Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-07
ALL OVER THE STATE.
WHAT A WEEK BRINGS FORTH IN
THE WAY OF NEWS.
The Happenings of Seven Days on our
Hills and in Our Valleys Condensed and
Paragraphed for Busy Free Fress
Readers

The holiday mail fell off one-third at the
Bellows Fails office this year.
New York capitalists may erect large
summer hotel on Leke Dunmore.
Bethe's new $4,000 school house will be
ready for occupancy in q few days
Otis Smalley of Grafton dropped dead the
other day while returning from work.
Hartland will probably clean up the last
of her war debt of $50, 600 this winter.
The repairs on the Congregational church
at Fairhaven will be flushed about Feb
ruary |.
The iron has arrived for the new railroad
bridge at Bellows Falls and will be put in
place at once.
Rev. W. s. Walker has finished his pas
torate at Jamaica and moved with his fam
lily to Rhode Island.
A tree which was recently cut at West
Windsor contained five cords of wood and
5000 feet of lumber.
Mrs George Macdiarmid of Newport was
severely burned recently by q flannel dipped
in alcohol taking fire.
Shaftsbury nas new industry-the
mandatory of BRUSH backs. The factory
turns out about 1000 daily.
The annual meeting of the Battenkill In
dustrial society will bo held Thursday, Jan
uary !, at Manchester Centre.
a West Brattleboro man who is trying to
raise a flock of sheep Is making good USE OF
his gun on the neighbors dogs.
Commissioners have reported favorably
for the annexation of district No. j of the
town Of Rutland to Rutland vlliare.
The contest over the will OF the late Jonn
p. Bowman OF Rutland is beinz heard in
the surrogats's Office in Ctlens Fails, ~ y
Thara ~ troiu
and number of conductors OF the Central
Vermont railr oad of duty on account of the
grip.
Three New Jerseyans have written par
ties in Manchester regarding ''those aDan-
doned farms. 1hey want TO live III Yer
mont.
Senator Sherman was re-nominated 10y the
OHIO Republican Legislature last evening,
receiving J3 votes to 81 tor eX-Gov.
Foraker.
Congress re-assembled after the holiday
recess Tuesday. Not much was done in the
Senate, but in the House 80 bills were in
troduced.
Gov. Page has appointed T. II. Raymore
and Merton Shattuck of Eden, justices, to
succeed E. White, resigned, and William
Ober, deceased.
j. T, r ,binson of Gould's Mills has added
story to his saw mill and has just com
pleted dry house for his turned stock.
He now employs 10 men.
Two tramps attempted to enter the house
OF II. a. Mahuron III South Fayston one
evening recently, but at the sight OF small
boy and revolver they led.
\. G. Coolidge and his brother 0. H.
Coolidge OF Rutland have formed partner
ship for the practice of law under the firm
name OF Coolidge " Coolidge.
The narrow gauge railroad in the State
began the new year by announcing that
ticket agents on those roads would sell tick
cts to all stations on trunk lines.
Considerable differences have arisen be-
tween the towns OF Proctor and Rutland
about the settlement Of o.d town affairs and
debts previous to the division.
Surveys have been made through Wealth
erstieid for railroad five times and Us vet
no engine is IN sight though the project
is again being thoroughly discussed.
Abigail Stebbens OF Johnson is 9S years
old, but reads without glasses, is spris htIy
in movement and has a memory that covers
every decade that she has ever seen.
Mr.. anu Mrs. William II. Chi!is of Lyn-
donville celebrated the 2dth anniversary of
their advent into welded life on December
10Th with large circle of friends present
South Londonderry has kept along with
other Vermont towns ia the way of i'm
proyements the finest of which is the Or.
Payne residence, which cost something ike
$50 900.
The residence owned and occupied by
George VI. Moore, merchant of Tyson, was
burned the other day The loss will by far
exceed the Insurance, which is 5000 on the
bu!ldIng.
4 n
Ascul lenyville has cider barrel which has
been used each year for 55 years and now
is III good state OF preservation. But now
about the cider
AT II fair recently given at Denver. Col.
for free klndergarten schools, all the COVER
nors wives were invited to Dress a doll or tbe
fair. Mrs. Gov. Page sent one, which WAS
the first received
Almost every town and village in the
State report n hatterlng growth during the
past year with prosperous outlook
Thanks are due the press for waking the
people up to the present state Of activity.
Mrs. B. A. Wilcox, the wife of Barney
A W cox, commercial traveller, former
ly Of Burlington, who let some months a,o
with another woman, Is scrltically i'll in Rut-
land measurably dependant on benevolent
aid.
In 1897 Hon. Samuel Mattocks OF Tin
mouth was appointed State treasurer, Il
position which he held for l3 years; tho old
building IN which he lived and kept that
Office is still standing on his old farm In that
town.
The Supreme Court docket for Franklin
county contains p causes, four State and
the remaining civil The court opens at
ST. Adams, January II, with Chief Judge
Ross presd ng and Hons. Rus.e $. Taft.
Henry X. start aud l., II. Thompson asso-
clate judges
Cushing's battery OF Newport, r. l.,
which enjoyed the hospitality of Fuller
battery at Brattleboro, on their march to
the bennington battle monument celebra-