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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-12-24
RTCEFORD.

Mrs. William Il. PufGor has gone 10
Kalamazoo, Mich, to pass the winter
with her son, the Rev. lillian Puffcr-
Miss ka;hrene harnum, VINO is teach.
Ing in Montgomery Center IS passing
the holidays at her home herc.-IIenry
Mott. again porter at the American
House, filed this place about ten Years
ago. He Las been porter at hotel in
Massena Springs, y. y. several years
Miss Grace Burns IS visiting relatives in
parents, Nj. and Mrs. r.. W Adams Of
burlington, over Sunday going there to
meet her son, Homan Miller. who LETT
Nashville Tenn, Friday for his home
here, having just recovered from Il So
we're attack Of typhoid fever Several
teachers in the village schools have gone
to thcir homes Cor the holidays as fol-
lows: Miss Euth Taylor to Schenectady.
y. Y, Mss Grace Libby to Lewiston.
Me- Miss Gertrude iii to Rutland. Miss
Lucy Palmer to Vereennes; Miss MauGe
Wakefield to Ncrth Troy, Miss Frances
LedcuX 10 bakersfield. Miss Charlotte
hopkins will pass the vacation with q
sister in Bakersfield.
'Unci" Toms cabin" Will be given
In Aver opera hall this evening.
Miss Maudc coons Is visiting her
sisters in Franham. Quc-Mra. =. NJ
Barnes and sen. Duane, are visiting
relatives IN SWanton.-H. 4. Searlcs Of
n"s Moines, Iowa, is visiting his moth
er Mrs. NJ. \. Smith. at The homo or
his nephew. T.. r, Searles
a fire alarm was sounded Tuesday
morning for n fire in the residence Of
)r Q, :. Scofeld. The hose companies
promptly put out the blaze, but about
all the books, papers and apparatus I'm
the Doctors office were injured BY
water The fire caught around the
stovepipe in the Office and worked into
II partition and up toward the roof.
Some damage was done to other rooms.
An alarm of Are was sounded lust
before six o'clock Monday evening. hut
the blaze was only n nercoly burning
chimney in that portion OF the Union
block, sO-cal!ed. owned by =. W. Mitch
ell and occupied by Fred Martin and
y. Bates. No water was used.-Bennett
e. Douglass. principal Of the HYDE
Park high school, is at his home here
for the holidays.-At st. AIMS Epiaco-
pal Church. service viii be held Christ
mas eve at 1880 o'clock; holy commun-
ion and address Christmas morning n;
ten o'clock Friday evening there
viii be children's service at tho church.
followed by Christmas tree at rho
Leach studio. with Sunday school ex-
ercises and a Christmas cantata. The
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FRANKLIN COUNTY.
ENOSBURGH FALLS.

The following officers of tho
Noman's Relief Corps have been elected:
PRESIDENT Mrs. Nancy Hines vico-prcsi-
ooni' Mrs. Lucrct GLADDEN.; junior vice.
president. MS. Iurolla Judd secretary
ana treasurer Mrs Adelpha Simpkins;
chaplain. Mrs. Susan Larabce. con-
ductreSs. Mrs. Mary Beuulac guards.
Mrs. Harriet Blair, assistant conductross.
Mrs. Matilda Flcth; delegate TO cncamp-
mcnt. Mrs. Nettie Chamberln; alternate
Mrs. Harriet Blair
H. A. Sc1rls OF Dcs Mones Ia was
tie guest of Olin Merrill Saturday NIGHT,
going to Richford sunday with Mr.. Mor-
rill who went TO Boston ana New York
for fcw days-Mlss Joanna u. Croft
is al home from Maiden. Mass. for the
holidays VI. Z. Pcrlcy IS passing
few days in Burlinrton Carlton
Smith is Passing Il few days with his
brother in St. Albans.-Mrs. C. l.. Marsh
end granddaughter, Miss Ruth Draper.
were I'm Burlington Monday.-Nifss
Evelyn Stanton LETT Monday FOR Union
Village. whern she will pass the winter
at tn" Rev. W. T.. Nowton's- 'hfiyt,ta4
will be observed by all the churcl es
Tacre will be Christmas EXERCISES with
uces for the children OF the Rarti.t.
Methodist and Episcopal Churches. Tive
latter being in Forcstcrs hall M'duirht
mass will lie celebrated in ST John the
Baptist church with special mue'c ua-
der direction Of D. A. Rcuo.t The
schools have closed and the teachers
have gone ia their homes
The government thermometer in this
place registered 20 degrees bc!3w zero
Monday ni@ht ana contrary to prcd,c-
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WEST BERKSHIRE.

