Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-03

VERMONT NOTES


The death of Manager Captain Clarksor
of Norwich University football team will
probably result in the cancellation of tho
| Norwich Brown game scheduled for Sat.
| urday
Deer damages have been awarded in
| Rutland county to the amount of 500 &c
during the past year. Beans, buckwhcat
awbcrri"s and garden truck were the
principal crops damaged
At least eight deer have been killed
in Shushan, n. Y. during the pas,
month and as deer were never seen in
| this locality before it is supposed they
crossed the border from Vermont.
A six legged calf is the latest venture
promoted Ivy j. w. Ketchum of Yer
| genncs. He exhibited the freak at the
| Windsor county fair TO the curious
| public attending to the barking" per-
sonally the first day.
Ira Humphrey OF West Burke lost
| five cows the other day He was driving
| them across the railroad track when a
wild engine running backwards struck
the herd and literally ground them to
| pieces.
on the land between the Sweat Coming
hume and the river. The wcat-Comngs
company has been given the contract,
the work to be completed by July /
| next.
Mrs. T. ". Kimball of Washington, D.
c.. formerly of Montpelier, although
81 yeas ola, has occupied the same desk
in the treasury department for 80 years
and is still actively engaged there. She
lives II miles outside the city and rides
back and forth every day.
After working over Is years in the shons
Of the Rutland Railroad company j. d.
Allen has rendered his resignation and
left with his wife and daughter for Cali
fornia, where they will reside with their
sons who are fruit raiscrs. Mr.. Allen is
10 years old.
Municipal Judge T. W. Gibson of Brat
tlohOro took occasion at the trial of
James Boycc for intoxication to publicly
d"nounce the town lookup as a filthy plac
unfit for human habitation. He apollo
gizcd to the prisoner for his confinement
there.
Mrs. Emma hvcrill Coon of Richford
ills Corner Franklin, a distance Of 20
| miles. in five hours and returned the next
day in about the same time. She is oi
years old and says she feels no fatigue
after such fcats of pcdestr.anism.
What he calls scare deer" has been
| erected by a Cabot farmer near his large
garden EXasperatcd by the deer. which
| pcrsistently ate his garden truck. he built
a platform and seated thereupon under
| an umbrella dummy peacefully smok-
| ing pipe. The device has been very
successful
Without warning A. Murray of Mont
| pciicr was showed by two men through
the plate glass window in the store Of
| Smith & Cummings In front of which he
was standing the other evening. His hand
was badly cut He does not know the
names of his assailants but knows them
! by sight and arrests are expected to fol
| low.
| The Barre police Sunday night stole a
| march on the place of one Graini. called
| the 'Canteen," and caught % men OF
different nat!onalities imbibing freely OF
variety of drinks. a big seizure was
made and the proprietor placed in the
| coop In court Monday he received "A
sentence of not less than three nor more
than ten months in the House Of Correc-
| ton.
| A gang of IL Italians has been put at
| work on the streets of Bellows Falls in
| place of the men who recently went out
| on a strike. Hundreds of people, includ-
| Ing most Of the strikers watched them At
work on their first appea rance. An out
| slider introduced a resolution at a meet
| Ing of the tiremen, calling them out on a
sympathetic strike but he was immedi-
ately elected from the room and no fur
ther attention was paid his resolution.
Joseph Merrill of Norwich aged SO
years, Is il the Mary Hitchcock hospital
with a bullet in his head, fired with
| suicidal intent. On the afternoon that
he shot himself he rose from the dinner
table and babe his wife and six little
girls goodbye, saying that he was going
away, lie then went TO the back piazza
and fired revolver at his head twice.
the last bullet taking effect. He will
| probably recover.
The present term Of Windham county
court has no, been without its humorous
| features A minister was called upon
| to testify In a dead dog case and he
stated that after complaining of an at
| tack from the canine the owner told
| him to go to hell. What did you do
| them" asked counsel and the minis ter
| replied II went over 10 East Dover to
| preach" Il took some time for the
sheriff to restore order.
Game Warden A. Fisher and several
men were working on Miles mountain
| some Is miles from St Johnsbury, when
| they heard shot and hurried in its di-
rection. They found the body OF an al
blno' doe, the rarest specimen ever seen
In this state. The illegal hunter had fed
and had such n start on the warden tina
his capture was impossible The animal
was pure white with the exception OF
| black ears and two rows Of black spots
down the back 1t Will be mounted and
placed IN the state House at Montpelier
IN ANCIENT AGREEMENT.
| A. A. Ncwcomb of Waterbury Center
has in his possession an agreement en-,
tered into on May 2sth 1905 between
Silas LOOMS and Nancy Atkins for a
school Tho contract which contains
many conditions unusual at the present
| reads
Waterbury May oSth A. D.. 1903.
having considered the Sad consequence.
of the Neglect of School / have though
best and have Agread with Name,
Atkins to teach A School In my barn l.
weeks the present Season IL there Shal