Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
VERMONT NOTES.

East Calais has Progressive clur
which plans an active campaign
Sergeant Ezra p. Rifle. 1st L. :. infan-|
try, has reported for duty : sergeant-|
instructor of the Vermont militia.
Thieves forced an entrance Tuesday
night into T.. c. Iuces store at Water
bury. and secured a small sum of money.
and some clothes.
Fred O. Bourn, road commissioner oil
Manchester dropped dead while at work.
Tuesday October Is. He was 81 years old
and apparently in robust health.
Barney Rosen of Rutland was fine II
$50 for peddlng goods without a Ii
cense. receiving the minimum penalty
because of his ignorance of the law.
DIR. c. f. Camp. who treated one of ths|
first cases of smallpox al Barre is now|
iii with the disease. In all there are l0|
cases in Barre city and seven in Barrel
town.
Edwina, the laughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Blo1gett OF st. Johnsbury. was
overcome by burglar early TUESDAY
morning IN ler room and robbed of Al
diamond ring,
! Alfred Charon of Rutland, a carpente,
| Of the Vermont Marble company at Proc 1
tor, died Oct. Is OF fractured spine,
| received when he fell from staging. lie|
never rallied from the shock
The buildings of Frank Danforth oil
West Corinth were destroyed by fire
Wednesday afternoon. y quantity oil
hay and grain ami IS bushels of pota i
toes We're destroyed
| Rutland has another case of SMALL
pox. the second in a short time MI
children attending the Madison street,
school are to be vaccinated by order
of the board OF health.
| Brattleboro has new schoolhouseI
which has cost in the vicinity of $1,000
Eighty-hve pupils we're enrolled at theI
| first session
Victor Lawrence of Rutland. conf
ira ctor. has flied a petition in bankruptcy
giving liabilities Of sl,54S.5S and assets of
s., no. of which he claims 500 exempt.
The contract for lighting the streets of
! Barre may he divided between the Peo-|
pies Gas company and the Consol!dated|
company, and the city will also probably
rave all night lights.
I David and Albert Caron of Bonn!rston|
have been arrested charged with break
ing into the Rutland and II, Il NJ. freight
cars at North bennington week ago|
and stealing provisions They are q and
| le years old and their arrest was the re-
| suit of an unusually large pile OF tin cans
and vegetables found in the Caron back
yard.
The Rutland high school suffered a
fall in attendance the other day when
fair weather and thirst for sweet cider
lured many away. The boys made trips
to North Clarendon on conlscated
bicycles.
John Breen of West Rutland. thought
to have been frozen to death in Ken
lucky, has been discovered very mucl
alive near Mansfield, Ohio. The body Of,
the man found frozen had on Breen's
coat. containing letters addressed to
Breen lie had stolen the garment.
Edward Narney the liyear-old 80,
who has been in the Newfane jail charged
with assault with intent 10 XIII Floyd
Nicholas 10 years old, has been released
on bail of $500. The case win be tried
, in the April term of county court.
The H. c. Rich Lumber company. which
has been buying large tracts OF mountain
, land near Manchester. is said to have pur
chased the home farm and saw mill OF
Frank Nj. Walker. The company has ac'
r quired large stumpage rights from the
. Somerset Land company which controls
a thousands of acres east of Manchester
\ Of saw mill