Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-02

Bennington.
A big crop Of beans and onions is report
ed in South Hero.
C.. c. Emerson of East Thetford has a
corn field of l3 acres
West Brattleboro's now town farm build
ings are nearly completed.
Bradford is experiencing healthy boom
and the Opinion says it has come to stay.
There will be teachers institute ut
Woodbury. Centre next Friday at 10 a. m
A cow belonging to l.. G. Hannum of
Putney fell in the stable and broke her neck.
Brattleboro's new fire alarm system will
be in working order i'll few days.
Mrs. Luke Rice of Westminster has had
II cataract successfully removed from her
eye
Oscar A. Burton Of st. Albons has gone
to Chicago He will bo absent for some
time.
Farmers are complaining that their po-
tatoes are rotting badly in East Dorset and
vicinity.
Bellows Falls markets have been well
stocked of late with Walpole, n. II, ,
peaches
Secretary Proctor has given $1,000 to
Derby academy, where he was student in
his youth.
The selectmen OF Woodford are blasting
rocks from the river bed to keep it from
overlooking.
Ezra Benson of East Dorset had the tine
pitchfork run Into his foot by co-labor-
er while threshing
F. H. Button was convicted of cruelty to
animals by a jury in KutIand Tuesday, and
fined $50 and costs.
The town OF Guilford has expended 5000
in transforming its old village school house
into a new modern one.
Nine Rutland liquor dealers were fined q
total of S2150 by the County Court Tuos-
day for violating the law.
y tobacco buyer of Chicago has bought
the remaining lots of the weed in Vernon
for Is to 20 cents in bundle.
The summer travel to the White Noun
tains is practically over, all trains bound
that way being lightly loaded
y. n. Batchedor Of Newfane has been
appointed by the government as postoflce
inspector for Windhan county
Dysentry is in full sway among the chill
dren of Bellows Falls. Over 30 were re-
ported sick with it al one time.
At tho closing session of the Unitarian
conference at Saratoga Senator j. S. Nor
'A's "eo c'eCtSu liIel vice 'IlTesluent.
II. |. Wilcox o. Jacksonville received
quite bad injuries by being thrown from
his carriage by the shying of his horse.
Report comes from South Londonderry
that II Mr. Bates has abscouded with the
proceeds of COW. He is New Yorker.
A man from Sandgate was tipped over
by the noon train on the crossing in Shafts
bury last Wednesday. He escaped in Jury.
The falling Of an axe from the shelf of q
store in brattleboro caused a bad flesh
wound on the leg of Lucius Whitney, Il cera
Saxtons River is agitating a ue,- hotel,
and the committee in charge have received
applications for positions on the corps OF
help.
Each town representative from New
Haven since 1870. it is singular to say has
given his religious prefence as Congration
ehst
Horace French, an aged citizen Of Wards
boro, fell from an apple tree and lad ar eal
partially torn of besides receiving bad
bruises
new company has leased the Christie
machine shop and foundry in Brandon and
they will manufacture stone cutting
machines
Passenger trains on the new railroad are
ZIG passengers and express in the town o!
y Hhitingham.
Albert n. Fletcher aud family of Indian
apolis, Ind., who have been camping OF
ChucHle hill in Proctorsvle, will leave fol
home this Weok.
swarm OF bees took possession of the
front windows of Parkhurst's grocery store
IN MlddIebury recently. They were hveu
nfter a little trouble
The total receipts of the Rutland county
far were $1,000. The society will 10 abb,
to pay all expenses premiums and some
thing on it, indebtedness.
The new opera house at st. Johnsbury
viii be mammoth affair, seating abon
1000 people OF 600 moro tnan the Howard
Opera House in Burlington.
One of the asylum patients at Rrattle.
boro escaped recently aud was cnptursi af
ter several hours hunt at the railroGC
station about to take the train.
Probably the rarest stamp in exstenc,
has just been sold in London for e2JO II
is an American five cent stamp issue n
Brettleboro, this state, IN 1910
Mr.. Gotta, who bought the south point o,
FockweIl's bay, near Keelers Bay, is pros
pectng for suitable place to erect build
ings for next summers camping
Two suspicious characters detected steal
ing grain at Somerset, attacked f. u. Chas
and stabbed him just below the heart, then
went through his pockets and fed.
Three different teams recently took
prominent part in a runaway in Brattlebo
70, and two men were injured. 1t al
started By one Of the animals getting fright
sEed.
Miss Maggie Nash of Shaftsbury Cen Ell
fell III feet tuesday afternoon in a barn
and broke two bones in one wrist, spraine'
the other badly, and cut a cash under he
chin.
The monument which the town of Tro,
voted to erect to the memory Of the lat
Moses Dodge, who wled his property to tn
Troy schools, is in its place in the centre o
the common.
A four-horso team owned by Jesse !.
Squres of Guilford was left standing on
street In Brattleboro aud the forward pai
Logan niDbliug off plants. Some one thre,