Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-30

down and picked 1t up It was a brass
key to room No rs Of the New Sher-
wood Hotel in this city. He promptly
mailed 1t to Manager William F. Flana-
gan of the Sherwood. The key has never
arrived, and Lieutenant Carpenter re-
ports that other souvenirs which he sent
home to friends were never received.
The board of aldermen held meet
ing Tuesday evening to consider the petit
lions of some taxpayers regarding the
abatement of assessments. Only a few
cases were taken up and these were
taken under advisement. All the al
dermen were present with the exception
of Messrs. Mansur, who is i'll, Bessette
and Mcbride. One of those who object
ed to his sewer assessment was s. H
Miller. who owns property near the
junction of North willard street and
North Winooski avenue. He had al
ready paid for the sewer and sidewalk
on one side of his property and did not
see why he should pay for two sewer
mains.
George Carpenter. a graduate Of the
local high school and prominent ath-
lete in his school days, is in Burling
ton for a stay of two weeks. Carpen-
ter his recently received his discharge
from the army, where he was a second
lieutenant in the 18th artillery. He
went into the service nearly year
ago, when he was up in the Canadian
Northwest and came to this country to
go into the army. His first service was
with the infantry and he received his
commission while with them. He has
not definitely decided on his plans for
the future and has not determined
whether to take up his former business
| in Canada or go to the west in this
country. He landed in Newport News
on January 6 and was discharged at
Camp Dodge. Iowa.
A ripple of interest and a passing
| smile were caused to passers on Church
street Tuesday night by some young men
who would have been alluded insane
in any but a college town. But they
were not. They were merely doing
fool stunts as prelimnaries to initia-
| ton into some Greek letter society at
the University of Vermont. One novice
par~ded up Church street with lighte ed
candle calling Come, Kttie. Kittie,"
and another did the act which has be-
come quite familiar with the recurring
years; he measured the car track with
a yardStick. These things evidently
pleased the small boys, who gathered
numerously. And the big boys were
also pleased--and the stuntees will also
be inflated when they afflx gold pin
bearing some letters from the Greek
| a alphabet.
| The oath annual meeting of the Girls
Friendly society Of ST. Pauls Church
was held In the parish house Tuesday.
At six o'clock IS girls sat down to birth
day supper. In the center of the table
was large birthday cake on which were
"a candles. while "a large candles were
placed around the table. At each plate
| there was G. +. S. post card as place
| card. The supper. which was an excellent
one, was in charge of Mrs. B. B. Beeman,
| Mrs. Edward johnson and the other asso-
ciates. A business meeting followed at
| which Miss Jennie z. Latin, branch sec
| rotary, gave her annual report, which
showed that s2l6.27 was given during
the year for different objects in money
and boxes. The report also showed that
there are now 1853 members in the st. Paul
branch, which is in three departments
Bishop A. G. A. Hall was present and
made few remarks. Bishop G. Y. Bliss
also spoke. The Rev. G. w. Davenport
presided at the meeting and reapponted
Miss Latin branch secretary.
Friends of Lieut.. Matthew H. Griswold
Second United States Cavalry, A. E. F.
will be glad to hear Of his promotion
to captaincy last October. Owing to
delay at Washington. official news of 1,
has only just now been received by his
family. Captain Griswold writes that he
is in good health and has had a Won
derful experience since going over
last March. His regiment was the only
American cavalry regiment in action and
went in at Chateau Thierry. following
along the Vesle, then in st. Mihiel and
finally in the Argonne, where it suffered
terrible casualties in both men anc
horses, as the Germans trained theii
machine guns on the horses legs. The
regiment has been cited five times. Cap.
tain Griswold is a graduate Of the Medi.
cal College of the University of Yer.
mont, in the class of 1913. and is wei
known. His wife, who was Miss Yer
madel Rogers Of this city. and little
son are spending the winter in Connects
cut, where they have reopened theil
house.