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crease wages from two to four cents
per basket, the men having demanded
FIVE cents. This compromise was ao-
cepted by the men.
A petition is being circulated in st.
Johnsbury town asking Gov. J. g.
Mccullough to pardon e. W. East
man, the former landlord of the
Avenue House, who is 10Y in the
house of correction at Rutland. He
was sentenced at the June term of
court, 1908, by Judge Wendell P.
Stafford to a term of not less than three
and one-half years nor more than
four years and has been at Rutland
nearly q year.
The town of Jay has at last been
heard from, although no official re-
turns of the vote cast there have been
received at the Office of the secretary
of State. Secretary +. G.. Fleetwood
received Thursday, at his Office at
Morrisville, notice that a Republican
Representative was elected from that
town, but further than that nothing
has been heard. 3
That 'Oupid's" darts strike old as
well as young was shown on Monday
morning when two aged couples ap-
peared at the city clerks office in
Burlington and asked for marriage
licenses. Joseph Gordon, aged sixty
five, and Mary o. Desjardins, aged
seventy-two, were the first to appear
before CLERK Mcmahon. They have
both been married three times, Sey.
mour Howard, seventy six years old,
and Helen Ober, seventy-two years
old. followed the first couple by a
few minutes. He has been married
three times, and she has been married
twice. All of the old people live in
Burlington.
Judge Charles W. Willard-of Min
neapolis, MINI, a native of St.
Johnsbury, who was appointed by
President Mckinley a Supreme Court
judge at Manila, has resigned this
office and resumed bis law practice
in Minneapolis.
Benjamin Williams, the man &C.
cused of the murder of Policeman
James P. McGraw. was brought to
Burlington on Monday from the
States prison at Windsor by Sheriff
Horton and Deputy Sheriff Brodie.
The date of his trial in county court
has not yet been fixed, but it will
occur in a short time.
The following are the Vermont
delegation to the national Congrega-
tional council, Des Moines, Ia, o.
tober ID to 20: General convention,
Rev. G. Glenn Atkins, Rev. William
S. Hazen. j. H. jackson; Addison
conference, Rev. Benjamin Swift;
Bennington conference, Rev. Charles
FL. Peck Caledonia conference, Frank
H. Brooks, Rev. George Fl. Cum
mings; Ohittenden conference, Rev.
L. j. Harris, Gen. o. o. Howard;
Franklin and Grand Isle conference,
! Rev. John l.. Sewall Lamoille con-
ference, Rev. Henry O. Howard /;
Olange conference, Rev. Henry J.
Kilbourn, Rev. George E. Laid; Or
leans conference, Deacon Foster, Rev.
A. f. McGregor; Washington confer
ence, Rev. f. B. Kellogg, o. S. Stick
ney; Windham conference, S. B.
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Windsor conference, Gilbert A. Davis,
Rev. Jonathan X. Fuller.
1t is announced that Governor Nc
Cullough is getting along nicely from
the effects of the recent surgical oper-
alton, and that unless something un-
expected should turn up he will doubt
less be able to attend the opening
session of the Legislature. The Gov
rno is gaining in strength and rides
out almost every day.
These Vermonters were made thirty
third degree Masons at the recent
meeting of the supreme council, An
cient Accepted Scottish Rite, in Bos-
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River Junction, Walter e. Ranger,
of Montpelier, Olin W. Daley, of
White River Junction. The latter is
grand master of the grand lodge of
Vermont, Free and Accepted Masons.
Marsh 90. Perkins of Windsor is a
member of the committee charged with
preparing asrevision of the constitu-
ton and bylaws.
The third annual convention of the
Vermont State Branch of the Ameri.
cal Federation of Labor held in Bel
lows Falls, was closed Wednesday. No
business of public Importance was
transacted, the delegates devoting
most of their time to passing a long
resolution which severely scored Sen.
ator Red6eld Proctor for his line of
action during the recent marble strike.
John W.. Arvidson, of Rutland, was
elected State organizer and it was
voted to hold the next ANIMAL mating