Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-10-12

one ..... Buckwheat is a good crop if it
can be secured in any shape ..... There
Is good demand for beef cattle. a Swan |
ton buyer having bought several head re-
Gently. In poultry, fowls sell at seven
cents, chickens eight cents and turkeys
nine cents live weight Onions command
80 to 60 cents a bushel
Bethel.
During the night of Sunday last the
sugar house of A. NJ. Marsh with evapo-
rator and other tools, and the years stock
of wood, was entirely burnt, without in
surance. Cause of fire unknown.
shoreham.
The Addison county conference of Con-
gregational churches will be held at
Shoreham next Wednesday. A cordial
invitation is extended to all interested 80.
Mrs A. Burdette of Pttsford is visiting
AT B. b. Nottingham ....... Mr.. and
Mrs C. n. North, Miss Mary Parker and
Misses Marcia and Louise Douglas went
on the excursion to New York Tuesday
........M Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Forbes have
been spending a few lays at ID. a. Forbes
in Ballston, n. N.....Al the recent Bay
state fair at Springfield, Frank f. Doug
las was awarded the first premium of $50
on butter, and Marcia \. Douglas was
awarded the first pre- MUM OF 50 on comb
honey.
Samuel Barnard has sold his farm to his
nephew, George Barnard, and purchased
w. j Stearns's place at the Centre.....
Mrs. w. Pope is slowly recovering........
| The check list OF voters for presidential
electors are posted Every voter should
see that his name is on the list Lewis
| Buuday of Stock bridge, was arrested Fri
day for intoXicatlon and was fined 50 and
costs amounting to SIP ~. He disclosed
on the agent at Bristol ..... Danes
Sorrell came near losing his barn by fire a
few days since, the result of children play
| ing with matches. ........The bridge near
). NJ Colby's is being repaired by Mr.. Ed
gertOn of Charlotte. .......MrS. Nettle
Day is very i'll with but little hopes ol re-
covery.
Isle La Motto.
The schooner, II G.. Lyon, owned and
sailed by Captain William Montgomery,
jr., was quite seriously damaged 10y drop.
ping large stone on her while loading
stone at Fisk's dock last Saturday. The
boat haze gone to Whitehall for repairs. -.
Apple picking is in order nowadays.
Nearly all the graft apples in town have
been sold to Boston parties with the eX-
cepton of one or two large orchards. The
price paid was 81 per barrel. ....... Our
senator, Hon. n. w. Fiske, aud town re-
preventative, ;, l.. Fleury, were home
over Sunday n Ransom Hall
has built a new corn barn ......:. Hon; and
Mrs. S, II. Pike returned from New York
last week Thursday. H. H.
Young of Manchester, \. H, and Miss Ida
Phelps visited on North island last week.
Montpelier.
Mrs. J. e. Brown of North Hsverhill,
y. II is visiting her daughter, Mrs. w
Arthur Jones at Is Barre street.......
Invitations are ont TOR the marriage of
a uti ron of \k
to George NJ. GOss, on the l1th ins5......
Rev. j. f.. Wright is 10 conduct meeting
ut WrigntSvlle next sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock .... .Jamo9 7. Sabin is tenn
pOrary singer i'll the Trinity choir.
The continuous wet weather for over a
month has greatly hindered harvesting.
Old farmers say they never saw worse
time in which to do work. Corn Is very
poor all over town and many farmers have
not considered 1t worth cutting, Potatoes
yield well, although many varieties are
rottng badly. At the special town meet
ing held last Saturday afternoon the vote
taken at previous meeting to repair the
town hail was recor >'derpd The drama,
"Riverside Farm" written by G. A. Lam
son, was rendered Friday aud Saturday
evenings. Those who attend .d pronounce
it good. Many We're kept away by the
rain and mud both nights........Majo r
Butts of Washington, au emplOye Of the
pension department, wrO has been stop
ping at Howard Butts for a fen Weth-,
addressed the old soldiers Tuesday even
ing on pensions Wednesday night stv.
eral members of the q \. II post, ut
tended by the drum corps, made hun
farewell visit. He returned to WAshing-
ton Thursday morning -. Albert Paqun
has moved into the house formerly occu-
pied by Mr.. Stockwel. Mr., and Mrs
StOckWell have moved 10 Newport, tO'llVe
viii their son Bert........C. A. Simmons
has returned from Boston, where he has
been doing his fall trading ........H H. G.
Mcmahon and wife expect to return
west this week.
General Vermont News.
The directors OF tie Central Vermont
and Consolidated roads Eeld meeting at
St Adams yesterday, preliminary to the
stockholders's meeting today
The continued wet weather has PLAYED
havoc with the potatoes. so badly have
the tuOers rotted that in AlbuTgh and
some other place. a number of farmers
viii not dig them at all. One Alburgh
farmer. VINO dug his potatoes and got
them INTO the cellar before the last spell
OF wet weather, has carried out therefrum
about 100 bushels that had rotted in the
Cb,ltr.
Silas H. Soule of Fairfield has been of
fered $1,000 for the stallion Meteor, which
won second premium at the State fair.
David &. Billings of Rutland, aged 80,
WAS round dead in his bed Friday evening.
! AppopleXy is the supposed cause
/ Col. Franklin Fairbanks has been %
| years superintendent of the Sunday school
of the North Congregational church at
st. Johnsbury.
Between Maquam and SwantOn the
other day, a partridge flew under the
| train in Just such way rs to have its
head cut of by the wheels.
Both Brattleboro and Chesterfield are ia
have special town meetings for the pu'-
pose of freeing the toll bridge connecting
the two places.
The St. Adams Messenger has put in a
new Cottreli two revolution press with Il
folder attached, and it appears in "A hand
some new dress.
twenty-five workmen have been dis
charged by the Columbian Marble com
pany of Rutland. They had been engaged
rs extra help for summer business.
Brakeman Blakely, on che Rutland rail
road, had his right hand taken off in the