Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-07

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house. fire was discovered in the home
of Walter u. Quimby In Windsor. All tho
buildings except n small barn and corn
barn were burned The loss was about
$500, partly insured. While Harvey Har-
low, a neighbor about 70 years old, was
on an old ladder helping out out the fire.
the ladder broke and he fell several feet
to the ground. He was unconscious when
picked up. lie died Sunday morning.
WOOD ALCOHOL SUSPECTED.
Denver Reynolds of PttsIield, n mar
ricd man about ij years of age, dropped
dead on Wednesday night as he was re-
turning home. The body turned black and
there were suspicious of wood alcohol
poisoning. Dr. J.. NJ. Greene performed
an autopsy on the body and sent the vital
organs and the brain to the State labora-
tory for examination. Mr. Reynolds is
survived by n wife, a son nine years of
age, and a daughter Of two years. 1t 10
understood that Reynolds had been drink
ing with friends that evening.
lsIERIFF COLLECTING FrGITIvEs.
| Last spring or summer, when the raids
were made resulting in the arrest and
conviction of n number Of people for fur
nishing and selling liquor, several Hard
wick parties suddenly disappeared and
have since resided in various places. But
they were wanted by the court and
Sheriff Winch is cndeavor;ng to have
them all on hand for the December term.
OF the seven or more wanted all but one
have been located The sheriff returned
last Friday from Massachusetts where
he went Tuesday with reduisition papers
on tho governor of that State for three
parties. He brought back with him two
OF the parties. man and WIFE secured in
Milford. Mass. The third party was left
at Worcester Mass, in charge of Massa-
chusetts officers. on writ of habeas
corpus The parties. all Italians, had
made careful plans to escape discovery
and were not pleased when informed they
must return to Vermont in an officers
charge. TWO weeks ago Sheriff Winch
was in Bangor. Me-, and about is miles
from there found another one of the
parties wanted lie has brought several
back from assachusetts.
WAS OLD MIDDLEBURY ALrMNCS
With the passing of DR.. James Dave
Butler TO the great beyond on Monday
of the class of 1896 of Middlebury College
was music red out. In his DIST year Dr.
Butler died at his home in Madison. Wis.
his death being due to the infrmities of
advanced age rather than TO any specific
Illness DR.. Butler while past the four
score and ten milestone in n life filled
with events that will cause him to be re-
mcmberod, continued to stay in the har-
ness and il was only as late as June last
that he wrote his last review for the New
York Nation, a paper to which he had
been d contributor for 26 years. James
y. Butler, LII. D.. was born in Rutland.
VT March L.. 1915. His father who had
settled in that village in 1857. was born III
Boston. in which city his lineage can be
traced down to 1857, or seven years after
its foundation. DIR. Butler was graduated
at Mddlebury College in 1s36,-delvcrinc
at commencement the Latin salutatOry and
also an Grafton on Homer and the Poet
cal Merit of the Iliad." After "A year If
Yale Theological Seminary he returned L
Middlcbury where he served FIVE term.
AS a tutor. In 1910 he finished the cours,
:, in Andover Theological Seminary.
l. DOING PRACTICAL LUMBERING
Grant Bcebc of Boston and John Whit
gind also of Massachusetts both wealthy
:" have come to Vermont to benefit theil
!. health and incidentally to show the native
lumbermtn that city men are not afraid
" of hard work The two men have bough,
l. for about $4,000. 600 acres of valuable
timber land in Shrewsbury and Shcrburne
= erected Il mill upon ii, and will spend the
winter cutting the trees and saving tn,
= lumber for the Boston market. Clad r
l1AOth nV ,T.a mt. .nt
: moccasins, like the Vermont iumbermcn
they shoulder their axes every morning
3 at daylight and keep up all day with TIL,
I best of their employees in cutting dow
: the big trees. The tract which these mel
u have bought contains one of the few
!. forests of primeval spruce timber in th'
>. State. They will cut none but the largos
trees. SO determined are they to preserve
l. the forest with a view to having big tim
$ Der to sell for years to come that offer!
v for several thousand young Christina:
n trees were refused this fail There is on,
i piece of woods that contains 40 spruc.
= trees measuring eight inches through
G These will be peeled and shipped masts
$ SHOULD RAISE DRAFT HORSES.
Higher prices than ever before are
Il being paid for good dra # horses, for farm
i" and city USE" said n Fowler horse dealer
II in conversation with a reporter. "Thi:
y should be sufficient incentive for tbs
= farmer and stOckman to give particular
care to few colts each year. Good draf
: horses are sure to bring exceptionally
= good prices for several years TO come
$ Every indication of the market is upward
= The draft colt, or the mule. is the ANNA
IL for the farmer to raise. There iS mucl