Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-08-19
Addison County
MIDDLEBURY

d. c.. and Abigail MoNulla of Worcester,
Mass. are guests of their parents Mr..
and Mrs. NJ j. McNrlla.-Miss May
Sullivan, who has been visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. George Moore for
a few days. has returned to Burligton.-
The drought has been fully relieved
throughout all this section by copious
rains during the past few days. The
showers apparently ceased for the
present at noon Saturday. when there
was half hours steady thunder and
lightning storm, about the worst Of the
season so far. Lightning struck an apple |
tree on the promises Of Madam Gardner |
S, Wainwright on Court street and shat !
tered 1t into fragments. No reports have |
been received OF lightning striking any
other places during this storm.-Mrs.
William II. Burke and her four children
of West Rutland are visiting In town
for a short time Mrs. Harriet y. Parker
and 30 members of the Five Hundred club
of Rutland. who have been pcnicing at
Lake Dunmore have returned to lRut-
land.--1ra II. LaFleur is making extern
| sive repairs and Improvements upon the
, Northrup property which he recently
purchased on College street.-Miss Rose
Lawrence of SALISBURY is visiting her
grandfather, George II. Hodges. in East
Middlebury session Of the French
| SCnOOt dJ hiuultUuTN '-clitSc Ndiic W "
close Saturday and the Spanish and orher
schools closed this week Wednesday.
-Mr and Mrs. John Gipson and children
! OF Logansport, Ind, are guests of Mr..
| Gipson's mother Mrs G NJ. Gipson.-
Miss Aymar and Miss Turner of New
York city are visiting at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. e. Ryder.-The local
post of American Legion will observe
Armistice day with special exercises. ac-
cording to plans being made by Com
mander J. 7. Ross. A formal presenta-
tion of the Victory medals will he made
and speakers of note will address the
men and their friends The ex-service
men who have not received the medals
are urged to get in touch with Com
mander Ross. who will give them the
necessary blanks for the requisition
of the department official
insignia.--E. &. Cornwall has gone to
Denver Colo. to attend the meeting OF
the executive committee of the American
Farm Bureau observation-disclosures LIE
Wake, who has been in town for two
weeks with his daughter, Mrs. II. n.
Stone. has returned to Niagara Falls,
y. Y.-Mrs. Rufus c. F'lagg has returned
from the Mary Fletcher hospital, where
she underwent an operation. She is doing
well.-Mrs. Isaac Lavonche. Mrs. James
! Dumas and daughter. Beatrice. Miss
Jessie Marcilles and Charles Jarvis OF
Vergennes have returned from Lake
Dunmore, where they have spent two
weeks at the Lavonche cottage.-Mrs X
2 T. Woodward of Warrensburg. n. ", is
in town to visit her sisters, Mrs John w
Hammond and Mrs. Nelson A. Seymour
Mr. and Mrs. George Appleby and son
, Harry of Gouverneur. n. V, are in towr
! and will remain until after the county
L VII. o~tt- he
supper of the Catholic people of Middle
e bury and vicinity was held in the hal
of St Mary's Church Wednesday Aug
H. There was an unusually large at
- tendance the crowd being considerabl.
bigger than had been anticipated. A sup
u per was served by the ladies of the parish
n followed by literary and musical enter
e tainment.-Charles Williamson, who ma
5 been in town for a week to visit his sis
y ters, Mrs. John w. Hammond and Mrs
e Nelson A. Seymour has returned y
y Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He was accom-
B. panied by his two nephews. Donald an
i charles Williamson. who will make thei
" home with their uncle-The bal game
" which was played on Porter field Thurs
- day afternoon between mines compose
IL of men from the Marble mill and fror
g the clerks of the village stores. resuite
=, in a victory for the Marble mill hoy
" with a score of ~ to 9.-The M>sse
Catherine and Nellie Johnson have re
L turned from Lake Dunmore after a wee
i in CAMP guests of Miss Reta Maxnei
of Brandon.-The rural delivery man cal
rIers now start out on their routes q
nine o'clock in the morning and the ma
stages depart from this office AT w
n, and 2:3O p. m.-Iulius q. Seele,
M head clerk In the Mddlebury postoftic
has resumed his duties in the office aftt
, two weeks vacation. George Mea
has commenced his vacation or NV
weeks.-Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Spearma
~, OF Clinton. Mass, are in town'-Mr' an
~. Mrs. Fred Howard of Bridport nave sol
=" their farm of IA acres. together vii
=, stock. tools and crops to David Leteoro'
- of st. Eugene. Ont, who VIII take POI
10 session August 23.-Mrs. Walter Latham
v" w,ltham. Mass. Is in town to visit
80 her sister. Mrs. f. c. Brown-Carl
Frost has returned from Boston, whel
u bo spent a few days.-Mr. and Mr.
VI stenben Doody, who have been in tow
- | FOR several weeks to visit his and N
narents and to allow him to attend II
-. summer school at the college, have r
aa " ,urne6 to Claremont. n. H.-Guy Pee
ha and family, who spent several weeks
~ Gown have returned to New York.-Tl
a. nicnic of the Methodist Church socie
~ ! which was to have been heiu at i-di
an Dunmore August IL, has been postpone
cy until tho 25th at the same place.-Mr
q G Aterly and Miss Marion Schrey
,o of Rutland are in town for two week
~ The Rev. Henry G. Newell. pastor
NJ, tho Middlebury congregational Churc
90 has returned from Three Rivers MASS
,ix ubcre he has beon for a week
his list of nominations filed FOR coun'
,ar ,Noors with County Clerk Rufus Wai1
he wright up to closing time saturday n's
,ve IN he voted for at the September pr
,as n,or,es is as follows For senator's
his the north end. Myron w. Wilson OF hri
so tol and George Il. O'Bryan of Starksoor
re- ,or the south end, Carl o. Church
whiting and Willis n Cady of Midhl
bury, states attorney, Jasper g. Page
Bristol and George w. stone OF We
NC, rennes: sheriff. George >. farr oi or'
10 tol the present Incumbent asslsts
Judges. c. J. s Hamilton of Bridport al
Vi Harry V. Sears of Monkton. the prese
~ incumbent; Judges of probate, Frank
W. Tuttle of Nergennes. the present incur
~ " hert for the New Haven district al
'en charles / Button Of Middlebury, the pre-
n ant incumbent for the district of Addiso
No nomination was filed for high BAN
49,, aud no Democratic nomination whateN
lev was filed,
IT looks now as though one or more
far Niddlebury's principal streets were to
ap torn up all the summer. A part OF
os gang of men representing the Rutta
ra psilroad company arrived Monday a