Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-05-05
NEWS OF VERMONT.
More Important Events Grouped for
Free Press Ilcaders-vermOnt Odd
Fellows ut Bellows Falls
This Month.

A large number of Odd Fellows are
planning to attend the annual session
of the grand encampment, grand lodge
and Rebekah assembly at Bellows Falls
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. the
nth, 18th and 18th respectively There
Will be several past grand officers of the
lodges at the grand session. Grand Senior
Warden w. =. Horton. District Deputy
James Carruthers, II. C. Farrar, a mcm
Der of the sovereign grand lodge and
trustee of the Gill Odd Fellows home
at Ludlow, and Thomas G. Robbins
trustee of the Gill home, will also be
among those present.
NEW BARRACKS FOR NORWICH UNI
NERSITY.
The project for erecting another build
ing to supply the imperative demand for
more barracks at Norwich University,
Mortified. is now under Roadway. The
promoters are the loyal alumni of old n.
|. As has already been announced $4,000
has been Subscribed, providing the bal
ance proposed to be raised. 500 o. is forth
coming. With the approval of the various
alumni associations. the following COM
mittcc has been chosen to have charge Of
the undertaking: ". +. Clement - of
the trustees; Prof. G. c. Brill of the fac
ulty George -. Thomas. 76, of the gem
oral association; Edward Adams, 90. Of
'ai Of ,to - os,oni.,tio,,. IT r, ,,od,
,o1 Of tho o,,oort;,.a oo,,n,i+tao f,.n C.ro,.
willie NJ. Dodge, class of so, No. l Broad
way, New York city, .has been chosen
Treasurer of tho fund The MANS have
been drawn and laid before many mem
bcrs oi the several alumni associations
of the university, who have approved
them. The proposed building will be
known as Alumni han. if being intended
to make il an alumni memorial to the
founder of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Alden
PARTRIDGE It's location will be on the
westerly edge of the plateeu. southwest
Of Dewey hall and south of the North
tial construction Of brick with Vermont
granite foundations and trimmings, steam
heated and lighted by electricity. The
east basement will give an opportunity
for an engineering laboratory. With the
basement devoted to class rooms. the
upper floors will he used for dormitory
purposes. capable of affording quarters
for at least 100 cadets. The cost of the
building will not he less than $4,000.
SMALL. pOX IN pOIrITNEY
1t is announced that Charles WaHcr a
well known resident OF the town OF
Poultney, is i'll with a severe case Oh
small poX. Nh're nc caught 'he as
ease is II mystery. There are now three
cases in different parts of the town. Ap-
parcntly there was no chance OF 'hclr
having caught the disease one IRON lhc
,ud ctrnnro,,. n,nas,,rns arc heinz taken
to stamp out the disease.
rApI r,.r Ar WEST POINT N MEM
oRy or NORWICH UNIVERSITY
rCI-\DL,p
At the annual banquet of the New
York association of Norwich University
alumni and post cadets, held at the
Everett House on the evening of April
II, General Dodge, president of the as
ISOLATION, announced that Capt. Henry
V. Partridge had placed a tablet in
memorial hall at West Point to the
memory of his father, Capt. Alden
PARTRIDGE who founded Norwich Uni
versitv in 1919. Lieut.. Alden Partridge. a
graduate of 1896. was called to West
Point as assistant professor of mathe-
matics in 1906 where he spent nearly all
the years till 1917. He was full professor
of mathematics in 1878 full professor of
engineering lS13-lS-l6. and officially SUI
norirtondnrt from January. 1S15 TO Julv
~ mi though he performed all the
dutics Of the Office from 1910. Owing Ia
jealousy no resigned from the army in
ISIS and Immediately turned to The
ar Norwich and clsewbcro throughout the
country and tho record of his remark.
ohIo acbievomcnts in This direction is n
matter of history.
PEOPLE UPHELD OuTLAWRf.
c.., ,+,o,nov cholebobor o,d Non
49,, Sh,ricf Iohn E,sh of Rennirrto, u,ont
to Pownal Center saturday and made al
J. Myers bv white cans. They interview
ed MYERS and most of the best people n
| the place They found that men, women
and even children upheld the white caps
and were not unwilling to talk about it
| They learned that this was not the frs
visit MYERS had received, and unless 9th
| ers mended their ways they would b.
| treated the same way The officers foun,
| that there are many people in that tow
who feel that such methods of attendin.
to cases of that kind are more efiicen
than troubling with the complex ma
chinery of the law, and this system ha
n l,a, n'isseu mr. ~ '"a. ,o"m ,
attention to the warning given him tn
night the white caps visited him. 1t i
not probable That the states attorney vii
take any action IN the matter unt'l count.
court sits in June. when he Will lay TIT
case before the grand jury
pENNTNcToN CANDIDATE,
If is arnourcod that At the coming Stat
democratic convention the name OF Ell j
! litany OF bennington VIII be presentA
| lpT one OF the utltPdttS -dt-kiTBc iron