Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-03
ST. JOHNSBURY MERCHANTS BUN
COED.

COED.
With a smiling countenance and an
honest looking facial EXPRESSION what
seemed to he an unassumng and modest
little woman appeared at the trading
places of a number Of merchants in diff
ferent parts Of the village last Monday
evening and procured goods OF almost
every kind. under the pretence that she
would like to take them to her home.
which she repre- scntcd as being at as
many places as she traded at different
places in the town that night. that there
she might get the advice and judgment
Of her husband, grandmother, sister. or
some other pretended person, as to the
quality and fitness of the goods. which
she so gained possession of and which
she agreed to return or pay for that night
or the next morning. The couple finely
bcdecked in their new clothes. started for
Sherbrooke Saturday Sheriff Suloway
was soon notified of the thects and tele-
phoncd High Constable Hiram Moe at
Sh"rhrooke who located the couple at
Bury, 80 miles away. The entire matter
will probably be satisfactorily settled.
but the local dealers are wondering
whether they will have to give trading
stamps with the goods.
A NEW INVENTION.
S. b. Hutchns of Lyndonvlle is get
ting ready to manufacture the now Bag
lcvs safety carriage yoke, The machinery
will be set up next week. The wooden
part of the yoke will be made Of hickory
and will be turned out by the Gordon
BROTHERS f.. I. Wood will furnish the
brass Parts, and the yoke itself Will be
finished by Mr.. iiutchins.
DEATH OF c. A. ADAMS
Clarence y. Adams of Chester. ox-select-
man and member of the Legislature, who
tt,p
states prison at Windsor for many bur
slarios, is dead. An attack of the grip
caused the ending of the mans life which
had been one of the most extraordinary
recorded in the criminal history of Yer
mont. The sensation caused by the dis
covory that Adams had been systematic
ally robbing his noighbors. though re-
spectcd citizen. and that he had even
carried on his depredations while Il select
man and member of the Legislature. is
still wildly recalled by the people of this
section, His criminal acts, it was learned
after his arrest. covered period of 10
years, and the plumber obtained great
quantities of which were found in Adj
ams's farm house included all sorts of
material from paper of pins to the shin
giles which he had put on the roof of his
barn. The shingles. it was alleged were
stolen from the mill of Charles II. Wat
erman. ana ii was Waterman who brought
/ ~
had been missing material from his mill
for two years, and had adopted many de
vices to catch the thief. Finally. he re-
sorted to the use of a spring gun. such
~ is used in trapping bears loaded with
small shot. One night the gun WAS dis
charged, The next day it became known
that Adams had been seriously wounded
by charge Of bird shot and the investi-
cation which followed disclosed him as
the thief. Adams was about IL years old.
II, was born in Chester and had always
lived there. He owned a small farm and
was considered woll-to-do. although his
manner of life was very simple He was
not married.
DEATH OF w r. PAGE.
" William l. Page, one of the most promi-
nent business men IN Rutland county, died
1T his home IN Proctor about two O'Clock
saturday morning after two weeks
Illness with plcuro-p pneumonia. Mr.. Page
WAS born III Rutland, oct. Il. 1880, the son
of John Il, and Mary Reynolds Page, both
now deceased tie began his business ca
rccr more than - years ago with the Howe
Scale company when the plant WAS locat-
ed at Brandon. About five years ago Mr.,
Page severed his connection with the
Howe Scale company and became con-
nectcd with the Vermont Marble company
at Proctor Mr. Page had taken consid-
cradle interest in politics and was at one
tim" q mcmhcr az the republican State
committee, having been IA member of the
party that hotilicd Wlll.am Mckinley of
his nomination for Prt silcnt the first
tim" The funeral was held at the
CONGREGATIONAL Church in Rutland Mon
ia! afternoon AT 2:m o'clock,
FIRST VERMONT LIBRARY ASSOCIA-
TlON.
bradford enjoys the peculiar honor of
being the fast town in Vermont in which
an Incorporated library association was
ever established its library having been
organized in l79G,
IilGH LICENSE IN BELLOWS FALLS.
y. q. Williams of Bellows Falls speak
ing at a temperance meeting i'm this
place Sunday evening, said licensee
was recently heard lamenting because
the receipts from his bar were falling
Off. Lately he hadn't been taking over
$40 per day. But even ON this basis
over $4,000 must he spent annually in
the saloons of Bellows Falls. II all
arrests traceable to drink are included
the arrests during the past year have
been 90 per cent. greater than during
the preceding year, and that was a
year of free rum because the officials
made no attempt to enforce the pro-