Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-06-25
COWS SOLD VERY CHEAP.

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COWS SOLD VERY CHEAP.
An auction at Woodbury. June 16 gives
the farmers a good idea of what cows
arc bringing The property sold was the
sam benjamin farm owned by Ernest
Benjamin. of New York. The farm was
sold to John Morse for 1900 and IL head
of fine cows sold at an average of sl5 a
piece Not much hay has been sold in
Montpelier lately as enough changed
hands during the scare to supply the de-
mands. The price dropped to sl5 and sls
q ton but very little is coming out at
those figures.
NORTHERN ASSOCIATION or UNI
VERSAL1STS.
The one-hundreth annual session of the
Northern Association of Cnivcrsalists will
be held at the Church of the Mes
siah in St. Johnsbury Thursday and
Friday, with preliminary meeting We'd
nesday evening. Tho Rev A. Francis
Walch will deliver the historical or cen
tennial address, and other addresses will
be delivered by the Rev. !. NJ. Atwood,
u. D., general superintendent Of churches
for the Universalst denomination, the
Rev. Charles Conklin Boston, state mis-
sionary for Massachusetts; the Rev. r.
Il Marggraf, president, and the
Vermont Universalst State convention,
together with several of the neighborng
clergy and laity.
TO BE DEDICATED OLD HOME
WEEK.
IT Is now very probable that the dedi-
cation of the Chester A. Arthur monu-
mcnt at Fairfield will take place some
time during the week of August &C.
Mpp1hprc Of tho Vermont association of
Boston, which is to visit the east side of
the state in "A body that week, have
expressed desire that the dedication
exercises be held when they can come
across to be present at them and, II
the date will be acceptable to Robert T.
Lincoln, who is to make the address, the
change will probably be made. The ar
rangements are in the charge of ex-Gov
W. W. Stickney.
CALEDONIA COUNTY COURT.
The Caledonia county grand jury
through it's foreman. y. i. Bowman
again reported Juno II with one
true hill found and one bill not found
The true bill found was an indictment
against Freeman T. Worten for forgery
Worten has since been apprchended ant
bail WAS fixed at $500 which was furnish
ed by Joseph Clouticr. The grand jury
also brought in at this time their report
on the condition Of the county Jail j
said in part We would recommend tina
tho county needs a more convenient build
ing for n jail-thc location of same to b,
nearer the court housc-and more modern
in its structure and appointments. Thurs
day morning Wallace Ainsworth was ar
raigned on the charge of assault anC
breach of the peace and pleaded no
guilty. It will be remembered that Aims
worth committed brutal assaults upoi
Miles S IIovcy on the night Of February
and the afternoon Of February T. Thi!
case caused much excitement in Sum
mervilo at the time rhe jury were en-
ranolled Thursday and the Ease giver
them for their consideration Friday noon
Friday afternoon they brought in yer
dict Of guilty in both counts. Ainswortl
wished to be sentenced at once and h
WAS sentenced to not less than two anC
not mere than three years and to pa,
costs of prosecution in the House Of Cor
restion at Rutland.
SEIZED SMUGGLED SUGAR,
Nearly two tons Of Canadian mapl,
sugar was seized by customs offlcial
in St. JohnshurY Saturday and Mon
day The sugar had been struggled across
the line and sold to local dealers as Yer
mont sugar. Col T. NJ Mansur. of New
port. collector of customs for the Mem
phrcmagog district, has advertised th'
goods for sale.
y. L. CADETS IN CAMP.
The S3rd annual commencement of Nor
witch University began Monday whel
the section of artillery, V. y. O., com
posed of the corps of cadets went int
camp on the campus south of Dewe.
hall. The camp is arranged in regula
form. the commandants and major :
tents being at the extreme south, the
the line of officers tents at regulation
distance from headquarters, next the
company streets with captains quarter
at the south. with the guard tent at tn
south through which all visitors must en-
ter and depart. Tho regulation KHAKI
tents are in use and the discipline Of tn
camp is that of the regular army Tn
camp VIII be inspected on Friday by Ger
| W. II. Gilmore, accompanied by Capt
| c, +. Burnham, inspector of ride prac
tice, V. n. G. Until Cadet Major vii
lams returns Capt Foster is in com
mand of the battalion,
VERMONT'S BUTTER AND CHEESE
PRODUCT.
After trying for several years to re
some reliable yearly information concern
ing the output of creameries and chees
factories, Mr.. He'll. secretary OF the Stat
board of agriculture states that he la
been successful in getting an almost com
plete report for the year 1902 \ few es
tanlishments did not report but the ont
put Of these was carefully estimated an
the result by counties, in pounds, is a
| follows: Butter-Addison 2,007, 1889, Ben
nIngton, 5000; Catalonia, 2,929 COS; chit
tenden, 1855, i07; Essex. 22l 49,; Franklin
1893, ,S4; Grand Isle. S65, iO3; Larnoill'
90, 46G; Orange. 2,565, ~; Orleans, 3, 22L5G
lgf. -l,t, a 1
| Nindham, sos, 40; Windsor, l,09O IS
Cheese-Addison, go, Al; Bennington, $50
3O3 Chittenden, 2-2,962; Franklin. @,ll'
Rutland. S93 l69; Windsor, 2S7.5S0. eThes
figures show that the creamery productio
of butter alone reached the enormou
total of 25,4S0,G,9 pounds, and the chees
factory production 3,922,554 pounds. Nj
| Bell thinks that the amount of butte
produced by Creameries is about three
fourths the total amount lie also state
that the output of this product had bee
Icurtailed somewhat because several iat
tories had ceased to make IL and WcI
shipping the cream to city markets,
practice that is rapidly increasing. I'll
census of 1900 showed that Vermont pre-
duced 100000 worth of dairy produc,
in 1899 but Mr. Bell believes that tn
value of the output in 1902 was consider
ably above this igure, showing that Vel
monts chief industry is having stead
growth.
OFFICERS ELECTED BY SONS O.
VETERANS IN CONVENTION AT
STOWE.
The division encampment of the Vel
mont Sons of Veterans and also that {
the Ladies' Aid closed Wednesday ever
ing with Joint installation of officer
by past division commander, f. w. Spea
This was the twenty-tirst annual encaml