Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-07-28

when the car was bound for Essex a
thuggish looking fellow boarded the car
on North Wincoski avenue. He didn't
want to pay his fare and McGettrick re-
monstrated. The stranger then hit the
conductor and McGettrick retaliated with
stiff punch to the Jaw. The thug then
drew a knife jumped from the car and
disappeared.
Sidney f. Bowes. the is years old boy
who raised a rumpus at Queen City Park
Thursday evening, was arraigned before
Justice Stearns on Saturday and sentenced
to serve the remainder Of his minority in
the industrial school at Vergennes The
boy pleaded guilty. Bowes was EMPLOYED
at the park hotel and after being elected
from the dance hall for sufficient reasons
threatened to burn the hotel and to Kill
several people. He did not reach a nor
NAL state till Sheriff Allen took him to
Jail.
On Saturday In city court William BOYD
pleaded guilty to a first offense of intoxi-
cation ana was sentenced to pay fine
of 50 and costs of sl0.23. Not having any
money, he Will serve the alternative SEN
tence Of ten days IN jail. w. p. Hay
ward pleaded not guilty to being drunk
but said that he was willing to plead
guilty to breach OF the peace As a
witness In the intoxication case was alb
sent he was arraigned on the latter
charge and fined IS and costs of s1.7s,
which he paid.
H. n. Bosnia, senior student in the
University of Vermont. has been adj
mitted by superintendent and commits
sioners as temporary inferno in the hos
ptal for the insane at Dunning a suburb
of Chicago. The Cook County institu-
tons lodge at the present over 5000
patients, all sent there by the city of
Chicago. The insane asylum alone re.
ceives every week from % to As mentally
deranged people. Mr.. Bosnia has to
assist in the examination Of these
patients.
Mrs. Delphina Bassett of 237 Main street
celebrated the sSth anniversary Of her
birthday Sunday in the house where she
was born and in which she has lived dur
ing her entire life. The old lady observed
the day quietly, receiving the congratu-
lations Of number of old friends. and
talking over old days with them. Mrs
Mrs. Charles Parady. who owned a large
stretch of land In the vicinity of her
home. Her father was the proprieto or Of on a
of the first blacksmith shops in Burlington
and sold piece of his land for the rail-
road which ran through the center of the
town. Mrs. Bassctt remembers as a
little girl a large grove of butternut trees
which stood on the present site Of the
Jail and city market and when there were
few buildings on Main street with the OK
ception of cider mill further UP the
street. The house IN which she has spent
her life was built In 1916
Mr. and Mrs Andrew McGaffey were
kept busy yesterday receiving the con-
gratulatons of large number Of their
friends, the occasion being the 5Sth ami
has passed tho Send year of his life and
Mrs McGaffcy her 18th. Both are in
excellent health. however, and Mr.. Nc
Gaffey continues to spend each day at his
store on Main street Mr. and Mrs. Nc
Gaffey We're married in Stowe and came
to this city at the close of the Civil War,
Of which Mr., McGaffey is veteran. hav-
ing served with the 18th Illinois regiment.
For the past As years he has conducted
harness store, at first under the old
American House. then on Church street,
later In the Leavenworth block on College
street and In the Mead block at the corner
of Church and Main streets. For the past
ten years or more he has occupied quarters
in the Hayward block on Main street
Mr.. and Mrs. McGaffey have four children
living. They are Charles G., Mrs Ella
Hodges, and Mrs. Lottie van Steinberg Of
this city and E. O. McGaffey of Buffalo,
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