Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-03
BRISTOL.

Tho following extracts are taken from
the auditors report for 1893: Secctmen $
orders. SIS 94S.07; school teachers salaries.
81 sf2,9S total cost of schools. ss.14l 80;
overse"r OF the poor. ;1.05o9s; road com
missioner Smith. 1891; road commits
sioncr Murray. S5sn,67. Constable II. $.
Smith has 1861. u uncollectod taxes in his
hands, and $l2i.2l of land rents, town hall
receipts. s303. % expenses, $23S. 6S the hatch
way ana cess pool cost. S222.5" license
commissioners. $3.50, services and expenses
SG3.35 net profit from dog fund. $1o.40;
receipts of the Cemetery association. $500.
%; expenses. SCI 81: the Bristol library
expended SS12 and has SIS 20 in the treas
ury; hcolth officers report shows $l3S 50
expended and l3l cases of contagious dis
eases; treasurer's receipts, $29.7ss.4. ex-
penses. S2s.O1S06 The assets of the town
are sl52sS,@4. and the tota! Indebtedness
is 2S,14+33 against 26.3ssl2 in 1902, Tho
grand list of 1909 was Sl .9i473
Miss Clara Dunshcc has returned from
4 visit of several weeks with her sister
! in Scranton, Pa.-Roy Palmer has finish
I'd work for +. T. Sumner and returned to
Shnreham. Murray has been Wis
ting in Tnderhil the past week The re-
mort of the librarian of the Bristol Free
library for 1903 II as follows: Receipts,
including balance in the treasury March
l, lNA3, $4Gl.l2: expenses 1912. %: 1892 vol
um"s in the library: 662 people registered
rs borrowers; circulation in 1903. sos. -
! In ;he case of b. 4. Atkins VS.. William
! Manson & Co of Burlington before JUS
! tico II. T.. Sherwin Saturday, judgment
! was rendered for the plaintiff to recover
! $50 damages and costs of N.%. An appeal
I was taken to county court. a. q. White
more of Burlington became surety in the
! sum of $in-rhe Boys club of Bristol has
hcen orga nized with the following board
of officers: w. n. Bosworth president
I NJ .iCa Il.
! Dick 'rmtn secretary; =. q. Haskins.
| treasurer: the Rev. S. y. Perry superin-
| tcndcnt Or. r. Y. BRIGGS, Or. 6. r. Ed
munds DR. f. w Shattuck and w. W.
| Wilson. directors. The club will meet
| in the Athletic club rooms in Norton :
/ block every Saturday afternoon at two
| O'Clock.
Mrs Charles Williamson will lead the
| Epworth League meeting at the Meth
odist Church, and Miss Hattie Bckford
the Christian Endcavor meeting at the
! Baptist Church next Sunday evening -
The BAPTIST choir is assisted In the Sun.
| day services by Arthur Henry and his
violn.-Mrs. NJ. +, Hughes has return cd
to Boston after Il visit with relatives here
MIR, and Mrs. Spencer Wright OF Cam
bridge. n. y were in town Sunday. Miss
Mae Dillon. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Andrew Dillon, Is seriously ill.-rhcrs
was IL large atts ndance at the Sunday
day attcrnoon.-Tha present term Of this
graded school closes March ls.-G. w
Sncdon is still confined to his house by
illness--S. NJ. Con reports the morning
Temperature for February rs follows
Highest. a. degrees above zero lowest
Is degrees below zero; average, llIi: last
| year. 20ia rainfall. II inch: snowfall, /!
| inches. ten mornings below zero; last
| wear. two mornings
Edward Il. Patterson OF this town ans
Miss Myrtle Jefreys of OVil. y. Y. were
quietly married Tuesday afternoon at tbs
home of Tn" groom on Vest street, the
Roy. 6. y. Thomas performing the core,
mony. They will he absent on a shorr
wedding trip.-rhe Ladies Home Circle
will meet with Mrs +. I. Ward this after
noou.-Lctters advertised in the Bristo
postonice February -: Miss Fanny Eubar
William BottRcc. Thomas Hare.-Mrs
Emily Potter continues seriously i'll a
her home ON Pleasant stroct.-Four younl
voters took the freemau's oath ut th'
town meeting Tuesday.