Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-05-30
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VERMONT NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Harry Duane Bruce Of Morotown Is to
deliver the class day address at Brown
University, Providence, II. l., June II.
A. A. Farnsworth, a motorman on the
Rutland street railway, was coupling a
passenger and gravel car Monday when
he was caught between the bumpers and
badly injured about the hips.
Brattleboro will have 5000 to expend
on permanent highways and it has been
decided to put $500 into about 1000 feet Of
gravel road and $500 into 1000 feet Of
macadam.
An operation was performed Tuesday
morning upon Henry s. Gallup. the r.
year-old Sheldon boy whose skull was
crushed by horses hoof. Tho chances
are favorable for his recovery.
Tho Side Hill Slate company has been
organized at Fair Haven by John O.
Jones, Hugh Owens, David Morris. Jr..
the Rev. j. r. Williams and John j. Foley.
The old Potter quarry in East Whitehall.
n. Y, has been leased and operations
commenced this week
The maple sugar market Mt Ran
dolph has received an order from Onto
whore they claim to make tho Just as
good as Vermont" kind. for 30 tons Of
maple sugar and 5000 gallons of
syrup. Tho season in Ohio was not as
good as usual.
Tho stewards Of the Burlington dis
| trict of the Methodist Church have
voted to increase the salary of the pre-
siding elder. the Rcv. p. l.. Dow of
Rutland. to $4,000. L. c. Dyer of West
Salisbury has been elected secretary
| Of the board.
While picking Cowslips with his lit.
tic ni"ces Saturday afternoon, John
Mclaughlin of West Rutland, dropped
dead from heart disease with which nc
had been suffering for some tire. Tho
cXcrtion of the long walk Is believed
to have FASTENED the end
Jerome Hall, a harmless lunatc. who
has the habit of escaping froSA the Brat
ticboro retreat and Of returning when he
feels like 1t, has repeated the trick. re-
turning voluntarily to tho edge Of the
woods on the retreat property where at
tcndants caught him without difficulty.
\ site for the new Catholic Church n
Rutland has been secured by the purchase
lof the CaliQuette properly on Cleveland
iaVenue. The amount subscribed by other
than italian citizens for the erecting Of
the church amounts to about 500 and as
previously reported the italian. havo
raised as much more.
Swanton is aroused over a recent or
der of the Central Vermont railway
which causes all cars loaded with
dutiablo merchandise for Swanton TO
hc hauled through to st Adams, tho
duties and brokerage fees paid there
and the cars then hauled back to their
destination at Swanton. This ignores
the customs force at Swanton.
Fred Z. Prouty 70 years In the livery
business in Rutland, is dead at the age
of - years. lie was born in Jericho and
had lived in Castieton. The funeral was
held in the Masonic Temple at Rutland
yesterday. He was not married. his rela =
tIves being cousins +. Il. and T.. II.
prouty of Burlington and Charles Prouty
of Grand Isle.
An Orange county CORES pondent
says that while the tax rate of Ran
dolph is steadily climbing upward that
village has something to show for it
in one of the best water systems in
Vermont, IN sewer system ana the
prospect of a municipal lighting sys-
tom which n committee has been ap-
l pointod to INVESTIGATES.
The improving of the tract which IS "a
, no the I{oughton park q, 81 a,hars &c 90.
ling randy forward and , considerable
, norton OF fine 500 ar,nronriatod nv. tho cltv
+ has already been oxpcndod Residents a.,
tnc west side are circulating par.rs f.,
the purpose of raising as much as possible
of the 500 vet needed for the draining of
the land
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