Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-09-26
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VERMONT NOTES

The steamer Lady of the Lake ha.
finished an average season on Lake
Memphremagog
A cane over 100 years old is owned h,
~ b. Davenport of Chelsea. It was
brought from Palestine by his great uncl,
who obtained 1t on the Mount of Olives.
sealed bids for the positions OF manager
ana matron of the Sheldon poor house
lor the ensuing year will be opened
at the annual meeting of the association.
October l.
ri Clone" who writes for the Lon
dondorry SITTER, observes that the Dorset
valley man who bet his hat that corn
wouldn't ripen this year is going bare
headed now
Two-yoar-old Irta?, daughter OF Mr.
ana Mrs. G.. II. Doubleday of Rutland,
caught her hand in the clothes wrlnger.
iaJuring it so badly that the index finger
had to be amputated
Ihe Goth Masonic birthday of Judge
IL. ~. Powers of Morrisvllle will be
/ Generated the evening Of October by
Mount Nernon Lodge The addresses Will
/ lhtIude ono of a reminiscent nature by
the Judge.
Mrs Lucus H. Noycs Of HYDE Park
aged 81 years. has cnjoycs an automobile
trip to the new lake at Morrisvillc Mrs.
Noyes Is in good health and keeps well
POSTED on current events by reading the
daily papers.
Tho sinai! crop of applies IN Addison
/ county bring about 81 per barrel. One
dealer who contracted to furnish New
York and Boston parties with 1900 bar
! reis has toen obliged to buy most Of
| them in Nova Scotia
Jordan Hall. the new military school
| III st. AlbaAs, has opened with 40 pupils
The faculty numbers eight mon and
women The boys will wear the regulation
united States uniform and will be un-
der military discipline except Satur-
! days.
Edwin +. Jones. who has spent tne
summer vacation on the Isthmus of
Panama, mas returned home and will
sooa re-enter the Medical College.
During his stay on the isthmus Mr..
Jones mad charge Of the emergency
hospital at Los Cascadas.
As Substitute r. +. D. Carrier Harry
bingham of West Brattleboro was driv-
Ing down steep hill his whip caught
In an overhangins branch. breaking the
stock The snap scared the horse. which
Jumped. broke shaft and spilled out
the carrier, who was badly bruised.
Despondent because his wife had gone
to the South Wallingford fair with an
other man, Ward Corey of Ira crawled
into hut in West Rutland and ended
MS life with a dose of strychnine He
was found the next morning by Bradley
Gilmore, the owner of the shanty
Two hundred and TWENTY-FIVE and ono.
half miles in 10 "a hours. without scar
ing horse or killing a chicken is the
record made by ]. NJ. Boutwell, and party
of Montpelier. The run was made he
tween Boston and Montpelier and in
cluded several stops.
The drowning is reported Of George NJ
Phetteptace of Vernon in the Connecticut
river Friday near the Hnsdale ferry.
He was 40 years old and it is slpnosed
that he started TO row across instead Of
waiting for the regular fcrry-man. It Is
said that he had been drinking heavily
the past week
Two attendants at the State asylum
for the insane at Waterbury have scarlet
fever. All possible precautions have been
taken to prevent a spread of the disease
but as Messrs Whltcomb and Howieson
had been about among the patients it
Is feared that other cases may develop.
hnr
suicide by hanging because her gentle
man friend refused to take her to The
fair. Mrs. George Belville Of Barre tried
TO drown herself. She was again rescued
and after an examination as to her
sanity has been committed to the State
hopital at Waterbury.
John Calvin OF Brattleboro has an
other clew to his missing son. Frank
burton OF Brattleboro says he conversed
with man September on a steamer
between Boston and Portland whom he
reels sure If the son of Mr. Calvin He
mad Just given up a position as waiter
on the steamship line.
Dr. Frederick B. Hadlcy, who has
recently been employed by the gov
eminent In Chicago and later in St
Joseph, Mo, has position as instruc-
tor and house surgeon IN the veterinary
department OF the Washington State Uni
versity at Pullman, Wash, and began
his duties there September lG
Henry Wyman of Manchester. when
driving home at night from Dorset,
guided his horse off the edge of a bridge
and the animal and buggy landed legs
and wheels up in the brook Mr. Wyman
and companion escaped injury but con-
siderable Difficulty was experienced in
getting the horse back into the thorough
fare
Smoke pouring from the tenement oc-
oupied by Mr. and Mrs. Corsiglia over
their store In Bennington caused some
one to ring In a fire alarm The SER
vices Of the department were not needed.
however. as the smoke came from a
fryinepan, neglected when Mrs Cor
stgla went 10 the store to watt on a
customer
y man giving his name as Ray l..
Sharkcy Of Barre, Is under arrest at
Manchester. y II. Supcions were
aroused against him by his trying to sell
a quantity OF mems furnishings and after
some time he confessed to the police that
he was the man who robbed the clothing
store Of Goodnow Brothers & Pearson at
Bellows Falls.
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