Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-19
VERGENNES NEWS

Mrs Lucy Blodgett is caring for Mrs
Frederick Sullivan, who is very ill with
typhoid fever
Henry Morris, who went a few
weeks ago to Bristol, Conn, to work,
has returned to his home here
b. Z. Wakefield of Elizabethtown, N.
Y, is passing two weeks in this city,
guest at the Norton house.
Mrs. II, E. Goodere is ill with pneu-
monia. Her daughter, Mrs Harold
Eble Of Newark, N. J., has been called
here.
Maj, and Mrs. R. w. McCuen were
in Worcester Mass, this week where
Mr.. McCuen was called on legal busi
ness.
Mrs Edward Pilon returned Sunday
from a brief stay at the home of her
brother, Frederick Richard, in Rut-
land
Louis c. Cotey and men left We'd
nesday for KimbalPs wharf, Lake
Champlain, to fill the ice houses be-
longing to his cottages
News has been received here of the
birth of a son, George Calvin, to Mr.
and Mrs. George Willard of Bristol
Conn, former residents
Andrew Roy who has been employ
ed at the L. F. Benton company fac
tory, left Saturday for Bristol, Conn,
where he has secured work
The engagement is announced of
Miss Ruby Irwin of Boston, who has
been since December the district nurse
at Vergennes, and Fred W. Allen Of
this city,
Mr. and Mrs Harry Myers left Tues
day to visit relatives in Bridgeport,
Conn, and Greenfield, Mass Cyrus
Dukett is driving the American express
team during Mr.. Myers absence
Miss Helen Tull has resumed her
duties as stenographer at the L. f |
Benton company plant, after three
weeks enforced vacation while recover
ing from an operation on her eyes.
Mrs J. E. Ruggles, who has been
here for several weeks, assisting in
the care of her mother, Mrs ]. o. |
Walker, who died last week, returned |
to her home in Cleveland, o., Monday
Mrs Frank L. Fish has gone to
Springfield, Mass, to visit her son.
Frederick L. Fish Before her return
she will go to West Haven, Conn, to
visit her daughter, Mrs w. A. Knight
Arthur w Norton, who has been
unable to be at his place of business
for several weeks because of Illness
left Monday, accompanied by Mrs
Norton, for a stay at Atlantic City,
N. J.
Miss Carrie Willmarth, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Willmarth, who
teaches school in Enosburg Falls, is
at Mary Fletcher hospital, Burlington
where she underwent an operation for
appendicitis
The Stevens Hose company has
elected the following officers for the
year: Foreman, Walter w. Bristol;
first assistant, George R. Slack; sec
ond assistant, Levi H. Brown; secre-
tary-treasurer, Guy A. Beach; steward,
Alec Blanchard.
Miss Florence Lacy, former resident
of Addison and Vergennes, who has
been living for a year or two in Bur
lngton, was married March 2 to
Charles Millette of Burlington, at the
Baptist parsonage in Addison, Rev
A. ]. Bowser officiating
Mrs. Napoleon Rivers went to Rut-
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of A. M. Granger, one of the victims
of the railroad accident at Bellows
Falls Sunday Mrs. Granger who was
Miss Nellie Gaunya before her mar
rage, formerly resided in Vergennes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert w. Palmer, who
have been visiting relatives in Clare
mont, N. H., are spending a few weeks
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Edward
Palmer, before going to California,
which state is Mrs. Albert Palmer's
former home and where they plan to
reside.
Mrs. Bernard Daigneault, who has
had charge of the Bon Ton millinery
for the past two seasons, has resigned
and Mrs. George P. Whalen, who con-
Quoted a millinery store here for :
number OF years succeeds her, and the
store was opened for the first time this
season on Monday.
Mrs. George w. Stone, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. K J. Sever
ance, in Keeseville, N. Y, returned
home Tuesday She was accompanied
BY her father, F. H. Foss, who has
been passing the winter in Keeseville
and has returned here to remain
through the summer with his daugh-
-ers, Mrs Stone and Mrs William R.
Warner.
Edgar Porter, a well known farmer,
lied at his home in Ferrisburg Tues
lay after an illness of over a year with
He was born in Ferris
burg and had always resided in that
own. Besides his wife, he is survived
~ three daughters, Mrs Samuel Jack
nan of Vergennes, Mrs. Robert Eli
harp and Mrs. William Rivers of Fer
-isburg, and one son, Bert, of Ferris
'urg, and two brothers, Wallace and
elmer both of the same town.
Mrs. J. O. Walker of Ferrisburg
Who suffered a shock of paralysis sew
raj weeks ago, died Wednesday of last
week at her rooruc ot 4ha C....a,,-