Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-08-04
NEWS OF VERMONT.
More Important Events Grouped for
Free Press held TO
Have an Observance Of Old
Home Week.

| The suggestion that Old Home Wecls
be observed in Springfield on the ami
''rsary OF the "5th birthday of the towns
! oldest citizen, l.. y. Barnard. seems to
! be meeting with very general approval.
! IL VIII nc in the nature of 4 ha * t picnic
! and will he on the grounds of Mr. Wyman.
| The speakers stand will be erected near
| INC intersection Of the roads right by
| Eureka school house People WHO arc not
! strong or who arc limited for time can
! get the fun benefits Of the spcech-nakinp.
! music, etc, without alightinG from ttor
carriages While the gathering primarily
is in the interests Of the elderly people.
all aSos and conditions are invited to be
| present.
BEARS WILL INCREASE
1t is said that bears are increasing in
numbers in Windam county and thrt
there is plenty Of evidence of them in the
/ mountains Of Wilmington. Somerset and
/ Stratton They wcro very numerous there
up to 10 or y years ago. when the in
Nhsion of portable saw mills began to
| make havoc with the forests And old
! hunters in that section saws the bears
| ought to be let alone and if some fool
ish laws can be repealed there viii he
| plenty Of that game. only few
| days ago" he says, II saw tracks of a
| lance from the old Morris place mp
| toward liavstack not so many weeks
| ago. You Soc continued the old hum
ter the "underbrush is coming up rap
| IDLY where the timber was cut off and
| this furnishes first rate hiding place
| for bear which cannot be easily track
Cd or seen In the thickct We could
trap them of course. If it wasn't for
the silly law which the numbheads
| IN the LEGISLATURE succeedcd in put
| ''ng on the statute books. compelling
| us to place a fence aound three sides
| OF our traps for the purpose. as they
claimed Of keeping ont cattle and
| men believe one Fellow did get
| into a bear trap somewhere and the
| story was enough to set some of the
Legislature on pins ana the law, of
course was the result Of the fright
You might Just as we'll try to drive
| bear into barnyard as to entice
| him into an enclosure such as pre-
scribed in the law books. There is no
earthiy reason why bear should not in
crease from now on even more rapidly
| than they hay" decreased in the last %
Years. and ! really expect they will he
thickfr than eyer IN 10 years unless the
law is changed So trappors can catch
them Then the old hunter said re-
iioc1velN. "l don't really s'posc bear do
MUGS harm: they occasionally Kill a
sheep, but s'poSc they do, they ought
not to be eXtcrminat"d, they're about the
only specimen II tho game kind we have
l"ft which afforded good sport in my daV
Ihore ar" no beaver. nor do We see any
otter: deer are coming back. but even
deer will he q thing of the past if some of
the hollow patcs in the Legislature are not
ned down TO the support Of reasonable
game laws Then tho veteran game
wardcn--for hc has been SO honorcd for
years-b"gan telling Of the life and habits
OF the black hear. how absolutely harm
less unless he is driven to close quarters
and how rapidly they multiply if undis-
turbed and finally. how glad he felt to
know that they wOuld yet come back to
Their old haunts in the mountains in such
numbers as to afford even such old sports
men as he plenty OF fun in trailing them:
but" he addef, THE profession of the
bear trappor is gone forever, unless the
Legislature shall decide to change the
law" which nc expressed very little hopes |
of Its doing.
BENNlNGTON COUNTY DEMOCRATS |
The Bcnnlnpton county democratic con- |
vention met in bennington Tuesday ;f- |
tornoon G. II. Han Of Powna being ;
elected chairman and c. Mnurcr of !
Bennington, secretary. Tln follow ing !
ticket was nominated: senators. Emory '
> Harris of Bennington, H. G. Reynolds
OF Manchester. assistant judges. c. H.
Hawkins Of Shaftsbury and u. j. CourrY
Of Arlington; sheriff y. \ l,ovcland Of
North Bcnuiugtou: States attorney. J. V
-. = Morrill, of bennington, judges of pro-
hAtr, Homer \ Lyon of BENNINGTON aud
w. r. Edgorton of Manchester; high bail
If, James NJ. }ocbc of Dorset Twenty
three delegates were present There was
contest over The nomination of a Clndi-
dat" for states attorney. Al Fl ST tho con-
V"htlon refused to endorse J. V. D. s.
Merrill, the iudoucrd,ui republican candi-
date but late gre to t.
THE ONLY "WIDOW or THE REvO-
LUTON"
Only one widow OF the Rovolution' is
now on the pension rolls. two having died
during the past year. The solitary SUR
NlVor is Mrs Esther S. Damon Of Ply .
mouth Union. Her maiden name was F.s-
thcr summers, and she was born in Ply
mouth In 1874 When she was 81 years old
she was married to Noah Damon, then IS
years old. who had served two years in
the Massachusetts Contincntals and was
in IN" battle Of Long Island. Tho mar
riate took place IN 1898. and Damon died
in 1858,
RACES AT WOODSTOCK.
The Windsor County Agricultural So
cicty on"r9 the following purses for the
races at the fair In Woodstock. September
20 u and -: $50 class. purse SO for
horses owned ana kept in the county three
months piior To the fair; 300 class, purse
Sou' for horses three and four years old.
: 40 class, purse 500; 2;30 class purse slr:
2;2o class, purse 800. free for-all class
purse $500
DEATH AT SOLDIERS HOME
Tho Roy. l.. +. Holt died at tho Soldiers
Home hospital Sunday morning. lie was
i'll hut a few DAYS. lie served during the
'lNlI War IN co. H. 9th Vermont vOlun-