Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-02-18
VERMONT NOTES.

MIR. and Mrs James $. Wilson Of
Worcester celebrated the 50th anniversary
of their marriage Friday.
Health officer II. L. stIilson reports
e cases OF chckenpox In bennington.
The disease is more prevalent there
than usual this year.
Tho annual convention of the YER
mont Rural Delivery Mail Carriers as
ISOLATION will be held at the Bardweil
House in Rutland February %.
Ex-Gov. Fletcher d. Proctor and family
of Proctor February 10. for California
they will stop at Chicago and be absent
from Vermont about Il month
Farmers find a ready sale for their
green four-foot wood in chester at prices
. ranging from $S75 to $500 the cord de-
livcred.
The Dog River Valley Fair association
has decided to hold it's 9th annual fair
in Northnold September a. 10 and H.
Purses acgrcyating 1850 are offered for
acing tho second and third days.
James T. johnson, for six years STU
pervisor of bridges aud buildings for the
Y %. ID railroad. died saturday after
noon at the Rutland city hospital follow
ing a brief illness.
Lunbcrmcn are rushing business in
Windham county The roads are good and
with snow 10 inches deep on the level and
no drifts It Is 81 soft proposition getting
in and out OF the woods
Mrs r. f. Estev % Tyson has an an
dependent hen that lays eggs Weighing
something over n quarter Of pound.
IIcr best work ls one which measures 6Aa
by "a. inches she IS . Rhode Island
red.
vermont stations on the Boston &
Maine railroad are to he known here after
thus. North The'ford rs Northbcro:
Barton Landing as orleans, South Barton
as Willoughbv. Ryegate as East Rye
gate. East Barnet as Inwood ST, Johns
| bury Center as Centervale.
The new catalogue 90 Middlebury Col
lege onnourccs that the M three-term
plan f. to I've abandoned and that the
semester or hale-ycar system will be fol-
/ lowed IN the future Tho number of
] courses offered to students will be In
, creased one-fourth.
Miss Priscilla Plaisted Of East Barre,
said to he q preposscssinr girl of IS. has
been sentenced TO from 20 TO so days IN
county fail She pleaded guilty Saturday
to the larceny Of SO from Mrs. Asenath
Kennedy with whom she had heen stop
/ ping In Barre.
one pair Of lStp-pouud horses tusged a
birch tree which scaled 1,is-i feet from l.
! Z. Curriers' mountain into the Mill yard
at Islard Pond. Twelve feet Of the butt
Of this plump tree scaled 10 feet In
| cdentally credit IA due W s. Currier
who drove the champng steeds.
Work will be begun within two weeks
nj Brattleboro widening and converting
tho deck bridge across West river into
a through bridge. The bridge now sup
ports the tracks Of the Boston & Maine
railroad and the change IN its CONSTITUTE
ton is rendered necessary by higher wa
ter caused by the big dam at Vernon,
six miles south Of Brattleboro.
Mrs Add!e Crossman. the Shrews-
bury lady who has been bound over to
the March term OF Rutland county cour.
charged with aseaultinE the overseer of
the poor Is the mother Of - children,
10 Of whom are living without moth
er's care as Mrs. Crossiaan remains IN
ian unable to secure 500 bail.
Thursday afternoon IN West RrookHeld
two dogs we're seen chasing doc and
badly hitting the animal. Fred FLINT
with his trusty rife fatally wounded one
dog and badly shot up the other. or
closed Investigation If his game, Mr.
Flint found hc had banged two valuable
hunting dogs belonging II Clarence