Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-05-03
STOWE.

Arrangements are being made for a pa.
triottc mass meeting by the crops cam.
paign committees. The seed committee
has sent out 50 return postcards to farm
ers to ascertain h supplies can be OBJ.
tained. Prompt replies are urged as it
Is important to know what can be done.
The land committee has secured the At
wood lot Of three acres near Sunset hill.
The lot will be p%loughed and allotted in
quarter-acre lots to those wishing to OBJ
tain Ian to plant-The ladies Of the Con.
gregational Church served a successful
May breakfast at the Congregational
Church Tuesday morning. A pretty fea.
ture OF the occasion was the winding OF
the May-pole and dance by "a little girls,
who had been trained by Miss Viola Knee
land. and who were much commended by
their excellent work.-C. A. Riley moved
Tuesday to the place on Fucker street re-
Gently purchased Of Mrs. Lydia Sargent.
Mrs. Sargent and daughter. Miss Nellie
Sargent. also moved Tuesday to the Riley
residence taken in exchange.-Miss Dor
othy Harris Of the Peoples Academy
training class. returned to Morrisvilie
Monday after a few days at home. where
she visited several schools taught by the
girls Of the class.-Miss Dora Magoon ia
teaching the Fucker street school this
~week.-Owing to a case OF measles at the
home Of Mrs. W. NJ. Adams. another place
OF meeting will be announced later for
the Get-Together club next Tuesday,
Cassius p. Scribner Is confined to his bed
by illness.-Mrs Silas o. Perry Of Stowe
Forks is i'll with a bad case Of blood
poisoning in one hand.-A. E.. Horner has
moved from one Of ]. e. Houston's tene-
ments to rooms In W. F. Harris's house
at the lower village. Mr.. Horner and son
are employed at F. f. Smiths factory
The largest sugaring-oh party heard OF
this season was that given by Mr.. and
Mrs. F. l.. Recor to the pupils ana
teachers Of the Stowe high and graded
schools last week. over 100 were present
and sugar on snow. %doughnuts and pickles
were served.-Several from here attended
the patriotic meeting at Morrisville Sun
day afternoon.-Willis NJ. Douglass re-
turned Monday to Bennington after a rev
days in Stowe. His mother. Mrs. Hattie
Douglass. accompanied him home for a
visit.-Mrs. Frank Buker is quite Ill at
her home in Stowe Forks.-Fred Brink
has moved from one Of H. E. Shaw's
houses TO the John Harris place near
%Smugglers' Notch. recently purchased by
w. A. Drew of Barre.-Vernon Parker re-
turned Monday from the Mary Fletcher
hospital, and is doing we'll after an oper-
alton for water in the side following
p~leurisy.-The stores in this village will
close at six o'clock on Tuesday and FRI
day evening beginning on the fourth.
Answers to return postcards received
by the Bigger Crops" seed
show that many Of the farmers In stowe
are In need Of seeds. only a few having
any to spare. Two hundred and NIFTY
cards have been sent out and prompt
replies are r~equested.-The Red Cross
fund realized 1890 from the moving pic
ture entertainment given for its beneht
at hotel hall Tuesday evening.-The Red
| Cross ladies met to sew Tuesday after
noon. They will meet on Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons next week.-Ths
Rev. J. T. Mickey of the Vincentian
Fathers of Bangor, Pa. a cousin OF Mrs.
F. S. Boardman. who is conducting a
mission at Waterbury, the Rev. Robert
Dewey OF Waterbury. the Rev. Thomas
Leonard Of Mlddlebury and the Rev. T.
]. Liddy Of the Cathedral Of Immaculate
Conception, Burlington, were guests at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Boardman
Tuesday.-Mrs. Henry Lurk and little
daughters are passing a few days in
Stowe. Mr.. and Mrs. Lurk are moving
from Randolph to Waterbury. Mrs. Turks
mother. Mrs. Abbie Warren. Is recover
ing from illness following the grip, at
the Randolph sanitarium.-Mrs. A. j.
Houston. who has been confined to her
bed by illness for some time, remains
about the same.-Walter Bedell has
moved his family to Montpelier. where
he has a numbering job,-At a ceremonial
meeting of the Camp Fire Girls of the
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