Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-03-12

Henry. johnson d Lord, Hrop'r,
Burlington, Vermont.
accommodations for over 100 guests. Mr..
Hunt IL a member OF the S. A. Smith COM
pany one OF the leading business firms in
Brattleboro. The sale constitutes the sec
ond important sale of hotel property in
Brattleboro within 10 days.
SMALL. PoX IN HIGHGATE.
Four families are isolated for smallpox
| In Hghgate village In two cases the dis
| case Is we'll developed and two families
are Guaranteed on suspicion. In all
| cases, the isolation is strictly complied
| with so there Is no danger of an epidemic.
TO HAVE A REAL HORSE RACE.
Much interest among Bakerfsld horse
men Is manifested over a wager between
n j. 1sham of Morrisville, and II. M.
Doane Of Bakersfield Mr. Isham backing
the Croft mare of East Fairfield, against
| any horse at present owned by Mr.. Doane.
The wager is for $3.50 a side. The race will
| occur July I.
| COMMISSIONERS IN BAKERSFIELD.
The selectnen OF bakersfield met Satur-
| day and elected A. l.. Hall. G. II Start,
| and II. Fl. Scott as license commissioners.
They also divided the town into two dis
tricts for highway work A. Q. Reed has
charge Of the east part OF the town, and
| T.. r. Upper OF the west part.
NoRW1CH's DEATH RECORD FOR
\ lHE PAST &c YEARS.
For the purpose OF reporting to the
Vermont tuberculosis Commission, DR..
| r. ]. Goss searched the town records
in Norwich since January /, 1857, the time
when the cause of death was first made
| record of, and obtained the following fig
| ures: Total number of deaths in 46 years,
| 1926; Of consumption 1872 typhoid fever, 81;
| dphthera, 50. The deaths varied from
| in each year, 1857 and 1887 to none in the
years 1892. 1901 and 1902. Taking the first
80 years in three periods of II years each
| there was not much variation, the percent
| being about Is as against per cent for
| last IL years, or an average of 81 deaths
per year from consumption for SO years
| and an average of ~ deaths per year for
| the last IL years. There have been but J
deaths from typhoid fever in the last 81
years against "a in the % preceding years.
| Diphtheria ragged in 1868 to 1866, recording
81 deaths in 3 years. There have been no
| deaths from consumption for two years,
none from typhoid fever for four years.
of diphtheria for nine years. The popula-
| ton of this town is now J 300.
COUNTY GOOD ROADS MEETINGS.
The county meetings OF the State under
the direction of State Highway Commits
soner ]. o. Sanford of Stanford will
be held as follows: Addison. at Mid
dlebury. the Addison house, Tuesday,
March "a; Bennington. at Bennington, the
Putnam Thuprsday. March &c; Caledonia,
| at st. Johnsbury, the Avenue house. We'd
| nesday, April 15 Chttenden, at Burling
ton, the Van Ness, Tuesday, April Z; Es-
| sex, at Guidhall. the hotel, Tuesday. April
IN; Franklin at st. Adams, the Ameri-
1a,r q. Tc1a NJ
South Hero. the hotel, Wednesday. April
8; Lamoile. at Hyde Park the Phoenix,
| Tuesday, April Il; Orange, at Chelsea,
the hotel, Tuesday, March 81; Orleans,
at Newport, the Memphremagog. Thurs
day, April &c; Rutland at Rutland, the
Bardwell, Wednesday, March IS; Washing
ton. at Montpelier. the Pavilion. Thursday.
April 2; Windsor, at White River juno
ton. the Junction house Wednesday.
April |. All meetings to commence at 1890
o'clock n. m, with afternoon session. If
it is impossible to reach the meeting in
your own county then attend the meet
ing of another county.
GOVERNMENT LEASES FISH
HATCHERY.
The United States government depart
ment of game and fisheries has leased the
Swanton hatchery building and has pur-
chased all the fish Matching paraphernaia
belonging TO the state oil vermont, ana
will run the hatchery here this spring and
| summer. After this season, il is expected
the government will either buy the pres
ent building and enlarge the same, or else
buy land and build one of their own.
A LIBRARY FOR LYNDONVILLE.
The will Of Isaac W. Sanporn, of Lyn-
don, who died February %, provides for a
site valued al 5000 for a public library
for the town of Lyndon at Lyndonville.
dowment fund. He also bequeathes his
valuable private library and collection OF
paintings to the same institution. Be
quests of 500 each are given to the Free
Baptist Church, of Lyndon Center, and
| to the Lyndonville Village Improvement
Society. The sum of 5000 is left to the
| Free Baptist Foreign Missionary Society.
| After making some small requests, the
remainder of Mr.. Sanborn's property is
left for the schools OF Lyndon to be equal
ly divided on the basis of attendance.
LYNX ATTACKED A BENNINGTON
MAN.
! While going to his work from Benning-
ton to one of the saw mills on the noun
tain one day last week, Warren Bcebe
met good-sized lynx in the road. Beebe
| Jumped for a club and the lynx jumped
for Beebe, who, however, happened 10
hit II with the club, but did not apparent
" do it any harm. Quite a battle ensucd
and the animal was finally killed but not
until Beebe's clothes had been badly torn
and he had received several ugly scratches
and bites.