Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-05-16
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! VERMONT NOTES

a grange has been organized in MARI
rboro with charter membership of 80.
Edwin p. Adams is master.
About 5000 has been pledged in Rut.
A1nd as fund to start the erection of
h'e now Catholic Church there
trhe 9th annual meeting Of the YER
mdnt homeopathic Medical society was
hen In the parlors of the Pavilion Hotel
at Montpelier yesterday.
Hc\ighton & Simonds Of Brattlehoro
have bought the Springfield department
store yin Springfield and will conduct a
dry goods establishment there.
Mrs. Afara Hodges celebrated her Goth
birthday Saturday by entertaining a large
number : friends at her home in Claren-
don.
As the Alst piece Of machinery has AT
last arrivotI the now waxed paper com
pany at Huntington expects to BEGIN
operations tomorrow.
Tom Wclls,o Newport captured a Flor
ida galllnuc Aast week The bird is more
commonly kn: 'wn as the red billed mud
hen and IS rars ly found in Vermont.
Tho Pomona Oranges Of four or Eve
counties in tho south of the state will
hold field day in Rutland August a
There will be speeches by national of.
ficcrs.
Vermont boy will go with the Wi.
liams College basi hall team on its sn
mile trip in the Middle West. He /,
Richard j. HarmanI Os, Of Rutland, who
plays first base.
James lianrahan dltRutland alightina
from an electric ca1i at Fair Haver
where he was to attsmd the State con.
vention of the Kn g'hts of Columbus.
fell and broke his ris;ht arm.
r. r. Paine Of Bethel Is the owner ~
one-half dozen sterlir g silver teaspoons
that wero brought to tat.s.country by Rob.
ert Lyon, an ancestorl before the year
100
Thomas NJ. Wilson, ,ne Of the promi.
nent and popular your e farmers Of New
Haven. is dead at s home there OF
pneumonia. He was h Ugh bailif Of Adj
Olson county. The fun leral will be held
to-day.
The Proctor Y. NJ C.A. a. its annual
meeting showed a def tit OF about 500
The amount raised wa Is nearly s9nO less
the past year than for the preceding 70
months, largely due to falling off in
membership.
The annual conventior OF the Yer
mont Undertakers' as rryciation will he
hcd in ST. Jofnsbury June a. and g.
Headquarters will he mt the Avenue
House and the sessionA will be held in
Red Mems hall.
Gov. +, n Proctor ha appointed Mrs
T. +. Hazen OF st. joins bury a member
Of the board to visit : late institutions
! ~. otl,
lieutenant-Eovernor andA speaker Of the
house
People interested IN the1weltare Of Lake
Romoseen as a summer 'resort say that
thcre is a great den tand for small
cottages there. Requests lor cottages have
been coming in SO fast That there is no
prospect % granting all rf them.
w. II. Pritchard. a Fa tr Haven sculp-
tor. has completed a life size reproduce
ton in marble Of Cal:ova's bust of
Columbus. It will be- snveiled by the
local council of the I'm Ehts of Colum-
bus at the opening of the State con-
vention at Fair Haven to-day.
1t is expected the new, Bennington &
North Adams street rail1sly will be open
TO the public in June. 1t lis reported that
done but that when CONF oleted the road
will be second to none In the state IN
; permanency of construction
Pittsford was the scella of wild west
antics the Other night when an in
toxcated man broke se stiffness by
shooting holes in the atm psphere. He was
arrested. handcuffed. loci ed up and then
escaped and no names ar mentioned.
The assessors at Barre are doubling
the lists Of citizens WI %, have not fled
. their tax Inventories. SiXty-four We're
, doubled the first day. Already the
number of lists receiveT is over 1000.
which is far in excess on the entire 1905
, total.
Bids for the pipe linel from Fairfiela
for the construction off reservoir
holding 100000 gallons1 are asked for
up to the afternoon oil May 90 The
completion OF the workAwill be requir-
ed by January /, 1908.
Crossed wires will bott pr the good citi-
zens Of Bratteboro no md re for the Twin
State Gas & Electric company and ths
New England Telephorie & Telegraph
company have made ARA u1gernents where
by the wires Of both c, pnpinies will be
strung on one line OF pole IS.
Col. II. s. Foster. L. s. A.. retired. of
North Calais wants TO lsee the cross
State railroad exten,fSI from Mont
pelier to Hardwick antlsAaa town made
the railroad metrop0 lis of northern
Vermont. TT IL under stood" he says,
that the Rutland Montpelier railroad
will be controlled by hhe New York
, Central"
Tho Vermont Marbl a. company has
made Arthur Lyman foreman Of the
Columbia Marble Quar- ryang Co. mill al
Rutland. The lease, W gdh the court Of
chancery authorized thai receivers OF the
Columbian concern 70 execute has be-
come effective and the Vermont Marble
= Co. has formally taken. possession.
Although Myron Wan Sof Brattleboro is
modest man he claimst that he has dis
covered a sure remedy fl n ivy poisoning
when badly affected WITH the plant Myron
became Respondent and 4 oused the affect
ed portions of his hou with common
whitewash, which 70 hi asurprise relieved
the irritation immediate Aly.