Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-08


has made for himself host of friends.
Montpelier.
In the game of polo played here We'd
nesday evening between the "Mascots" of
Burlington and the Golden Fleece of this
place the latter team won three successive
goals and the exhibition games Also.
Company II elected the following officers
at its meeting Tuesday evening Cap
tain, o. ID. Clark, first lieutenant, w. II.
Dewey second lieutenant, S. A. Luke.
The company is well officered.
Mrs. Thomas Ryan fell, Saturday, and
broke her shoulder blade. ... Warren +.
Hutchinson left, on Saturday, for Bethel
where he is to teach school .. Frank III.
Bascom has sold his drug business here to
Mr.. H. Chapman, who was formerly con-
nected with the store of w. w. Park.
The transfer took place May L.. Forty
! five trout were brought in, Saturday, by Il
fisherman. They were caught within
four miles of this village
NIiddIebury.
Arbor Day was observed here as a sort
of legal holiday There were no exercises
at the public schools and no sessions at he
college. a few persons planted trees in
various places about the village, but the
| work was not at all so general as 1t ought
to have been and probably will be in com
ing years. Mr.. Robinson Cartwell of the
| Green Mountain Pulp company, who has
been for several weeks in New Orleans
doing the Worlds Fair, has. arrived home.
Mr.. Cartwell IS to have sole charge of the
company's mills here in the future. -. The
docket for the June term of Addison
county court has left the hands of the
printer. An unusually large portion of
the docket is taken up with criminal cases
growing out of offences against the liquor
law. AS the time draws near for the
post office to change hands there is some
anxiety manifested by the candidates and
| their friends, but no one vet seems to
know which way the cat is going to jump
and there is much speculation concerning
the result. Some cases of petty theving
in stores have recently occurred in town,
but the guilty parties have been frighten-
ed so that they probably will hereafter
| keep their hands in their pockets. Clerk
Neville of the Addison House is GONZALES
cent and has resumed his duties a. H.
Nichols of the Troy Times composing
force, an old Middlebury boy, was in town
on Friday.
The special pros acutor had up only two
liquor cases during the past week a
horse belonging in the Williamson livery
stable, which "Guard' Maynard, a Fresh
man in college was driving on May day,
took advantage of a good opportunity to
run away and did so. 'The buggy was
somewhat broken up, but no other dam
age resulted. Touse kidder has had
enough of his war in the courts, and has
moved his shop and carriage house far
enough to the west to set the carriage
house off from the plot of ground which
the courts have decided was the property
of the Baptist church -. Mr. Ben jamin f.
Wales, whom County Commissioner
James has appointed liquor agent for Mid
dlebury, will make an excellent officer in
that capacity, if the universal opinion of
our citizens may be trusted -. The stu
dents of the college have taken to the
game of lawn tennis this spring, and some
of them are now talking of organizing Il
polo team...,J b. Cobb went on Satur-
day to Troy, \. Y, where he will play the
cornet in one Of the roller skating Kinks.
to take part in boxing tournament in
Rpton Friday night They are
Peter Donnelley, Max Naliquette, Frank
Paro and Samuel Brassau.
Curtis Robinson was fined on Monday
morning $50 and costs, in all over S21, for
furnishing liquor out of bottle. His
mother paid the fine and saved him from
the work house Curt is bright, intelli-
gent young fellow, but has an unfortu-
nate faculty 10 getting into scrapes.
Ben Dodge a former Middlebury boy who
is now engaged in business in Syracuse
\. y, has been in town on visit for some
days past. Thad. NJ. Chapman and wife
who have been spending acOuple of weeks
in Boston with friends arrived home on
the Sunday morning train The prices
paid in market here for produce of late,
except indeed in the case of potatoes,
have been pretty slim, and the farmers
grumble that they can get nothing for
what they have to sell, whereas they have
to pay steep prices for what they want to
buy. Rev. Father Gatfney of Minnesota,
brother Of Rev, j. J. ,Gatfney Of Walling-
ford, otlciated at the Catholic church
here on Sunday. Dr. w. II. Sheldon,
who has been appointed fish warden is
Just the right kind of Il man for that posi-
ton. The court room for town and vii
lage purposes which is being done off in
the basement of the town house building,
Is being rapidly completed and will soon
be ready FOR occupation. 1t will be a great
convenience to our lawyers. ..J. f.. Sew
erance has gone to Texas with a carload
Of sheep. Tuesday morning Eugene
Twltchell started for Kansas with one
panied by StOwell Wright. They 20 to
Grainfield, where young Twitchell has an
interest in n ranch.
Mr.. Charles c. Peck, who has been ap-
pointed postmaster of Mddlebury to sue
ceed George Hammond, is a very prom
lnent Democrat and an able, energetic
and experienced business man He is a
native of Cornwall, but lived for many
years in Maine and was for several years
. in business in Boston. He is in the prime
of manhood and every one expects that he
will make first-class postmaster A
| -.
HammondS management of the of
ilce, which in the main has been excellent
ana mas given satisfaction to the patrons of
the office generally A meeting is to be
held soon to see if arrangements cannot
be made for having Decoration Day OBJ
served in this village. There is to be, as
usual, lifting observance of the event in
East Middlebury, where they have a
Grand Army Post, Lewis Coty gave his
wife pretty severe threshingeOn Tues.
day, part of which was done with a club
Inc justice to whom Coty made his bow
thought that he had taken about Sl5 worth
out of his wife's nde, and charged him
that amount for his fun. jealousy
is attributed as the cause, OF
one of the causes, which impelled
Coty to thrash the woman A couple of
bright Middlebury youths, each about
thirteen years of age, started out to see
the world on Monday, without leaving
their parents their future address. Their
first destination seems TO have been Holy
oke, Mass, but they got no further than
Proctor w., and were from there sent
home, arriving here on Wednesday morn
ing