Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-06-09


| is serving in the phiippines
Miss Ethel Drew has been appointed a
special assistant In the Converse school
and Miss Blanche Partridge assistant
| kindergarten teacher in the Lawrence
Barnes school to take the place left vacant
by Miss Lucy Mckillp, who will go to
Boston to take course in kndergarten
| te..ching.
A. ]. Robinson Of Rochester left Bethel
on May = lor minnesota. where he plowed.
fitted and sowed to flax $50 acres arriv-
ing back at Bethel on May %. Mr.. Kob-
! inson ploughed 20 acres a day. using a
gasoline engine, and the people there
ahouts think that he Travelled pretty
fast.
A bronze tablet bearing the names
OF 20 Revolutionary soldiers who are
buried in Middictown Springs was un-
yelled in that town Sunday afternoon
inc tablet was presented by Mckinley
Chaptcr ID. y. r. Tho dedicatory ad-
dress was delivered by the Rev. J. c.
1Iaigh.
Nilfred Larson, machine runner
in the Vermont Marble compnny's
quarries at Whipple Hollow. was in
jured In a peculiar manner last week.
As he was leaving the quarry he pick-
ed up what he supposed was a stick
of wood. lie raped it on rock and
1t exploded, badly decorating his hand
The publishers Of writings of Mrs. Julia
{. X, Dorr, which went to print nearly
40 years ago, have recently forwarded to
q 81. e.,
her on that account and for the metal
used In plates of that publication. Mrs.
Dorr was greatly surprised as she sup
posed that the matter had been closed
many years aso.
Mrs. Rose Aiken of Goshen was arrest
ed Saturday by Deputy L. s. Marshal r.
). Whitaker Of Rutland on grand
jury capias as tho outcome of federal
grand jury indictment found at the MAY
term. She IS charged with violating the
pension laws by making misreprcscnta-
tions to the government. She is under
bonds of 500 to appear before federal
court when wanted.
Following the action Of tho Brattle-
boro board of bailiffs placing the ban
on a powder celebration of the Fourth
lof July the boys of that town with the
assistance of the board of trade have
mapped ont a program FOR the day
which includes Il monster street parade
led by the Roy. Il. II. Houghton of the
congregational Church on horseback. a
base bali game and field sports
Twelve milk producers in the vicin-
ity of Mount Holly have brought suit
h,a moi.
claiming that they have not received
pay for milk supplied during the month
of April. and an attachment has been
placed on the cheese factory, ice house
and other property of the contractors
at Mount Holly. It IS said that the
amounts sued for total about 81 900.
Some of the brides relatives have
made an effort to have annulled the
marriage Of Frank Ie-rtaw. aged 40.
and Mrs. Linda Not~Aon. aged IS.
which occurred in Barre May 81
An attorney whom they interview ed
was unwilling to take the case, how
ever. Mr.. Yeartaw declares that the
wedding was not n hasty affair, as he
has known his aged bride for 80 years.
In hilly pasture in the northwest part
OF South Hero is an old family cemetery.
where lie the romans of some Of the
early settlers in that section But two
Of tho slate headstones now bear legible
inscriptions. They mark the last resting
places Of William Campbell, who died
Jan. II, l7ts, aged Il years and his wife.
Sarah, who died IN 1905 at the ago Of II.
The Campbell family many years ago
left the islands and located in the West.
President c. H. Spooner is In BOSTON
with sketches of the now arnlory planned
for Norwich, II $500 can be rn.scd The
building viii contain riding hall 2l0x
100 feet. drill hall of the same dmen-
SONS an artillery shed 40Xl00 feet and n
central building 60xi16 feet in size. All
OF these quarters will be under one roof.
the entire structure being 40 feet long.
10 feet wide at the ends and l16 feet wide
at the center, II is planned 10 locate the
, building near the parade grounds.
Trainmen and conductors on tho
Rutland railroad are to receive AN in
crease in pay. according to a statemen,
made by one of the interested parties
For several weeks conferences between
the officials ana employees have been
held without apparent result The
liar to that some time ago granted the
engineers and firemen but how great
concessions have been made is not
known.
number of witnesses of the fataI
lnutomobile accident ut Bennington last
week have been subpoenaed by
states Attorney W. J. Meagher and
they will appear at q hearing before
the public Service commission as soor
as some Of the injured members Of the
party are able to testify. Souvenir
hunters have stripped the wrecked
automohlle Of every piece of metal not
. too heavy for ono person to carry.
The oversight OF a plumber in failnG
to plug steam pipe caused all sorts OF
trouble at tho Hardwell House IN Rut
land Friday night. The room whore Il
happened is used by the Boston Dutterint
company for storage purposes and wher
temperature of the butterine room SCARED
TO an uncalcuated height Paint was
blistered, labels melted and about an incl
OF water poured on tho floor from tn,
omen pipe. All this calamity was dis
covered when the room was opened sat
urday morning.
Tho Rev. IIoratio c. Mann of Han
, over, Mass recent graduate of Tufts
College divinity school, has accepted q
call to the pastorate OF the Univer-
salist Church at Barnard. This is the
second oldest church Of tho denomi-
, nation in the United States and tho