Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-02-02
NEWS OF VERMONT
MOre Important Events Grouped for
Free Press Readers-Rutland Rc-
publican Caucus saturday.
February 18th.

At the meeting of the republican city
committee held IN McCluys store in Rut
land Tuesday evening, it was decided to
call city Caucus for Saturday night, the
18th. The place of meeting will be the
McClot store which is now vacant. 1t
was also decided to call the ward
caucusos for Monday, the goth.
INSURANCE MEN MEET.
\ meeting of insurance men from va
rious places in Vermont was held in the
Brooks House in Brattleboro Monday
night to discuss the question of organ
Hing a fire insurance company, as per-
mittcd by an act of the Legislature. The
opinion Of those present was that there
was Il good opportunity for such IL COM
pany, and it was decided to have Il gem
eral conference with insurance men
throughout tho STATE before calling an
other meeting to perfect an organization.
MARBLE SLAB FELL.
An accident occurred in the J. r. liol-
lister Marble quarry al Fowler Friday
night. in which 4 number of worknnI
narrowly escaped death A slab of mar
bic fell from the roof of the quarry to
the floor, almost without warning, The
block weighed many tons. was about
100 feet long. % feet Wild and three
feet thick. Fortunately only six mon
were in the quarry at the time and by
quick work thcy escaped.
SOLD VALUABLE TIMBER
Mrs. Lucy ,Ryan) Mccarthy of
Waterbury has recently made "A sale
Of h fivnI Ian a
in Bolton to Tracy a. Howe, who have
"a steam mill in the Pnnea Brook
basin. Lying contiguous TO their
property this Is Il great acquisition to
Them She has also sold 1870 acres to
the Connecticut Hrass company in the
Joyncr Brooks basin. where their cN-
tensivc plant is located. This last sale
was delayed someWh hat on account of
Il controversy over some of its bound
aries These were determined by II.
r. Smith. u civil engineer from Water
bury Other parties We're also investi-
eating in reference to purchase. There
arc "A few more small tracts connected
with the com any's plant which they
Will probably buy, as they must be
worth more to them than any one
else, and available lumber land is not
likely to wait long Tor purchasers
now.
TEAM KILLED ON A CROSSING.
There came very near being very
serious accident at Neport Center last
Friday night as the Eastman boy was
| driving George Beadle's team with Il
| load of ladies across the railroad track
near kilby'j mill. The express train
being about half an hour late and
without a headlight ran into the team
! killing both horses and giving the
| ladies' quite Il fright. but all escaped
without injuries.
TO OPEN NEW OPERA HOUSE.
The new opera house at Barton Land
ing il to be opened and dedicated b,
the Thespans ON Friday evening o
this week. This society Is one of thu
| Oldest and most popular Of it's kind IL
Vermont. The Thespian society wa'
organized Ut barton Landing in Decem
| Der 1873, by capt. s. X. Tucker, and wa,
exclusively Barton Landing organiza
ton. Their reputation was made 81
years ago by the presentation of "'rel
Nights in a Bar-room." East Lynne.
'l'uclc Toms CABIN and play
of like character and popularity
Among the original cast who ar
stlll living are -. w. I1ildreth. \
l.. Stimpson C. II. Collcy and Tho
mas I.andon some of whom appear il
tine Forthcoming presentation
Bound by an OATH Since it's organi
cation the society has played more tha
% different plays and many of ,hes
have been often repeated. In 1887 tn
society presented Mr.. Hildreth's ne,
play. Forced to the War" and it wa
successfully repeated eight times l.
1888 "aound by an Oath" another o
Mr.. Hildreth's plays. was presente
with even greater success. Mr.. iii
drcth has written several plays, bu
"Bound by an Oath has proven tn
most popular and has paid him create
ROYALTIES than amy of his others. IN
new scenery with which the stage q
the new opera house is equipped WA
purchased by the Thcspians AT an eX
pense Of 5000.