Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-01-17
IN VT;
NEWS BY COUNTIES

.hrtnur Euuy; treasurer, MIS-. W. D. LAR
row; executive committee. Mrs. II. B.
Iiagar. Mrs. Arthur Hinman and Mrs. L.
hathaway; Mrs. Dyer. Mrs. Moody and
Mrs Bristol read papers on ANDREW
Carnegie "Mrs. Russell Sage and
Helen Gould Shepard" Mrs. Leroy Rus
sell furnished music. The annual meeting
Of the Fortnightly department held their
meeting also Saturday afternoon at the
home Of Mrs. A. w. Dickens and the fol-
lowing program committee was elected:
Chairman. Mrs. A. H. Bristol. Mrs. Bryant.
Mrs. ID. G. Noble and Mrs. j. S. Stewart
and Mrs. w. w. McGilton were elected to
act as committee with the Women's club
committee There were good attendances and
beth branches report their books and
finances in good condition.
The annual village meeting was held last
evening at the town hall with large
attendance, about 200 being precent.
Among them were 25 women who cast
their first votes. Moderator r. NJ. Chap
man called the meeting to order and
Clerk Joseph NJ. Burke read the call.
Mr.. Chapman declined reelection as
moderator and Judge J. Il. Weeks was
elected. J. NJ. Burke was reelected clerk
The reports of the village as published
were accepted. The sum of $1,000 was
voted to put in sewer improvements. A
road tax Of 20 cents and a general tax
of GO cents was voted. The board of
trustees was reelected as follows: w. n.
Cady, p. NJ. Swett J. A. Fletcher, p. Il.
Mellen, p. ]. Kinks and Isaac Lavonche,
Jr. For water commissioner p. NJ. SWEET
and John d. Woods whose term expired,
were nominated. AS Mr.. SWEET could
not hold both his Office as trustee and,
II elected, as water commissioner he
resigned his trusteeship. OF the 148 votes
cast, he received 80 and Mr.. Woods
30. The treasurer elected is Charles T..
Pinney; chief Of the fire department.
George F. Kidder: auditors. II. F. Joy
and c. c. Wells The trustees met after
the meeting at the town clerks office
and organized as follows: President,
]. A. Fletcher; appointed. superintendent
Of streets, James McGlnchey: chief of
police, George Chaffee; night watchman,
George N. Moore; village attorney. Allen
r. Sturtevant; policemen, George Chaffee,
George Moore. Charles Shaw John Signo
and p. E. Crane. The following trustees
were appointed to take charge Of the
departments fire department, p. ].
Kinks; superintendent of parks, Philip T..
Mellen; roads. Willis ~ Cady; lights,
Isaac Lavonche. Jr.; sewers, A. NJ
Brown; paymaster of street department,
MISS Lucy Kinks.
The heaviest snowstorm of the winter,
so far. struck Middlebury and all the
surrounding territory early Tuesday
morning and snow continued to fall with
out interruption all through the day, SO
that by evening there were from Is to
IS inches of new snow on the ground.
Rural delivery men were able to get in
from the country towns in the morning,
but had hard work getting back over their
routes and probably some Of them did not
succeed In making their whole trip, other
wise traffic between Middlebury and the
surrounding towns was practically cut off
In this village. The snowploughs were
kept running all through the day. but
the sidewalks filled in again every time
and after an hour there was little indi-
cation that any snowplough had passed
through. Many people recalled the great
blizzard of March Y. 1SSS-The East Mid
dlebury new water works system. which
was frozen UP tight for several days.
after the recent coolest" snap. has been
thawed out and Is in working order
again. 1t took the efforts of several
plumbers from this village quite num-
ber Of days before they could get the
work completed. From the town farm
to the foot of the mountain, almost
everybody that had running water had
to call on somebody to get 1t thawed out.
The funeral Of Frank c. Atwood. who
died at the home of f. J. Whitney in
Salisbury Friday. was held at the Con-
gregational Church in Salisbury Tuesday
afternoon at two o'clock. The Rev. N.
Roster officiated. A delegation of Masons
went from this village. The bearers were:
Charles Ellis. Cyrus Bump. Alvin Forest.
William, Frank and f. J. Whitney. Burial
tv,< <I,a IN lei lot i,,% y@v
terry at Salisbury.-The Addison County
Association of Congregational Ministers
held well-attended meeting at the Con-
gregational Church Wednesday,. The dis
cussion Of topics was lead by the Rev.
c. c. Merrill Of Burlington. secretary Of
the Vermont Congregational conference
Plans were made for an unusually strong
meeting of the county association which
will meet at the church in New Haven
May 7.-Judge John i. Weeks, director of
State institutions. is on a round of official
visits. which will take him to the house
Of correction in Rutland, the State prison
in Windsor, and the State Industrial
school in Vergennes.-The funeral of Mrs
Clentia Robidoux D'Avignon, who died
early Sunday morning at her home In
New Haven. was held at St. Mary's
Church at nine o'clock Tuesday morning,
the Rev. T. j. Leonard officiating. There
was large attendance Of friendv in spite
of the heavy storm and the interinent was
in the local Catholic cemetery. Mrs. D.
DAvignon was Is years of age. having
been born at st. Gregoir. Can, on No
vember I, 1S42 Her husband died several
years ago. She is survived by one daugh-
ter. Miss Mary D'Avignon of New Haven.
and two brothers. r. J. Robidoux Of Crow
ley. Louisiana. and Arthur Robidoux of
CRANKY. Can-The Rev. Fl. c. Newell, the
Congregational pastor. has requested all
young people Of his church who may be
interested in the matter of forming a
class for study by way of preparation for
church membership, to meet at his par
sonage at 4:3O Friday afternoon.
The Middlebury Suffrage Study club
will meet at the home of Mrs. Lewis
]. Hathaway Friday afternoon at 2:30
to do Red Cross work for the Suffrage
Y M. c. A. Fund members and friends
are cordially invited to come with their
work and 10 cents for' the fund
James Oney. a sailor in the United
navy. Is at home on furlough which
he is spending at the home of his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs Tobey Oney,-Word
has been received from Phillip La
feur. who recently enlisted in the Uni
ted States aviation corps. that he is
now serving as "a mess sergeant In the
aviation camp at San Antonio, Texas
Mrs. Noah Wissell is ill.--Mr. and Mrs.
william II. Campbell have returned to
Cincinnati, Ohio. after three weeks I'm
Middlebury and vicinity.-The annual
meeting OF the Ladies' Aid society
which was to have been held Tuesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. George