Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-11-22
LAMO|LLE COUNTY
STOWE.

STOWE.
A telegram from Winfred w. Houston
If Cleveland, Ohio, informed his parents.
MIR. and Mrs. j. T.. Houston, Saturday
that he has received captains COM
mission in the officers reserve corps OF
the ordnance division at Washington, d.
c, Mr.. Houston was graduated from
etowe high school In 1904 and four years
later completed n course in electrical en-
: uineering at University of Vermont. He
has for several years had position with
the Browns Hosting Machine company
ut Cleveland. Mrs. Houston, formerly
Miss Ethel Watts, of stowe. and three
children will remain In Cleveland.
Elm letter dated October q to his aunt
Mrs. Alma Smith, from a resting camp in
England, Carroll W. Smith. Company c..
sO1 Machine Gun, S. N. % division Ameri-
can expeditionary force writes that he
was on the water IA days, four days in
the submarine danger zone. A storm on
the way over sent the waves over the first
deck sometimes. He was sleeping in a
tent on the ground, with the climate about
like Vermont but did not expect to be
there long. The German prisoners he said
were husky bunch. Some soldiers had
come back from the trenches. More get
wounded than killed. Probably two
thirds of the boys will come back. There
were air planes in sight all the time,
guarding the coast. He asked to have
the Baseball Magazine sent him that he
might read about the world series A cent
postage on a magazine will take it to a
soldier in France but this should be sont
directly to him if 1t did cost more. He
would give $500 for a magazine if he could
get it. Robert Smalley, Kenneth Bull and
Ambrose McManus from Stowe were with
him. The Vermont boys from the West
field training camp had left the two camps
ne had been in when in England only the
day before in each case. lie hoped to
.sneet them at the next place he moved.
The officers of the Stowe Red Cross
branch have taken pains to ascertain
that every boy from Stowe in the ma
; tional army shall receive a Christmas
| box from home. Any that have no home
friends to care for them will be looked
out for by Others. Mrs. Il. l.. Smith
and other Moscow ladies sent boxes
Thursday to Henry Crosby, Glenn Beck.
ley and Everett Marshall by express
They find they can send packages BY
express until December to Hoboken
N. j., to be delivered to the soldiers
III. Albert Foster was severely burned
on the right hand and face Tuesday
I, Nov. 13 when he pumped air into a lighted
gasoline lantern. Tho lantern was not
1 working right and when the air was
1 forced in the gasoline overlooked and
! ignited, causing much excitement for a
I few minutes and leaving Mr.. Fosters
+. right hand badly burned and his face
and eyelids considerably burned. He is
confined to the house by his injuries
e, but is doing well.-Perley G. Adams had
the cords on the back of the four fingers
of his right hand severed while running
a saving machine last week. 1t will
be some time before he can use the hand
The amount of $500 thereabouts has
been raised here for the Y. NJ. C. A. wal
fund, aside from the sum pledged by the
boys. The Ladies' Aid society of the Con.
gregational Church contributed $40 to the
fund. 1t was announced Sunday that q
boys had pledged to earn $40 each to con-
tribute to the fund by the first of April
At the Sunday evening service of the
Congregational Christian Endeavor so.
Iiety program in honor of the golden
1ubilee of the Womans Board of Ameri-
can Missions was carried out. Several
fmpersonations We're given representing the
conditions and achievements in Africa
India and Turkey. Mrs. IL. w. Cummings
sang a solo,. s. Austin of stowe Hollow
preached at the Methodist Episcopal
Church Sunday morning. The ladies' OF
the church will serve a ''wheatless' din
ner at noon Wednesday at the church,
Frank II. Wright and little daughters and
Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.. Cali motored to Bur,
lington Sunday and were accompanied
home by Mrs. Wright who has been al
the Mary Fletcher hospital for remova
Of the bullet lodged in her back when she
was shot, it is alleged, by Floyd Denton
October a. Mrs. Wright made the journey
home comfortably and Is able to sit VI
p Nttle.-Mr. and Mrs w. w. Adams ant
daughter, Mrs. NJ. w. Marshall, motoret
TO Burlington Sunday to visit Mrs. Mar
ehalrs daughter, Miss Polly Marshall
who is a freshman at the University O
Vermont. They were accompanied b.
Homer Cleveland and Mrs. Edward Hayes
Uhe latter visited her nephew, Elro.
Culver, who has been at the Mary Fiet
cher hospital five weeks for serious cas-
Df appendicitis. Several operations hav
been performed and 1t is thought tn
young man is now improving.-Carlyle
the little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold c
Mcmahon, tripped on "a rope while at pla
Saturday afternoon and fell to the ground
breaking the right leg below the knee
Mrs. r. w. Collins tripped on rug a
her home near Moscow Saturday and fel
striking the floor on the left arm an
4 shoulder, and receiving injuries that hav
disabled her. Her niece, Mrs Cora Chaffe
OI waterbury center, came tues
> day to care for her. Mrs Collins is owe
+ 90 and has been partially disabled 70
several years from the effects Of broke
htp.-Mr. and Mrs. A. l.. Morrill, returne
Saturday from Hartford. Conn. wher
/, they passed few days with their cousin.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Haines. Mrs. Haine
was formerly Miss Myra Cheney of Stowe
Mr.. and Mrs Morrill, went early in tn
week to Boston to attend the funeral G
/, Malcolm, the little son of Mr.. and Mri
Walter A. Cheney, who died of meningiti
/, on the 10th. and returned by way of Hart
4ord.-R. r. Mcmahon returned Monda
from Montreal-The men in camp q
Camp Comfort on Kicker mountain. hav
Returned to their homes, Leon Butti
Dwight Butts. Rufus Talbot and WilliaI
Towne each brought home deer.-Josep
Bushey shot a 2OO-pound buck Monda
,knorning.-Mrs. Lola Billings Douglas
6ave a party at the high school buildin
lFriday evening to her pupils of the frs
wear of the junior-senior high schoO