Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-08
Addison County
MIDDLEBURY

MlDDLEBUR1
The Maple Inn at Ripton. owned
by P. II. Eaton of this village,
was sold at auction Thursday morn
ing by Milo K Moore of this vii
lage to Charles Cook of Ripton. The
property consisted of a house of 20
| rooms, an acre of land, barn and out
buildings. For many years il has been
the resort of hunters and fishermen.
The price paid was S590.-The meeting
Of Middlebury Grange. No. 315, will be
held in the hall OH Merchants row
| next Friday evening. After the business
| session the following program will be
| carried out, which is designated as bird
night: Music; roll call, each responding
by naming his favorite bird and the num-
ber of different birds seen and identified
this spring; paper, Vermont Birds"
Mrs. Charles c. Cady; music; paper.
THE Value of Birds to the Farmer"
Homer Harris; paper. How to Attract,
Protect and Keep the Birds Around Our
Homes" Mrs. Arthur Eddy; discussion,
shall Government Price Fixing Be Con-
fined to the Farm Producer" ]. e. Weeks,
e. A. Frost w. n. Cady; music; humor-
! Gus reading, Mrs Edgar Blnn; surprise
committee. Mrs George Rose and Mrs.
3. b. Brown.-Mrs. Michael Grady, who
| has been i'll for two weeks, is slowly
| recovering and is able to be about the
| house for a little Of the time during the
| day.-The New England Telephone &
Telegraph Co. has postponed putting
| into effect the abolishment of free serv-
| ice area outlined in notices sent sub
| scribers of the former Champlaln Val
| ley Telephone company on April 1, pend
Ing a hearing with the Public Service
| Commission. which will be held at Mid
| d'ebury at an early date.--Phillip s. Cal
| houn of Battery B. 3o2nd Field Artillery.
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Calhoun. this
village, arrived from overseas duty
| Thursday evening.-Mrs. f. c. Ryder
has been appointed county chairman Of
! Addison county of the war savings stamp
| drive. Other appointments for the
county are: Lieut.. Joel l.. Lamera. n
graduate of Middlebury College, to assist
| in field secretary work. Lieutenant
Lamera is one Of the three young men
| from the service named, and after a
| months course at Boston University will
be available for the work.-Word has
been received from the Fanny Allen hos
| pital that Mrs. George Morcomb under
went an operation Thursday and is
| doing as well as could be expected
| Corp. Napoleon Desjardon. who has
served Is months with Battery C. 3o2nd
! Field Artillery, in France, returned
home Thursday night and is now stop
| ping at the home of his parents-Mrs
| Madene Bolton Of St Johnsbury is in
town for several weeks as a pupil of
Prof. Lewis J. Hathaway.-The Middle
bury high school declamations were an
nounced Friday for Monday evening
May II. at the town hall. They are:
| Contestants. Mary r. Caswell. Ethel w
Bingham. Mildred II. Parkil Frank q.
Brown, Mary Warner Margaret f.
Graham. Agnes Amelia Pidgeon. Flor
ence L. Yates. Walter L. Grosvenor and
Catherine f. Robbins. There also will
be music, and the usual award of prizes
| William Turner Is ill.-Nfiss Lillian
Brown. who spent the winter in Fitch
burg. Mass. with her sister. Mrs. F. c.
| MAYNARD has returned-Mrs H. f.
Shaw. who has been visiting her sister
Mrs L. J. Hathaway. for few weeks
has returned to WILLIAMSBURG Pa.-Dr.
r. c. Flagg has gone to New York cjtv
| TO sneud ten davs or two weeks at most
graduate work there-PhiII,n Forest has
eptered tho cmn,ovment of Gorhapo G.
Sons as deIivervman.-Tbe Misses Ade-
Iade Ross Ruth Goodro Ruth J,evin and
Janice Mead have returned TO their homes
| in West Rutland after having spent
unior week in town-Ra,ph BeIden of
Monteomerv . former resident NJ t,is
town Is making few davs' visit here
with friends and also will snend soma
time in Rutland before returning home
A largo amount of satisfaction Is heirg
r,.rifas,ad hora oysr tho resrr,n,ior 90
dav NJ the former morning and after
noon mail trains between Huntington and
Roston Under the new time-tsb,e mas
senger trains leave this station as
seme, %a,s e,,,, o.,,a =, ~. 90
train. ,a.ss instead ~ 19.2o tho cr.on
,,omn,ai, ,' r,,or. s.oa instead -, Aka go" 8,
ths aocormod, ton train and ,o.5a ' in
.ne "'eo,o'"' ~ y. T. c." v'' ."-
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nlnk ''aln WI, 'eave ne,s q. w., u,'- .'oeh.
gong north' 'he acc. aeeo,.,n.'aa'.o" ~ %. a. sos
e. ",'. ,a'oo "s'" 90 ' - ~ ~, 49, ''s. .s.,''
OF i..D D. M %" p III, inc ne" lra'n
the Green Mountain nyer AT e:4o. instead
OF 4Aa; 1000 p. M instead OF io,S p' M
and the morning sleeper a, 4.lS a. m.