
ter with friends in St. Adams, has opened
her house here.-Henry Donnellly Of St
Adams was in town Sunday.-Mrs. Gladys
Brush. who has been employed in Aber-
nethy's store in Burlington the past
year. Is to open dressmakine parlors soon
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. d. r. Beardsley on Hunt street.
Mrs. Lillian Bellows expects to return to
Woodstock this week, where she has a
position in the Woodstock Inn.-The trus-
tees of the Fairfax Free library at a re-
cent meeting voted that tax Of one cent
a day on each volume kept out after the
book becomes due at the library shall be