Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-15
THE STATE IN GENERAL.
WHAT A WEEK BRINGS FORTH IN
THE WAY OF NEWS.
Brief Items of Interest from Every Cor
ner of Vermont Presented so That lie
who Runs Mny Read.

educational institute SO, 900 in his will.
Cooper & Sons hosiery mills are
at present running nights to ill back orders
The Bennington woollen mills which
were started up last spring. ore running
full time.
The funeral of the late Hon. Bradley
Barlow took place at st. Aibans on Thurs
day morning of last week.
business seems to brighten mp at South
Shaftsbury. lhei Eagle square works run
nine and one-ha1 hours a day.
| Batchelder q Sons are preparing to man
ufacture an unusually large stock of agri-
cultural forks this winter ut Walingford
The Stark house at Bennington, which
was recently closed, will, it is understood,
reopen under the proprietors Of the Putnam
| House.
/ The Bennington surveyors are preparing
a complete survey Of tho town preparatory
| to laying new sewers and regarding the
! streets.
There are II Catholic churches 5S priests
/ 10 converts, one college, II parochial
schools with an attendance of 1000 pupils in
! Vermont.
Tho fish and game commissioners will
have quantity of German carp ready for
distribution in the ponds of the State in a
few days.
Fred L. Houghton of Brattleboro, editor
of the Holstein- Friesian Register, is at Chi
cago attending the national fat stock and
dairy exhibition.
7. j. Tiffany, ex-postmaster at Benning-
ton will finish his sentence at the reform
school February 3, having gained time for
good behavior.
The St jobnsburv skating rink, which
was some time ago converted into an opera
house, will be made over into a tenement
house in che spring.
Peter Mcclellan, a brakeman, was bound
Owe at St johnsbury, November :, in
$3.50 bonds for attempted criminal assault
on a l4-yearold girl.
An 1S-pouud Lay lynx was recently
killed Mt Weathersficd His presence has
been known for some time Tor his slaugh-
ter of sheep and calves
The farm buildings Of T. II. Hoskins
agricultural editor OF the Vermont Watch
man, We're burned November :. The con-
tents We're partially saved,
Harrison I. Norton has purchased the old
observatory property on the summit of Mount
Anthony at Bennington, and intends erect
ing an iron observatory there next spring.
\ reluisition by the governor Of Vermont
Tor Charles W. badiam. wanted in Rutland
to answer a charge Of embezZlament was
argued before Gov Hill Monday afternoon.
Major d. j. Stafford OF Morrisville has
been appointed special pension examiner in
Maine, his territory peing Lincoln and
Sagadahoc counties and part Of Kennebec.
Rev {. b. Hurlburt b. D.. OF Hard
wick was IN attendance at the installation
ot ms son-n law. Rev Edwin Z. Rogers, at
HanesNl'le, ONO, and preached the lnstaiIa-
uoA sermon
Rev Mr.. Perry, l.. ". Hawley AMI Col.
Julius Estey OF Bratt lehoro ara preparing a
program Tor the re-dedication of the re
modelled Baptist church sometime during
the present month.
a. l.. Frisbc, bridge foreman on the
Brattleboro and Whitehall OF the Central
Vermont road, fell from a bridge at vii
liomston Saturday morning and was in
stonily killed. lie resided in Milton, where
he leave, family.
The model of a working creamery, or
hu,ter factory, manufactured by the
Vermont farm machine company. and
awarded the gold medal at the Paris expo
sitiol, was made from the same plans IS
the creamery now being built at Beuning
ron.
". y. Cate WoIcott. has received an
order for hard wood lumber. which has 10
be packed n l2xi9 boxes aud strapped with
iron. II goes 10 England and is TO be used
in laying the floor OF The Mammoth Skating
Rink near London, which is TO cover four
English acres.
The Windsor comfy tro,hars' institute
held . three DAYS session MT White River
junction last week u!ld,r The direction Of
state Superintendent Palmer Ncn,ly 1CO
, fpnuhers were present. nnd many i,uporront
Il,i,o.s conaec. ed with school work ,yere
considered
e,ur 1orr, borns bolo,s;r,r =, q
{ W Corman Of SUantop near +he 81
,1b9ns boundary were burned carIv Wed.
nesaoy morninr with a iarp, i,loutity
of nav aod grain. The fir, vas cou,ed hy
n borsa st,poina ON lantern The loss !.
ohout S2566. insured for $500
, Novs boq b,or rocsivod ~ th.. n,,r,ir, of