Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
VERMONT NOTES

At the present time Concord has no
town poor and no one is receiving help
from the town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph 6. Brown of
Readsboro celebrated their Goth wedding
anniversary last week.
A big elm tree. cut down IN Benning-
ton last week made nearly three cords OF
wood.
Complaint comes from Franklin that
the continued cold weather is causing a
shortage of water. Streams are frozen
solid.
Lack of water due to great quantity Of
ice in the storage reservoir has caused
Royalton to be without electric lights for
a month past.
Fairlee has unearthed an old record
book of the year 1860 in which the names
of 25S adult residents are affixed to the
pledge.
James Mutch of Barre succeeds the
late Ira T. stafford of Rutland as secre-
tary of the state branch Of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor.
Mrs G.. G. Cotton of Bradford observed
her @th birthday Saturday with an in
formal reception from two until hve
oclock in the afternoon.
Willard Bailey of Chester Depot, who is
s. years old. Joins the ranks of rare"
gold dollar owners with a coin dated 1Sia.
besides a s25o-gold piece of the year 1924.
former Manchester boy. Judge
Charles H. Rurritt Of the Philippines,
now on the way to the United states.
has established precedent by adopting
a l6- year-old Filipino girl as his daugh-
Tyson teamstcrs are making the most
of the good shedding on the mountains
and are drawing logs on traverse slccis
from the log piles. Before this bob sleds
alone had to be used part of the way.
Charles rfford of West Whcelock has
sold his large mill and extensive holding.
of woodland and lumber to Rtche Bros.
of Greensboro and contemplates going to
Washington, u. G.
While figures are not at hand at Barre
to show the combined output of the
granite quarrios it is conscrvatively es-
timated at gain Of over 20 per cent over
last year.
Royalton has reduced its indebtedness
by the sum of 5000 The tax rate for
two years of 30 cents on the dollar of
the grand list is likely to be reduced to
10 cents.
States Attorney Hill is notifying pro-
prietors of hotels and public buildings
containing public halls of the new law in
regard to fire escapes Every public
building of over one story must be so
equipped under penalty of a s4oo-inc
The two oldest citizens in Charlotte
are Matthew 81. Peter, who will be 30
years old February p. and Marcus p.
Reynolds who will be 90 in March.
Next to them in years is Peter Stacy Of
East Charlotte. who is in his SOth year.
At Springfield there are over 80 families
desiring tenements. 1t is said that fully
co new houses are planned for the coming
spring and summer Last year houses
We're built on nearly every street in
the village
Plaintield physicians are having tho
largest practice this winter they ever
had. They are now taking care Of Dr..
c. a. Browns patients while he is III
appreciated by frozen feet IT is thought
that both his feet viii pc saved.
f. T. e. H. K. Ide of 81. Johnsbury are
enlarc-inr thnir elevator uraparatorv to
Installing a Fairbanks automatic. grain
scale which weighs moving grain. II Is
to ,,,,nuracturo these scales that the
big ncu, huiIdinr has lust been erected
at the factory there.
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local paper for the oil of birch" to
avert what is feared will inevitably re-
suit in a bad accident to some child now
running wild.
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