Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-07

Thursday. Tho top of his head was blown
off wher he changed the position Of the
weapon.
The Seventy club of St. Johnsbury was
entertained at it's last meeting by Mrs.
Mary Bowles. 1t was her send birthday
and many OF the appetizing viands served
were the work of her own hands. Some
of the ladies present were in tho ninetes
but one had to be told to know it.
Bellows Falls has been selected as ore
of the two places in Vermont in which
William jennings Bryan will speak, ac-
cording TO John Donnelly of Nergennes
The other place will probably be Burling-
ton. Mr.. Bryan Is to speak in 10 places,
all told, in New England the early part
| Of April
A serious hitch Is reported in the
negotiations between the merchants and
/ granite manufacturers associations Of
! Barre and tho officials of the Central Yer
mont railway over better freight service
for the Granite city. The matter may be
referred TO the State railroad commission
/ for final settlement.
| By the breaking Of a defective nange on
one of the wheels Of the locomotive tender
tho mixed train on tho Rutland railroad
due at Healdville at 5:O5 o'clock Wednes-
day Jan. 30 was brought to a stop just
as it passed the station. No ore was in
/ jured A wrcckne train from Rutland
made repairs and traffic was delayed
several hours.
! Mrs. Fred Freeman of South Rovalton
has a written copy of sermon delivered
by her grandfather. the Boy. John Duttuu.
at North Yarmouth. Mass. Sept 90 1No7.
/ 1t IL written on booklet 6x3 IL inches in
size, Of eight leaves, 10 pages, ana so
..nely written chat It contains 500 words
1t is easily read, although very fine and
compact writing.
surveyors have been driving stakes for
the round house that Is to be erected lust
north of the present freight house at
Bennington next summer. The same sur
vcyorI are soon to work on the Chatham
division Of the Rutland railroad and it is
stated that rev route will be laid out
! by which about - miles of road can bee
saved between Bennington and Chatham.
Athletic relations between Montpelier
Seminary and Spaulding high school OF
Barre are on the verge Of rupture from Il
dispute in a basket ball game. Whether
| Umpire Hamilton was rightt<n a decision
was disputed and Referee Mercer declared
the game forfeited to Bpauding. The
score was is to 7 in favor of Spauldng
with seven minutes more to play when
the row occurred.
| a patent on the Green Mountain in
destructble carbon which will not burn
out when used for electrical purposes has
been secured Its owners are c. Davis,
Wilmington. Charles Howe. Jamaica,
Truman +. Shorts, North Egremont,
Mass. A company with large capital will
soon have the rev product on the mar
Ket
i. A. Contois who has been employ ed
in the office of the Berkshire Street Rail
way company, Pittshed, Mass. has re-
moved to Bennington to be cashier in the
office OF o. NJ Barber treasurer of the
new Bennington & North Adams Stree,
Railway company and the North Adams
Street Railway Co. recently consolidated
under a new charter. Conductors now
make their settlements in Bennington in
stead of Hoosic Falls
The Clarendon Marble company. cap-
tanzed at 100000, has organized at Rut-
land with these officers: President, Z. j
Mccormack, Dandy; vice-president. Jew.
EFT p Game Rutland; treasurer Alexan
der Thompson, New York; secretary
James f. Burke. West Rutland. The com
pany has bought the Hitchcock farm al
Clarendon Springs where a quarry was
opened in 1895