Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-01

VERWOWT NOTES

The annual regatta Of the Lake Bono
, seen Yacht club will be held August 10
near the Cedar Grove house.
} Catherine Mccarthy. a 14-year-old girl
of Rutland, was attacked without warn
\ ing by a dog and bit on the back and left
leg.
, Mrs. Mary Higgins of Brattleboro is
Ccad the result of falling down stairs.
She was 70 years old and weighed 325
pounds.
, The reunion OF the Veterans assoc
citation of Windsor and Orange coun-
ties will be held this year at Bethel
August 49,
Judge Wendell p. stafford Of the Uni
{ states district court for the District
} of Columbia is in Barre paying his an
nual visit to relatives and friends.
lIoodlums arc defacing plate glass win
dows in Rutland by scratching and mark
, ing them with a diamond or glass cutter.
} t5reward Is offered for their detection.
A throe-year-old italian child IN Barre.
running to escape from his sister got I'M
, der a horses foot and was stepped on
twice, on the arm and abdomen. No bones
were broken.
A busy session OF the probate court at
Brdttleboro netted tho state s697 81 in one
} day. 10 estates being taken up. The money
came from four estates which paid the )
per cent. collateral inheritance tax.
Tho fund, which is being RAISED in
Rutland to pay the expense of enter
tanning large party of fresh air chill
drcn there for two weeks In August. Is
growing rapidly and is now over 800.
William I'm and his l5-year-old ner-
how, arrested at Cuttingsville on a
charge of stealing horse and wagon
belonging to F. T.. Sears of Claremont,
} n. H., have been taken to the latter
place.
A party of Rutland young women in
camp at Lake Bomoseen had all the ex-
} citement they wanted when the undertook
to play with a hive OF bees. Three were
bothered by bees in their hair and all
, yelled for the arnica bottle.
Or w. Fl. Cory OF Woodstock took in
the sights at Coney Island, on recen.
, trip to the metropolis, and came homo
with his hand in a sling. He stepped on
a banana peel in boarding a car fell with
: his wrist under him and broke It.
Bethel hears the persistent rumor that
the Delaware & Hudson has bought the
Rochester railroad. 1t would work great
benefit to that section OF Vermont and in
sure the building of the cross-State rail
way from Rutland to Montpelier.
The rcd flag was raised by 200 Ital
ians employed near Brattleboro in
} building the big dam ana they all quit
work over dissatisfaction with GER
tain boss. Much excitement was mani
tested but no disturbances occurred
The Rev. l.. c. Nichols pastor of the
Universalist Church, Wiliamstown has
closed his work there, and left Mon
day for Bloomfield, n. Y, where he will
Iroach the coming year
Mrs Pearl McElmurryof Boyle Wis. he
came acquainted with Norman B. Mer-
rick, a rural mail carrier of st. Adams.
through a matrimonial paper. and after
a long distance courtship. their marriage
followed
A team drove on to the scales in the
station at Poultney with a load of stone
weighing seven tons. the wooden beams
mapped letting the rear wheels of the
wagon on to the cross iron breaking it In
two in the middle.
Walter Magoon, aged TO- and his broth !
er, ged T. Boston lads who were camp |
ing with their parents on the shores of
Lake Memphremagog. were examining
their fathers gun when the weapon was
discharged. As result Walter died
shorty after in Newport.
The following herds in Franklin county |
have been found free from disease: Frank
Miles Fairfield, 10; r. c. Brown. Sheldon |
Alister. Stevens Mills, %. The tuberculn |
test was made by DR.. j. c. Parker of St |
Adams.
Leslie Woodland Of Woodstock. about "a
years old, has been taken to the State
hospital at Waterbury. He had assumed
a hostile attitude to others than his imme-
date associates and had armed himself
with a club, He seemed in terror and on
the train his cries and groans were pitifuI
" G.. Whitaker of Bethel had a
hoarscness in the throat and asked his
wife to get him the witch hazel. He tool;
an even spoonful but it was the ammonia
bottle which was handed him. He suf
fered great pain and had to seek doc
tors aid to gain relief.
The latest kick on railway service on
the West River division of the Central
Vermont arises from carrying calves to
Brattleboro in one end OF a mail car, o.
cupants Of the smoking compartment find
the odor offensive, especially 50 in no,
weather which is generally prevalent at
this season of the year
Arrangements have been male In
Rutland to entertain 101 fresh air
children from New York. Mrs. Jerry
Thornton Will entertain 40 at her camp, |
and a farmer has agreed to take nine
boys for his share. The rest will he
cared for at different homes and board
ing houses in the city.
George Bckford, Jr, of ETardwick, |
while swinging around the end of a
fence on the river bank, fell distance
of IL feet and ! ndcd on the rocks, dis
locating the great toe of his right foot
and spraninG the ligamcnts OF tho foot.
He was compelled to crawl on his hands
and knees to his home
Two youthful fishermen Mt Wood |
lstock were aStonished at the success |
of their efforts when they hooked trout
measuring 12L and lla4 inches. They
Immediately invested in two fish has
kets and started out on u systematic
campaign to hook all the other big
loncs.
Mrs. n. C. Sherwin Of Woodstock was