Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-22
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THE NEWS BY COUNTIES


$50, 900; new water bonds, $4,000: sewer
bonds s1O5OO unpaid trustees orders,
sl9.S73.54; coupons due and unpaid, $3.50.
The amount of the water bonds less the
sinking fund is $4,000. The account of
the water department shows balance
on hand at the beginning of the year of
s2.74720; interest on sinking fund, s7iO.H:
water rents S,993.3S q total income of
S11,4 ,4s0.72. Tho expenditures covered
coupons paid $1,000: orders paid. S2.52.90:
interest on bonds brought 1885,; bonds
brought 5000; n balance in the treasury
of s16i.15. The annual meeting for cleo
ton of officers and voting of taxes and
transaction of other important business
Will take place in the town hall at 1890
O'Clock Wednesday evening. January 81.
The managers of the Addison
County Agricultural society met in the
court house Saturday afternoon at one
O'Clock. There was good attendance
Allan T. Calhoun was elected general
superintendent. 1t also was voted to
put the premiums back to the 1916 stand
ard, having been reduced 2j per cent in
1919.
DR.. Harry w. Burns, who was called
to town recently from Chicago in con-
sequence of the death of his mother. Mrs.
John II. Burns, started Monday on his
return to Chicago. go.-Miss Ida Turner, who
has been i'll with the grip at her home
on Franklin street for two weeks is able
to be up and about the house.-Sunday and
Monday were two more severely cold days
and Monday morning the mercury got
down to % degrees below zero, three or
four degrees lower than Sunday. Water
pipes in the graded school building were
found to be quite generally frozen up
Monday morning, although they had not
frozen on some recent colder mornings
and the graded school pupils were set at
freedom for the greater part of the day.
The Rev. Frances A. Kelly, national
chaplain of the American Legion, is to
deliver a lecture in the town hall here
Monday evening, January &c. and it is eX-
ipectcd that a large audience will be in
lattendencc. Tickets are OH sale at half
dozen different business places in town
and officials of the local post have been
invited to attend and take seats on the
lrlatform.--Mr. and Mrs Jasper r. Brown
iof Buffalo, n. Y, former longtime resi-
dents of this vicinity are in town for a
month and perhaps considerably longer
Prof. n. p. Williamson de Nisme, head
of the French department at the college
went to Rutland Monday TO deliver that
afternoon before the Ann story Chapter
Daughters Of the American Revolution
on the subject, "Thc French Characte,
Ar 1t Really Is."-Michacl II. Higgins has
returned from Rutland. where he has beer
spending week with fricnds.-The sec
Iond of a series of dances for the bcnet
! of Post. No. q. American Legion, o
Middlebury, will he given in the tow,
hall Friday evening and a general invita-
ton is extended Brackets orchestra will
! furnish the music.--Mr. and Mrs. Henry
r. Bradshaw of Sioux City. Iowa. are il
town.-Mrs. Jennie Crosby. who for :
year has had a part of the DIR. NJ. II
eddy house on Weybridge street, ha:
moved to the home of her sister, Mrs
Gipson, on the East Mddlebury road
where she intends to make her home
Joseph BlaiZe Is seriously i'll witt
an attack of Observation-Disclosures
markea day, eggs brought from
60 to 10 cents, dairy butter
80 to 50 and creamery 7o.-AleXande
Heighter of Munroe street, who has beei
seriously ill, is slowly ecovering,-Edwar'
,Duclous has returned to Lincoln after
few days in town.--The regular meetin,
lof Middlebury Grange. No. 3l5, will be hell
Friday evening, at which time the newl.
elected officers will be installed.-Mrs
Frank Lasher, who has been i'll at he
thome in Happy Valley, is slowly recover
ing.-The annual meeting of the Battel
Hose company was held Friday evening
There was a full attendance. Reports o
the officers showed that the company wa
in a good condition. The following officer
were elected: Foreman, Joseph Marseils
assistant foreman, John Mcmahon; treas
urer, Clarence Cole; clerk Frank A
ieghter; janitor, Phillip Wimmette
, delegate to State convention, F. A
Iieshter; alternate, Clayton Shores.-Eai
Frost Of the Park drug store, who ha
been i'll at his home on Elm street,
slowly recovering, Mrs. Allen r, Sturte
want and daughter. Anna. have gone t
New York city, where they will spend
day with relatives and friends.
The Rev DR.. Ezra Brainard, wh
has been under the weather for shol
time, has fully recovered and is able t
! be about the village again.--For the sec
. ond time this winter the mercury went I
, 81 degrees below zero Tuesday morning
v The water pipes at the graded schoo
= house were got into running order again
so that the schools in the different room
We're in session as usual forenoon an
afternoon-Mr. and Mrs. John l.. Master
!. 'son and daughters, the Misses Dora an
:. Alice Masterson of Rochester, n. Y, al
v In town for n few weeks visit with rels
Z tiVes.-Mrs. John NJ. Hoyt has returne
Z from West Rutland, where she has bee
!. acting for two weeks as a substitu
r teacher in the West Rutland high schoo
= ARTHUR j. Griswold and Henry Griswo
= or Lynn, Mass, are in town for coup
q OF weeks visit.-The Misses Luella ar
v Daisy Fitzmaurce OF Brooklyn Height
B. n. u, are in town for a months visit.
e Miss Gertrude LaBrake has returned
It Florence after couple Of weeks Wis
Il here at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Arch
: LaBrake
= Mr.. and Mrs Charles Canterbury, wi
= have been visiting here and in neigl
boring towns for six weeks have return
r. ed to Rochester. n. H.-The Middlebul
q bakery announces another raise in Il
r price of bread The pound and a ha
4 loaVes, which have been for some tin
s sold at u cents, have gone up two cent
q to il cents and the pound loaves whi,
AZ have sold for 10 cents hitherto have ris,
y to II cents each.-Mr, and Mrs. Howal
"a Blakeley have returned to New Have
"a Conn, after n three weeks visit in tow
2 The Middlebury Grange No. 3l5 will /
- stall officers at their meeting Frids
;, evening. A banquet will be served at
O'Clock after which will occur the e
, ercises.-Webstcr ID. Barter, student
: the Wilder school of music in Burln
o. ton Is in town for few days at the hon
- of his parents, DR.. and Mrs. A. ID. Ba
=, ter.-George Brousseau has purchas
- from the Murkland estate the house
20 Gated on what IL known as the old d
u bridge.-Wlliam Bowers of Boston, W
% ~ in town Tuesday to visit DR.. A. ID. Ba