Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-09-17

ond ballot the cross sills in the town
house gave way, which caused the people
inside to start for the door. The build
ing is about 80 years old and from the
effect of the floors giving away the old
brick walls began to swell out so that it
was deemed unsafe to remain inside, and
the representative box was removed to the
outside door and the votes taken there.
The justices elected are as follt w.: 5. H.
Dow, g. s. Fassett G.. +. Ovltt, w. W.
Hutchinson, III. $. Wanger, q. Archam-
hault, A. A. Kendall, Henry Bessy, o.
Woodward, j. G. Jenne.
Ripton.
Breadloaf Inn has been full of city
guests this summer. Miss Flora Frost
of Cornwall is the guest of L. A. Damon
for week or two, There was quite a
smash up at the Hollow the other day
Two teams ran into each other overturn-
ing both carrirges, throwing out the occu
pants, and badly smashing both vehicles
..Freeman's meeting passed off quietly,
electing Joseph Battell for representative
on the third ballot, with one majority. :.
| The straight republican ticket was elect
ed by a large majority The farmers
have cut most of their grain, and find n
large yield. Several wild deer have been
seen on the mountain. John Wyman
caught large bear in trap last week.
Bristol.
A new hotel to be known as the Com
mercial house will soon he opened by r.
f. Hatch. The graded school opened
last Tuesday, with an attendance of $50
IA Catholic fair is to be held in Holley
hall the latter part of this month. Mrs.
Mary a. Hunt of Hydepark, Mass. lee
lures in Holey hall next Monday evening
under the auspices of the Bristol w. G. r.
u. Rev. T. w. Gregory of the Metho
dist church, preached the first of a series
of six sermons on the "Prodigal' last
teen persons. Out of Il population of
1900 less than 425 attend church. Bristol
needs revival of some kind. The
water supply is getting shor-. Conse-
quently nearly every voter in this village
is in favor Of water works. Nothing has
been done in that matter yet, as each one
is waiting for his neighbor to take the
| first step
West Randolph.
4 special village meeting has been call
ed for saturday, September %, to make
provision for supplying the village with
water. Our water supply is inadequate,
a large share being obliged to use filtered
rain water. 1t is expected that water
will be pumped from the river to some
high point for supplying the people,.
Saturday afternoon "a locomotive between
here and Bethel got nearly out
of water and left the train and
came here for Il supply. The railroad
tank was found to be drawn down, and
the fire department was called ont to till
the locomotive. Water is very low in this
vicinity. The Misses Griswold start for
st. Paul, Mimi, to day. The eth quar-
terly meeting OF the Orange County Good
TemplarS' union was held here Friday
afternoon and evening. A good pro
gramme was carried out. Rev. w. +.
Peters of this place delivered the address
The next union will be held at Brook field.
80. The potato crop in this town
will be light, owing to dry wealth
er....Will snow has returned from
Montpelier and will keep house in
Mrs J0iner's house....The Hcrdid will
90 to press one day earlier tnan usual
this week to give the editor an opportu
nifty to attend the great bicycle meet at
Springfield, Mass. Over 300 students
are attending the graded schOol... Mis~
VIII Wood of. Minneapolis Mimi, wnC
was visiting relatives in town, received a
despatch Friday, stating thai her husband
had fallen from building and his recov-
cry was doubtful being injured internally
She started for Minneapolis that night.
Chelsea.
Freemms meeting continued till nearly
midnight there beng a CLOSE contest OH
town representative, which resulted IN the
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ballot. He is an independent Edmuud-
repu bllcan and a most intelligent. hgh-
minded citizen. The h&ilottiug for town
representative disClOses the peculiar fact
that our local democrats prefer Il repuhlI-
can to their own nominee even when they
have fair chance Of clectuI their man
/ tor on the first ballot even, they gave ?,
votes - Mr.. BiNby' republican opponent,
while Il, b. stanley, the democrat, received
+, and during subsequent ballots MrStau-
/ ley Nute dWindled tDniuc, from ~ To 30 OF
his cO-partisdns pretcrruL bis attractive n.
val. Chelsea'S vote on state and county
tickets was POO republican and - demo
| cratic, the total beng considerable
l-ss than for town rcpres eutatiVe. 90.
. The justices elected are i, q. Iincklcy
lIira l.. BiNby, Hyde Cabot, Franklin
/ Dearborn, Willard : Hatch. j. \. r.. Cor
win and Daniel Buruham...A worthy
! West llll! farmer has an unsettled resi-
! deuce, his farm lying mostly in Chelsea,
. WhereOn he works most of the time, his
I house being astride the Chelsea and Ton.
/ bridge line, beyond which his barns and
/ - acres Of land are situated. A. "A result
of this ambiguous location he sleeps ia
. Chelsea, eats m TunbNage and does his
washing on the line. Both towns claim
/ him, aS~cs- poll tax to him and insert
his name in their check lists s... Edward
/ Il. Hyde, postmaster, having resigned
John B. Atwood, the former assistant
. ilttH pHSl appointed III Ms JittCc.
Hyde Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks, who were in
. iurod at Cambridge few days since, arc
recovering as rapidly as could be expect
/ ed. several OF the Young people enjoyed
saturday ON Mansfield mouutHiu...J.
/ NJ Mcfarland has gone to CA.ca-,J as u
/ delegate to attend ti,r uut!--al0ou C,uNtu-
tiOu. He will visit Dakota Irrrituly be-
/ fore he returns. Several from Tins place
attended the Stbbath-scuool convention at
I stowe last week +. u. Hin was called
/ by telegraph to Franklin on saturday ON
account Of the sickness of his wife, who is
visiting there for a few days...S. b.
1 Waite Will open writing school at the
academy Tuesday evening.
Cornwall.
/ MI and Mrs. &. ID. Lane returned last
Thursday from quite an extended West
ern trp...Quite II number from town at
tended the Horse Breeders association i'm
Rutland last week, rs there was much in
terest taken in Lady Cults IA promising
two Years old colt, owned by II. f. TaylOr