Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-07-18
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
VERMONT NOTES

streets of Brattleboro will be patrolled
Sundays to keep loafers under cover.
A lot OF Hardwck babies were baptized
Sunday in water brought from the River
Jordan.
The girls basket ball team of Barton
Landing has received tho handsome
northern Vermont league championship
cup.
Mrs Lucy Blodgett, the aged Rutland
woman who was refused a home by her
daughter. has been sent TO Rome, n. Y.
where relatives will caro- for her sub
scription paper paid her fare.
While bathing in an unused quarry at
Graniteville, John Clarihew. aged 90 years
was drowned. He was unab to swim
and went beyond his depth The body
was recovered in % feet OF water
While Roy Cristlc was painting house
in Glover one of the ladder rounds broke.
giving him a long fall lie struck on hs
head and shoulders and was rendered I'M
conscious for some time.
Contra ctor Teachouts Italians stirred
UP things in Randolph the other night
and when the fog cleared away consider
able blood was in sight None of the men
was seriously injured. however.
Colonel Dunton of East HlgMgate pos
sesses a curious relic in the form Of a
bottle found by his mother on Snake
Hill. Milton, on the day of the battle OF
1'lattsburgh. 1t was full of whiskey at
the time,
Randolph people are trying TO locate
Mrs. Bessie Button She gave away her
children and disappeared She had trou-
Die with her husband some time ago and
he left her. II is feared that she has
committed suicide.
United States Marshal Horace W. Bal
ley of Rutland has this week submitted
to a serious operation at the city hospital
In Rutland. 1t was necessary to ampu-
tate one foot 1t is expected that Mr..
Bailey will recover
About 80 Montpelicrites bit like fsh on
a 800 fountain pen proposition preseoted
by fakir. who carried the idea that
their money was to be returned The
mayor instructed the chief of police 10
see that the performance was not repeal
ed.
Will soon have trolley connections with
the Hoosac Valley system, covering west
ern Massachusetts and controlled by the
New York. New Haven e. Hartford rail
road.
The biggest job Of dyna milling IN pro-
gress in the United States IS that at Cav
endish gorge, 300 pounds being used IN
the first five weeks. A mammoth dam IS
being built there and 90 men are now en-
ployed on the job. The work will be Of
concrete.
Hyde Park is up against it in a dam
age claim. horse wandered into
mans yard. He set his dog on the horse
which Jumped and broke his leg The
question is whether the man who set the
dog on the horse or the town is liable
for the damage.
a Mont perer suburha mite took on all
the booze he could carry and started home
with reserve supply in a gallon jug.
His grip was weak and the jug slipped to
the pavement breaking into several
pieces. He hastily saved what remained
In the bottom of the receptacle and went
sorrowing on his way.
The Rutland Motor company has per-
fected a device for the storing OF gasoline,
which It claims insures freedom from
dirt or water and allows no evaporation
whatever. The tank is buried in the col
lar to prevent ignition N the case 81 fire
and the oil IS drawn from the top, being
forced up by hydraulic pressure, The
device will be put on the market.
A
tured between Chester and Windham
in steel trap set on the roof of a
building. This bird. which is so num-
erous in the southern States and is so
, valuable as scavenger. seldom wan
ders as far north even as southern
New England and it's presence in Yer
mont is very rare.
Passengers on the Central Vermont be-
tween New London and Brattleooro were
much annoyed by the oHor of carborc
| acid Efforts to locate the soure of the
| nuisance We're unavailng until 1t was
discovered that a tank Of the acid had
| sprung a leak and sprinllled the track.
It was impossible to open the car as It
bore "A government seal and the dripping
| process continued toward Canada
A notice of perldency has been filed
| in the bennington county clerks Office In
| an action brought To foreclose a mort
| gage for $4,000 0l) on the property of the
| Harlem Extension company, which in
| cludes the Lebanon Springs road and the
| Bennington & Rutand road and their
| property and right Of way from Chatham
| Four Corners to Rutland. The action Is
| brought by Robert d Radcliffe, a bond
| holder.
Commissioner OF Public Printing Frank
Z. Langley of Barre has awarded the
contract for printing $1,000 probate
| blanks 10 d. W. Edison OF Montpelier, the
price being 1896. Other bids were AZ fol-
| lows: Free Press association. Burlng
ton. S526 10: Tuttlc Co, Rutland s464. 10:
| Rumford Printing Co. Rumford, y, H.
| s442: Opinion Co, Bradford. s42 YER
mont Printing Co. (Rrattleboro Reform
err. Rrattiehoro. S42s; Argus Printing Co..
Montpelier, S40.
In Rutland city court Oscar Potter was
| fined 500 for holding up o. II. Coolidge OF
| that city and an autumobiling party at
| the point of a revolver lie thought that
Mr.. Coolidge was the man who forced
| him into the ditch earlier the same day
and upon bong assured that he wasn't
allowed him To proceed The ladies in
| Marty crOucbp1 hack of the driver 9