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

VERMONT NOTES

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Vermont Regiment at Middlebury Oc-
tobcr IA.
Lyman Peck of Hyde Park exhibits n
! mammoth cucumber Weighing 8 1-2 pounds
| and measuring l3 l2x3l l2 inches.
\ horse that Mrs. c. u. Morse of Rut-
! land was leading behind her wagon bolt
| ed and pulled her off the seat and the
wheels passed over her She sustained no
| serious injuries
The Roy. S. ". Bdcvell of East Mid
dleburY. 9S years old, and still In ac-
tive service, holds the marriage rec
ord among Vermont Methodist minis
tcrs He Just performed his 3o2ni
ceremony.
| A pair of oxen owned by Albert Muir
/ ray of Warren were instantly killed by
falling tree in Il terrific storm.
fine orchard on the Matthew place in
the Same town was uprootcd by the
same hurricane.
Two lengths of stove pipe fell down the
elevator shaft in q. L. Albce's store ia
| Fellows Falls striking Patrick Cudmore
on the back Of the hands. some of the
cords wcrs severed ana very painful
injury inflicted.
At Johnnycake hill team overlook
! lsador Roscoe of Essex Junction footing
| il to st. Adams to visit relatives. Al
| though " years Old he said he had
walked all tie way from Essex, ~ distauto
of % miles,
Thirty years in the service and well
| known to tire travelling public Conductor
A. T. Sncl who ran between White
River Junction and Springfield, Mass,
! dropped dead at the completion of his
run Thursday He was lf;y years old.
While Roy Thomas OF Woodstock
was working on the edge Of the slate
roof of the Jail building his ladder
| toppled over. He caught an electric
| light wire and hung high above tn"
pavement until a ladder was erected
So that he could descend
Dr. j. r. Wright of Barton Landing
is laid up with injuries received by
falling from ton foot platform Mt
the Barton tub factory. Or. Wright
| is part owner in the factory. lie re-
ceivcd injuries to his spine and was
otherwise badly bruised. -.
| Fourteen blacksmiths OF NcrEennos. Fer
risburgh, New Haven and surrounding
| towns have formed a horsc-shoeing as
ISOLATION with an advanced scale Of prices.
| The new order of things goes into effect
October "A with a fine of $2j for violations
| of the agreement.
At the annual Meeting or the Amer
lean Bankers association held last week
at Atlantic city. y. j., Clinton y. Field,
| vice prcsdcnt Of the Granite Savings
Bank 4 Trust company of Barre, was
elected v.ce-presdent Of the association
! for Vermont
| While on the way to Wilmington village
! a young colt driven by Mir and Mrs.
! George Carpenter took fright ut a brush
| fire by the roadside and ran away. Mrs.
| Carpenter was thrown out. breaking her
| nose and receiving cuts on her head that
| required % stitches to close.
! The skeleton of what is supposed to
| have been an aged Indian squaw has
been uncarthed by the hydraulic eXcava-
tinon for the Connecticut river dam at
Vernon. It was complete with the exccp-
| tion of the lower Jaw and the skull is
exhibited Y; the office OF the power com
pany.
The yearling buck deer with which
Deputy sheriff Clarence F. Emery Of
| Georgia had a personal encounter has
been killed and sold for meat. The
deer was imprisoned in a corn Grip
after the scrap and veterinary dis
covered that both hamstrinGs were
broken in the struggle.
A second attempt has been made TO
! rob the toll station of the New Eng
| land Telephone and Telegraph COM
panY at the Rutland railroad station.
, The would-be thief priod off the out
side cover but when he struck the
, metal coin safe he became discourage god
and gave up the job.
Mr. and Mrs r. Franzoni of Rutland
their five children and ther two boardors
are very sick from eating toadstools.
The head of the family while in the
woods mistook the toadstools for mush-
rooms and picked a large quantity of
them, Emetlcs We're promptly admins
tered and the nine people are thought to
| BE ont Of danger.
James y. Pitts of Shrewsbury is suf-
fering from what is supposed to be y
fatal injury received while chopping
in the woods. Tho tree upon which
he was working fell unexpectedly,
striking him on the head and Shout
ders and rendered him unconsc ious.
The physician says he hardly expects
Mr. Pitts to recover.
Word mas been received of the serious
injury in Holyoke, Mass, Of Merritt
II. Nantlne, a native OF Grand Isle.
formerly superintendent of the John T..
Squire & co. plant in Rutland and now
Il travelling inspector for that company.
While in the freight elevator OF the
Holyoke plant the gearing gave way
letting the cage fall to the bottom of the
shaft Mr.. Vantine received broken foot,