Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-06-06
VERMONT NOTES.

The Lake Mansfield Trout clubs annual
meeting and dinner will he held June
and not July 5. as was previously stated.
A grain elevator is being constructed In
Brattleboro by c. r. Crosby to cost $780,
900. II will have capacity OF 10000 BUSH
els.
One suspected case Of smallpox that OF
Mrs Ellen J. Wiley. at St. Johnsbury.
has proven upon examination BY a Boston
expert to he chlckenpox.
Miss Marjorie lido. daughter Of Henry c.
Ide. United States minister to Madrid,
and formerly a resident Of ST. Johnsbury,
will be married June Ii at Port Washing
ton. l.. l., to Shane Leslie
An act Of vandalism the other day was
committed at Oak Hill cemetery in Bel
lows Falls. when boys passing through
from ball game overturned urns, tram
pied down shrubbery and foliage, and cut
and scratched monuments.
Mrs Amos Hall OF Barre had three
ribs broken and was knocked uncon-
scious by an enraged COW that she went
70 feed. The animal was supposed TO be
mild hammered and 1t Is thought that
she was affected by the weather.
Z. A. G. Jackson Is adding steadily
to the collection in the Montpelier His
torical society rooms. An old flint-lock
musket Is one of the recent additions.
II belonged to the family of Solomon
Dodge, an early settler OF the town.
The contract for marble for mauso-
leum for the late John W. Gates has been
given to the Pelaggi Granite company Of
Hardwick. and is for $4,000. which covers
the cutting only. The whole mausoleum
will cost about sl5oOoO. The granite COM
pany has 50 men at work on the contract
C. p Harris of Rutland has offered the
Banquet Hotel property to be converted
into a Y. NJ, c. A. building. There is at
present in the city no place for the youth
to gather and 1t is several years since the
old association building was destroyed by
fire. A conference on the matter is to be
considered soon.
Four commitments to the House Of
Correction were made during May and
q to the Rutland county jail. The total
number at the former institution is I'M
usually light at this time of year, the
number growing less year by year as
the probation method Is becoming pop
ular In cases of minor offenses.
Travelling libraries in the State now
number 1875. and the majority are in con-
slant circulation from one school TO an
other Nine new stations were established
during May. The work of the State
library commission has accomplished
much In the past few years in stimulat-
ing Vermont people TO better reading and
more Of It,
Mrs. Edith Ceilings Fiske of Cincinnati
has brought suit at her home in Wood
stock for divorce from her husband
Augustus r. Fiske. to whom she was
married In 1906 Her father. Cr!ttenden T.
Ceilings. Is one of the directors of the
Standard Oil company. Her husband 5
fondness for sowing wild oats Is said to
be the cause of the divorce action.
The rainy weather the past month has
been very adorable for the setting out
of fruit trees and Vermont has gained
several thousand trees. Among the
largest orchards thus started this year
are the LOOMS street In West Addison
the Clark orchard in Shoreham, the VAL
ley Fruit company in Westminster. the
William Noonan In Addison. Many others
have set out from one to 800 trees.
Il. c. Smith. foreman for the Capital City
Gas company. Janitor John McAvoy Of
the city hall and Mrs. McCiihbOney. care
| taker OF the rest room in the city build
ing, narrowly escaped injury Thursday
! when an explosion occurred OF the accu-
| mulated gas in the sewer cleanout. caused
| by a match lighted by Mr.. Smith In look
Ing for a leak. The 2oo-pound cover to
| the cleanout was lifted several inches
and the nre scorched the clothing off all
three people.
| A suit IN chancerv has been filed in
the office Of Rutland County Clerk II.
A. Harmon by the Vermont Marble
company Of Proctor against Frank c
| Partridge executor or the will OF
Fletcher d. Proctor The orator claims
| that while Mr.. Proctor was president OF
the company the purchase was made
of :,4o2 shares of stock OF the Barney
Marble company. - shares OF stock OF
the Rutland Underwater Railway COM
pany, the stock interest formerly be.
longing TO Chauncey kilmer in the Otter
Creek Marble COMPANY, believed to be
3lS shares and 1885 shares of the Bran
don-ltalian Marble company all OF
which is claimed TO have been paid for
by the Vermont Marble company. but
| for convenience the title Was transferred