Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-06-20
SOUTH WOODBURY.

Miss Alice McKinstry is visiting Mrs.
Pauline Bills of Springfield for two weeks
Harry, the little son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Benjamin. who has been seriously
i'll Of whooping cough and Group, is i'm
proving. Batchelder will leave
for Vancouver Wednesday, where he has
been ordered for government service.
Harley Wheeler left Saturday for Ports
mouth. ~ H., and Arthur Ainsworth for
Hartford, Conn.,, both expecting employ
ment in the ship-building yards.-R. NJ.
Pray is quite i'll of stomach trouble
Miss Agnes Tassie Is in Johnson this
week for commencement She Is a MEM
Der of the graduating class.--Miss Flora
| Wheeler. who has been the guest of Mr..
| and Mrs. a. l.. Haskell returned Friday
| to her work in Pawtucket. r. IA. G.
| Nelson and T.. G. Sabn were in Barre
| Tuesday.-Miss Lucy Wells and niece of
Barre were at w. b. Goodcll's Sunday.
NORTHFIELD
| Graduation exercises Of Mortified
| high school were held in Armory hall
Thursday evening and were very large
| ly attended by the parents and friends
of the members of the school. The
program was as follows: March;
prayer, Rev. G. d. Fairman; salutatory,
in War" Ruth e. Staples; music. high
school orchestra: essay. 1.-The Negro as
a Soldier" Merton +. Carr essay,
women and tn. War" Ethel c. Cross.
third honor: essay, Aviation in the
War" Theron W. Mcintosh. fourth
honor; music, high school orchestra !:
valedictory with essay, "Strive to Con-
quer," Marion e. Burns; presentation Of
| diplomas, Rev. James b. Sargent. The
graduates were: Laura Elizabeth Boyn-
ton. Marion Elizabeth Burns, Merton
Frank Carr. Ethel Coralyn Cross.
Josephine CALI. Raymond Rock Giffin,
Mary Irene Kingston, Theron William
Mcintosh, Joseph Alexander McCor-
mack. Ruth Elvira Staples, Perry Luz
clan Stone and Ransel George Warner.
| The flag day exercises were held
Friday and were largely attended. not
withstanding the fact that the exercises
were nearly broken up by showers.
The first exercise took place at 4:30
at the granite plant Of Cross Brothers
with the Hon. Frank Plumley as speak
er and music by the mortified Cornct
band. The second took place at seven
o'clock at the granite plant of N.
Pelaggi & company with J. G. Frat
TIM of Montpelier as speaker and music
by the band. At both plants four new
flaSpoles have been erected and the
flags of the United States. Great Brit
ian, France and Italy now float in the
breeze. Phillips G. Slack have during
the past week erected a large flag pole
over their office building and have
floated a large flag
The funeral of the Rev. Harold
G. Ellis was held Thursday from the
Methodist Church at II O'Clock, the Rev.
@. II. Redding officiating. Burial was
in Emwood cemetery Mr.. Ellis was
born in Granville in 1877 and came to
Mortified to reside in 1881. following
his fathers death. He attended the
graded and high schools, Montpelier
Seminary, and graduated from Norwich
University in 1893, after which he was
an instructor for some time, later taking
up the ministery. He married Gertrude
Cousins of New York in 1906, who has
been an inmate Of hospital in New
York city for four years. A daughter,
Alma Jane, for some time has lived with
Mr.. and Mrs. c, X. Cameron. A peculiar
and touching feature in regard to the
funeral was that not relative was pres
ent. Mr.. Ellis was the last Of his fam
lily. his brother, W. A. Ellis, dying only
a few months ago and the daughter
above referred to being in quarantine on
account of chickenpox.-The graduating
! exercises of the grammar school were
held Wednesday June u in Armory hal
when the following program was carried
out: March; prayer by the Rev. B. Sar-
gent; salutatory, Sadie Albin (read by
: Harriet Cook on account of the sickness
of Miss Albin); THE He'll Gate at Sois-
: sons" Roger Brock; chorus. water
Lily; Between the Lines Evelyn
| Cook; violin solo, George Holton; "Fleur-
J cite" Mary Veronese; essay, "WaI
! Poetry" Emma Slack; cornet solo
Roland LaFrana Edith Cavell." NIL.
dred Rabidou; BILL the Bomber" Ralph
Bancroft solo, There, Little Girl. DOM
Cry" Ruth Dyke: For All We Have
. and Are Alice Phillips; valedictory
, with essay, Labor Conquers An
the Lilies Bloom; presentation Of diplo-
mas by ]. Allen Hunter. superintendent
! The program was strictly a war pro.
gram. being taken from a collection OF
! war poetry that has been written within
: the last three years.
The funeral of Judge Charles d
, Edgerton, who died suddenly June II
, was held at his late residence on MAR
| street Thursday afternoon at thre,
O'Clock the Rev. James b. Sargent, pas
tor of the Congregational Church off
ciatlng. Burial was in Elmwood GENE
terry. the bearers being f. w. Dutton
| oh"i ASS "a. iuiHicy, SudIicS dOOu
rich and A. T.. Plastridge. Charles d
Edgerton was born in Brasher Falls
N. Y, and came to Mortified with hi
parents when 10 years old He wal
educated in the public schools of North
field and was graduated from tn,
d Mortified high school In 1875 ant
Q from Dartmouth College in 1879 Fo
0 some time following this he was EN-
ployed by the Ely Foundry compan,
as a bookkeeper and by the Vernon
Waterman as proofreader. He late
4 took up the study Of law and was ad
: mitted to the bar in 1886. In 1892 h,
married Roxana circuit who survive
a him. He is also survived by severa
a cousins. He had many times serve,
= as moderator at town meetings and ha,
;, held the office for number of year
!, preceding his death. For ten years h
= was secretary of the class of 10 O
Dartmouth College and for a long terri
: of years he was secretary of the Gran
:, Lodge l. o. q. r. He was also treas
I urer of the Northfield. Telephone com
= pany. The funeral was largely attend
n ed by many friends who held him 4
d high esteem. Among the flower of
a ferings were pieces from the Wash
r ington county bar, the class OF 20 O
70 Dartmouth and from the employees O
IS the Mortified Telephone company.
Q John NJ Harvey of Brattleboro an
n II. NJ. Harvey Of Montpelier were bust