The Sunday school held social
at the parsonage Tuesday evening Mr.
and Mrs D. T.. weld. Mr. and Mrs w
NJ, Armstrong and daughter. Mary Jane
attended the funeral Of G.. a. Pratt at
Franklin. Thursday.-Mi Myrtle Mosier
who Is teaching school nj Brushton, y.
y, ~ visiting her parents.-Mlss Gladys
Dimond Is nj homo for two wccks'
=. ''''.. F''"' ;'"' .r! 20 80 hcster
go '-'" 1851 lc.. IT, 'G O. M1Y;-
pelcr Seminary are passing vacation
with their parents, tho Rev. and Mrs
O. l.. Rarnard.Officers elected by
Frontier Grange follow: Master, c. d.
Phelps; Overseer, A. NJ. Jennc: Lecturer.
II. x. Olmstcad steward, Phno n. Stan
ley. II; assistant steward r. J. Chaffcc:
chaplain, +. T. Thomas; treasurer. Miss
Miranda II. Ewins, secretary. Miss MINI
ME L. Hicks: gate keeper. A. A. I.add:
Cores, Mrs. Vera NJ. Chaffec: Pomona.
M'es Ruby NJ. Ladd, Flora. Miss Hazel
Jennc; l.. a s., Mrs. Jennie r. Phelps:
choristcr T.. II. Broe; organist, Miss
Gladys Dimond
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BAKERSFIELD.

Loren Potter Of Nntreal has moved
his family to Harry Eall's frrm.-Miss
Molly Heals Of ST. Adams Is spending
few days with her grandmother, Mira.
s. O. Tillotson.--Mra. Albert Ayers and
dauPhter irma. have moved 10 Enos-
burFh Falls. whore they will spend tho
inter.--Miss Frankie LalouX Of Rich
ford IL spending the holidays at home
AIes Lena Tllotson Ia spending her vaca-
tlon in I.owcll-Brigham Academy closed
Friday for q vacation of one week.
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IAM0IiE COUNTY.
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GEORGIA..

George Webster has purchased the
home farm of A.DE. Walker and VIII
move there March i, Nh. Walker will
make his home with his daughter The
Methodist Church will observe Christmas
this evening. After appropriate exercises
by the children. presents win be dis
trihutcd from II trcc,--Tho CONGREGATIONS,
Church win have a Christmas party at
the home Of the Rev, and Mrs. Clark
Eridov evening
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ESSEX CENTER.

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Walter WestCot December 10 and "a
daughter to Mr.. ana Mrs. Ezra Gates
December 20-Union Christmas excr-
cises will he hold IN the Congregation-
al Church Thursday eveninr--rhe
teachers In the village schools gave
Christmas exercises and a tree for
their pupils Wcdn csday afternoon
Mrs Hardy tlaulcy of the East part of
this town died Tuesday night She was
the daughter OF John Carroll of Jcri-
rho.
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HYDE PARK

Mrs. Y c. Page and sons are visitin,
In massachusetts. Tho l.. 9. a. close.
Friday for two weeks vacation.-Mis
Llah waite Of Franklin. Mass, is a
home for the holidays Miss Delta co.
Inns Of Montpelier Is spending the hol
days at Breezy Hlll-Gcorgo Crime
aged 95, son of Mrs. Ella Crimes, Glc
et Westhoro. Mass, Saturday. The fur
aral was hold Tuesday afternoon At the
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ST. ALBANS.

