Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-04-18
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VERMONT NOTES

city.
The late c. p. Rhodes of Richmond |
bequeathed $1,000 to the Universalist |
Church in that town. I
The Hon. Allen NJ. Fletcher of Caven-
dish has recovered from his recent opera
ton for appendicitis.
Marie Agnes DAWN, 1i-year-o Spring |
field lass, shows exceptional talent as
singer. violinist and mimic.
benjamin NJ. Washburn of Bethel has
been chosen valedctorian OF this years
gradual ting class at Dartmouth.
j. C. Mcdonald Of Ludlow is the newly
elected captain of the Brown University
Swimming association.
Former City Judge Alland G. Fay OF
Barre will deliver tho Memorial day ad-
dress at Newport this year.
The. building erected in Bristol for the
condensed milk company is still vacant
and local papers urge the citizens to hus-
tie and get some industry started there.
Brattleboro's Waterwagon Ministries net
ted SIS which will nearly provide for the
sprinkling of streets the coming sum-
mcr.
If the Pony Telephone company OF
Addison county can not sell its lines to
the New England company, 1t will renew
its lease Of five years.
Governor Proctor has been invited to
deliver the principal address at the
anniversary exercises of the Brattleboro
y. NJ c. F. the first Sunday in May.
The annual convention of the Vermont
State Sunday school convention will prob
ably be held in Manchester October to
10, a week earlier than usual.
A large portrait of Or. George w. Phil
lips. for many years pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Rutland. has been
hung in the church parlors there.
A weatherwise Nermonter says ut never
gets warm in the spring Ill the snow
gets out of the woods, and the snow cant
get out of the woods till it gets warm"
Muster this year of the State militia
will probably be held at Fort Ethan
Allen and the regiment is not likely TO be
sent to jamestown because Of the cost.
S. w. Brush has the largest maple
sugar making plant in Fairfax. He has
tapped 900 trees and has two boiling
| places.
Another resident of Lyndonvllle has in
vented "A door hanger for freight cars.
It's William Bailey and railroad men pro-
nounce his model a good one.
Ralph and Daniel Burns of Underhll
come into the lime light with this for a
months hunting record: Thirteen skunks,
8 woodchucks; raccoons; bobcats.
The single egg record in Cambridge has
been made by hen belonging to Mrs.
Margaret Hobart. 1t is S1-4 by GA
inches in size.
School directors OF Ludlow. Cavendish,
Mount Holly and Weston have formed a
school union and engaged E. Howard
Dorsey OF Ludlow as superintendent at a
yearly salary of $500.
Rrattleboro laundries plan to raise rates
with similar concerns about the State.
The new scale for collars Is two and pne-
half cents; for cuffs, five cents the
pair.
About 100 visitors are expected in Brat
tie oro next week at the annual meeting
Of the Grand Lodge of Vermont, New
England Order of Protection. Monday and
Tuesday are the days.
The village of Westminster is to he In
corporated and a meeting is called FOR
April 20 to elect officers. Nearly three
fourths of the voters signed the petition
asking for incorporation.
At the next meeting Of the Lake Bono
seen Yacht club May l, plans will BIZ
considered for the erection OF a club house
Effort Is being made to have every yach
owner in the vicinity join the club,
Rutland builders report an encouraging
outlook. During the past year loo applica
tons for permits for the erection OF new
buildings and for repairs on old one:
were fled
| William Browns medicine factory a
Richford, where Browns Drops are made
is to he converted into tenement hous'
and the laboratory removed to the seconc
floor of Mr.. Browns house.
The great snow fall this week aroun,
Chester damaged fruit trees and crushe,
shrubbery to the ground. The ORATOR
stage driver, in order to get through tn
woods, was obliged to send man ahea'
AS soon as the frost is out of tn
ground. work will be begun at Eas
Burke on a new public hall. Boxes feet
suitable for entertainments and lodg
room.
{ Charles 7. Pollard of Washington, d. c.
secretary of the Wild Flower Preservation
Society of America, will speak in Wood
r stock May %. under the auspices Of tn
= Village Improvement society.
: They think lots of the birds In Ludlow
e The ruby crowned kinglet has arrived an
fnn I, audi IN Ina,
= counter spread by thoughtful housekeer
> ers.
The repair and blacksmith shop OF "
- N Putnam was destroyed by fire
Hyde Park Friday. BY hard labor I'll
flames were kept from spreading to built
ings close by.
The first and most valuable record boo
of the Congregational Church OF Brao
= ford has been borrowed the past year an
V can not be found. 1t dated one hundre
! years back.
The present membership OF the Bra
tlcboro board of trade Is 10 and thei
is $500 in the treasury, Annual r.
y ports show that much good has bee
u accomplished during the year,
go Felix McGettrick aspires even high
\, than the democratic nomination for di
trict attorney at Boston. He wants to
mayor. He had the same aspiration
st. Adams but was never elected q