Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-07-23

VERMONT NOTES


local men to do their work.
The Grand Isle county democratic COM
mittee have called a mass meeting to be
held at North Hero for Saturday, July
%, to nominate county officers
g. Fred Osgood OF Mortified has leased
| the granite quarrics in South Ryegate
where ion cutters are employed getting
out monument bases.
The sum of $1,000 has been received by
the congregational Church here from the
| Byron Somers estate in New Mexico
and 81 900 for the cemetery in Barnet
cole Brothers circus will exhibit n
Burlington on Tuesday, August IS A
street parade will be a feature of the
show
The following cases were entered Tues
day in Chittenden county court Au-
custus Fields vs.. G. LimoEe, action Of
rerlevin: Kate NJ Vaughan. guardian VS..
Joseph AgcL apt. action of ejectment.
Norman Adams Of Chester, aged Gj
years. vino has been very poorly from
the effects of paralysis, hanged himself
at his home in Chester sunday while tho
family were at church.
The Vermont Marble company has sent
! Patrick +. Mullin, one of it's foremen.
to Alaska. where the company hopes to
purchase quite extensive marble depos-
it's to supply its Pacific coast trade.
! Be njamn Mccarthy Of Springfield vas
struck and killed by an electric car while
walking OF the track in chester at II 30
Monday night. Tho wheels passed over
his body and the left arm was cut
/ off
The Rutland Railroad company has
nearly completed moving $50 feet of the
railroad near Middlehury. where the re-
| cent landslide occurred. to safety It was
thought unwise to again replace the road
bed,
In the case Of Leonard A. Johnson vs.
j. =. Madigan. judgment has been en-
/ tered in city court ny agreement for tho
/ plaintiff to recover $50 and costs of $3.50
An appeal to county court was taken by
the defendant
| Mrs. Marion Couper. a longtime resi-
dent Of the city, died Tuesday at hcr
| home on Pine street At the age Of -
years. The funeral was held yesterday
morning at $50 O'Clock from St. Paul's
! Church.
Charles Oakes has been notified by the
Connecticut River GO. at Rrattlcborn that
he cannot use their land on The island
for the sale Ice cream, drinks ana cigars
on sunday in defiance of the sunday
closing order. He is negotiating for an
other site and proposes to continue his
defiance OF the law
Gandenzio Merforio Of Barre jumped
from a morning electric car near Ben
jamins Falls NB,nday evening and
striking on his head in the he'd of the
brook received injuries which caused his
death Tuesday morning. His hat had
blown off and he attempted to get it.
He leaves "A wife and one child.
Edward Hinsman of Westdeld. Mass,
was fined s. and costs by Justice g. A.
Browne in Ludlow Saturday for running
:n automobile in violation of law. lie
also settled outside of court for injuries
to William Phelan and Frank H. Holde.,
for injuries they received in run AVA
caused b. Mr. Hinsman's auto.
William cox, who went TO the house Of
the health officer, Dr. G. +. Ball. Rut-
cause the officer said Cox had violated
the health laws Tuesday was allowed TO
plead guilty to breach of the peace
and was was sentenced to the House OF
Correction here for not less than two o.
more than twelve months.
Mr. and Mrs. J. =. MadiGan have
gone 10 Ottawa, ont, where they viii
reside in the future. Mr.. Madigan, who
for many years has conducted a grocery
store at the corner of North and NortI
Champlan streets, has sold out his
business and will he employed by th'
W. II. McAulne Lumber company ot
Ottawa.
The republicans Of Grand Isle nUmi
mated the following county ticket or
Saturday: For senator. W. A. Sorle u
Alburgh; for assistant Judges, NJ. q
Kinney of Grand Isle. w. S. Dodds Ct
North Hero; for Judge of probate vii
liam Haynes Of North Hero: for State.
attorney. John HoWriSan Of North Hero
for sheriff. Leslie Pike of Isle La Motto
for high hailff. T. d. Landon Of Souts
Hero
From Wcstiield in Orleans county
comes the news that the raspberry Wei,
is SO large that picked fruit is a drui
in the market. This condition of affair
exists in spite of the fact that the gras.
in large areas of meadows there has
been entirely killed by the drought
Westield berry pckers should send The
fruit to Burlington, where consumers
are obliged to pay from is to - ccnr:
per basket for il.