Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
VERMONT NOTES

Charles +. Iill. a veteran of the
civil War. was taken Tuesday from
the Sol1iers' Home at Bennington to
the Brattleboro retreat, as he had be-
come violently insane.
Paul Dwight Moody. son of the
evangelist. Dwight l.. Moody, was or
dained and installed as pastor Of the
CONGREGATIONAL Church at st. Johns
bury Tuesday. He studied and taught
al the Moody schools at Mount Her
mon ami East Mortified,
The lives of Martin Mcmahon and
Michael Hogan of Rutland. who were
buried Monday morning. were strange
" colncidental. Both were born in
the same town In County Tipperary,
Ireland, grhw up as companions and
came to America on the same ship.
both locating in Rutland. Mcmahon
was i'll three days with pneumonia
Hogan several weeks. but both died on
Saturday morning.
A reunion of the Carleton family WAS
held Sunday at Barre at the home Of H.
=. Wiley, in honor Of Charles II. earle.
ton, better known on the stage as Richard
Carrie His father. brother wife, an uncle
and aunt OF Barre. we'll az numerous
other relatives were present.
A. u. Pierce, who fell from the top Of
a freight car and through a bridge ct
West Berlin gravel pit Sunday night. was
badly shaken but not seriously injured.
He stepped off the rear step of the caboose
and fell 70 feet.
Fred A. Young of Rutland has obtained
a patent on an Improvement in turf
cutter. The machine resembles pillow
and has a large metal disk in front which
slides through the ground instead OF re-
volving as a wheel. A slotted lug allows
tho disk 10 be shifted so that a new edge
comes in contact with the ground soon
a. one becomes dull.
Col. Thomas O. Seaver of Woodstock
Col. 5. T. Pingree of Hartford and Capt
Horace French Of West Lebanon, dined
together Tuesday evening, April, IS, at
White River Junction according to a GUS
tom for some years in observance of the
anniversary Of the battle of Lees Mills
in McClellan's peninsula campaign of 1862.
They We're members OF the Bird Vermont
regiment. a company formed in White
River Junction. Last year Colonel Seaver
was host. the three meeting at the Wood
stock Inn. and this year Colonel Pingree
entertained at the Junction House.
Traffic over the Central Vermont rail-
way. especially in granite, appears to be
increasing The branch freight train
hauled a long string to Montpelier juno
ton Yesterday and the Wells River road
Is also handling heavier trains than dur
ing the winter
National Republican Committeeman
James w Brock of Montpelier has re-
served suite OF rooms at the Audito-
rum Hotel in Chicago for the Vermont
delegates to the national convention. Six
teen rooms have been engag ed at N2 q
day each. with the privilege of releasing
two of them. Each delegate and alter
nate Is asked to communicate with Mr..
Brock whether or not he will attend the
convention, so as to permit assignment
of rooms
Elaborate preparations are being made
at Goddard Seminary at Barre for the
celebration of the fourth decennial Of
the school at the time Of the 43rd COM
inencement. alumni day, June l3 There
d
Of all the classes graduated from the
school The alumni are to present the
school a tablet in honor OF DR., w. r.
Sh!pman, who was PRECEDENT OF the board
of trustees from 1915 to 1905. Arthur W
DeGoosh. SO, of Boston. is to be the ora
tor of the day.
Barrels city council has taken steps
TO do away with the public drink In &
cups in shops. In stonesheds and
work shops individual drinking cups
are to be enforced.
Charles r. Briggs. moulder. has been
with the Howe Scale company for 80
years, longer than any man at the Rut-
land plant. he entered the company $
employ at Brandon when IA years of age.
His father was employed as a moulder
toy the company.