Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-04-24

from which 1t takes its name, lying mid
way between Milton and South Hero. three
miles north of the Sandbar bridge.
Baron" Rudolph Won Lelbch, who was
arrested here for bigamy, Is now making
his home with Ebert Hubbard at the Roy
croft Shops, East Aurora N. Y. He ac-
companies Mr.. Hubbard on some of his
lecturing tours and acts as pianist and
goes under the name of Roycroft Lebicl.
Murray Bourne was arrested Thursday
by Deputy Sheriff Reeves on a body writ.
some time ago Mr.. Bourne was driving q
horse, owned by II. c. Smith, and the AMI
NAL ran. The arrest was for the purpose
of recovering damages caused by the runa-
way
The case of the State VS. Henry l.. Perry,
a druggist at Essex junction, was heard
before Justice George W.Deberville Thurs
day. 1t grew out of a search but as there
was no evidence that the stuff was kept
for Illegal purposes the liquor was ordered
returned.
Negotiations are in progress by which j.
b. Henderson will purchase Of the Central
Vermont Railway company the vacant
land on tho west side of North avenue.
south Of the office of the Standard Oil com
pany. There are, perhaps ten acres In
the piece, which Mr.. Henderson will cut
up into building lots.
Is. .. Jones mas SOld LOT MIS-. Lettle "a
Ballard her property on North Battery
street consisting OF her residence. stable
and lot with a frontage Of S2ls feet and an
| additional lot adjoining with a frontage OF
so feet to William Cayea for considera-
ton Of $4500. Mr.. Cayea will occupy the
property for residence
| Gardner S. Fassett of Enosburgh arrived
in the city Tuesday to superintend some
repairs at the Experiment Station. The
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been located in the rear of the second story,
is to be moved to the front Of tho ground
floor, while the office thus vacated will be-
come part OF Prof. +. A. Waugh's Of
| ice.
The funeral of Ambrose s. Mears was
held from the homo on North Winooski
avenue at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon,
the services being conducted by the Rev.
d. c. Stanton and the Rev. w. A. David
son. The interment was made In Lake
View cemetery, o. P. Ray, Geo. E. Davis,
Noble Merrick and Charles Ferguson act
| ing is bearers.
Extensive repairs have been made on the
interior of the Sherwood House. The walls
| of the office have been wainscotted and
| covered with new paper and hard wood
floors have been laid. An entrance has
been cut into the office from Cherry street
| and a new staircase directly in front Of
tills entrance mas DeeIl pullt nc" ldN .
| atories have also been installed.
Maple sugar which has been selling at
| wholesale at cents has taken quite a rise.
| A. j. Croft of Enosburxh Falls secretary
i of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers 'asso
| citation, in last weeks market letter says
that no farmer is obliged to sell the prod
uct for less than eight cents a pound and
adds that wise farmers will hold their
sugar for that price.
Tho members of Company NJ have de-
cided to rent the two upper floors Of the
Hyland block on the corner Of Church
street and Mechanics Lane and will occu-
Ply the quarters as soon some improve
ments are made. The new armory will be
on the upper floor, which consists of a
hall about GO by % feet. The second floor
will be used for club rooms, quartermas-
ter's department and officers apartments
Mrs. Andrew Cote. who resided at Lake.
side Park, died Friday morning at the
age of q years. She is survived by hus-
band and one son. The family had resided
in the city only three weeks, having come
from Montreal. The remains were taker
to the rooms of d. +. Renaud and the fu-
neral was held from ST. Joseph's Church
: Saturday morning at o'clock with buria
!, in Mount Calvary cemetery.
Howard. the five years old son of Mr.
and Mrs. II. s. Joslin of Waterbury, Conn.
died Friday night. Funeral services were
held at the home in that city and the re
mains were conveyed to this city. tho for
. mer home of the parents, and funeral ser
vices wer held Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock at st. Joseph's Church, Mgr
G Cloarec officiating. The burial was made II
Y Mount Calvary cemetery, the bearers be
ing e. A. Nantelle, e. Limoge, Stanle,
t Thomas and Fred German.
Sheriff Thomas Reeves returned Monda,
= night from Worcester, Mass, where h,
went to get Pearl Prior boy about i
. years old, who Is wanted for the theft o
o a stove, barrel of apples, a quilt anC
: other articles. The boy was arrestet
= Sunday by the police OF Worcester. Hi
= home is in Williston but he seems to hav
C a desire to go to Worcester, where he ha
4 brother. lie sold the stolen stun an,
p used the money for carfars. He claim
to have been in Worcester four times dur
I ing the past year.
t The opening of new place of residenc
n proved to be anything but pleasant even
n for George Alapa who recently had gon
to Pitkin street to live. Through som
source. information that he was sellin
beer came to the ears of the sheriff VIII
visited the place, secured the beer and ar
. rested Alapa. who was before Judge Haw
: kins and pleaded not guilty. He was foun
. guilty but as it was his first offense an
= he promised to quit the business he wa
let off with fine Of $40 and costs of SIS /.
for having on hand. He was taxed $15o1
@ the costs Of seizure. He took an appea
j. and the combined bail in the two case
= was 1925.
:, A petition in voluntary bankruptcy wa
u rled Friday by NJ. Helen Phelps,
housewife of East st. Johnsbury. 1t Is tn
II first petition to be filed by a housewif
d since the present bankruptcy law went int
effect, Mrs. Phelps employed no counse
and made out her own schedule. Her liza
bilities are $i22 and her assets 1921, o
which sol is claimed exempt. Most O
Mrs. Phelps creditors are lawyers and tn
list includes the names of Frank Plumle
of Mortified, Harand Howe of st. Johns
bury, Smith and Sloan of Woodsville, n
H., and Deavitt IL Son of Montpelier.
G. r. Elliott has received an appointment
| as second lieutenant in the regular army
| Lieutenant Elliott first enlisted In Troo
| +, Third United States cavalry, in 1894; re
enlisted in 1897; joined the Minnesota vol
unteers in 1885; was appointed second lieu
tenant of the Thirty-hfth infantry, Unite
States volunteers in 1899 and went 10 tn
Philippines mustered out of the voluntee
service in 1901 in the same year WAS az
pointed colonel on the staff OF the COVER
nor OF Minnesota. He has served unde
, Major Dodd, General Young and Genera
! Lawton,
The w. C. Gilbert house on Elm stree
was sold on Saturday to DERRICK Va