Charles =. Gray and Miss Emma La
due, both of this city were mari ed
Thursday evening at the Congregational
Church parsonage by tie Rev w
Tarkyn Jackson Miss Olive L. Darling
o. Boston acted as maid OF honor aud
Ralph Talcott Of Burlington as best man.
Following the ceremony dinner was
served at the home of Mrs NJ H. La
due. Mr.. and Mrs. Gray sailed Fri
day from Boston for a trip abroad.
The following officers Of Court Wcldon.
No 49, l. o. r.. have cen elected:
Chief ranger, Alfred Lnwton: vico-chicf
ranger, ]. I. Bocash court physician,
Tr. +. j. Melville; financial secretary,
john Lawton, treasurer, Dr. George o.
Mitchell; recording secretary, Charles ".
Moore.
Mrs. Mamie Ranncy, employed as Il
domestic in the family of Mr.. ard Mrs.
J. b. Foss was found dead I'm bed az
sirh O'Clock Sunday morning. Mrs.
apparently IN her uaua! health and spirits
Ranney, who was about 30 years old was
Saturday, and that night had come UP TO
the city to do some Christmas shopping
She returned home or the nine o'clock car
and soon after retired. Che was not
around at tho usual hour Sunday morning
ana finally Mrs. Fosa went to her room
and there found heY dead. Drs W. +.
Mason and Arthur Morton were called
and after making IN examination, de-
cided that the woman had died fron,
natural causes. heart failure. Mrs.
Ranney is survived by n daughter and
two brothers and two sisters.
Mrs. r. J. Crowley. Mrs. l. s. Bostwick.
Mrs. r.. s.. Hazard and Miss Ida NJ.
I-,u
Tor Florida, where they will pass the
winter
inc WORK Of clearing mp the ruins
81 'ne McSS'hg'E 'o'np"nNS plant
WIS p'Run Monday and viii go for
""'" as '"pIulF as circumstances per
hllt. Ihe ground floor, on which the
BUSINESS ohiccs are located. VIII be
temporarily repaired ana il is expect
Pa mat they may soon be occupied
and the work begun Of bringing or
Ger out or chaos. The building was a
handsoN~ and substantial structure
md as the walls and foundations
seem to be intact. the Interior can be
reconstructed as soon as the mater
ia is obtained. The general form Of
the structure will be retained uhvo
the interior ARRANGEMENTS will he
somewhat changed ia mako :, ~, ooa,
and up-to-dnte plant in ovor,, or
tcular. r. q Stur,o,,o,t
Swanton savs tbot IVA hoe 1,.,,
cate proof Of nil tbat mart -, t,o w.
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-12-24

Scwell Spauldne finished his worI, ot the
creamery December is and returned TO
Fletcher. He expects to have imployment
in about two wekes at the Georgia sta
ton Of the Central Vermont. Mr. and
Mrs Asa wilkins arc the parents of n
son born December 20.
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Rev. =. Barnby Leach will hold service
at Montgomery Saturday at 1000 q.
m.-Thc Baptist and Methodist sun
day schools Will each have n Christmas
tree in the church auditorium Thurs
day evening, with appropriate Christ
mas excrcises.-Noble Baker, who is
attending Vermont Academy, Saxtons
NiNCr. L. at hnmn for The hnlidnNv
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, TelC phone company for $4,000 The
defcnda:t has taken exceptions and
the case will be heard in supreme
court at the January term
| Liquor Is now being sold legally in st.
Adams for the arst time since May I.
when the city went dry. G. d. O'INary
was last night granted fifth class IL
, ccrsc following a hearing by the city
| council. Objections were made by the
Rcv 6. T. lcrtier. to tho granting OF an
| license; Mr. Forticr thought that the
city had got along pretty we'll for the
past eight months. and conditions were
not so serious but that we could get
along IN" balance OF the year. The coun-
Gil finally by a vote of three to one
granted the license; Mayor Atwood and
Alderman Roach were absent and prcsi-
dent y. !. Jarvis presided
The designations of George Derich rs
chief. c. w. Buchley as first aS-'~'...'
and r. H. Macarthur as second ST. ..tt
engineers of the first department were
received by IL" council but the board
adjourned before taking any action. It is
Understood that tho designations follow
ca the criticisms Of tho manner in whIeh
the Messenger fire Of last sunday. was
handled
The funeral of Arthur +. Place. the
central Vermont fireman Of this city.
who was run over and killed in the
New l.erdor conn" Yards Tuesday
c;cnirr, VIZ to h,,1 at St Luke's Epis-
copal Church this afternoon at 2:So
o'cioc!l st. Adams Acric. Fraternal Or
de- Of Eagles, Of which the deceased
was u mcnhcr, will attend the fufera,
in body.
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vice-conmander, s. l.. Ring; Junior vice.
| commander. Ernest Griswold. camp
council, A. G. Sulham A. n. st. Louis,
l. .. Andrews; delegate to state encamp-
ihent Dana Smith. Installation early in
January.
| rank and Samuel Thurston Of Ciroton
are visiting Mrs. Emma Allen.-Rena, the
| little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Is. l..
| Stewart, who has been seriously i'll With
| pne umonie, Is improving.-M' and Mrs.
| a. j. Bartlett have moved to the village
| and Mr. Bartlett Is employed at the feed
| store OF L. f. Harris e. Co.--Mr. and Mrs.
j. C. Slayton OF Boston are guests OF
| Mr.. and Mrs H. a. Slay-on.--Miss Edna
| Phalan has resigned as teacher in the
grammar school. Her successor has not
been appointed. -Rasco Sheldon, who has
| visited his grandmother. Mrs. =. II.
Patch. returned to Montpelier Saturday.
! Mr.. and Mrs. c. u. Palmer were In st.
Adams Saturday and in Mystic, =. O..
| where they remained over Sunday with
| his parents.--Mrs. Fred Goodrich went to
| Burlington Saturday to accompany home
| Mrs Walter Smith, who underwent an
| operation at the Mary Fletcher hospital
| about month ago.-Miss clara Bert
went to her homo in Belvidere Saturday
for an extended stay.-.Miss Nellie A.
watts. q teacher in lIaverhil. Mass,
is at home with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Chandler Watts.-Mrs Alvera
Spillor passed Saturday and Sunday in
Wolcott with her sister. Mrs Mary
Sfllor William Walker of West
Sumrncrville. Mass. returned home Satur-
day.-Orio +. Crowcll Is i'll with pneu-
monia. Miss Maud Chafree n teacher in
Bellows Free Academy and Martin
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HAPPENINGS IN VERMONT.
Continued from End Page)

