Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-04-04
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VERMONT NOTES

Caatlcton's board of license commits
sloners have fixed the fee for flrst-class
licenses In that town at 5000.
License fees at West Rutland have been
fixed ut 5000 for FIRST class and 1880
for the second class.
The annual meeting Of the Franklin
county Woman's Christian Union will be
held In Klchford May 81 and q
There are nearly 200 churches rcpres-
entcd IN the Vermont Methodist confer
cnce which will meet at st. Johnsbury
April ls to il.
Wilmington, Nottingham. Rcadsboro
and Stamford arc To form u school SUI
pervision union under the new law pass
ed by the las Legislature
The mills in Tyson pick IN the cream
of the aburing class and farm help there
al most any price is scarcer than hens
| teeth.
| II. G.. shaw, the Middlobury newspaper
man, whose removal to Hyde Park has
| been noted In the town items, will b.
| come the confidential clerk of ex Coy.
c. s. Page.
While Henry W. Clapp was driving to
| Flainneld village with n load Of hay
drawn BY four horses, it tipped over into
the river and one Of the horses was
drowned.
| F.. l." Shackett. formerly manager Of
| tho Bardwel House in Rutland, has
taken possession Of the Bristol House at
Bristol He has had experience in the
hotel business In the West.
Alboe e. Sons mill dam at Derby Center
was carried away hy an ice jam Sunday
| night e. r. Moore's new boat house nea =
the railway station at Newport was
wrecked by ice.
DR. John f. Page. veterinarian and own
l"r of several race horses, died Monday at
his home in Manchester. lTo had been
connected with tho BattcnkiI Valley far
for 10 years and was well known in Ben
Inington and Rutland counties
| Rutland farmers are DESTROYS 81
raising the price Of their milk from
five to eight cents a quart, do away
with yearly contracts and make new
form of contract for certain seasons
when tho cost Of production is high
Tho Immense new capitol building of
the state Of Wisconsin. which will be
erected AT cost Of s4co0ono, may be
built Of Vermont marble or granite. A
party of Wisconsin people will view Yer
monts offerings in the stone line
Byron G. Robinson. a Bellows Fails
boy who has attained some note as a
civil engineer. sailed from New York
this week for Panama where he will
I've n surveyor on Uncle Sans big
ditch.
The Rev. J. w Evans has resigned as
pastor Of the Advent Christian church at
ST. Johnsbury to take effect April :. He
went there from Boston year and a half
ae" Illness in his family causes him ID
resign thus early.
Officers of the Baptist Young People S
Union for the State are: President. tho
Roy. e. ~ Jackson of Below Falls
ricc-president. the Rev. r. l.. Rayicss OF
Ludlow; treasurer. the Rev. G. f. Stair
of Middlebury.
Walter Is. Farms worth who this week
begins his duties as city judge in Rut-
land, IS one o" the Youngest men who
have held that position. He was born
in Windsor November Il. 1870. He has
been assistan, city judge for ,hree years
He was ad nttcl to the rar in 1895
. Victory has been by error counted as
Il license town since the March election.
, 1t really voted no %. yes 8. This
, change makes the number Of license
towns in Vermont ?. instead Of ~ and
, the total votes for and against license
in the whole state. no a7,3S4, yes 1885.
Leaving Lowell. Mass. tho morning Of
. April %, W. !. Bryan's offlcial itinerary in
Vermont will he as follows: Al White
, River Junction that afternoon AZ s..
, Johnsbury that evening: at Burlington
the afternoon Of Thursday, April %, and
at Barre that evening.
, Under the now law for permanent high
WAYS every town in Grand Isle county
voted 10 secure the State aid therein pro-
vided Franklin and Iamoie counties
each lacked one town ana Washington
county two. Fairfax spoiled the sYmme-
try in Franklin county
The Rev. f. X Kamborn of Cole
brook, \. H. Greek largely educated
, in America will begin his duties next
week as pastor OF the ongregational
, Church a. Lower Waterford. He will
succeed the Roy. J. w Hurd who in
January accepted call 10 Pawlet.
, DR.. j. W. Jackson in resgning the Office
OF hCa.tn OffCeT Al Barre wrote sharp
letter 10 the board OF aldermen saving
hat If they desired to get him out oC Of
flee they had no right to reappont him.
His salary was cut from 5000 to s22i and
again to $3.50.
The will Of Mrs Cl1rissa b. Starr,
widow of Farley Starr. who was formerly
president of the Peoples National bank
in Brattleboro leaves 5000 each TO the
tniversalist Church of that village and
to the I5rattleboro Home for the Aged
and the Disa blcd,
Woodstock people sim call Maiden.
, Frederick &. Ainsworth, United States
adjutant- general and acting secretary
OF war in the absence of tho secretary
and assistant secretary, just FIRED 90
He is n native of Woodstock and tiS
rapidly broadening career is followed
with keen interest there.
; Robert Collins. a graduate of Middle
bury College and now London CORES
pondent of the Associated Press. Will be
unable TO be Middleburys CONNIE ncement
orator this year as he will represent the
DIED.
ES-ln Newport, VI, Mar 30, 1907,
MARY (RaldlIDcl Nayps hal,No1