Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-05-06

mend the present matron, Mrs. Jennie
Delorme, to the city council for reap
pontment
l.. c. Holt. the colored gentleman
who was arrested Sunday night for
illegally bringing into the United
States from Canada 20 quarts of
whiskey while he was acting as porter
on n sleeping car, was released from
the county Jail yesterday on $500
bail furnished by Sheriff James II. AL
len before Commissioner J. j. En-
right. Holt is federal prisoner and
will probably be tried later.
In probate court Thursday a decree
of distribution was made In the estate
of William p. Conger. late OF Burling-
tom license to sell real estate was
issued In the estate of Charles Clifford,
late of Essex. The Will of George A.
Haylett. late of Jericho. was proved.
Howard NJ. Hayett of Jericho was ap-
pointed executor, while Elmer G.. Irish
and Albert J. Gleason, both of Jericho.
were appointed commissioners and ap-
prasers.
There were As deaths in Burlington
during the month of April. This is an
unusually large nu1.ber, but included in
this are several deaths of out-of-town
people who died at local institutions.
There were few deaths of middle aged
persons, most of the deceased being old
people or infants. OF the AZ deaths IL
were Of infants less than a month old
The oldest person was 92. There were
four in the SOS. five in the EOS and several
in the cos. Pneumonia claimed only a
very few
George c. Stanley. the newly-appointed
superintendent of streets, has arrived In
this city and assumed his duties yester.
day. Mr.. Stanley has recently been In
South Carolina. where much work has
been done in road building and in putting
in sidewalks That particular section OF
the country has prof. greatly because
of the great increase in the price OF
, cotton and money has been expended
literally in making improvements. Mr.
Stanley is n graduate of the University
of Vermont in the class Of 1918.
! Because of the congestion in traffic ir
and around New York, the bottom has
and the fishermen in the islands are SELL
ing pike at 10 cents per pound, just as
they are taken out of the water. Only
few weeks ago the pike were bringing
! 30 and GO cents per pount. and at times
went much higher from New York buy
ers. The fishing remains excellent, almos
everything that is caught being pike
with few pickerel and perch. Edward
Lavalley returned from Alburg yesterda,
with a good string.
At the annual meeting of the Ladies
| of the Union st. Jean Baptiste. held i,
their hall last evening, the followint
officers were elected: President. Mrs
Marie Pepin; vice-presi1ent, Mrs. 10
sephine Beaupre; secretary. Mrs. Eli
zabeth Martin; assistant Secretary
Mrs. Marie Ange Bernard: treasurer
Mrs Hattie Boucher; prefectress, Mrs
Winifred Simays; mistress Of core
| monies, Mrs. Alma Prunnier; ordon
natrice, Mrs. Josephine Status; secon,
ordannatrice, Mrs. Rose LOCO: must
clan, Miss Lena Giroux. The spiritua
director will be the Rev. Norber
+ Proulx
| The 5lst semi-annual meeting of tn,
stockholders of the Burlington Building
and Loan association was held Tues
day at the Home Savings bank. Tn.
Following officers We're elected President
Lawrence BARLEY; vice. president. c. w
/ Brownell: treasurer r. A. Cooks: secre
tary and assistant treasurer H. A. Cooke
/ directors for three years, c. L. Smith
f. c. Harrington and c. l.. Dolan: audi
tors. E. A. Luck. r. f. Bingham and r
+. Bristol. Nearly 800 shares were solo
ha 10 jS
so considerably larger as it is still on
This is by far the largest sale of stool
| in the associations history
! Attached to the south bound flyer Tues
day noon was a large express car will
six armedguards. The car was consign
ed to Washington. ID. c., and the guards
stated that the car was full of cham
payne and other wines and liquors. which
| were in transit to the French embassy
A recent ruling has granted the priv
lege to the foreign embassies of having
intoxicating liquor and this shipment fol
laws closely on that ruling. The ca
was carefully sealed and the guard
stated that 1t was completely filled will
the goods. AS it was a full sized car, /
contained thousands Of bottles of on
kind and another.
The gymnasium season at the Y. NJ. c
A. closes the week. Since last fall tn
gym. locker rooms and baths have beef
used by 1880 persons. Since the open
ing last September all classes have beef
gradually increasing until all locker &C
commodations in the boys department
were filled and many of the older boy
were transferred to the senior depart
ment. Much interest was shown In tn
group games, basketball and cage bal
contests throughout the entire season
The newsboys' class will continue unit
the water in the lake is warm enoug
for bathing. Each boys class will b
given the use of the showers two after
moons a week.
The street commissioners have appointe
George C. Stanley to the Office Of super
mtendcnt of streets and he Is eXpecte
to arrive In this city in day or so I
tackle the proposition of putting the road
Of the city in better condition, Nj
Stanley is civil engineer and gradual
of the University of Vermont, He ha
been out of college several years. durin
which time he pas been engaged in prac
teal work. He has worked up from on
position to another until he Is the count
engineer in Cherokee county, South Caro-
lima. His object in coming up here is t
get back to his native country. TIL
commissioners have organized for tn
year with Thomas A. Unsworth chairma
and Thomas Magner secretary.
The first suit to be filed In this distric
against the Rutland Railroad compan
as IL result Of the accident near Below
Falls several weeks ago was entered |
the Office of the clerk of United State
court Tuesday William s. Mayo