Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-04
VERMONT LOCAL NEWS.
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cord, y. H., who have been detained here
several weeks while Mr.. Hayward was
| recovering from injuries received while
| unloading a plano, returned to Concord,
Monday.-Mrs Clara Salter who has been
| at the Hanover hospital a few weeks Is
/ recovering and will soon be able to return
to her home-Mrs Gracia f.. Sargent has
! gone to Royalton for few days which
she will spend with MIR. and Mrs. X. A.
Pierce.-A number of the best citizens of
the town have been summoned as witnes-
scs in the case of Benedict VS. The Union
Agricultural Society, now on trial at
Woodstock.
WILLIAMSTOwN
Henry Downs, delivery clerk in j. X
I%ude's store, Is in poor health and Is
obliged to stay at home for a while Mrs
O. h. Griffin of Burlington visited her
parents last weok.The Christian Er-
deavor young people held a promenade at
the town hall last Saturday evening,
which wes well attended Music was fur
nishod by the band Luther Bailey, teach
er in tho grammar school at East Iiarrc,
spent New Years day with his father j.
i Bailey.The annual dinner ofthe Lynde
family was held last Monday at the home
of II. l.. Cheney in Mllvile.-A petition
has lately Been presented to the directors
asking that a third school be established
in the Quarry neighborhood, as the pres
evil S'UNplS arc DHNlN CROWDED. ne next
meeting of the Social Library s to be held
on Tuesday afternoon. Jan. 9th.-Ervin II.
Martin will move from y. D. Martins
farm, now owned by Dr. Lewis d. Martin
of Barre, to his own farm next spring. -
Subjects for discussion at the teachers
meeting next Friday evening are school
mercy and the truant law. All citizens are
invited-Orrin Simons is cutting lot of
wood on the farm of Il. p. Odds in Barre.
CHELSEA
The annual report of Orange County
Creamery company shows 2,450G07 pounds
Of milk received during the past year and
l9,5S2iP pounds of cream, from which 133.-
&O'. pounds of butter were made. The
average test was 46l and average gain per
cent was 10 1926. The average cost Of
making per pound including II cent per
pound reserved, ? 6-10 cents l26, 231jl
pounds of butter were sold and 7349 pounds
were supplied to patrons. The average
price paid to patrons was 17% cents per
pound. The annual meeting of Chelsea
fire district No. was held at the ACADEMY
school room on Monday afternoon and the
following officers were chosen for the en-
suing year: VI Jderator and treasurer, Cur
It's s. Emery; clerk Willard p. Townsend
collector. Charles l.. Godfrey; prudential
ocmndtfee II. ~ Mattson. Calvin y.
Dearborn, Benjamin H. Adams, Jr,; chief
engineer Charles p. Dickinson assistant
engineers, Charles E. Godfrey ana Ernest
a. Corwin It was voted to raise a tax
Of ten cents on the dollar of the grand
list to pay the Indebtedness of the dis
trict-L.aSt Friday evening while sliding
down Hill near the dwelling of Charles 4.
Densmore, Arthur f. Dickinson, the nine
ycar-old son of +. Il. Dickinson, 70 into
the sled of another boy, who had been
overturned. and was knocked senseess,
having to be drawn home on his sled, hu.
sol plis
he complained of pain in mis- side, it was
found that he had suffered no permanent
injury.-Eugene II. kennedy, who already
has cider mill, bone mill and carriage
repair shop in the upper village, Is to put
in new steel grist mill to run In connec-
ton with his other busincSs.Quite del
egation from Chelsea and the adjoining
Tunhrdee are attending the trial OF the
ease Of Clyde X. Benedict, by next
friend VS. Union Agricultural society.
otherwise universally known as The
Worlds Fair" of Tunbridge. This IS an
action on the case for injuries alleged %
have been sustained by the plaintiff while
engaged in a bicycle race IN the fall OF
1895, as the result of a collision with a
gig upon the track near the grand stand.
John A. Stanley and Dan Stanley OF
Washington, Elgin D. Barres, William II
Hin and Wilder II. Dearborn OF Chelsea
are witnesses for the defence. McSsrs
Darling & Darling are engaged with otn-
or counsel for the defendant.The trial
WAS begun last Thursday and seems likely
to consume all this week, at least.