Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-04-25

VERMONT NOTES
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Smallpox SIGN are down in Wildor.

Smallpox signs are down in wilder.
Plans are being drawn for the Spring
field Savings bank building by George
G. Adams OF Lawrence. Mass.
James +. Hooker of Brattloboro, a grad
uate of Phillips Exeter Academy, n. H., !
has given It $500 Internationally.
Each room in the remodelled Adnabrown
Hotel at Springfield is to be provided with
a telephone and electric lights.
Rear Admiral Wells l.. Field, L. s. ~,
and family Of Washington will arrive in
Bennington about the first Of next month
for the summer.
A brick tireproof garage is to he built
in Springfield by the Brown Hotel COM
pany OF that village. II Will be 34n26 feet
with pit. wash-tand and cement floor.
year to support the best base ball team
ever. Leonard 1eBoeuf, the teams
inainstay in the box, is again available.
Property has been purchased at Water
bury for a condensed milk factory. It IS
understood that the company will begin
building at once.
The 18th Vermont Rcgimcntal assoc.a-
ton has presented Norwich University
with a large portrait of I1eut.-Col. Mum
son. He was a member of the class of
1854.
The United Construction company has
been awarded the contract for supplying
the iron work for Il bridge on Brook street,
Barre. at $500. Other bids ranged from
$3.50 to sS75.
Brattlcboro high school will not engage
in base ball this season. Track athletics
will be taken up instead. A team will be
Gent to the interscholastic meet at Dart
mouth May IS.
Tree Warden +. L. Daley of White
River Junction has had an errlng citizen
there fined 81 and costs for mailing signs
on trees in the public highways con-
trary to law.
The second break at the postofice AZ
Wilder has Noted burglars $50 in stamps
and $50 in money. Samuel Adams and B.
a. Palmer heard the racket and fired three
shots at three men whom they saw run
ming but nothing dropped. No clue.
At the opening of the jamestown cx-
position April rs. Vermont will he Off
cially represented by Lieut.-Gov. G. II.
Prouty Of Newport, Adjt.-Gen. w. II.
Gilmore OF Fairlee and Col. c. S. Forbes
of ST. Adams, secretary of the Vermont
commission.
Gross receipts from the Bellows Falls
postofice on postal account for the year
ending NIarch 81, 1901. amounted to $3l.-
$3.50, an increase Of so. 1914 over the
previous year. This is accounted a won
derful growth vixen the 300 population OF
Bellows Falls is considered.
Henry L. Chadwick of St. Adams, who
Yields a faoilc brush, has completed
painting a 9X6 #. map Of Vermont for the
states exhibit at jamestown. 1t is pro-
badly the largest and most complete map
ever made of the state. The workman
ship is particularly attractive.
After trial Of every kind of boating on
the Connecticut river at Bellows Falls.
decisions has been reached that motor
boating is the only safe and most enjoy
able water sport there. Interesting motor
boat races are being planned for the sum
mcr by numerous owners at Bellows
Falls and North Walpole, y. II.
The funeral of Joseph II. Lane, IS years
Old, was held Yesterday at Post Mills.
Mr.. Lane died of heart disease and kid
ney trouble at the Soldiers Home in
10 lAAAlii Aps4s ~ A' was dttlI4lNtG
February q last. lie was a sergeant in
the Sth Vermont and a past commander
Of the G.. A. r Post at Post Mills.
The body of the eminent artist. Walter
y. Bartholomew who died in Newton
Center, Mass, was brought TO Post NH
for burial, Mr. Bartholomew introduced
the first drawing system into the publ c
schools and in his late years devoted much
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many summers in Grafton.
Snowballing between employees OF the
Vermont Farm Machine company. Bel
lows Falls. all winter eliminated in 80
much bad feeling that a Greek and an
American fought II out in a rough and
tumble. The American was victorious, ar
rested and released on his own recognize
ance, whore the matter now rests.
Three employees of the Howe Scale works
at Rutland have been con the carpet for
making water motors on the company's
: time, of material belonging to the cor-
pany and for the mems personal use. one
OF the foren>en was also found repairing
his steam launch during working hours.
; The mon were called upon to explain but
were not discharged,
oNIlH W tlI'NN bliSlll'N~ muses. d-dl4ASl
the Brattleboro Mfg. co. for debts due
have been Discontinued, f. appearing
that they would never amount to n
thing except to pile up costs. The COM
pany went into bankruptcy in 1905 witt
liabilities Of $4,000 and small assets
Seven suits We're on the docke: against
tho company at the present term OF
Windham county court.
Lewis II. Blanchard, a native of Peach
am where his mother row resides, has
recently married at Chicago. His bride
was Miss Alice T.. Holton and after q
wedding trip in Colorado they will re-
turn to Chicago where Mr.. blanchard 70,
several years has been vicc-prestdent OF
Hapgood's. He is a graduate Of Dart
T.. mouth and for a year after graduation
in ls9. taught in Woodstock,
5 The first honor in the graduating class
Of Spaulding high school. Barre. will IA
@ at commencement to Orville Walhridge OF
IS WilliamStown and the second 20 Harry
I Soldini of Barre. There are - seniors In
the regular four years course and y In
q the commercial course, first honor In the
In haitian dana tr,cpt fnllinU 70 Miss Jessie