Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-07-17
Chittenden County
WINOOSKI

Horatio Abair died at his home at 30
West Canal street Monday morning at
one o'clock after a lingering Illness of
about two years. Mr.. Abair was born
at Essex Center 81 years ago and had
spent most of his life in this village In
1873, he married Agnes Gadue Of this VII
lage. He is survived by his wife. four
sons, Edward. William. Urban and Leo.
and one daughter, Mrs. Carrie Parizo;
step-mother, Mrs. Peter Cusson; one
sister. two half-brothers, Louis and
George Affair, and by two half sisters,
Mrs Joseph Myers and Mrs. f. Felo, all
of this place. Mr.. Abair was men,
Der of St. Francis Xavier Church, ST.
Peters society and the Brotherhood OF
Painters and Decorators. No. 613. of Bur-
lington. The funeral will be held Thurs
day morning at $50 O'Clock at st. Fran
els Xavier Church.
An alarm of fire was rung in from box
Is for n fire in the stock shed Of the car
bombing plant of the American Wooden
company Saturday at 1890 p. m. When
the fire was first seen the whole building
was ablaze and it was thought the entire
carbonizing plant was doomed as the shed
is situated between the carbonizing build
ing and one other building. The firemen
laid a few hundred feet of hose and had
about four or five streams of water play
ing on the fire With the aid of the water
pump of the company, which made
water pressure of 125 pounds. the fire was
soon under control. Fire Chief Stockwell
of the Burlington Fire Department and
a few of his men came up. and gave
willing hand to help fight tile fire.
At the meeting of the Loyal Order Of
Moose July Q, the following Off
GERS were elected: Dictator. Walter
Singles vice dictator, Louis E.Tatro. past
dictator, Joseph Erwin; prelate. William
Mcclure; treasurer, Eli Wiley; secretary,
James Murray; inside guard, Frank P.
Gadue; outside guard, Michael Desautels;
trustees, Louis Doria, William Gaunt.
Robert Cameron: house committee, Will
am MCGUIRE. Alfred Robilletto, Eugene
Brillion. Leo Abair steward. Fred 1.adue
| Howard Parrow, who was recently dis
charged from the army and who has
been visiting with his parents for a few
weeks. left Saturday for Cleveland. Ohio.
to resume his former position. where he
was employed before entering the serv-
! ice
| One of the shortest meetings in the
history Of the village was held last
| evening. when special meeting of the
legal voters of the village of Winooski
met to see II the village would appro-
pirate a certain sum of money to carry
on the street work and to see If the
village would authorize its trustees to
sell the hook and ladder truck. The
meeting was called to order at 1880
o'clock by Moderator f. E. Bigwood
and Clerk of the Village Joseph Cou-
chon read the warning. The first ar
ticle, to see II the village would vote
to appropriate sum to carry on the
street work, was voted down unani-
mously. The second article, to see II
the village would authorize its trus-
tees to sell the hook and ladder truck
was voted upon unanimously to au-
thorize the trustees to sell. AS the
village is heavily in debt at the pres
ent time the trustees thought 1t best
not to overdraw the accounts and called
a special meeting to ask the voters to
appropriate special sum. The at
tendance at the meeting was very
large
Miss Esther Dunning, who has beer
at the Mary Fletcher hospital for two
weeks. has returned to her home or
Malletts Bay avenue much improved.
Carl Benedict has gone to Mont
pelier, where he will have charge of one
OF the stores of the A. & p Tea Co.