Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-02-05
NEWS OF VERMONT
More Important Events Grouped foi
Free Press Readers-A Thief and
Fraud Arrested in the Town
OF Readsboro.

about n year ago from BaldWinsville
Mass, and was employed by the Reads
boro Chair Manufacturing was
arrested recently ON the charge of burg
larry. Previous to his arrest, his board
ing place had been searched by Constable
Follett and his assistants. who found
watches. rubber boots, shoes. glasses,
wearing apparel. tools which were taken
from his fellow workmen and n large as
sortmcnt of keys. Among the latter were
the keys of the Baptist Church which had
been missing since last summer. The
shoes were taken from H.. r. Goodclrs
store. and the coat. vest and pants from
the Goodell hotel last summer. The Jew
elry recently stolen from the Faulkners
was not recovered and it Is thought that
1t has been hidden somewhere. Jones's
hearing was held Saturday morning, Jan
uary a, before Justice Oscar a. Carpen-
ter. He pleaded guilty to taking the
shoes from Goodell's store, claiming to
have done it while under the influence of
Rquor. The other articles he said he
found under Il pile of boards in IL horse
shed. where he had hidden n bottle of
whisltcy. i;ail was set at S1.OU which he
was unable to furnish, and he was taken
TO the Bennington Jail by Constable Fol
lett, to remain until the next term of
court at Manchester. Jones has also re-
ccived goods sent to him by express under
the name of Wilson Il Coleman.
a FOUITNEY MAN MISSING.
owen Ellis. a well known resident of
Poultney. has disappeared and his rcla-
tivcs have no idea of his whereabouts
Ellis was last seen at his home ON col
lcge street Wednesday afternoon. Jan
uary u. He was cleaning his gun that
Afternoon and when he could not be found
at night his family thought that he must
nave gone to the woods on a hunting trip
and no anxiety was felt for several days.
a lew lays ago, however, his gun was
found in the barn where he had put it
after cleaning it, so that the theory of "a
hunting trip was abandoned. The police
and sheriff's departments in this part Of
the State have been notified of the disap-
pcaranCe and asked to keep Il watch for
the man, but further than that no steps
have been taken as Ellis's friends do not
know where to look for him.
REGULATING SCHOOL ENTERTAIN
MENTS.
The school board of Bellows Falls has
some new regulations regarding
school entertainments. Hereafter only
the two upper classes of the high school
will be allowed to give entertainments,
and those classes only ON Friday or Sat
urdaY evening. and then only after OBJ
tanning the written permission of the
E''N I hA ~ III WV w I'll III
mont during any one evening. This means
that II literary entertainment cannot be
followed by a dance. The sophomore
tldss, who have been practicing u min
strel entertainment for some time do not
expect that the new rules will apply to
them in this instance as the passage of an
eH post facto law is forbidden by high
authority.
BUILDING a COTTAGE At MAN
CHESTER.
A large number of men arc at work on
the cottage Of \ NJ. Gilbert of Chicago.
who bought four farms southeast of
Manchester village last summer. He is
building a cottage on the high bluff over
looking the Battenkill valley towards the
south and the grounds of the Ekwanok
Country club towards the north. G. II.
new cottage on Taconfc avenue
is nearly completed and Miss W. II. Uaw-
loN's cottage on the same venue is well
under way.
CONTRACT FOR SCHOOL BUILDING.
The trustees of the Bellows Free Acad-
envy at Fairfax HAY" closed II contract
with Mason d Co. of Burlington to build
the school building. Mr.. Mason has been
in town to start the work.
TESTING OF VERMONT CATTLE.
DR.. +. \. Rich of Burlington. one of the
state cattle commissioners. went to Cav
Wednesday to supcrintend the
Of "A herd of eight cattle be-
to Charles 5. Parker, which were
affected with tuberculosis. Other herds
in tho same locality We're examined. The
bureau OF animal industry will allow cat
tie to he brought into Vermont from New
Hampshire and New York so long as they
do not cross Massachusetts territory. v.
/. Spear of Randolph went to Boston
Tuesday to confer with the head of the
bureau on quarantine matters. Since the
FIRST of January the cattle commission
has tested a thousand animals for tuber-
ana has applications for a thou
a more. Mr.. Spear and Dr. George
of White River Junction tested
2i cattle in Hartford last week and found
four diseased.
BOY HAD BEANS IN HIS EARS.
Guy Cook, a young boy living in Or
well, has returned from Burlington.
he had been for the purpose OF be-
ing treated for deafness. Young Cook be-
suddenly deaf several weeks ago,
the doctors in this part of the state,
OF whom were called in Consulta-
ton, were utterly unable to ascertain the
When he reached the Mary
hospital at Burlington an cx-
animation was made and 1t was discov-
cred that there was in each ear a small,
wlfte bean, each well coated with WAX.
The beans were removed and the boys
was Immediately restored. 1t is
believed that some of Cooks playmatcs
placed the beans in his ears.
GIRL PROTECTED FROM HER
FATHER.
There was a hearing before Judge W.
Edgerton at the probate office in Man