Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-09-10

! mere, Ie1t on saturday for AihAny, y. Y,
| looking for Il stolen livery team and the
! guilty party 1t seems that one Nour-e, a
! young man who had been stopping in
town several weeks hired Il team to go toa
certain point to remain a given TIME. AT
ter the team had been gone twice rs long
rs was expected it was learned that the
. fellow had gone TO other points and sold
the team to parties in New York. Rev.
/ Mr.. Healey of the Universali5t church
was called to Queen City Park ON Satur-
day by the critical illness of G.. c. Burke
/ of this place, who is camping there. At
/ Mr.. Healeys church here a sermon was
read by Miss Mary Boutwell, on sunday
morning. Mrs. j. A. Robinson, Tommy
Slayton are sick with fever. Miss
/ William Downer, Mrs. Carlos Noyes
and Mrs. King are also seriously
. ILL.,. Communion services We're largely
Sunday morning. Miss Alice Bushee
goes to South lIadley and Miss Jennie
. lckok to Wellesley TO attend school this
| ll....The fall term of school at the ac-
ademy is well organized and with Prof.
Stone as principal, Miss Williams pre-
ceptress and three assistants, very sue
cesstul work is expected for the term.
A pair of horses attached to a buggy
and driven by Leander l.araway were
!, frightened by the cars at the crossing in
"Brooklyn," on Tuesday morning. The
horses started to run and threw the car
rage over the bank, completely wrecking
it, and breaking loose ran up Portland
t and Main streets, doing no further dam
| age. Mr. Laraway was slightly bruised,
.... Mr.. &. &. Burkee, lawyer who has
been in town for many years, holding sew
eral town and district offices, died at his
home at midnight, Monday night. Mr..
Burkee and family have been camping
several weeks at Queen City Park, Bur
5 lngton, where Tor the past few days he
= had been gradually failing i'll health. 1t
was thought both Saturday and sunday
hut ha in lie
as he seemed to revive someW hat it was
| decided to bring him home and he was
! brought here on the half past seven train
| the same night of his death. The funeral
+ will be held on Thursday afternoon at
the residence. 80 The election on Tuesday
resulted more encouragingly to the re
publiCans than the most -anguine had eX-
5 pected. The vote cast for representative
: was considerably short of the check list,
!. there being over 800 names, and the total
Il vote beng 331. OF these Mr II. &. Fisk,
Il the republican candidate had 234 ID. Z;
o Spaulding the democratic candidate had
! G2 The prohibtionists and greenback-
:. eTs made Il combination aud both parties
/. voted for G. >. Wilder vino had 36 votes.
y The remaining 10 We're scattering. Mr..
Fisk, while in accord with the support of
e Senator EdmundS, and himself Il temper
t ance man, was not called to make any
a pledges whatever and all who have sup
t. ported him feel confident that he will rep
e resent, and do for the interests Of the in,
IS dividual citizen and town in faithful
|. and conscientious manner
II Franklin.
Walter Felton, Esq. of Mazatlon, Mex
. leo, is IN town spending few weeks at
Il his old home. Miss Libbie X. Gates has
IL gone to Jericho, Vt, where she has been
5 engaged to teach the fall term of school.
o The academy under the new principal,
!. Prof. f. f. Botsford, opened Monday with
* about 40 students. Buren Soule of
} Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is in town for a few
e days visiting among friends. The many
II friends of h. G.. Gates were pleased to
. hear of his appointment as deputy col
y lector at Richford. He commenced his
y duties Sept. /.
.S Waterville.
Charles Sherman has completed his
work at Mont gomery and returned home
SHERMAN Page of California is visit
l. ing his father John b. Page. Willie
n King and wife were the guests of 5. h.
l. Miller few days the past week. Frank
sc LaraWay has put in the wing of SMILES
y dam that went out last spring. George
Baker of johnson moved his photograph
saloon to town the past week and for some
reason did not stay long with Us. He has
\. moved it back to Johnson Lewis Rog-
is ers of johnson is stopping with his son,
~ O, d. Rogers ... Monroe Twist has moved
n into Fred Woods house Mrs. John y,
!, Wiley is on the sick liet...Johu Carl
< wants wife has returned to her first love.
N "re az Thap socnnl ,ine niavaI
1t ih1, Cana ~ mil at Enrth CmIrid,a
z ritip 6is''1tI ,3h Cr,%r ,oci,h SatnrI1,
a nor re ~ ~ ~ G - Watarriiia
Is prof !, W Ii,iin"i ,nd viz of Uvda
~ Park and Charles Hulburd of Cambridge
: We're in town over Sunday the guests of
!, their mother Mrs. Is. Hulburd. -, Mrs.
Is Ii W W., WI iiti fiaH
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|, III 'o"i lie Norxh uor,
At
George Ludhope Is harvesting ms I'M,
n mense onion crop and thlnks he Is good
'e for 600 bushels, Tor which he mas refused
c. an offer OF 10 cents per bushel Inc
Is third span OF our bridge Is near,
: ly up, the next beng the draw ana
:, the span to the Alburgh shore,