Church will serve supper from $50 to
7:3O, December 30, al the church parlor
All are invited. A short program VIII be
given.
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JOHNSON.

Johnson Grange has elected officers
as follows; W. NJ. A. c. Well, overseor
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Store open This evening until
10 o'cIeck
The old Bee hive
You cant put off any longer
Come tO-day-cOme to the
Old Bee Hive

Don't forget it is the best store in town to do your
Christmas shopping.
We ready every minute to-day and this evening to
serve You rightly asSormcns complete nearly
urg-on other lots of gift things that during the
rush OF the last few days sold down few Of each
KIND We have Just put clearance prices 0n-many decidedly
pretty things be had to-day fraction of their former
prices.
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(Continucd ON page IT,
Douglas Island news., 1908-05-20
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed. Information for Everybody.

Katalla will have it's wireless. Cordova will be hitched on to the cable in July.
 Twenty hydraulic plants are work ing in the Klondike.
 A second rich creek has been discov, cred in the Koyukuk.
 At Whitehorse the river is five inches below normal.
 There are niue roadhouses between Fairbanks and Circle City.
 The Hudson's Bay Company is oper- atiug two steamers on the Skeena river.
 There is still chance that the Alaska Home Railroad will become a reality. Just think of what the 6Oth congress, lst session, has done for Alaska-one game law.
 The last horse stage of the winter route from Carcross arrived at Atlin on May 1st.
 The Hasey cese, recently tried at Juneau, is sai1 to have cost the gov ernment S30,OOO.
 Seattle capitalists are buying the property of the Ruby Creek Syndicate, in the Atlin district.
 Sub-contracts have been let for the first eleven miles of the railroad grade out from Prince Rupert.
 The spring cleanup is on in the Klondike, and it is said that the out put will be large one.
 The first canoe of the season left Telegraph creek for Wrangell on May 4th, with ten passengers.
 Eighteen dredges will be operated in the KIondike, Forty-MiIe and Stewart river districts this sea son,
 A fifteen thousand dollar light house will be built at Sledge Island, at the entrance to the harbor at Cordova,
 The fishermen in the neighborhood of Ketchikan, dissatisfied with the prices paid. are not catching many fish.
 Skagway had goat which was born in sitks, but the wind blew through bis whiskers, and he gave up the mas cot job.
 The June term of court at skagway will be postponed until July because there is not money enough in the sack to pay the witnesses.
 School board troubles at Valdez have resulted in the dismissal of the principal, Prof. Sweet, and one of the teachers, Miss Jennie Le Gendre. Per haps the professor had been too sweet on Miss Jennie.
Douglas Island news., 1908-05-20

