Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-06-11
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
MONTPELIER.

The stockholders OF the Montpelier Il
Wells River railroad held their annual
meeting at the general Offices of the
road in this city Thursday morning.
f. Sortwell of Cambridge, George r.
Carter Of Brookine, Mass, James w.
| Brock and +. W. Stanyan Of Mont
| pelicr and Alexander Groton, were elected
directors. These directors elected 4. +
SortwclI. presidents; George f. Carter
icc-presidcnt: f. W. Stanyan. clerk and
| treasurer. The annual meeting of the
stockh oldcrs OF the Barre railroad was
also held here Thursday. The directors
elected are: ID. w. Sortwcll of Cam
bridge. Macs. +. s. Anahle of Boston,
| +. W Stanyan. II. c. Shurtlcff and j
@. Farwell of Montpelier. These directors
elected u. r. Sortwell, president, ]. G.
Farwcll. vicc-prcsdent, and +. W.
Stanyan, clerk and treasurer
d. c. Rogers Of Vcrgcnnes has been
elected principal of the Montpelier high
school in place Of Prof. T.. T.. Thomp-
son, resigned. and -. Robert Blanpicd,
who is now in Dartmouth College. will
take the place OF Malcolm Edgcrton as
instructor in English.
A. j. Norton of the Pinkerton detective
| force in New York, who has been In
Vermont several days on the trail of
| Mark T. Foster, the dcfaulting village
clerk of Iardwick, returned on the early
morning train Thursday to New York
Mr.. Norton snid he found shortage at
ilardwick of about Aso0 instead of 5000
as was first reported. Mr.. Norton Is con-
hdcnt that Foster will eventually be APP
pretended This case was placed IN
the hand. of the Pinkorton mon at the
| Of
| Johnsbury.
| The grand list of the city for 1905, as
shown by tho listcrs' books shown Thurs
day. is s5S.9eSo2 loss Of sr'o.a6 from
last year The real estate totals s3,1N,-
22j the personal property N'733'6''
total Of .5.474ool There is an Increase
in real estate of Sil,@25 and In personal
rronortv OF $50 2ol. The total number OF
polls is 2.l0l
Tho sale of the G. ~ Cross Il Son
bakery and confectionery establishment
by l.. Bart Cross to Frank A. lipydcn
Of Mort.clicr and @. l.. Edison of Will
Jamestown was completed Saturday. Mr..
| Cross has for some months been anxious
to retire from the business in which he
bas bcen associated since iS63 and
nogotiations for this sale have been in
I
sivc business was established in 1850 by
Charles II. Cross, and f. grew from small
beginnings to be one Of the largest manu-
! facturics Of it. kind in the state. Mi
HAYDEN, one OF the new propriotors, has
been in the employ Of c. II. Cross "
Son for % wears. the last IS years as
travelling salesman and Mir Edison, who
T.. now on the road was a former mer-
1.,,. ,tfr
not made public. hut it must have been
large. Mr. Cross will formally transfer
the property rs soon as an inventory
can hc taken.
Dr a u stone Of the state laboratory
at Burlington sent saturday 10 S'a'o
Attorney benjamin Gates his official
report on the autopsy Of the body. oil
| Matthew Ferrin. the civil War veteran.
who was found dead last sunday In MS
room on Mortified street. The autopsy
was performed June l. AMI Doctor
| Stone rcrorts that while the decomposcd
condition Of the body made 1t impossinl"
to state positively the cause Of death
he found nothing to indicate violence or
poisoning. and he is Of the opinion that
I'errn's death occurred from natural
causes This undoubtedly ends any legal
action in tho case,
After August I. Cecil G. Egg, who
for eight years has been choirmast"r
at Trinity church Shelburne, will have
| charge of the choir and music al Christ
church in this city Mr. Egg is a
graduate Of tho dominion College of
Music at Montreal and for four years
was boy soprano soloist at 81. Johns
Church in that city Mr. Egg comes TO
dations.
The funeral of Charles II. Rhodes
was held Monday Afternoon at MS
late home in shady Rill Mr. Rhodes
| was 20 wears old and was civil War
veteran lie died saturday night from
Brisht's disease and dropsy \ third
wife. one daughter and four sons sur
vvo him.
Glass day exercises Of the class of
1905 at Montpelier high school were
held Monday evening in the Eas, Safe
street auditorium. In spite OF the in
tense heat a good sized audience was
present. The following program was
carried out: Address to uniergradua-
tcs Mary Tart. - Village Mystery"
Pearl HIN; class history, Robert
Pierce; class prophecy, Ruth peming
Industrial Training" Adclinc Gale;
"White Azalcas," Helen Finn; class
characteristics. Ruth Ellis; class poem.
Annie Wheelock: class essay. Marion
Wiley; "A Sistcrly scheme Hilda
Brooks: class Grafton. clyde Worthen;
class will, William Bailey. Following
this the class song was sung. Tho Sra-
duating exercises will take place at
the opera house tomorrow evening.
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