Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-01-12
VERMONT NOTES

the situation there.
Speakers at the teachers convention
at Bellows Falls the last of this week
will include Superintendent Payson Smith
Of Augusta. Me-. and President THOMAS
Of Middlebury.
O. G. Nallee, 81 years of age. furnished
conclusive proof Of his youth last week
when he Joined the young people skating
al Island Pond. lie enjoyed the pastime
as much as any OF them.
A s12.O 900 FIRE practically destroyed the
mills Of the Penrhyn Slate company at
Hydevllle Saturday. Tho insurance was
IS, 0NO. The plant was only about a year
old. and employed q men.
The Barre railroad Is engaged In rush
ing to completion a steel bridge over the
new channel on Burnham's meadow near
Barre. The new bridge weighs 1851
pounds, is 26 feet long and Ia what Is
known as q thorough plate girder bridge.
Representative NJ. ). Hapgood of Peru
has sent State Treasurer r. II. Deavitt n
check for $3.50, as conscience money
unduly taken by me for full mileage one
way upon occasion OF the Thanksgiving
recess session of 1904"
A' BipRtht vi Nv va oF
Light & Power company has been attach
ed to satisfy n negligence suit brought
by John Butler of Poultney to recover
damages OF $1,000 for injuries received in
o trolley collision on July IL. when he
was thrown from his seat and seriously
injured.
While coasting on one of the streets
Of Barre, the 12-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. NJ. Tobin crashed against the
doorsteps of a house. sustaining a severe
fracture Of the left leg near the knee.
He was coasting on a heavily loaded
traverse when the boy steering lost CON
troll.
Rutland railroad conductors are wear
ing service bars on their coat sleeves.
The uniforms are hereafter to be- alike
and the same Is rue OF the uniforms Of
the brakemen. but the epaulets of the
former are gold and the latter's of silver.
For each five years of service, conduc-
tors will wear a gold bar.
Joseph Pathos. a native Of Poland,
| now working in the mills of Proctor. has
been fined sl0.5l for breaking quarantine,
which had been declared against his
house because OF scarlet fever in the
family. Pathos claimed hat he broke
quarantine because there was not food
in the house and no ono seemed to care
whether there was any or not.
The Michigan Investor speaks highly
OF the son OF a former Nermonter, Thomas
Q~uinlan, who was born in Charlotte, but
is now q resident Of Petoskey, Mich. The
son is G.. G. Quinlan. % years old. He
has been engaged in insurance work in
Michigan ana has recently financed a
company which has had a remarkable
growth since he took over its manage
ment.
A poultrymar's little nest OF liquid
covered under the threshold of the door
when the wife of Thomas Morrison
turned States evidence. throwing inter
esting sid9liRhts on both their checkered
careers. The couple had quarelled so
strenuousiy as to tear the telephone from
the wall and the police were called to
quiet them. Mrs. Morrison played her
trump card by disclosing on her hus-
and.
The project of Il memorial soldiers
monument in Barre will he acted upon
officially at a meeting the mayor is Il
call of the city officials and society COM
mittees. Most of the unions of the city
have appointed committees. as have many
Of the societies., and about 800 has been
contributed. Mayor Mutch hopes to have
the monument in place by Memorial day.
II Is expected that q bill will he placed
IN the next city warrant to be vote
upon by the citizens to appropriate a sun
of money for a sitting memorial to Barre,
soldiers.
Montpelier has the FIRST Esperanto so
ciety organized In Vermont. II bears III,
name OF the Washington County E&peran-
to society and has FOR It's officers Maj. +
B. Thomas, president, II. II. Hartwell
vice-president; John l.. Stanyan. secre
tary and treasurer. The first of last DC,
tober there were but two known F,sper
Artists in Vermont, while to-day Their,
are about SO, one-fourth of whom resid,
} In Montpelier. The society not only ha'
jurisdiction over Washington county, bu
throughout the state until such time a
other county associations are formed.
The citizens OF whitehall. y. Y.
anticipate Il trolley line from that place =,
Fair Haven, as the Rutland Light &
Power company is building q line from
} FAR Haven to PoultneY. The distanc,
from Fair Haven 10 Whitehall is but min,
miles, and there is = large farming com
munity lying between the two villages
which Would assure a success financially
Some years ago there was much opposi
ton by White hall Inhabitants aFain'
, such n line, but they now SEQ the ad
vantage 10 he gained. Farmers Twins
outside the village have no means o
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