Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-07-24

has been engaged by the school board
rs teacher in the primary department
OF the Montpelier schools. This leaves
fve vacancies to fll, the result OF as
many resignatons in the recent weeks
Among these is that of principal. to
take the place Of Frederic Edwards,
who recently resigned.
a real change of clerical help is to
occur in the State House shortly. Miss
Flora Rowland of the tax commissioners
office Is To go to Burlington, where she
has employment, and Miss Mildred House.
who has been in that department, goes
to the state purchasing agents depart
ment. These vacancies will be filed by
Miss Laura keegan, of the Legislative
reference bureau, and Mrs. Ruth Hodges,
of the state purchasing agents ONCE
| the clerical help In the latter Office hav-
ing been reduced two persons.
| The owners of the Barre g. Montpelier
and Barre Lighting e. Power a.. have
| been given very stiff termsVh ny the
Granite Manufacturers association rela-
| tive to furnishing sufficient power ut
! recent meeting of the executive commit
tee of the association, stated to repre-
; sentatiVes of the company that WITHIN
| one month the company must show indi-
! cation or securing sufficient power TO
! handle the business at all times or other
arrangements would be made by the
members of the association. 1t will be
| recalled that when the Central Power
company wanted to bring its power from
! Middlebury to Montpelier that there was
a great deal of objection by the Tenney
! company, because it claimed 1t had suffi-
cient power for all time.
! Edward NJ. Nichols, aged g. years. and
! n longtime resident of Montpelier. died
during Tuesday afternoon, following a
long illness of dropsy and heart trouble
He had been IN the trusking business
here several years. He was an Odd Eel
low and leaves his wife and daughter,
Mrs William Vaughan.
At the quarterly meeting of the
Green Mountain Fire Insurance COM
pany held Tuesday, the books showed
that over S125,00o worth of insurance
has been written in the first month of
doing business. The meeting was we'll
attended by the directors outside Mont
peler.
The marriage of Miss Anna Steven
son of Montpelier and A. Fribery of
Barre took place at the home of A. W.
johnson in Montpelier Tuesday eve
ming. the ceremony being performed by
the Rev. F. r. Leach in the presence of
the immediate relatives or the con-
tracing parties. The house was pref
tily decorated Following the wedding,
the guests went to the Bailey hall,
where reception occurred and dur
ing which dancing was in order until
midnight. Erickson's orchestra fur
nshed music. The bride has been EN-
ployed in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
f. Atkins. while the groom is In the
granite Arm of Anderson & Friberg of
Barre.
The funeral of r. NJ. Nichols, who
died Tuesday afternoon. will take place
from his late home at two o'clock Fri
day afternoon. The deceased was a
native of Middlesex, a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William A.. Nichols, born Janu-
airy 4. 1852, and for many years lived
In Middlesex, after which he came to
Montpelier. He was very active many
years in the Odd Fellows lodge of
Montpelier. He did a general trucking
business while residing in this city
He was twice married and Is survived
by his second wife, who was Mrs. Car
rie Could and one daughter. Mrs. will
liam Naughap MiddleSey