Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-30
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A Drattisboro Man fnvents n Clever Eieo-
cal Device.

cal Device.
John r. Toomey of Brattleboro has lust
completed a clever electrical
whereby, when q subscriber Of the tele-
phone exchange calls the central office at
night, the drop which falls, on the switch
board rings the might" bell and lights the
electric lights in the office at the same
time, saving the operator much time and
patience. This switch, which Toomey
hos invented. Is worked by the current
Seuersted In the subscribers bell and the
gravity drop will probably soon be pa
tented by its young inventor.
The Welsh Cooperative Slate company
recently organized at Fair Haven Is the
second company of Welsh-Americans to
embark In the milled slate business. The
first ana original company was Griffith.
Owens & Co., organized in 1877. They have
worked their own quarries and milled
their own stock fer a period of Is years
with gratifying success.
The night switchman at the st. Johns
bury depot discovered a barrel of sweep
ings on fire in the depot cellar Thursday
morning just in time to put the fire out
and probably save the structure from ruin.
DIR. j. E. Thomson and Homer l.. Hoag
of Rutland have recently made some i'm
portant purchases at East Pittsford. In
Guiding the so-called Edison mill privilege
hiiu VNh' itdl tSNatC hih WoNti iibht VI
East creek in that vicinity Surveys and
plans have already been made looking to
the Improvement and development of this
valuable water power, on which work will
be begun Immediately. The power at East
Pittsford will be used partly at that place
and partly In Rutland. the transmission
being by means of electricity. Some of this
power has already been contracted for
manufacturing purposes. DR.. Thomson
and Mr.. Hoag have also bought of j. W.
Cramton about two and a half acres of
and on Cleveland venue opposite the
shirt factory. on which they will at once
put up a cold storage building, the power
and light for which will be furnished from
the East Plttsford power plant. Engineers
and architects are working on plans for a
dam and building at East Pitsford as well
as on the cold storage building. This work
will be be rapidly pushed so that the stor-
age business may be begun as early in the
hummer as possible.
There was a meeting of the alumni Of
Middlebury college at the parlors of the
Nicollet house. Minneapolis, Mimi, Mon
day evening, January 20. to organize a
Middlebury College Alumni association for
the Northwestern States. Officers were
elected as follows: President, Albee Smith
of Minneapolis; vice-pres!dent, DR.. II. s.
Baker of st. Paul: secretary, Hazen NJ.
Parker of Minneapolis; executive commit
tee, Rev. c. B. Moody Of North Mime
apolis. Dean Loren II. Batchelder of Ham,
line, Dean C. w. Hal Of Minneapolis. The
executive committee nave under considera-
deration arrangements for a reunion
George Lavalley, a brakeman on the
Central Vermont railroad, was caught be-
tween two cars at Brandon Saturday, and
his arm was badly damned.
William Benson OF Hartland was quito
badly injured at Taftsville Tuesday.
When riding through the covered bridge,
on a load of hay. his head came in contact
with one OF the beams, nearly breaking
his neck.
John Dana of Pomfret, while playing
about the house, fell upon a needle which
was sticking into the floor. The needle
was driven into his knee. and, breaking
off, left about lve-elghths Of an inch which
had to be cut out.
The Windsor County Teachers associa-
ton will hold it's summer school al Spring.
field.
The Rutland County Christian Endeavor
union will hold its convention in the Con-
gregational church at Brandon next Fri
day and Saturday. AT 1850 o'clock Friday
evening Rev. L. ID. Temple of Brattleboro
will deliver an address on Supreme Great
ness"
CONCERNING VERMONT PEOPLE.
The marriage of DR.. Charles f. Branch,
until recently OF Newport, and Clara Belle
Greenwood, formerly of Lowell, took place
Wednesday. January %, at s p. m, at the
home of II. C. Cleveland. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. j. *. Fuller OF
Barton Landing, after which DR.. and
Mrs. Branch took the train for their new
home In Amherst, Mass.
oliver N. w. Sprague Of st. Johnsbury.
who Is persuing a post graduate course In
Harvard university. has just received a
fellowship emitting him to two years of
study at a German university. Mr.. Sprague
leaves the coming summer for his work.
which will consist of special study In his
tory and political economy.
DR.. G. w. Ward of Upton, Mass, recent
ly died at the age OF so years. DIR. Ward,
formerly resided In this city.
Mrs. Martha Perkins Sawyer, widow of
the late Jonathan Sawyer. who died re-
Gently in her s0th year, was born in Bar
nard, VT, in 1916, married at the age of p,
and had lived in Dover N. H., since 1850,
Mrs. Sawyer was the mother OF ex-Gov.
Charles H.. Sawyer Of New Hampshire,
r. D. Sawyer. an artist of promise, who
recently died in Rome, the late Francis A.