l The senate judiciary committee has promised favorable action upon the bill to permit the hearings of appeals from the district courts of Alaska at Seattle and Portland as we'll as at San , Francisco. Formal action, however, will be deferred out of courtesy to Senators Flint and Perkins, of Cali fornia, who desire to present argu-
 ments against the bill.
 "That it shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation wan tonly to waste or destroy salmon or other food fishes taken or caught in any of the waters of Alaska" That is section 8, of the act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, approved June 26, 1906. But anyone who knows anything about fish-traps knows that it Is simply huge joke.
 Carrying the mails in the far North is most dangerous business. The report comes from Cape Prince of Wales, that a Diomede native started from the island January 21, with gov ernment reports and mail, but never put in appearance at the Cape. The supposition is that misstep on the floating ice or change in the current probably carried him to an Icy death.
 The following story is so remarkable that many will refuse to believe it, even if 1t does come from British Col um bia:Charles Bills shepherd of Kere- meos, while herding sheep on mount ain slope few days ago, encountered big bear, which immediately made for the woods on seeing the man, who was accompanied by dog belonging to Joseph Armstrong. The dog gave chase, catching up with bruin just as she was beginning to climb tree. Gripping the bear firmly by the haunch the dog was carried foot by foot up the tree until he hung dangling seven ty-fve feet above the ground. Anx- ious to save the dogs life, which he valued highly, Bills decided to take desperate chance. Taking careful aim he placed bullet where 1t would in- jure without killing the bear. After repeating the experiment few times, bruin commenced to descend from the elevated perch. As the big animal reached the ground we'll placed shot dispatched 1t, whereupon the dog re- leased his hold and commenced to pick bear hair out of his teeth.
 Now that there is resumption of mining development and operations throughout the district, says the Ket- chikan Miner, it Is to be sincerely hoped that the history of mine man. agement which has been the rule rather than the exception during the past years, may not, in any single in- stance, be repeated. It is much to be desired that there shall be no more erection of expensive mills or smelters, in advance of mine development, nor yet of large expenditures for surface improvements on like principle--no extravagant burrowing of tunnels in the mountains in advance of surveys made by competent engineers, nor yet the direction of mining operations through long distance, by men wholly ignorant of mining affairs, through divided and pickering local management, to which is directly traceable the failures and suspensions which follow.
Douglas Island news., 1908-05-20

Judge John c. Held, of Juneau, who was engaged by the city council of Skagway to give an opinion as to whether or not the city could legally effect the purchase of the water works, has decided that under the law govern ing, the purchase cannot be made.
 Wm. Hoskins and Dan Murphy be. came involved in a dispute over a game of cards in Skagway saloon. They went to the back yard to settle it and from there Hoskins was taken to the hospital with a knife wound near his heart and Murphy went to jail.
 Except for an iee-jam at Five Fingers the river is believed to be open all the way from Lower Lebarge to Dawson, says the Whitehorse Star. The water, however, is too low for even scow navigation, and up to yesterday evening there had been no rise of the water.
 Skagway was thrown into a frenzy of excitement one day recently by the antics of Texas steer, running loose in the streets. Citizens were driven from the public places and even the ladies were forced to lay aside their dignity and vault fences regardless of appearances.
 The first steamer to sail for Nome this season, the Corwin, left Seattle on the 10th, inst, with full passenger list, 150 tons of coal and 150 tons of gen. eral freight, the latter made up chiefly of fruits and vegetables and fresh eggs, for which there is lively de- mand in the Northern city.
 Harry J. Landall, of Dawson, repre- senting the Arctic Brotherhood and the Dawson Board of Trade, has gone to Washington to present an invita- ton to Roosevelt to visit the Klon- dike after the Seattle exposition. The invitation is engraved on moose skin covered with gold nuggets.
 Major Wilds P. Richardson, who has been boiling the rheumatism out of his bones down at the Arkansas hot springs, is sufficiently improved to be ordered back to Alaska. The Major will find that the Alaska hot springs will do the business just as we'll, and he can patronize home industry. \
 A. J. Stone, an Alaska minin g man, looks for big rush into the Mount Mckinley district this season and says there will be extensive prospect work on a number of streams where placer gold was discovered last sum- mer. "I believe the Mount Mckinley country will be great district" said Mir. Stone, "and look for some good strikes in that section this summer. 1 was in that district last year and some good pay was found. There is both hydraulic and dredge ground that shows up we'll, and when machinery is installed it will soon be heard from as one of the gold producing camps of Alaska. Some good quartz strikes have also been made in the Mount Mo- Kinley country and all the district needs to become one of the best min ing camps of Alaska is development. It will take capital to develop the quartz mines, but the gold is there and the mines will be opened as soon as mining men become acquainted with the nature and extent of the gold deposits"