Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-07-21

Sunday.
r. n. Vail of Lyndon has bought
| $500 acres of timber land i'm Groton
of the Cast estate. The purchase in
cludcs Darling's pond. the best stocked
| trout preserve in the state. Young
timber will be developed along the
latest lines of scientific forestry.
An error In the published dates for pub-
| lie service commission hearings made If
appear that that body was to sit on Sun
day. July %. The correct dates scheduled
for hearings are as follows: July 20 at
Randolph; July q. o Il. IN. at Charlotte, 2
| y. m, at Burlington.
dozen Gases of diphthcria in st
Johnsbury have been traced to the
milk from three cows in the Fair
banks creamery and the creamery has
been temporarily closed. All the cases
were light and no new ones have been
reported for nearly a week
Gov. c. II. Prouty says that If there
is any way In which it can be legally
brought about the films OF the recent
Iohnson-Jefrries prize fight will not be
| shown within the borders OF Vermont. He
authority he has in the matter.
The board of trustees OF Troy Confer
cnce Academy have decided to give the
Rev. c. T.. Leonard, president OF the
board, his entire time for raising n fund
to build boys dormi:ory. Mr. Leon
ard has resigned as pastor of the first
Methodist Church at Saratoga Springs,
\. Y. and will begin work ut once
\ suspicious looking character Civ
ing the name of Austin was arrested
in the woods beside a Danville road
Monday morning. lie was armed
with a revolver, an axe and other
weapons and had been threatening to
kin people. He declined to talk and
was locked up
Henry c. ldc United states minister
TO Madrid. Spain. expects to visit st.
Johnsbury this fall. Ills daughter
Marjorie, has just let Spain for Paris
where she will meet her sister. Mrs.
w. Bourke Cochran. Mr.. Ide will join
the party later for motor trip
through England or Germany
james Hayes. 60 years old a trustees of
Bennington village, dropped dead Friday
night In a hallway leading to the trustees
room in the Richie building just after
the adjournment of a meeting Of that
body. He has been superintendent of
the needle manufacturing department of
tho Cooper Underwear Manufacturing
company for Is years.
A tobacco bag containing $50 in bills
and $40 worth of diamonds Is the loss
sustained by s l.. Huhbell of New York.
who is stopping in Rutland. lie thinks
he lost his valua bles on the street last
Thursday The bag contained "A so bill
four $50 bills and two SO bills diamond
ring valued at 500 and u diamond stud
worth $3.50.
\ gift of 5000 to the Rutland hospital
association from Nahum L. Kingsley in
memory Of his late wife, Mrs. Adelaide H.
Kingsley. to be applied to the erection
and equipment of new operating room.
was announced Friday. This is the third
in series of gifts by Mr.. Kingsley, 5000
having been given to the old ladies' home
and 500 10 the hospital association.
Mary Conroy. Administrative of the es-
| tate of John Conroy of Wells. has brought
| suit in Rutland county court against Mel
| son Brothers & Marrow, Pawlet slate
dealers, to recover $4,000 on the ground
| that her husbands death last April was
due to the firms negligence Conroy was
killed by a falling rock while at work
In quarry.
A patent on safety rubbish burner
| has been granted TO w. NJ. jackson of
Middlebury. The burner Is constructed
| on the principle OF miners safety lamp
and the first one was made for the Village
| Improvement society. The inventor eX
poets to soon begin the manufacture of
! the article on a larger scale.
| While padding ON Lake Bomoseen IN
| a canoe Wednesday July Is Mrs. II. l..
| Judgens and George Shutz, summer
visitors from New York. were spilled into
| Is feet Of water about % feet from shore
| The craft did not sink and they chung to
it until help arrived. 1t Is understood
| that the young man stood up in the boat.
causing 1t 10 overturn.
Admiral and Mrs. George Dewey of
Washington, ID. C.. are guests of Wood
stock Inn. This is the admirals first visit
| to Vermont since his tour immedi ately
following his return from the Philippines
at the close of the Spanish American War
Admiral and Mrs Dewey spend consider
able time in driving and walking,
mingling freely with tho other guests of
the inn.
A compound fracture OF the large bone
between the ankle and knee was sus-
tanned Friday by Joseph Barrett, a Rut-
land teamster. He had Just finished I'M
| loading II consignment of goods and was
picking up the reins when the horse began
to kick. The animal caught ono Of the
reins under his tail. and. being of n
nervous disposition kicked over the dash
board. striking Mr.. Barrett in the shin.
Falls Camp Meeting association will be
held at their grounds in Johnson August
~ to August q. The Rev. l. r. johnson
will have charge and he will be assisted
by the Revs b. s. Taylor of Mooers, n.
y, A. Il. Albright, wife and daugh-
ter, Ethel, of Carrolton, ohio, L. Il.
Ericsson Of Pittsburg, Pa. O. l.. Barnard,
A. II. Sturgis, F.. Mcneil, G. H. Lock and
Deacon G. NJ. Morse OF Putnam Conn.
Threatened with death If they made an
other trip on the patrol train of tho Della
ware ~ Hudson railroad between Rutland
and Whitehall. n. y. the gang which has
been doing the repair work since the
strike OF the section men has refused to
go out of Fair Haven, where they are
living In cars. Before the threat was
made the train was manned by a laborers
Policy. tho train makes Its daily trips
with but two men to do the work.
A meeting of the socialists of Barre