Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-22

The Vermont Marble company mas
sent 80 quarry workers from West
Rutland to Seattle, Wash. and Alaska
Approximately six miles OF sidewalk
are said to DO needed ut Brattleboro
and $4,000 is needed 20 lay the walks.
Tho Rutland free library contains 1854
volumes, an increase of 10 the past year,
The largest days circulation was els on
| December 80.
William Boomhower OF st. Johns
bury has filed a petition in bankruptcy
giving his liabilities as s523.25. and his
assets as SIS.
The Rutland Railway Light & Power
company has ordered G0,Ooo young trees
to be set in vacant places on it's forest
lands in Pittsrord and Chittenden.
George Shaw. a gypsy, and two WON
en- were arrested Friday in Clarendon
on the request of Bennington county
Authorities. They are charged with
stealing Jewelry Mt Sandgatc
The Misslsquoi river at West Berk
shire Is frozen over and it is impossi
BILE to run the mills. Harvesting of
ice has been abandoned as there is not
sufficient water to float the ice.
| The quarantine that the state hoard
of health placed on the churches and
schools of Highgate. on account Of
smallpox there. a few weeks ago, has
been removed, and services were held
in the churches sunday.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, the Explore =
defended his claim to having reached tn,
North Pole before about 100 people in tn.
Rutland opera house Friday evening. 4
few days previous the explorer was prac
i.ally frozen out of Bennington.
Rutland Is oxpe riencing n shorta &c
~ coal, although there IS no danger
# an Immediate famine. The stock o!
all dealers is running very low and
some of the merchants are entirely
out Of certain sizes of anthracite
With handcar as an ambulance D. <
n. section hands brought Charles w
Campbell OF West Rutland to his home
Friday afternoon. after he had falei
near Castleton from a load of wood
dislocated his shoulder and otherwise in.
ljured himself
The Boston & Maine railroad, follow.
Ing It's policy Of retrenchment. is to cut
out its award Of prizes for floral dis
! 'ays at stations and agents in Vermont
ave received word that the manage.
r1ent has decided not to furnish beddins
plants this year.
'a,o Gil snon Il cars Old. ~ Re y.
ais, frank iodine WeduesI4, after
being punished for alleged mlsconduc,
at school. The switch was applied C
him when a schoolmate put on his hat
into which ink had been poured OWNS
ach, the poison did not prove fatal.
Young Ben McKane of East Barre
paralyzed from his waist down, had one
leg smashed when no slid against a
tree. tho bone above The knee being spit
N such manner that tie Lee will al.
ways be stiff. a month ago his step.
ather went away and loft the boys
mother with u family OF three chill
dren.
a suit for 5000 has been brought by
.he village of BrattlebOro aga INST h,
Connecticut River Power company. Tn,
suit complains that the village has beer
put to great expense because of the dan
constructed at Vernon by the company
thereby causing the water to set baci
and choke the sewer, proven ing It from
discharRing and rendering ii valueless
William Haswell. a native of Benning
ton, will complete in March 81 ears a
n printer. He became an apprentice IL
lS45 in the office OF the Vermont Ga2
cite Of Bennington and has since beel
continuously engaged with newspapers
The Gazette was the first paper to b
started in the State that lived for an.
length of time. Mr. Haswell is now EN-
ployed on the North Adams. Mass
Transcript, and is in his Sith year.