Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-06-12

the district superintendents of the
Methodist Church in that section. From
Atlanta, DR.. Shaw will go to Athens.
Tenn, to speak at a similar gather
ing and during the next few months
he will visit colleges throughout the
country giving lectures
AT banquet held Tuesday evening by
the former members of the st. Adams
Machine Gun company plans were dis
cussed for the reorganization of a
machine gun company for the National
Guard. Adjt. Gen. H. T. johnson Of Mont
pelier has authorized capt. j. A. Evarts,
who commanded the company in France.
to form such a company.
Private Thomas Ward arrived Tuesday
morning after receiving his final dis
charge from the army at Camp Devens.
Private Ward went across with the 18th
DIVISION and later was transferred to
the 31Sth Infantry. He was with the
army Of occupation in Luxembourg until
his regiment received orders to return
to America.
The Womans BENEFIT Association of
the Maccabees gave a banquet to the old
Company 3 men at Odd Fellows hall
Monday evening. Capt G. s. Sumner
gave an interesting talk on the work of
the women during the war Mrs. Helen
Pell, mother of Capt. C. E. Pell. who il
now serving with the army of occupation.
surprised the guests with a large angel
cake decorated with pink and white
fondant icing with the letters Company
p in pink The cake was presented as a
remembrance OF Captain Pell, who was
in command or Company B when it left
St. Adams. Harvey's orchestra fur
nshed music.
st. Albanians at meetings held at the
armory and The Tavern Tuesday evening
appeared unanimous in the opinion that
the two National Guard companies that
st. Adams had previous to the war should
be re-organized The old Company 3
men met at the armory with Capt John
F. Sullivan in charge and he pledged
his support to the project as did Capt.
J. A. Evarts, who presided at the meet
ing Of the machine gun company men
held at The Tavern, where a banquet,
business meeting and dance were held.
Capt. c. s. Sumner, d. s. c., Croix de
Guerre. and Capt. Jack Woods also
pledged their support. At the armory
the names Of % men were secured and
another meeting will he held this eve
ming at eight o'clock At the meeting of
the machine gun men it was decided
Capt. Evarts should undertake the re-
organization work and Lieut. Walter NJ
Tenney was elected first lieutenant: Lieut..
Harry Weber senior second lieutenant
and Sergt. Harry Walsh, junior second
lieutenant. This is a temporary oreaniza
ltion.
The annual meeting of the Franklin
County Medical society will be held at
the St Adams hospital Wednesday
afternoon. June IS, at three o'clock with
the following program: Report of score
tary; report Of committees; business;
: vice-president's address, DR.. Arthur O.
Morton Of this city. "Encephalitis
Lethargica, Review Of the Literature .
Pneumonia, It's History and Classified
tions," DR.. H. D. Human of Enosburg
Falls; Its Army Treatment" DR.. James
s. King of Georgia; Its Vaccine Treat
ment." DR.. B. H. Stone Of Burlington.
Dinner will be served at The Tavern at
six o'clock.
Francis G. Kingsleys many friends in
} this city will be pleased to learn that he
has secured an important position with
} the National bank of New York, having
} been one among 10 successful students
nominated to positions open to students
. OF Syracuse University. The applicants
to the positions numbered nearly three
hundred. Mr.. Kingsley, who was grad
uated from the St. Adams high school
IeA' AWAY 'coh op Tie STUDY OF law ana
finance at Syracuse University from
which institution he was graduated YES
terday.
The first of a series of parties for tha
} summer season was held at the Champlain
Country club yesterday afternoon and
} last evening, large number of people
from this city and Swanton attending In
the afternoon bridge and 800 were PLAYED
and at $50 O'Clock the men joined the
party for supper and the evenings festivi-
ties The club house and porch were at
; tractively decorated with June flowers and
, Japanese lanterns. Baskets of flowers
were suspended over the windows and the
} fireplace was banked with flowers while
both inside the cottage and out Japanese
lanterns were hung. The Highland orchse-
| ira furnished music for dancing. The ar
J rangements were in charge of Mrs. c. H.
Morton. Mrs. Leo F. Wilson, Miss Mabel
A. Ellis and Miss !. Kathryn Holmes Of
this city and Mrs. c. f. Allen and Mrs
} c. A. Webster of Swanton
Miss Nell Jewett. who for a few years
has conducted manicuring arlors in this
city. has sold the business TO Miss Carrie
Cross Of Burlington. who has taken pos
session and will have her parlors at the
same loca ton. Miss Jewett expects to
spend several weeks in camp al the Geor-
gia shore and then will go to New York
for few months
The records at the office Of City Clerk
p. NJ. Hopkins show a total of seven mar
riages. IA birth and nine deaths during
the month of May. OF the births six were
boys and eight girls. The deaths were
divided. four male and five female.
The report of DR.. W. B. Arnold. city
health officer, for the month Of May shows
, a total Of % communicable diseases as fol-
lows: Mumps, . cases; chicken-pox, scar
let fever and typhoid fever. one each
There were II deaths reported.
ENOSBURG FALLS
Mrs. d. NJ. Gardner is passing few
weeks with her son, Dwight Gardner, in
Milford Center, Ohio. Mrs, w. L. Gard
ner. who accompanied her to Cleveland
where Larry" was playing at that
time is now visiting at the home of her
mother, Mrs Forney, in Canton, Ohio
The Iroquois Braves of Highgate put on
a good game Saturday afternoon with
the Nestles Food company's team and
won out by a score of 5 to at the end
of the 18th inning.-The high school team
lost to Newport Friday and won from
North Troy Saturday.-Mr. and Mrs R.
Lii.