Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-05-25
NEWS OF VERMONT
More Important Events Grouped fer
Free Press Readers-Marfied Al.
ter FIFTY Years.


John johnson. = promising young mar,
of the same town; the wedding was set
for May 4. her birthday. and prcpara-
ticns went happily on, suddenly. how
ever. a slight misunderstanding arose.
|causing hrst "a postponement Of the mar
riaec. and finally separation Of the
lovers. Miss Kilbourn went to Rhode Is
land. where she met and married Ed
win Daniels. Mr.. johnson waited until
his bride to have been was long mar
ried. then took n wife. a Casticton girl.
went West, prospercd and acquired a
comfortable competency. He is now the
grandfather of several promising young
men and women. A few years ago the
wife of Mr.. johnson and the husband of
Mrs Daniels died. The heart Of MIR.
johnson true. to his early love. turned
to the girl of his youth. and after some
correspondence ne came back TO his ma
tive soil and wooed with all the old
time ardor the one he so long had loved.
Word has Just reached here that they
were married in Hartford Center. at the
home Of one of Mrs. Danicls's daugh-
ters. surrounded by hcr grandchildren.
Just 80 years from that other It'll Of May.
They went to Boston and spent the
honeymoon with her sister Eva, Mrs
Robert Tobin. formerly Mrs. George Loop
of Rutland. and then started for their
home in Montana.
BUILDING AT PROCTOR.
The Vermont Marble company will soon
begin tho work of building twelve DWELL
| ing houses in Proctor for the use OF its
| employees. Operations will be pushed
as much as possible so that the houses
will be ready for occupancy early in the
fall. Four of the buildings will be To-
Gated in Paradise hollow, north OF st.
| Dominic Church. five on South street and
| three on Orinsbee avenue. near the hos
lpital. All convenenccs. connected with
the public water and sewer system, heat
| cd by furnace and provided with bath
rooms. The plans OF these houses have
been made by c. S. Hatch They embody
the latest ideas for convenient and
well arranged dwelling house.
HAS A TWO-HEADED CALF.
| Zebediah lombard of East Enosburgh
has a calf three weeks old that has two
heads The body and legs Of tho calf
arc natural up to its ears One head
| has grown in front Of the other. There
arc places for three horns and the
and the other two are under the skin
hut the place for the eye and the eye
hall can he felt. He cannot see straight
ahead only at the sides. owing to the false
head which has grown out wider than
the natural one. 1t is thirteen inches
from one eye to the other. There are
three nostrils and the calf breathes
through the three. The tongue is long
and slender. a short thick tongue has
grown under and is attached to the long
ono. The calf cannot stand still.
THE BIGGEST CHICKEN STORY.
George Rooth OF Barre holds the record
for big matches this season. He had a
hen come off a week ago to-day which
brought out Il hatch Of fourteen chickens
from - eggs. The hen was set with IL
eggs but at the end of the first week
broke one. leaving only II eggs in the
| nest but two weeks later the hen hatch
ed out IA chickens. 1t was suggested to
Mr.. Booth that eggs may have been laid
| in the nest, but even in that case he
does not understand how eggs laid in
| the nest after the first week would hatch
at the same time, and there were GER
tain'y only IL eggs in the nest at the end
Of the first weeks setting. From three
hens set this spring on 10 eggs each Mr.
Booth has IS chickens, all alive and doing
we'll.
BENNINGTON MAN CONFESsES Ht,
IS A BIGAM1sT.
| Louis Baxter, formerly employed at tho
Putnam House in bennington, who was
married to Miss Stella Grswold few
weeks ago has confessed that at the time
Iof tho marriage he had another wife.
Soon after the marriage in Bennington
they went to Schenectady. y. Y. where
his wife learned of the existence of an
other Mrs Louis Baxter. Her father went
TO that city and brought her home and
she is now residing with her parents.
WOMAN sCTFRAGIsTs CONVENTION
The annual convention OF the Vermont
State Womans Suffrage will be held in
the Cniversaist Church in Springfield
June and s. The various committees
were appointed at a meeting held Thurs
da% at the home of the Rev. F. o. Thayer
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church
FOUR RUSSIANS INDICTED.
The four Russian immigrants, John
Madison, John Caski, Awerne Caski and
ocyIiouT, WHO were arrested IN 81
Adams March Ii by Immigrant Inspectors
c. S. Forbes and f.. II. Twohey. Jr.. were
indicted by the federal grand jury which
has been in session at Windsor for at.
tempting to enter the United States con,
trary TO the immigrant laws. The -four
respondents were remanded to Jail in de-
fault of bail and will probably come w
for trial at the adjourned term OF tho
United States court which will be held al
Newport in July.
lCHRIsTIAN ENDEAVOR PROGRAMME
Plans have been completed for tn.
Christian Endeavor union Of Grand Isle
and Franklin counties to be held a
Franklin May 81. An unusually strOn,
programme has been arranged, compris
ing several outside speakers of note
among whom are the Rev. Frazer
Mctzger OF Randolph, Miss Mary w
Ellis of Springfield, the Rev. c. ID. Gran,
OF Waterville. Me-. the Rev. Il. +. Swift
OF Orwell and William c. Mason o
Enosburgh Falls Franklin county Y. NJ
G. A. secretary. The programme follows
II Morning session. 1880, praise service, LEI
by Mrs e.. W. Gates OF Franklin; 10:t5
| greeting from the society, Leon Pierce o
Franklin: greetings from the Epwortl
League. Mrs. Maud Hogabooom OF Frank
lin; greetings from the church. Deacon c
W. Powell OF Franklin; response. Presi
dent w. j. Chaffee of Enosburgh Falls
| N 90. report of secretary and treasure