Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-11-04

A meeting of the street commissioners
was held Saturday afternoon In the
! office of the city clerk. when the mat
ter of assessing the curbing on North
avenue between Battery place and Lake
| View cemetery. was taken up The as
| sesement was A. cents "a foot. There
| were no objections to the price, but one
| or two objections were made as to grad
| ing.
Belle Hail a young girl 16 years
| of age was arrested Tuesday after
| noon. charged with petit larceny. 1t
is alleged that the girl stole "a and
! n dress from a Mrs. Laroe Miss Hall
was taken before Justice Stearns and
I the case was continued until to-
| day, she being relees ed on her own
recorniaance. Miss Hall lives at Of
Pearl street with her mother.
| Since the new tariff law on lumber
went into effect, IS boat loads nave
arrived IN port for local dealers. There
arc now two pin flats and one canal
boat laden with lumber in port for
| the Shepard & Morse company. Ten
or 10 more boat loads are expected
in port before The season closes. Two
years ago 30 boat loads arrived dur.
ing November.
| A long string OF prisoners were
| marched Tuesday noon from the Jail
! to the railroad station. where they
were shipped to Rutland TO serve the
remainder OF their sentences In the
House Of Correction. They were Ed
ward Martclle. Michael Joyce Michael
| RI
David Ploof. Alfred Rrace and Ger
trude LeMay.
The odd Fellows Of district No. 3. COM
prising the lodges OF Burlington, Middle
bury, Bristol. Nergennes and Richmond,
| will hold their annual meeting in this
city Friday evening November .. in odd
! Fellows hail. A banquet will he given at
six O'Clock and the meeting will be called
TO order at 7:3O o'clock Samaritan Lodge
of Richmond will exemplfy the third de
gree. Grand lodge officers will be present
and all odd Fellows are cordially invited.
Arthur Lockln Of this city, formerly Of
Mortified Falls, wishes to state that Mrs.
Laura Lockln, who died in the Mont
pelier jail on Sunday night. was divorced
from him seven years ago, and six
whose present whereabouts are unknown.
| Although the woman called herself Mrs.
Lockln her legal name was Foster. Mr..
| Locklm feels under no obligation to as
sumo the expense of her burial and wishes
to make his position In the matter plain.
The case Of the United States Of Amer
lea for the use and benefit of Strait &
CO. We. the United States Fidelity 4
Guaranty co.. was begun Thursday in
Chittenden county court. The case was
first entered and docketed June 4, 1915. The
action is one of aasunpsit to recover for
lumber furnished the Deniston company
which went into bankruptcy while erect
ing structures at Fort Ethan Allen. A
companion case for the benefit Of the
Elias Lyman Coal company is now in the
supreme court.
Theodore Buck was arrested Monday
morning. charged with iutoXication. when
he stated that he wasn't drunk and
wouldn't plead guilty if taken into 1o[
courts. In city court Theodore promptly
pleaded guilty to second offense and was
fined SIS and costs of s5S9. with the
| alternative sentence of G6 days in Jail
| Things came Theodores way. though. He
thereupon took the pledge TO that effect.
The fine was suspended for one year and
Suck, after paying costs. departed In
glee.
| The fire department was called out
Tuesday morning about seven o'clock
for fire at 80 Battery street in q
house owned by NJ, =. Rosenberg The
blaze was extinguishcd with Sigh;
damage to the house but the furni-
ture In the room where the nre
caught was almost total loss. The
fire was caused by small child, who
when playing with matches. ignited
some lace curtains. The room was
instantly in a blaze The furniture
was not insured.
During october 81 cases were tried
in city court. The sum o. sS97lo was
assessed in fines and costs and many
cases We're disposed of by straight
sentences or were mol pressed The
Respondents numbered 46 males and +
females. The cases were as follows:
Intoxlcation. 20, violation of hack or
dinance 4: viola ton OF Sunday law,
IL, breach of the peace. 2; support
of family, 3 immoral conduct, 6;
keeping disorderlv house /: vlolat-
ing tramp law. Q; trespass on orchard,
!; violating liquor law. l.
| Kate Hathaway, who was recently ar
ralgned In city court for a fourth olfcnse
of intoxication. when sentence was with
held was taken into court Thursday to
receive sentence. She was fined SIG ana
costs with the alternative sentence of IG2
days in Jail Kate, however, has prom
Used TO be good in the future in fact she
has promised never TO drink intoxicating
liquor again. For this reason she was
placed in the hands Of the probation OIL
Ger This was not Rates fourth Offense
for intoxication, no ind sed 1t was near
er the 10Th o, 18th. TO find out the exact
number would cause Il long search
| through the city court records,
A bitter contest over the location Of
tho county seat in Essex county, New
| York. came to an end Tuesday. when
the voters of that county declared that
II should remain at ElizabethtOwn Port
Henry nut up strong argument for a
| change. on the ground that Elizabethtown
was nine miles from the railroad and
that tho money which would be require ed
IN nut the old county buildings IN shape
would 20 n long ways towards erecting
| neu and modern buildings at Port Henry.
Elizabethtown people answered the arg,i-
ments by promising a railroad from
Westport and declaring that the build
ings could he repaired for a moderat to
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