Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-06-14


person and are still at the CITY Court
room.
| The case of the State VS.. Ford s. Wild
rick for keeping an office for the sale of
stocks in violation of the Vermont law
was nole pressed yesterday morning by
States Attorney Brown. Mr. Widrick
was the correspondent of Price McCor-
mick e. Co. of New York. the house which
recently made assignment, and mas
closed his office on this account.
John Rushlow left Thursday for New
| York city to take the trip to this city
on DIR. w Seward Webb's new boat which
is to come by the way of the st. Law
| renee. f.. D. Gcbhardt's son Frank and
DR.. A. =. Grnnells son. Arthur will also
take the trip. 1t is expected that these
three will be the only guests from this
| city to make the trip.
Mr. and Mrs. w. J. Van Patten leave
! this city the latter part of the week for
| Montreal where they will sail on Satur-
day on the steamer Partisan for Antwerp.
| At Antwerp they will join the Misses Van
/ Patten and Miss l.. M. Strain, who have
| been abroad for several months, and make
| a tour of Europe Miss Halle Walker will
accompany Mr.. and Mrs. Van Pattea.
Miss Deina NJ Dorr and Miss Rather
inc Young returned Friday from Under
hill, where they attended the funeral of
/
had been a resident of Underhill for about
As years and moved there from Canada.
! He was 6S years old and death was due to
typhoid pneumonia after seven days ILL
ness. He is survived by two sons and
four daughters.
Jed T. Ladd of Aburgh was in this city
yesterday on business and states that
there will be hearings beginning on June
18th, in eight cases in which appeals from
i,
Canadian Railroad have been taken. The
matters have been appealed to "A new COM
mission which consists of Herbert f..
| brigham of bakersfield, Charles II. Max
ham Of Pomfret and Noel j. Powers of
| Alburgh,
The manager who has in charge the
providing of attractions for the vaudeville
entertainment to be given by the Bur
llington Traction company at Howard
Park during July and August was in this
city yesterday and visited the park with
Nv. r Hendee. Arrangements were made
for the building of the stage upon which
the performance will be given. 1t is ex-
lpected that the entertainments will begin
on the night of July 1st.
At a special meeting of Court Rurlng-
ton No 5, f. of A. held in their rooms
last evening it was decided to hold liftf
annual outing and clam bake August il
band and orchestra and the steamer Rein
deer have been secured. A general com
init tee has been appointed to make all ar
rangements and the event is expected t.
be one of the most enjoyable in the his
tory of the court.
A meeting of the BARRIERS of the city was
, held at the shop of Andrew Charland Mon
day night at which they agreed to close a
s o'clock on Monday, Tuesday. Wednesda,
/ Tl,ttt 1s1~ val,
Friday nights and at - o'clock on Satur
day nights. The new agreement will take
effect on Monday June is. The BARRIERS
also agreed upon a revised list of prices
which viii be posted in the shops.
Frank Crotto OF Willston and Miss LEM
d. Lavigne of Plattsburgh We're married a
II o'clock Tuesday morning at st. 10
n seph's church ny Rev. j. NJ. Cloarec. Ed
ward Crotto, a brother of the groom act
ed as hest man and Miss Teresa Moone.
of Ferrisburgh bridesmaid. Tn
q couple left after the ceremony for Hines
: burgh. where a reception TO their friend
i, was held in the evening They will mai
a their home in Williston.
large number of the old friends AM
parshioners of Rev. DR. and Mrs L. @
Brastow gathered at the residence of Hon
+ and Mrs. c. p. Smith Thursday after
noon between and 6 o'clock to gree
their home in New Haven. Conn. The af
fair was very informal but none the les
| enjoyable. Mr., BrastOw was pastor of til
e. First church for II years previous to tn
coming of Rev. Dr. Halves.
George Bills aged 70 years, died at abou
10 o'clock Monday morning at his HON
on St Paul St. after an illness of severa
= months. Besides n wife, he is survived b.
y son, Edward Bills, and a daughter, Mrs
. fIalsey of Springfield, Mass. Mr.. Bills TO
= long time conducted second hand stor
S on lower ST. Paul st. Funeral service
were held at o'clock Wednesday after
noon al St Paul's chapel. The intermen
= was in Elmwood avenue cemetery.
Chief Brownen went to Windsor Satur
. day morning with jeremiah Crawford, tn
230-pound watch thief recently sentence
TO serve year in States prison. Jerry
was not very popular among the othe
: prisoners in the jail owing to his objection
i to taking a bath He claimed when som
IL OF them suggested it that he was told h.
= his physician not to get "A lame foot We
: but the others in the Jail insisted and "Jer
d ry' was obliged to bow to the majority
although he said he had not had water o
q the foot in question for over two years.
& A peculiar and unusual case was befor
n Judge Bingham in the probate court Mon
II day. 1t was that of Orrin Rawson c
g Jericho, who has been in the asylum TO
n the insane at Brattleboro for almost
:, years. When he entered the asylum Nj
Rawson was possessed of considerable
S property, which has been used in pay
g ment for his care until now he is withou
: means. An application was made TO tn
IL probate court to have the State bear tn
u expense of his remaining there and the ar
n plication was granted Monday afternoon
= A crowd of no small size was well pai
for trip to Athletic Park Saturday after
l. noon by game of ball between team
n from the Free Press and Daily News. Th
t. game was called at 430 and the typos
:. played lively bali until the Sth inninl
is when it was found necessary to call tn
V game on account Of darkness. At th
n time the score was % to 23 in favor of I'll
Daily News team. After the first inninl
when each team made 10 runs, the gam
IL was very well contested The batterie
"a were for the Free Press Stringer, Vilmair
e and Murray and for the News Taylo
X Smith and Alexander, Umpire, Doyle.
- Some months ago two boys one name
= Aleck Stone and the other Kelley disaI
pcared from their homes in the north en-,
They are lads of about IS and II years
st age. Their parents led Il frutless scare
T. for them for several weeks after the
al disappearance and finally gave up all hoI
la of finding them, little later, a letts
is was received by the parents of the Stor
t. boy, saying that they were both locate
~ in town in New York State and had GOO
positions, Nothing more was heard fro
either of them until the Wallace circl
= reached this city. As the parade WI
III passing through the streets Friday mori
~ ing. some reCOgniZpd the Stone bT