Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-02-18
ALL OVER THE STATE.
WHAT WEEK BRINGS FORTH IN
THE WAY OF NEWS
The Happenings of seven Days on our
Hill. and in Our valleys Condensed and
Psragraphsd for Busy Free Fress
Readers.

agency has been formed IN Bellows tails.
Myrtle and Bernce Capron were injured
recently in highway coasting accident.
c. Cole of East Hardwick injured his eye
tho other day and will lose the sight of it.
Capt f. H. Buffur of Cambridge will
be the Memorial day orator at Brattleboro.
Albert NJ. johnson, the defaulting treas
urer of Wilmington, is still in unknown
fields
In a school district in Wilmington there
has not been birth, death or marriage the
past year.
Tho death rate in Chester for the month
passed was IS, tho largest since the town
was settled.
Rabbits are quite plenty this winter,
though hunting is not of the best owing to
the deep snow.
The bennington county tea chers' insti-
tute will be held at Bennington March q 3
and 4, 1892.
Henry Fry of Lyndon fell through a
scuttle hole the other day and had Two ribs
loosened at the base.
Lumbering is flourishing in West Towns
hend and w. a. Taft will run his mill night
and day this spring.
Thomas Gallagher of ST. Albans Bay
broke his leg Friday by being caught by
rope on hay press.
Mrs. c. b. Chadwick Of East Bethel has
a merno lamb dropped November IA that
will weigh nearly so pounds.
A block Of soap.tone was hauled from the
Perkinsville quarry to the mill Saturday
that measured rs cubic feet
One hundred new lock boxes have been
put in the postotiice at Newport to accom-
modate the increasing patronage.
The year and hall old son Of Charles
Plumley of Rutland was badly and proba-
bly, fatally scalded Thursday by hot water.
Fred Roundy OF West Burke Intends to
haul 400, 900 feet of sawed timber aud 90
cords of shingle stock to his mill this winter.
David Savage's store in Bellows Falls
wns broken into on the Sd inst. and the
burglars helped themse.vea 70 candy, cigars,
etc.
BY the giving way of an zee dam at
Canaan last week George Merrill, who was
at work on a bridge, was carried AVA and
drowned.
In the town of Woodford is a man who
has once mad bis neck broken. He is now
strong and healthy et the advanced age OF
rs years.
II. c. Chaloner of Swanton fell down tie
stairs. in his barn recently and haG one rib
broken. lie lay uuCOuSClOus SOlue Iline De
fore discovered
There were 236 births, 1863 deaths and
l02 marriages in Rut and last year, and
in 1890 there were 23J Dir,hs, lG3 deaths
and 80 MARI ages.
Hattie Fletcher who was recently cOnvic-
ted OF larceny in Rutland pleadel guilty
to theft again Thursday and was gwen 4
sentence OF 10 mouths.
nf tha 10.
wood House at Rando!oph Centre, has par
chased pair Of goats, sleisn and harnesses
for his young peope to drive.
Rev. and Mrs. 5. H. Archibald of Wal
lingford celebrated their goden welding an
niversary last Saturday A bout 100 friends
par Anticipated IN the happy event
Weston's Methodists are anticipating
pleasant occasion on march q, when IN
papers repl ese"t'nS @iOU mortgage ol
their parsonage will ue burned.
The warning mas been posted in Rutland
for a special village meeting ebruaTy Z2 T.
consider the question Of the annexation Vi
portion OF d,-tr,cl No. 3 20 the v.l age.
John o. Griffith OF Fairnaven VINO Is em
poyed by the Eureka SAFE company, feI
80 feet Friday into a quarry, breaking al
arm and leg and d,slocatlu8 a shoulder
Katie, five year-od daughter of Davi
Carey oi Brattleboro broke her collar bon
by all from her sled, while coating nea
her home on Vernon street on tue 1tn ,snt.
a large quantity of baled hay is he n
hauled from bensOn and shipped from tn
station at Fairnaven. II is sent to Brooe
lyn by rail and from there to Georgia b
Loaf
The new house on Lake Bomoseen in Ca,
teton owned by a. :. Parsons wa, burne
10 the ground sunday moruIns, insured fc
&l4J0. The fire is said to havo been inceI
diary.
a boy named Harry Daniels, about /
years old, VINO worked in Ryegate, WI
killed recently while coastlng his sled ruI
mag ON to the track just IN front OF tt
mail train,
The Wilmington Valley Times has n fa
simiIe of the first copy OF The impartial Ii
tslhgencer, weekly paper published
Greenfield, Mass, February !, l192-ov,
100 years ago.
81 attleboro's town debt now stands
so, 27j Sc a reduction of sS, IA "a duru
1891 A tax OF 40 cents on the dollar {,
four years wi. make all desired improv
ments and eliminate the towns indebtedne-
The late Josiah Marsh decided to " e
River iOnd for "A cemetery and 1t was 10 T
main the property Of tho town 20 long aa
was kept well fenced, The heirs now clai
the land because the provision has not be-
compiled with.
Lucy Turner, daughter of John Turner
st. Aibans, was found dead in bed Saturd
afternoon. She was young glrl appa
emily en- joying the best OF health, but W
despondent at times which probably led
her taking an opiate.
There were n births and 50 deaths