Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-07-08


the Rev. NJ. f. Bacon at the parsonage
Tuesday afternoon. Both were only 10
years of age.-Mrs. L.. II. Straw was IN
Morrisville Tuesday to meet Leoia and
Max Straw, who returned TUESDAY from
a ten days visit in Jeffersonvnie. ana
were accompanied by their COUSINS, Hazei
and Maurice Douglass, who are return
ing to visit.-Little Miss Edith Johnson IS
| passing the week with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Johnson IN RIch-
mond.-Mrs. Viola Clement has returned
to the home OF her brother, A. p. Smith,
after visiting her niece, Mrs. John Smith.
in Ferrisburg.-Everett Brickey OF Oak
dale is visiting his brother, Guy Brickey,
and family in Moscow.-Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Fielder and son, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Burnett and Arleone wright were
recent visitors in Waitsfield.-Wfliam
Camley has returned home from Roches-
ter, where he had employment.-A. F.
Cote of Fitchburg Joined his family at
G. p. Scribner's Saturday and returned
with them to Fitchburg T~uesday.-L. II.
Straw visited his sister, Miss Minnie straw,
in Waterbury Sunday.-At a meeting of
the Community Church hoard of directors
at the parsonage Tuesday evening the
- y hp'i u ~ '"Nt 'N1fo
toward providing heating apparatus to
make the one of the churches thought
best comfortable for services during the
winter; the pulpit committee reported that
efforts are under way to secure a pcrma-
neni pastor. Plans were proposed for
organizing a missionary society. the
funds secured to be divided among the
three societies, uniting in the work, and
the following committee was elected 10
take charge of the matter: Miss Laura
Thomas. Mrs. Alice Lovejoy, Mrs. Mat
tic Shnborn. Mrs. Janet Adams, Mrs.
Carrie Straw and Mrs. Emma Straw.
Plans for financial work were made. Tho
meeting was an enthusiastic and har-
monious one.
rho body Of william Mills, who died in
Essex Junction Sunday was brought here
Tuesday and the burial service was held
at the River Sank cemetery at three
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Mills was
: sc years of age and a native of Canada,
T, He was n farmer in Stowe for many years
, coming here in 1850. He retired from his
farm about Il years ago and about foui
years ago went with his daughter to Els.
=, sex Junction to live. Mrs. Mills died in
1914, after IS years of married life. MIR
= Mills is survived by five children, Mrs
Elenora wilkins, Bertrand A. Mills ant
sTitS y. Mills DI tSStS JuIlttIpn. TbuWiI
f.. Mills of Somerville. Mass. and Mrs
w. o, Belts of Alameda, Calf. He alsc
leaves three grandchildren. Mr.. Mills wa:
formerly n deacon in the West Branch
lChristian Church and was a man Of up
right Christian character. respected b,
all who knew him. He became a voter IL
. the United States by taking the freeman
. oath at the age of twenty-one. residint
:, then in Vermont.-Mrs. Florence NJ
y Clark Boyea, wife Of Alfred S. Boyea
{ manager of the Lake Mansfield Trou
= Club farms. died at the home of her step
" father and mother. Mr.. and Mrs. william
Bailey at Moscow at nine o'clock Satur
v day evening. Mrs. Boyea had been in poo
health for two years and had been con
fined to her bed for II weeks. the cause o
her illness and death being cancer of tn
, stomach. She was "a years of age. Sh'
was born in Duane. n. Y. She came t
Stowe with her family "A years ago. BE
sides her husband and parents. Mrs
" Boyea leaves two sons. Walter. 1S. an
~ Roy. IA, and three sisters, Mrs. Josepl
Bushey Of Richmond. Mrs. Arthur Tut
"a hill of wolcott and Mrs. Frank Collect
of Mo~rrisville. The funeral was held a
ono O'Clock Tuesday afternoon at Unit
w lChurch.-Walter l.. Morgan of the r. c
i T. c.. Fort Ethan Allen. and who ha
IS completed his third years studies at MOI
witch. and his sister. Miss Helen Morga
IS Of Washington. were here for the week
20 end. Miss Morgan was accompanied b
ir Lynford Miner of Orange.-Thc fourth
IS was inaugurated here between IL and nm
,e o'clock Monday morning when the canno
10 on the school grounds which some boy
had taken up the Stowe Hollow road nea
ID the Abram Burnett house and had file
ID with sods and powder was exploded
n wrecking the cannon. The cannon was a
s, historic one used in the French and India
he War and marked with the British crow
r At a Red Cross meeting with the pres
d. dent, Mrs. l.. L. Harris, Tuesday eVenir
IL it was voted to undertake the opening
r. a public health station in cooperate
of with other towns in the county. Plai
IS for the work will be announced soon.
I'd The first and second degrees will
DIS worked at the meeting of Mansfield Moul
c. tain Grange Saturday ~evening.-ln cor
nd pliance with a petition the legal vote
'n in town meeting of the town OF stowe a
&c warned to meet at the auditorium at 10:
a a. M. on July II to act on the followir
- articles of business: To see If the TOW
. will vote to provide a schoolhouse IN u
Nv Wrisley district; to see If the town W
- vote TO run a boundary line betwe'
Stowe and Waterbury,: to do any 9th
" business thought proper when met;
order of the seiectmen, c. A. Simmer
no A.. l.. Gale and J. B. McKinley.-Miss Ca
" lotta Tabor of New York city is passii
70 two weeks with her grandmother, MI
c. c. Taber. at -Four Winds Farm.
ma MORRISVILLE