Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-04-16
Tho II w. MrAuCIan IN FIG. Stafford,
s"S ~ w. "AS|AOoANH OVsS Manager

II. l<imball Union Academy, at North
ield May IL. Goddard Seminary at North
field; May p. Vermont Academy at Sax
tons River; May -, Wollaston Seminary
at Easthampton, Mass. May %. Mass.
State College. Amherst, Mass; May IS
23d Battery at Mortified.
CHOOSING ROUTE OF ELECTRIC
ROAD.
F.. Q. Richmond one of the incorporators
of the Bennington and North Adams
Street Railway company. with Daniel T.
Bates. a civil engineer. has just completed
foot trip over the proposed routes for
the purpose of considering which ono
should be chosen. and also investigating
the matter of grades. After a careful
| inspection that occupied two days the de-
cision was that the most feasible route
was via PoWnal Center and Pownal. with
spur line to North Pownal thereby
giving all three Of the villages of Pownal
trolley connection with both North Ad-
ans and Bennington The difficulty with
a route through North Pownal is the
steep grade that would be encountered
between that village and Bennington
which would make the running of cars
difficult The route from Bennington to
the State line via Centre Pownal will he
1oi@ miles, from there to Wlliamstown is
about four miles so that the entire
length will be about II miles with the
spur to North Pownal three miles more.
SEN. PROCTOR'S BARN BURNED.
| A barn at the residence of Senator
| Proctor. at Proctor owned by the Yer
| mont Marble company. and used by the
senator, was burned Sunday afternoon.
1t was situated only 49, feet from the
senator's house. ard only hard work
saved the house. An hour and a half be-
fore the fire was eXtinguished, all the
contents Of the barn were removed safely.
except the hay John Haley. on the, way
/ to the fire, was run over by the hose cart
and severely injured, probably Internal
/ y.
TWO AGED TRAPPERS,
Isaac Pratt, now - years old, the vet
| eran trapper of Bennington county, has
/ trapped - bears, besides large numbers
I OF other species OF wild animals of which
/ he has kept no record. A close second
/ to him is Edwin Roberts OF Burtonville,
/ y. j., now 20 years old He commenced
hunting and trapping when 10 years old.
and since then has caught or shot Loo
foxes. 90 coon. ~ bears, one of them a
white one 1850 mnks. 30 offers, 70 wild
eats. and 20 sables. Most of his time has
been spent in the woods leaving his cabin
to go out to set his traps, and while wait
ing in his cabin in reading his Bible,
which he has read through g times. He
is in good health, and is an interesting
talker.
A BROOKFIELD MAN WANDERS
AWAY FROM home.
Francis Deficiency of BroolSfied wan
dered away form home Monday morning
and for a time his son-in-law, Joseph
Tilson. did not know where he had gone.
1t was ut first supposed that he was at
the farm. but upon investigation it was
found that he had not been there. He had
made remarks about going TO Montreal in
n few days and word was sent to Ran
dOlph to know If he had been seen about
the station. He was there waiting for
the afternoon train north. Frank ket-
/ cham was asked TO look out for him and
see that he did not go away, Before go
! ing to the station he stopped at +. w,
Tewksbury's store and inquired now much
. money was owed him for eggs and upon
being told the sum said that he wished
that the money be paid to his daughter In
case he did not return. II is stated that
Mr.. Deficiency has not been in his right
mind for the past year or more and the
family have had to keep very close watch
Of him He did not go to Montreal but
was last seen that afternoon going tow
ards the library.
RARRE LOCAL OPTIONISTS STILL
DISSATISFIED.
The license commissioners of Barre met
I Monday afternoon ana granted the re-
manning second class license to Martin
. j. MCGOWAN. This is in direct opposi-
tior to the unanimous vote of the special
/ city meeting, which requested that the
license be granted to Peter Alexander,
Jesse ca, hue or NJ. Marion. The local
, option club met that night and has pub
lshod protests against the action of the
commissioners, They claim that the pub
| lie had no chance t. be heard since the
| commissioners had voted the licenses be
fore any public hearings were held that
! lcerscs were illegally granted. and that
. the commit ssioncrs have generally shown
a contempt for public option. The club
irtimates that action will be taken
against the commissioners because of
their alleged Illegal action. The license
commissioners of Barre town have grant
ed licenses to take effect April -, The
fortunate men are DR., j. II. Macarthur,
East Barre, druggist; Arthur McAllister.
Fast Barre second class; John Prueau,
Webstervlle, second class, Michael Carey,
Granitevile, third class.