Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-07-19

held crops and grass were leveled to the
ground. but sustained apparently no per-
manent damage. .-Sharon's 25th an
nual Old Home day will be held Wednes-
day, August Is. The initial meeting for
the completion of the program was held
Saturday eveningSin the town hall with
Homer Preston, president, presiding. The
Rev. Henry w. Mailer, pastor Of Christ
Church. Congregational. New Britain.
Conn.,. and Mrs. Mailer we're recent guests
Of relatives. Mr.. and Mrs. q. A. Cheney.
In Greensboro. Doris Heath and
Miss Elisabeth Barrett are at Camp
Billings, West Fairlee.-Rose bugs are
abundant in town and already have great
ly injured the growing crop Of beams
John Barker, who has been in the Mary
Hitchcock hospital, Hanover. N. H., for
10 days. whore he underwent an opera
ton on one ear. returned to his home
Saturday accompanied by DR.. r. j. Stone.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION.
@. w. Burns and daughter were at the
Melrose hospital. Brattleboro. Saturday
to see his niece, Miss Nellie Agan, a
patient In the hospital.-Attorney James
q. Harvey. his sons, M. q. and John,
the latter a sophomore in Mddlebury
| College, Mrs. M. q. Harvey and Mrs.
M. A. Miller were on an auto trip to
Montpelier Saturday.-Prin. Clyde p.
Cooper Of the Wilder village graded
schools has the supervision of the gar
dens that are under cultivation by the
| school children of the village. One Of the
gardens has an area Of four and half
| acres. divided, and in addition there are
exactly 60 plots that vary from one.
| sixteenth to three-quarters Of an acre in
| extent. The children are much inter-
ested In their garden work.-The Rev.
Hugo Perdelwitz. the recently retired
pastor Of the local Universalist Church.
| preached Sunday in the Universalist
Church at North Tunbridge and will sup
ply the pulpit for the succeeding three
Sundays.-Mr. and Mrs. w. e. Westover
and daughter Helen Of Montreal and Miss
Mary Shannon Of Burlington we're recent
arrivals at the home Of Mrs. westover's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Beaulac,
Greendale farm, and the visitors, with
| Mrs. Beaulac, are now on an auto trip
to Boston and other Massachusetts,
points.
A squad of nearly SO Dartmouth COL
lege students of the 100 in training
for the quartermasters corps of the
army were in town Tuesday and visit
| ed the plant Of the Vermont Banking
company. the Smith & Son Cracker
factory. and the wholesale grocery of
the Cross. Abbott company.-vincent
O'Neill, now of the naval medical corps
at the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard,
was at home over sunday.-Miss Nora
Daley Of Keene. NJ H.. Is the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Gilbert-P. E.
and B. F. Adams, local building con-
| tractors. have a crew of men at work
| remodeling the Lyman A. Gibbs resi-
dence on Maplewood Terrace.-Dr. and
Mrs. o. w. Daley are at home from a
stay at Cold Spring Camp, Averill
Lakes. and the doctor reports that the
fishing has been excellent to date. He
further says that the camps are to-
day well filled with summer vacation
lists from Boston, Connecticut. New
Jersey. New York and Pennsylvania, q
fact that means much to the State OF
Vermont as summer home. DR.. and
Mrs. Daley leave Saturday for their
vacation home at Caspian lake, Green's
boro-S. c. Mason, a Pittsburg, Pa,
munition manufacturer. was a recent
guest of Attorney James G. Harvey
and family. at Highland Patchwork
on the new subway to the Union pas
senger station has progressed to the
raising OF the tracks to permit of the
laying of the cement roof, which will
have a depth of two feet. All Of the
| steel columns are in position and the
cement walk for passengers is like
wise completed. Foreman Phillips has
force OF 16 men at work.-Charles H.
Brown. a former resident. now Of Der
by Line. is visitor at the home Of his
son, Robert A. Brown.