Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-05-27


mund LaFlam. While Mrs. Sherbut was
there Mr. LaFlam was taken seriously
ill-Walter *. Bigelow of the firm of
Amy. Bigelow & Washburn of Salem,
Mass. Is visiting his brother, Edwin r..
Bigelow. and other stowe relatives
Henry r.. Jenney. Jr., and Miss Doris
Graves OF Morrisville passed the week.
end with Mr.. Jenney's parents in Stowe.
The family party motored Sunday to
visit their son and brother. Orlo K.
Jenney Of the University of Vermont
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. w. Abbott and Mr.. and
Mrs. +. l.. Eaton of Waterbury called on
Mr.. and Mrs Il. |. Barrows Sunday on
their way from Morrisville.--Miss Alice
Nutting was not able to resume her
school Monday as she had expected to
do.-Mr. Hoyt of Middlebury College was
here Saturday as candidate for the
position of principal of Stowe High
SCHOOLGIRLS. Alva G. Magoon gave a
party to 10 young ladies at her home in
stowe Hollow Saturday afternoon to an
nounce the engagement of her sister in
law, Miss Edith Magoon. to Hermon
Sweet Of Swanton. Refreshments were
served on the lawn and games were
played. English walnut shells tied with
ribbons passed to the guests contained
the happy Mrs. Harvey
Burns was taken to the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington Monday very i'll
with appendicitis and complication fol-
lowing childbirth. Mr.. Burns and Mrs.
Burns mother, Mrs Homer Button, ac-
companed her
A COW belonging to Arthur Ather in
the Little River neighborhood recently got
out Of the pasture and ate up the potatoes
cut up for planting left outside at a
neighbors and then proceeded TO eat a
shirt from the neighbours clothes line.
The fine shirt lodged in the animals
throat and the COW was discovered in
the act of choking to death by a passer-
by. who was. however. unable to relieve
1t of the shirt. a neiGhborinE woman
came to the rescue and rolling up her
sleeve thrust her hand down the cows
throat and pulled out the shrt.-At the
regular meeting Of Mansfield Mountain
Grange Saturday evening the first and
second degrees will be worked upon a
class of candidatcs.-Clitus Tomlinson
has returned from Bristol Conn. where
he has had employment for months
Mrs. F. II. Bailey is able to be about
the house a little after nine weeks illness
Otto Boyce is caring for Daniel Jones
OF Waterbury Center.-Mr. and Mrs. Earl
w. Tinkham of Johnson came Monday
to visit friends and to attend the 're-
mems ball Tuesday evening.-Mrs. Louise
Lucia. who has sold her house on Luce
Hill to Warner Gale, giving immediate
possession was the last of the family of
Ivory Luce. who lived on that territory
settled by Mr. Luce more than 100 years
ago After Mr.. Luce's sons married. the
original territory was divided into hve
farms, one for each son, but it has now
all passed into other hands. Mrs. Lucia
was the last person who lived in that
school No. Il. who was living there
twenty years ago-The Rev. and Mrs.
F.. Lewellyn Goddard of Cabot visited
Mrs. Goddards parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred J.'Holden. Monday.-Gale H. Shaw
motored to Burlington Tuesday accom-
panied by his mother, Mrs. II. f. Shaw.
and sister. Miss Ruby. The latter will
have an operation for appendicitis at the
Mary Fletcher hospital.-Miss Margaret
Taylor Of Montreal is visiting her sister,
Mrs Raeburn McMahon.-Mr. and Mrs.
H. A. Cleveland visited Mrs. Clcveland's
brother, ID. j. Adams and family in Water
bury Center Sunday.-Mrs. Frank Bean,
who was called here by the death of her
sister, Mrs. Guy Ayers, returned sunday
to Dexter. Me.
A despatch was received Tuesday stat
ing that Howard Thomas Of Stuart. Fla.
had been killed that day in New York
city by a motor truck and that the body
was being taken to Minneapolis for buri-
al Mr.. Thomas was native of Stowe.
the son of Ahijah And Clarissa Slayton
Thomas. After finishing the schools in
Stowe. Mr.. Thomas attended the Mont
pelier Seminary and later was graduated
from Cornell University as civil engi-
ncer. He has followed his profession in
Minneapolis for some time and has iv
for many years in Superior Wis. For the
past several years he has made his home
in Stuart Fla. A large farm which he
owned and superintendent in the Red Riv
err Valley in North Dakota it is understood
had been recently sold. Mr.. Thomas al
ways retained his love for his native
town and has of recent years passed
his summers here. He and his family
were expected to arrive here within a
few days. They had taken Mrs. F.. S.
BOWS house for the season and the
laughter was to have been married from
here during the summer Mr.. Thomas
leaves his wife<Mrs. Ada Porter Thomas
who was Stowe girl,\ one daughter Miss
Rachel Thomas two sisters, Mrs, Flora
Cushman and Miss Laura Thomas of
Stowe. a niece. Mrs. j. NJ. Love Of Sault
Ste Marie, Mich, and several cousins here
in Stowe. He was a man of much abili-
ty and character and was much esteem
ed. The family have the sympathy Of all
Mrs. Janet Adams. patriotic instructor
of H. II. Smith Womans Relief corps.
announces the following program for
Monday. which will be observed as Mem
orial day. At $50 n. m. the members Of
the post will leave the village and pro-
coed to the cemetery on the Thomas Luce
farm on West Branch and decorate the
graves Of the soldiers there. Returning to
the West Branch cemetery at 10 o'clock
they will be met by school children, who
will assist in decorating the soldiers
graves there. AT II o'clock services to
soldiers and sailors will be held at the
knoll back of the village cemetery. and
the graves in that cemetery will he visit
ed At twelve dinner will be served at
the banquet hall in the Akeley Memorial
building to the members of the post corps
and the American legion. At one o'clock
the post attended by the boy scouts legion
and school children will march to ''e Riv-
err Bank cemetery and Mt two o'clock the
Hon. T. C. Cheney of Morrsville will
give the address of the day at the audi
forum. There will be singing by the
boy scouts and schol children a service
for the members Of the Grand Army. who
have passed away.
All schools in Stowe will be closed
Monday All teachers and pupils are
asked to attend the Memorial Day exer-
cises-All who may have geranum
plants to contribute for setting out in
the cemeteries are asked to leave them
with Mrs. Agnes Jenney during the week.
Delegates from Stowe who attended the
State Republican convention at Montpelier
Wednesday we're F.. T.. Smith, A. A.