Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-07-29

So
the afternoon of August ia meeting Of
the Community Church board of directors
was held tuesday, evening. Messrs. Nj. c.
Lovejo, A. n. Straw and F. e. Smith
n1otorcd TO North Troy Wednesday on
church business. Miss Mary Stcbbins of
Bristol, y. H., il visiting her mother Mrs.
Cynthia Stebbins, and brothers S. a. and
r. F.. Stobbns and families. Mrs. Cynthia
Stebbins, who was very i'll in the winter.
is at the homo Of her son. s. \. Scbbins,
and Is able To he about the house q little.
Mrs. w. j. Churchill is passing several
weeks with her son, Marc Churchill. in
Barre.-Among the recent guests at Irving
Warbur,on's at Moss Glen Falls have been
Professor Rrant of Yale University and
Mrs. Brant and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis of
Charlotte. There will be no dancing at
the pavilion until further notice--Wbert
Mayo Is visiting his sister, Mrs. G. l..
Fervier in Northficld.--W. W. Luce has
returned to Miami, Fla, after q few day.
with his family hcre.--Miss Hazel Hamel
has returned to Waterbury after visiting
Mrs. W. r. Shepard in Stowe,-Mss
Madre Merritt Of Worthwhile is visiting
her sister, Mrs. p. A. Raymond. MIR. and
Mrs. H. g. Mcmahon and Children. Major
and Mrs Dwight +. Smith and Miss Mill
drod Smith have returned from an auto
trip and a ten days stay at Old Orchard,
Me.-1,uth and ArCola Cutler have return
cd to Moretown after visit at the home
of their aunt, Mrs. +. G.. Wells William
Bailey is moving from Moscow to Norris
Nllo.-Edwin Hall is visiting his mother
in Neutrality-suspicious. Pike of Barre i1'
visiting his mother Mrs. Mary Pike at
+. S. Warren's.-Mias Ruth Mcmahon
closed her dancing class with a public
( held at the Akeioy Memorial building.
Music was by Miss Dorothy Bsrrows and
! Meaars. Clark and Bingham of Hardwick.
( About 80 couples were present and q
I pleasant party was enjoyod.--Mrs Lola
/ Billings Douglass, who left Stowe We'd
! nosday morning, expects to visit friends
/ in Bedford and Worcester. Mass. War
rem. IA Tiffn. o.. and trbana. H., on
! her way to St. Louis where she expect
! ia arrive in late September and to re-
main for several months with he: broth
er, Elroy s, Billings and family. From
| st. Louis she will visit friends in Denver,
, colo, and Portland, ore, and arriving in
! January at Los Angeles. Calf, will re-
| main with friends in that city and Pa9a-
dina until another sprinC.-A son, Deane
! Shackleton. was born July 70 TO Mr.. and
| Mrs. Hollis p. Smiley Of New York, Mrs
| Smiley was before her marriage Miss Ma
| bel Shackleton, who has passed several
summers at the home Of her cousin. Ro-
CLIO S. Warren. in Stowe.-Miss Hattie T.
Douglass. Fed Cross nurse, made her
weekly visit in Stowe Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Beatrice Gale is assisting at the
Mt. Mansfield creamery during the ab.
sence of Miss Elsie hastings.
MORRISvILLE
Mrs. Fl. ~. Thompson. Mr.. and Mrs
Bernard Connors and Chester Cleveland
of Haverhill Mass. came Thursday NJ yht
for weeks stay with Mrs. Thompson's
sister. Mrs. H. G. Stowell. of Maple street
Miss EVELYN Whitcomb Of Ludlow has
been spending a few days with relatives
in this village and HYDE park.-Lnwood
Law, who is with the Community Chau-
tauqua COMPANY was in town the latter
part OF the week called by the death Of
his grandfather. S. II. Brackett.--J. NJ.
Kelley was a business visitor in st.
Adams Thursday.-Miss Merle Smalley
was in Burlington Thursday.--Miss Madze
Merritt has been spending several days
with her sister. Mrs. Paul Raymond. of
Stowe.-Mr. and Mrs. W W. Nigeant Of
Somerville, Mass. were guests of Mr.. and
! Mrs. W. F. Sherman the last of the week.
Mrs. Mary Camp has had telephone
installed in her residence on Court street.
The number is 36-1o,-Niss Lois Riley has
returned to her homo in Stowe after
. visit to her aunt, Mrs. 4. E. Grant.-Prof.
and Mrs. Martin ". Chaffee have been
, spending several days at the home of the
formers father o. w. Chaftee--Mlss
Olive c. Wadlin. who has been a guest OF
. Miss Lefa Nay at The Randall, left
Thursday for Portland Me--Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Johnston of George street are re.
- ceiying CONCENTRATIONS on the birth of
), daughter. Barbara Marion born Juiy -.
u The funeral of Stevens f. Brackett,
whose death occurred at his home on WIN.
ter street last week Wednesday. vas
held from his home Friday afternoon.
II The Rev. George E. Goodliffe OF the
cong gational Church officiated and in
= iterment was in Riverside cemetery in
: the family lot Mfr. Bracket was one Of
y the Oldest resident of Moriisville, having
= resided here IS years. He possessed
fine mind and was a man or sterilnc
. worth and upright character. Mr., Crack
= EFT was born in Morristown s. years ago
;, last April, the son of Susan Greene and
i Isaac Bracket In 1856 he was united IN
E marriage to Laranda Luce of Sterling.
4 To this union were born i've cniioren'
- tF.rnest F. Bracket of West Medford.
= Mass. Mrs Nettie Law Of Middlebury,
= Leon L. Bracket of Oakland Calf,
: cora Brackett Nose of Concord, Calf,
=, and Carolyne Bracket Stiles OF Middle
bury. These children. six grand-chldren
, and a sister, Mrs. Caroline Z. Bingham,
of Junction City, Kansas, survive him.
:, Mrs Bracket died seven years ago
= Miss Wilma Gill of Bra ndon is spending
. some time with relatives in town.-Miss
. Arlene Hunt Of North Troy is the guest
= of her friend Miss Nellie Aiken.-Mlss
y. Mary TAYLOR Of 81. Johnsbury has been
. assisting her sister. Miss Ella Taylor
. in the Folsom millionery parlors for sew
:. eral days-Mr. and Mrs. Walter c. Ward
:, spent several days in camp at Green's
g boro last Week.-Mrs. Mary Whitcomb,
n, who has been spending two weeks with
q. relatives in town returned Sunday to her
:, home in WATERFOWL, Mass. Miss WHIT
: comb is employed as stenographer in tina
q Office of the Hood Rubber Co, at New
. ton. Mass.
/, Mrs F.. NJ. Pike died At the home Of her
. sister Mrs. w. NJ. Sargent early Tuesday
# morning after six months illness from,
a Sarconia Funeral services will he held
r. this afternoon at two O'Clock from the
n Sargent home The Rev. George f. Good
,. cliffe will offcia1e and intcrnent will be
:, made in the Public LOT in Pleasant View
p Cemetery. The bearers will be F. NJ PIKE
Or. George c. Publer, E. \. Palmer ann
w NJ. Sargent. Sarah Ruhlee Pike was
=, born in Morrsvlle IS years ago July Is
n and was the oldest daughter Of DR.. {. G.
and Kate Spicer Ruhlee Twenty three
1. wears ago she was united in marriage 10
d r. NJ Pike of Stowe, and after residing
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