Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-23


gone to Winter Park, Fla, to spend the
winter with his brother, Henry Chubb,
who has resided there for number of
years past.
Louis Latouche of Duxbury, yesterday
celebrated his Tooth birthday. He has
full possession of his faculties and is in
good health
Barney Rooneys house and barns in
Hyde Park, burned yesterday morning
loss twelve hundred dollars no insur-
ance.
The committee to arrange for a meeting
of the Baptist ministers of the State have
secured promises from DR.. A. j. Gordon
Of Boston President Pepper of Colby
York city and DR.. Alvah Hovey of New
ton, Mass, to address the first meeting.
The telephone service is at an end at st.
Albans, at least so far as the New Eng
land Telephone company is concerned. The
local wires have been taken down and all
the instruments removed. The lines to
Swanton and Burlington still remain and
IA public station will be maintained.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Bar association will open at Montpelier on
Tuesday, October %, at Z p. m,, the same
day that the general term of the Supreme
Court convenes. Papers of interest will
he read and n full attendance is desired.
The annual dinner of the association will
be held at the Pavilion ON Wednesday
evening.
Eunice j. Stevens was appointed Tues
day by the Postmaster-General postms-
tresS at Georgia.
a new time table went into effect on the
o. Il l.. G.. road Monday. The train
which formerly left Rouses Point at S:45
now leaves that place at 13O.
Henry Hall is revising the series of four
historical lectures which he gave in Rut-
land last season, and expects to deliver
them in some of the surrounding towns
this winter.
The grandfather of the humorist Josh
Billings, the late DR.. Samuel Shaw, was
a resident of Castleton from 1890 to his
death In 1920 and Il member of Congress
from 1872 to 1914.
The Postmaster-G has authorized
commissions to be issued to John l.. Pike
to be postmaster at Wilmington. and to
Mrs. Ann G.. Howard to be postmistress
at Townshend.
Orln Smith of Pittsford has a horse
thirty-three gears old which has been
driven to church by some one of the family
nearly every Sunday tor thirty years.
Mr.. d. l.. Moody, the evangelist, will be
in st. Albans on Saturday and Sunday,
Dec. > and q. 1t is expected that he will
speak on Saturday evening, and four times
the Congregational church.
The Electric Lighting company of Rut
land have voted to accept the plant of the
Edison company already in operation. 1t
consists of two l25 light dynamos and the
wiring and posts besides 250 lamps. cost
ing in all S4l00 of the $1,000 in paid up
stock.
The Rutland horse railroad is an assur-
| ed fact, as all but $1,000 of the S2S,O in
lc h., Il l,t, md
| dent, j. ID. 1aineS, started Monday to
Philadelphia TO purchase the cars. About
POO tons of steel rails have been ordered
| at Scranton. Pa, of the Pennsylvania
Steel company and four horse cars will be
| built by j. Il. Brill 81 Company of Phila-
delphia.
The Boston & Lowell officials explain
that, in neglectlng to pay when due the
Sl025 interest on $4,000 st. JOhnsbury &
| Lake Champain SIS that are held by
Springfield parties, they followed the adj
vice of counsel. the stockholders never
having authorized or the directors agreed
to pay it. The company guaranteed the
interest on S6OOOOO of 6's, and this is
promptly paid.
Al meeting of the New England pas
senger agents, held in Boston Monday
1t Is understood that an attempt was made
to come to some equitable agreement by
which Il pool of all the different competi
tive points in New England is to be form
ed. Points such as Providence, Hartford
| Springfield, Westlield, Bellows Falls
Nashua, Concord Lowell, Lawrence,
Worcester, Springfield, Athol, Fitchburg
Greenfield, Palmer, White River June
tion, Fabyan's, Portland, and possibly
points rs far north as Burlington and
Montpelier, will be pooled separately on
rate basis If the Grand Trunk is to give
"A differential from Boston, ditferentials
must be granted the southern lines fol-
northern points via the southern lines
and possibly from Montreal and points
purely local on the Grand Trunk The
Boston roads have gained one point il
making the emigrant rate from Boston
the same by all lines and prohibiting the
Grand Trunk from allowing the Allan
line the same rate from Boston which il
is allowed from Montreal.