Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-09-09
MONTPELIER.


week to see his hrother-n-aw who is
ILL.,
MONTPELIER.
The city council has decided to offer
1880 to the owners Of the land and
buildings on the proposed site Of the new
school house on LOOMS street as follows:
l.. II. Bixhy. $50: Lane Manufacturing
company, $685.: =. =. Pitl5in's estate,
she65 The owners asked total of So
500 for this property.
The Central Vermont Railway COM
pany Thursday settled out of court for
81 100 the suit brought against the com
pany by Peter EIendrickson of Barre
who was injured in the Barre railroad
yards December 4. 1907. while cutting
stone. by being run into and knocked
down by shifting engine
Miss Louise NJ Gridley Of Waterloo. y
Y. has been chosen by the board OF
school commissioners to have charge of
the kindergarten department in the pub
lie schools during the ensuing year in
place OF Miss Lucia Iladley. resigned.
The Cory Deavitt Frost company
closed the contract Friday with D.
w. Cooley of Waterbury for building
an additional dam about 1000 feet
above the present plant at Knney's
mills In East Montpelier. The cost
will be nearly ss5 900 and when 1t IS
completed, in addition to furnishing
power for running the electric cars
between Montpelier and Barre, the
company will run q pole line TO the
Barre quarries as it has Just closed
q contract for five years to furnish
electricity for the Wctmorc e. Morse
Quarrios at Granitcville. Tie con-
tract calls for the completion of the
new dam by December /, 1909. 1t
will be $50. feet long, 1919 feet high
with fall of 30 feet and will have
a capacity of about 1000 horse pow
cr. thus nearly doubling the capacity
Of the present plant
For an hour FRIDAY noon Mont
pclier entertained an italian baroness
In the person of Maude Branca Of
Florence italy. who is travelling with
Mrs. y. II. BlodGott of New York,
whose guest she is while IN the Uni
ted states baroness f}rarca and Mrs
Blodcett came FROM Burlington Friday
morning and left for the White
Mountains IN the afternoon
Harriet G. Wilton and Ira NJ. Carr
both Of this city, were married Thurs
day, Sept. .. by the Rev. DR.. J Ed
ward Wright at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. NJ Nichols on Bailey avenue.
They went Mt once TO their home on
First avenue.
Solomon Lapoint, who stole dress
suit case at Northnold Thursday
evening and was arrested at Water
bury was committed to Washington
county Jail Friday to serve an
alternative sentence for Ilne Of s15
and costs.
A son was bonn Friday to Mr. and Mrs.
p, Tomast.
While in town Saturday. Judge u. s.
Stanton Of the superior court. who pre-
sided at the last March term Of Wash
inaton county court. issued orders for all
mony In divorce cases rs follows: Car
RE l. Crowley vs. Patrick Crowley
the lihelee to pay $50 to the libel
ant for expenses Of trial and $3.50 per
week commencing September 6; Clara NJ
Irish vs.. Henry A. Irish. the libelee to
pay s25 for expenses of litigation to Octo-
Der |; Lonora Slayton We. Jerry l.. Stay
ton. libeee to pay $3.50 per week for
support of herself and child and SIS for
expenses OF litigation.
The Barre g. Montpelier electric rail-
way commenced Saturday laying a side
track opposite Dewey Park for the pur-
pose OF reaching n gravel bank near that
point, The side track will also be used
for storing special cars when there Is
anything doing at the park.
In this city this summer. died saturday
Mt Holyoke. Mass, of cancer Of the stom-
nch, His widow was formerly Miss
Lydia I@violette of this city.
The Vermont Telephone 6 telegraph
company has contracted with \, y, CO.
veil OF the Orange County Telephone
company to do its switching in Barre
among the Orange county subscribers
VINO also have New England telephones.
Henry A. Bowers. better known as
Keenan, who was released from Wash
,nston county Jail Thursday after having
served an alternative sentence IN an in
toN'cat'on case, was sent back there
Monday from city court ia servo anothar
M DAYS for similar offense. He was
arrested Saturday evening ana tn oi,.
court Judge Harvey gave him tho l,p,i, a
fine of Sl5 and costs and nm oddi,ioro, %
days I'm Jail Since MontpeNer CITY count
was established in 1895 Mr.. Bowers has
been convicted 40 times for intoxicatiop
and since he was II years old has snert
the greater part of his life in inu or +,
the House Of Correction at Rutland he
cause of an appetite for Intoxicating lo-
uor which he Is entirely unable to con.
troll. The city court has no jurisdiction
70 send such man to the state hospitoI
for tie insane AT Waterbury,. The pro-
bate court could issue such an order but