Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-04-27

! The appointment by Mayor Roberts of
/ T.. Il. Coon as truant officer took effect
yesterday and at noon he took a lad nam
ed John G. Champagne to the State Indus
trial school at Nergennos to serve term
Of two years.
The Chinese hearings before Commits
S,Oner johnson were continued Fri
day. Seventeen cases Were heard and in
these eight respondents were discharged
Tie remaining nine cases were held open
or continued.
Chief Smith made a little trip about the
city Saturday morning and found five ped
dlcrs from out of town operating without
having paid the required fee and securing
licensed permission. They were stopI ed
and VIII secure licenses or stop peddling.
ExGov. L. A. Woodbury. returned to
this city Monday night from the SOUTH
whore he has spent the winter with Mrs.
Woodbury.. Mrs. Woodbury., who has
been ILL., Is better and is now with her
daughter at Newton, Mass.
H. l.. Green of Middlebury moved Satur-
day into the house, No. 155 North Wnooski
avenue, recently vacated by f.. l.. Murray.
Mr. Green will open csl May first a domeS-
tic bakery in the store room formerly &C.
cupied by Murrays shoe business.
| A company has been formed for the
operation of the Burlington Broom Fac
| tory in which are associated A. II.
| Robertson, John Ranks and f. ]. Ben
ware. The business has been moved 10
/ the old soap factory and will be enlarged.
Edward Bradley of New York, The own
81 of tho Peck property at the corner of
| College and South Union streets, sold Fri.
| day to John j. Flynn, trustee, u lot of
! land at tho corner of the streets named
| having frontage of 10 feet upon either
| side.
The old Methodist parsonage on Winoo-
! ski avenue is to be sold or torn down
about May and in its place will be erect
ed handsme building with all the mod
ern improvements. a comittee has been
! appointed to secure suitable plans for the
! building.
j. L. Scott of Highgate was in this city
/ Monday. He has just returned from mis-
/ hotel, the St. Elmo, at Green Cove
| Springs, Fla, and says that it has been
the most successful season they have ever
mad He will manage hotel in IIighgate
| this summer.
Bishop Hall left on Saturday morn!uc
| for st. Johnsbury, where he begins a VS.
| itaUOn of the northern part of the diocese
| making circuit from St. Johnsbury on
the east to st. Adams on the west The
| bishop will be absent from the city on
this Visitation tour for two weeks.
The bicycle season is opening with a
rush and the number of people who are
learning to ride would indicate that the
sport was mode than holding it's own in
popular favor. Ono local dealer sold sew
IN wheels after 7 o'clock Saturday even.
ing
George ]. Whitney died in Brooklyn Sun.
day The remains will be brought to Bu.,
lington on the night train Friday. Pray.
er Will be offered at the undertakinu
rooms of j. w. Roberts on Bank street
saturday morning at 10 O'Clock. The in.
| torment Will be in Elmwood avenue GENE.
terry.
+. 7. Shaw sold Monday for u. r. Aus
TIN n lot at the corner of College and vii,
hams streets with "a frontage of 10 feet
on Williams and 70 feet on College stree,
10 G \. North of Rutland, the Vermont
agent of the Aetna Life Insurance com
pany. Mr. North will build a residence
upon the lot.
The lake was within two feet Of hiri
water mark iast night and is rising rapid
ly. Ten inches more will cover the break
water and Hood the Shepard & Mors,
lumber yard, but it will take consider
able more rise than that to cover tn,
Champlain Transportation company
dock
Two petitions in voluntary bankrupt,
were filed yesterday They We're by James
Kenny Of Lyndon, a railroad engineer
. with liabilities of S374595 and assets a
Sll73, and by Gero Brothers Of Irasburgh
. who have liabilities of $525.0S and assot
OF $40. This firm is made up of John an,
Joseph Gcro.
Alfred Costaw of Milton came to thi
city Tuesday night having wake,
on the railroad track from his home anc
went TO the police office to see If he coul,
find his brother Ernest. The BROTHER came
to This city the day previous, expecting I,
live with his brothcr-in-law whom Alfrc,