Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22
WASHINGTUN COUNTY.
MONTPELIER.

The Washington and orange Counties
Veterans association will hold its first
annual reunion at Dewey Park, September
z and IS There will be camp fire at the
park pavilion the night of the opening
day, ana II is expected that Gov. Grout
and Gov.-eect Smith will be present.
Brass bands will be in attendance and the
public generally is invited to attend.
FIRE entirely destroyed the steam mill
belonging to II. O. Ward in Moretown
Thursday morning at 2;SO o'clock The
structure is a total loss and the most Of
the machinery, which was of modern pat
tern and recently put in the mill, was
badly damaged. There was no insurance.
The origin of the fire is a mystery, al
though 1t is conjectured that 1t originated
from a hot box on the main shaft. Mr.
Ward estimates his loss al $1,000.
The marriage of Miss Bertha l.. Serb
ncr to Arthur w. Prescott was solemn
lied at The home of the brides parents,
Mir. and Mrs. Gilman Scribner. in Berlin
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. H..
CO,burn of Essex Junction officiating. Mr..
and Mrs. Prescott left shortly after the
ceremony for Portland. Me, where they
will make brief stay.
The Rowell- Dunwoodie case dragged
YEARLY through the day Thursday in
County Court. The rebuttal evidence was
gotten in at 4 O'Clock and the arguments
ing for the plaintiff.
Clare Turner, brakeman on rail-
road, and a grandson Of Mrs. Eliza Tur-
ncr of Berlin, was killed in Providence
Thursday.
The house of Frederick Jackson in the
north east part of this town was struck
~ lightning during the shower about .
O'Clock Sunday morning and the roof " as
badly torn up but none of the occupants
of the building We're injured. Flames
broke out as "A result of the bolt but they
were eXtinguished by the heavy down
pour of rain.
W. r. Enright. who resides on the Ber-
lin side. while out cunning late Saturday
! afternoon, was shot in the right hand by
tho accidental discharge of his gun and
his index finger was nearly severed
G. f., Town of this city who left here
/ last March for the Klondike region Is now
/ In Seattle. where he has been for some
time, Towns plans were frustrated while
ne was on his way from Seattle for Ska
quay by the boat which he was in cap
sizing. He. with his party, had to return
/ to Seattle. He is building a boat in that
city and says In IA letter TO his mother
! that he will start again for the gold
region next spring.
! BY orders issued by Postmaster Shcdd
! Saturday. all mail matter sent out by the
: carriers Is to be delivered to residents IN
floor and the new order went into effect
Monday morning. 1t is claimed that will
the present force it will be impossible &c
carry ii out,
County Court came in Monday after
noon at . o'clock after two days recess
end resumed business by taking up tn,
case of Ward e. Douglass Us. the estat,
Of Hamilton Webster Of Barre which Is
case appealed from the commissioners ant
concerns The title of a certain piece Of
land.
Clare Turner who was killed at Provi
dence last week, was buried in this cit,
Sunday, the funeral having been held a
the home of his grandmother, Mrs. j
eliza Turner Al Prospect street, Berlin
Turner, who was a brakeman at the tint
the accident occurred, had papers of pro
motion in his pocket which would hav'
made him engineer had he lived till thu
day following the day of the accident. HI
was engaged to marry Miss Belle Nc
kenna next month.
Miss Anna Guernsey has gone to Red
bank, n. j., to accept position as In
; structress in elocution In II girls school
The stone sheds of Fraser a. Broadfoo
were sold at public aucUon Monday af
ternoon. The property was bid in by Rob
crt Fraser for S2i75,
Residents in Moretown and vicinity ar
agog over the reported finding of gol'
dailies in this section of the State are de
voting considerable space to PUBLISHING
articles on the probable riches of tn
earth in that section. Two or three me-
have already stated that they have a
different times pulled nuggets from tn
Mack river. Clarence Long and job
Long, his father, the latter long tim
, resident of that section of the State, bot
aver that the river In question actual
, contains gold and the former recently ha
, specimens of It in the crude form that h
, had taken from thestream. At the time tn
! original survey was made through the Ma
River valley for the proposed street roa
to Warren IL was discovered by mineralo
glsts that there were deposits OF gol
there In considerable quantities.
! John G. Barely, who left the home @
1 his father. William Barely. In Barre min
! years ago when at the age OF 10 years, ha
I returned to this locality. During his al
' sence young Barely has followed farmin
' some and has mastered the art of paint
: ing, has been log driver and was fo
some time salt"
al The East Barre Record has passed In II
checks after an eight months existence
e which were well decked with the full VI
d riety of country journals hardships
T: V. *. Nash. who arrived IN this cit
]. from his home In Woonsocket, Il. l., MOI
:. day morning In company with some {
Q the officials of the Barre and Montpeli'
e street railroad IL going over the PR
r posed route for the extension OF the stree
i road from Barre to East Barre and II
J. expected that they will be ready In