Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-05-27
VERMONT NOTES

inches of new snow and many drifts.
Rutland county court adjourned Thurs
day morning after being In session since
March 8. seventy-nine days.
The annual reunion OF the 18th YER
mont regiment will be held at G. A. r.
hall, ST. Johnsbury, Tuesday, June I.
The transferring Of Is prisoners from
franklin. Bennington. Windsor and Gale
duna county jails to the House of Cor
rcction at Rutland has enabled the mar
Bile shops to continue with an augmented
force.
William Thompson Of RyeRate has been
appointed supervisor OF highways In
Caledonia county vice Capt. George q.
Ford Of Kirby. deceased. Mr.. 7homp-
son has been road commissioner of his
town for nine years.
The BODY of George Trombly, who was
drowned in the Passumps!c river at St.
Johnsbury May T. was recovered Saturday
morning. George Hall. uncle of the boy.
saw the body floating about a quarter OF
a mile below where he fell in.
The Whitehall. y. ". society band was
not permitted to give concert at the
Rutland opera house Sunday afternoon
as advertised. The chief of police was
instructed to say no by telephone to the
manager of the band.
Fifteen-year-old Philip L. Dutelle OF
Pittsford Is dead as the result Of being
hit on one knee with base ball Blood
poisoning followed an abscess and an
operation was performed in vain
eudaaVOr save the lads life.
The Hon. Gilbert A. Oavis of Windsor
will give dim" to members Of the
Windsor county bar and others Tuesday
evening. June |. It the Woodstock Inn
in Woodstock to celebrate the 50th ami
versary of his admission to the bar.
The Abraham Cut Rate Drug company
of Rutland. with a capital stock of SlO,V 600.
formed for the purpose Of doing & general
drug business in Rutland. filed Mon
day articles OF Incorporation in the Of
flee of the secretary OF state at Mont
pelier.
Gov. George n. Prouty has under con-
sderation the application for a pardon
for Vernon Rogers OF Cabot. who six
years ago was sentenced from Washing
ton county court to not less than eight
years at hard labor In the state prison
at Windsor.
The Bellows Falls Canal company has
sold the Windham Hotel to l.. G.. Howard
of Reading. Mass, for price said to be
in the neighborhood Of $j0.onO The Wind
ham is the leading hotel in Bellows Falls
and was in former years known as
Towns.
creamery butter sells there for at least
four cents above Boston quotations. The
retail price in Montpelier is AZ cents the
pound wholesale price 20 cents. The
Poston Chamber Of Commerce figures
ere Is l-2 cents.
George Barnes was painfully injured
Wednesday, May 10 In the shops Of the
Lane Manufacturing company AT Mont
pelier by a ladle OF melted ore. which
he was carrying. being upset and a por-
ton Of the molten mass running into
one Of his shoes
vested boys choir has been organized
at the Cniversalist Church in Norris
Vile. A secret society. Of which the
choir is TO be a part, Is TO be formed and
AL boys under II years OF age are to be
eligible. However. no lads from other
Sunday schools may Join.
Over 100 employees OF the Norcross &
West marble mill at Manchester have
been on strike for a nine-hour-day with
10 hours pay The counter proposition Of
the company was to give nine hours pay
for a nine-hour-day. Most OF the men
declined this at first but several have
since accepted 1t and resumed work.
All the laws in the public statutes bear
ing upon tho operation OF automobiles
are being printed in pamphlet form by
Secretary of State Bailey and will be
sent to those interested. Apple cation
blanks are also being sent out by the
secretary ms a gentle reminder to many
automobile owners in the State that their
licences have not been paid.
The State board Of examiners in
optometry will hold examinations in
Montpelier June 10 and Is. Application
blanks can be had by applying to A. s.
Haskns Of St. Johnsbury. the secretary.
The law passed by the Legislature OF 1903
bars from practice opticians who are not
able to pass an examination in this
science
As the health officer. DIR. c. b. Ross Of
West Rutland. who examined the body
gave the cause OF death as accidental
drowning 1t has been deemed unnecessary
to hold an autopsy in the case OF Otto
Sandstrom, who was found lifeless in a
shallow pool Of water Friday morning
May "A. An undertaken reported that
he found no water In the lungs.
General Manager C. S. Sims Of the
Delaware & Hudson railroad says that
his company is not contemplating the
proposition to have the Rutland Rail-
way. Light & Power company take over
its passenger traffic In Vermont and cleo
trify the lines from Castleton to EARLE
E,idge and from Fair Haven to White
hall. n. Y. Trafiic does not warrant the
change
The contract for the federal building
ct Barre has been awarded to W. H.
Fissell OF New York Mt 35i. 500. Fissell
was the only one OF the four lowest bid
ders to put in a bid on Barre granite
beside one on sandstone. The committee
which visited Washington in the inter
csts Of the home product is OF the opin-
| ion that the matter OF the material has
not been definitely settled.
| When George II. Bickford of Hardwick
| and automobile became stalled in the
mud near the government farm at Wey-
| IN ,dge Tuesday evening. Col. Joseph Bat
toll Of Middlebury kindly consented,
baner few minutes consideration, to
| allow team OF his horses to pull the