Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-11-21
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Boone. Iowa. The funeral services were
held Monday afternoon at thre,
O'Clock from her late home.
Miss Margaret L. Chestnut. court steno.
grapher, has been granted a years leave
by tn" judges Of the supreme and the
superior courts. Miss Chestnut will sal
January lG on the Carmania Of the
Cunard line and will spend the vear
abroad, going first TO Naples After
spending two months in italy and Sicily
! she will 20 TO Paris, whore she will
| pend tho greater part of her time. Miss
| Chestnut will resume her official duties
ut tn" March term of Chittendon county
court in 1914
The fair at tho College street Church
closed last evening. after two most sue
cessful days. Large numbers visited the
fair yesterday afternoon. and in the
| evening the church parlors were hardly
large enough 10 accommodate the crow
| which came 10 visit the many booths
At tho close Of the affair last evening.
the ladies' stated that II had been one
of the most successful ever held In the
| evening a clever little play called The
Smith Mystery was presented by Mrs.
| O. r Mason, Miss Eleanor Hickok and
Miss Grace Whiting
General Manager y. A. LOOMS Of the
| Champlain Transportation company
received word Tuesday that name
! for the new Lake George boat has been
| decided upon by the directors of the
company. Tho new boat will be called
Mohcan, after the old boat whose
place she will take on the lake
| The name Tncas has been seri-
| ouslN considered by the company.
but II was thought advisable to name
the boat for her predecessor, after the
manner of the Vermont on Lake Cham
plain. The new boat will probably be
launched the first week In December.
tached the property on George street
owned by Oncsime Dumas in an action
brought by the city of Burlington to re-
cover 500 expended by the department
in maintaining Dumas's wife and chill
dren. Dumas left Burlington some time
since without providing for his family.
The latter in consequence became pub
| lie charges. the children being placed in
the orphanage where their board is paid
by the city. The action is brought to
- HpeilSdtc lHe CITY lot tOe money thus
expended,
The chancery case Of Esther Buck VS.
Matthew and Bridget league. apis, oc-
cupied the attention of Chittendep county
court Tuesday. This Is an action IN
which 1t is ought to recover for an
alleged breach OF contract in the matter
Of the sale of a farm by the plaintiff
to the defendants. A divorce was Tues
day granted to Carrie A. Pine from
Eugene Pine and the petitioner was
granted leave to resume her maiden
name. In the ejo rtmcnt case Of Henry
MORN VIZ. Moses La,nport, Judgment was
entered for the defendant TO recover his
costs
Since January of this year. 157
meters have been placed I'm residences
and business houses connected with
the commercial system Of the munich
pal electric lighting plant. The com
mercial system was introduced two
years ago the first Of this month and
up to date $50 meters have been In
stalled. A reduction tn tho rate for
electricity went into effect last June
and affects al! users OF electricity in
the city, The municipal plant las been
In operation three years next AprU.
total force OF nine men. including
superintendent TaEgart, is employed
in conducting the plant
The death Of Miss BESSIE A. Clark
occurred Thursday afternoon at ono
O'Clock at the residence OF her sister
Mrs Charles whitney, 4 Grant street.
Miss Clark was 60 years of age and
came to Burlington from New York
over a year ago, since which time she
has resided with her sister. She was
a native OF Nova Scotia. Resides her
sister, Mrs. whitney, she Is survived
by two other sisters Mrs. w, c. Har-
ris and Mrs. Charles Starrtt, both OF
New York, and one brother, S. W.
Clark OF Boston. Miss Clark was a
member OF the Baptist Church of Mel
rose Moss, The funeral was held
at her residence Saturday and was
private. The remains were taken
to Keeseville, y. Y. for interment
Martin Cross died Monday morn
ing at three o'clock at his home on
North avenue at the age Of - wears
In May, 1906, he fell off a load Of nay.
which caused complication of dis
eases from which he never recovered
He is survived by Wife and two
daughters, Eva and Elita, and four
brothers and four sisters. Peter B..
Antoine, Nelson and Moses of this city
and Mrs. p. f. Nemoe OF Brandon, Mrs
George Nemoe of Leicester and Mrs
john Brow and Mrs. John Nimaire of
this city. The funeral was held yes
terday morning at nine o'clock from
81, Joseph's Church. and the members
of the 81. John Baptist society. of
which the deceased was a member
attended In a body.
Just ~ boatloads Of lumber have ar
for local dealers, which is a record
breaker. Yesterday five barEes of llni-
her came for the Shepa rd & Morse Lum-
Der company and two for j. r. Booth
Some OF the boats were among those
sunk in the 81. Lawrence river during
the recent big storm there. The wind
dashed the waves against and over the
boats, according to the captains, so that
the large anchors were washed into the
river Many OF the boats were baled out
and foated again and those now in port
are little the worse for the rough wealth
or, Ten more boats are expected to ar
rive this season, which Will make a total
Of l5l. Last season ~ boats touched
port,
Nelson Peters, when arraigned in
city court Friday afternoon plead
ed guilty to Il second offense OF In.
toxication and was fined SIS and costa
of S1.A5, which he paid John Abbey