Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-06-13


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Thomas Porville of South Hero is at
the Mary Fletcher hospital with badly
fractured hip. He was injured Sunday
night in an automobile accident. The
Ford In which he was riding took the
ditch to avoid collision with another
car and turned over. Porville was the
only person injured to any great extent.
The exact injuries to his hip will not be
known for day or two.
In probate court Monday, JenniS A.
McCale Of this city was appointed admin
istratrix of the estate Of Francis II.
McCale, late of Colchester. Thomas
Reeves and Thomas J. Mcdonnell were
, appointed commissioners and appraisers.
Henry Conlin and F. Edward Allard of
Winooski were appointed commissioners
and appraisers In the estate of Charles
w. Devino. late of Winooski. -
Twenty three members of Champaign
Valley Grange, Patrons Of Husbandry,
took the third and fourth degrees, at
the regular meeting Saturday night.
The degrees were worked by the local
STAFF OF officers. The Rev. Charles T..
Hayward of Winooski gave four-mn-
ute talk on war subject. Edward w.
Crannell gave recitation. Patriotic
songs both opened and closed the meet
ing.
A. r. White, the dairyman, who re-
Gently sold his Main street business to
the Burlington Cooperative Milk Prod
ucts company. Is to resume business at
% Church street. I'm the Parkhill block.
The work of remodeling the store, which
was formerly occupied by the Union
Pacific Tea company. is well under way.
Necessary machinery is arriving daily.
The work of putting in new concrete
moor Ia being rapidly completed
There is to be an adjourned session
OF United States court in MONTPELIER
June Is. Judge Harland r. Howe of
ST. Johnsbury will preside. 1t is antici-
pated that the case of the government
VS.. Herbert Monteflore of st. Adams will
be taken up. Montef1ore is charged
with a violation Of the Harrison act,
IN that he issued Illegal prescriptions
District Attorney V. A. Billiard will
| prosecute the governments case
The dance Of the Signal Corps at the
Lake Champlain Yacht club house Sat-
urday night was attended by about 100
couples. The men of the corps paid the
expenses Of the dance out of the profits
OF the store in Converse hall and the
Music was furnished by the 31Oth Cav
airy band. The patrons and patronesses
were Capt. and Mrs. NJ. B. Dilley, Prof.
md Mrs w. H. Freedman and Mr.. and
Mrs. F. P. Lord.
ALBERT II. Duncan. Jr., formerly Of
Winooski. who died in Cleveland, Ohio,
March ~. left an estate amounting to
something in excess Of 100000, which
after some requests of from 500 to s., 900,
goes to sister. Mrs. Ellen NJ. Metcalf
OF Troy. N. Y. The deceased left no
widow or children and one sister, Mrs.
Kate e. Chase of this city, who was
named In the original will. died before
Mr.. Duncan. The minor requests include
number to nephews and nieces in this
city
Harry Johnson of New York who has
been stopping at Is South Willard street
for some time, will leave Saturday morn
ing for Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver.
wash, where he is to take up military
aeronautics. Roy Ferrin Of Essex juno
ton will proceed to the same training
camp next week to enter the same
branch of the military service. Both
registrants had been held by the local
exemption board for special military
service.
The adjourned session of United States
court which was to have been held in
Montpelier on June IS, has been post
| poned indefinitely. Word to this effect
was received at the district attorneys
once In the federal building yesterday
from Judge Harland B. Howe of st.
Johnsbury. who was to preside. At the
speclned time on which the adjourned
session was to have been held in the
Capital City. Judge Howe will be busy
In New York city with the trial Of sew
eral cases
The condition of Walter Notemeyer.
the conductor on the light engine which
figured in the tunnel accident last week.
does not improve to any extent and it Is
evident he is in serious condition At
first it did not appear that he was one
OF the worst hurt. He walked to his
homo and was around the house for sew
eral hours before acute pain set in He
was then removed to the Mary Flet-
cher hospital. where he has since re-
manned. He was badly burned. Eugene
SIENNA, whose right arm was amputated
and who appeared to be In much
worse condition, is improving steadily.
What was reported as coming to Fort
Ethan Allen while ago has now gone to
Plattsburgh, base hospital. and the hos
pital is already filling up with the
| wounded and i'll. Some of these are from
the battleflelds OF France and others from
| the camps In this country Many patients
are suffering from shell shock and a part
of them have been gassed in the trenches.
| One patient is an aviator. He was
wounded and alighted outside the allies
lines but made his way back without being
captured. The hospital. when in full opera
ton. will have a capacity of 1000 patients
and will occupy all Of the brick quarters,
| formerly used as barracks for the troops.
| The war department desires photo
graphs, drawings and descriptions Of
| bridges, buildings. towns and localities
| now occupied by the German forces in
France. Belgium and Luxembourg, and
likewise In the part of Germany lying
west of the line running north and south
through Hamburg. Any persons having
acquired such information or material
through travel or otherwise are requested
! to leave same at the Merchants associa-
ton rooms In the Stannard Memorial
building. marked for T.. r. Gebhardt,
chairman of the Burlington branch of the
| vermont Committee of Public Safety.
All parcels must bear the name and ad-
dress of the donor
In probate court Friday Merton w.
Preston OF this city was appointed ad-
ministrator' of the estate of Warren r..
preston, late of this city. r. w. Parish
ana william T.. Hall, also Of this city,
were appointed the commissioners, and
r. A. Davis and A. Lee Cady Of Bethel
were named on the appraisers. Michael