Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22
or INTEREST TO vERMoNrEHs.

4 hill will be introduced in the lcgisla
turc this fan providing for a city charter
for what is now Bennington village. y
similar hill was before the legislature two
years ago, hut was dcfvatedNly prominent
'cs.dcnts Of the village.
Mrs. ". :. Caswcll. who has been spcnd-
ng the summer ON Ncwfanc hill Brattlc-
ooro. left here. Thursday for Fargo, y.
D. She Will go from there to Washing
,on. Oregon, Montana. California. back to
connecticut. and then To Missouri In the
interests of the CONGREGATIONAL home mis-
missionary society.
col Robert J. kimhnll of Randolph the
nhlo New York banker and patriotic son
of Vermont was elected director and pre-
sident of the Iowa Central railroad at the
annual meeting Of the stockholders at
Chicago, recently.
\ BANK FOR BRADFORD.
II. S. Chase. note teller in the Shawmut
National bank of Boston. was in Bradford
last week talking with some of the lead
Ing citizens concerning the prospects of
starting a bank. Nothing dehntc was de-
sided upon but he appeared pleased with
the town and with its location for doing a
good banking business.
Isaiah Benson of Woodstock has now
yoke of clephantine oxen. These are
iolstcins. five years old and weigh 1870
pounds. They are well matched, hand
IN that section.
IIGHTNtNG'S FREAK,
ON the farm of II. q. Bates, Rutland,
lies Il bowldcr Weighing. it is estimated,
about nine tons. During II recent thunder
ttorm, lightning struck 1t ana cut II per-
pondiculurly about three feet and horizon
tally about the same distance, exactly 1T
iiSht angles, dctaching "A block estimated
as weighing two tons two sides of which
u - Ia. Ys 81
H. though quarricd. The stone is of the
class designated as ConElomeratc grit,
with here and there finty pebble some
pf which have been clcanly cut in two by
the lightning stroke.
NORTHTIELD SLATE.
The Vermont Slate Syndicate 0imitcd.l
Is Fair Haven's latest corporation. 1t has
been organized by Englshmen to quarry
roofing slate. The capitalization Is $37j 600
divided into $50 shares of 500 each. Tn,
concern has bought two quarrics, one OF
Scotch hill and one in South Poultney.
ANOTHER DEWEY.
Ida *. Dewey. cousin of Admiral Dew
ty, with Charles Leonard Fletcher, Is tC
play the hag in Or. Jekyll ana MIR
lIydo." Miss Dewey played two seasons
with Cordray's stock company, Portland
ore
Hamilton l.. Withheld. son of Addison
Withheld Of Vernon has been appointed
referee in bankruptcy in North Dakota.
a SUCCESSFUL VERMONTER.
Col. George y. NJ. Harvey, private secre
tary to William G. Whitney. the cX-sccrc
tary of the navy and "A millionaire, an,
president of the Manhattan railroad. ma,
well he so called. No one expected tina
Harvey would turn out future railroa,
president. While not good scholar III
was a good writer and always had thu
best compositions of any scholar in schoo
1hs was his field to success. He first be
Uamc Il newspaper man and his first OK
perience was the Pcacham local CORES
pondent for the Vermont Union" publish
I'd at Lyndon. Next he was assistant ed
tor on the st. Johnsbury "Caedonian
md afterwards was on papers in Spring
field, Mass, and Chicago. His career II
New York commenced with a position o
the New York World" and when he lcf
that paper was managing editor of It
New Jersey edition. When he once go
started he possessed the necessary push
ambition and brains to keep him traveln
up the ladder until now he Is I'm clear vie,
of the top. Harvey married "A Peachar
girl and has an elegant home In Ne'
York, where he Is always glad to see hi
Old schoolmates and any one from his ma
tive town. He contributed $1,000 or NOR
toward the success of the Peacham acad
fmy centennial. bringing with him fror
New York an Italian string orchestra I
help make the occasion enjoyable. Ever
New England town has some son or son
10 whom 1t points with especial pride. an
it frequently happens that as boys the
We're hardly regarded as on "A par wit
many of their playmates whom they hay
far outstripped in the achievements of al
ter years, II Is not safe to predict a boy
future success on the strength of hi
scholarship, -Bradford "Opinon."