Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-03-28
VERMONT NOTES

st. Luke's choir at Fairfax contains
eight sons and daughters of Mr.. and Mrs
Isdore Berthiaume
Fritz Hanson the wel-known welter-
weight wrestler of Brattleboro, married
Wednesday March 20 Miss Helen Baxter
Thrashcr of Claremont y II.
The Youths Companion for March
81 has a cover design of two maple
sugar orchard views. one of which was |
taken by +. u, Burt of bennington.
Harry NJ. Scott of St Johnsbury. a |
merchant, has fled a petition in bank
ruptcy in which he gives his liabilities |
as s13,06S.99 and his assets as s4,-
ISIS.
While John Carlton and Myron
Hodge of Belmont were cutting wood,
the latters axe struck Mr.. Cartons
wrist and cut the bone and large
| artery.
! Work on the new Masonic Temple for
! st. Johnsbury will be started as soon as
frost is out of the ground. The building
will cost $4,000 and is expected to be done
by fall
The Sanitary Disposal company is a new
st. Johnsbury organization that proposes
to furnish people with clean and closed
garbage pals and to collect two and three
| times a week.
| Barre police are hereafter to have fixed
| hours for street and station duty and dur
ing every hour Of day or night one patrol
man and two during the night will be on
the street. a condition not existing hith-
erto.
George Sohnitt. the Rutland aviator IS
booked to ny early in May at Princeton.
| n. j., on the occasion OF the first base
ball game Of tho season played by the
Princeton team. He will carry one passen-
! ger.
Ernest Wood. who broke out Of the
town lookup at Castleton last Octo-
ber was rearrested March % and is
now held for Rutland county court.
l1Ie is charged with holding up and
robbing ]. W. Mattison.
State Treasurer r. H. Deavitt is prepar-
ing the Insurance agents licenses which
will number about 800 each agent having
license for each company he represents.
The licenses are dated April and every
agent is required by law to have one.
The Graber Calculating Machine COM
pany, formerly Of New York. Is to be
located In Rutland in less than two
weeks There is about ST. 0o0 worth Of ma
chinery to be put up. The GRADER machine
is the only one OF It's kind made in this
country.
Marcellus Newton of West Rutland was
given a verdict of 81 90 in Rutland county
; court Saturday morning in his sui,
81
Rutland Mr. Newton sued to recover
damages to an express wagon and per-
sonal injuries because his horse was
frightened by the defendants automobile
truck and ran away.
The proprietors and employees of a Rut.
y. land hotel feel sure that they prevented
a suicide the other day. when a mar
, who registered rs L. o. Sykes. New York
returned to the hotel Thursday. having
4, on Tuesday left 1t rocking with ether
and asked to have a gun sent up. His re
quest was not compiled with. an excuse
| being found, as the man seemed to he suf
feriug from n fit OF meanchola.
q According to reports sent to tho
= State library commission. the librar!
, at Dandy has the largest circulation
proportionately, in the State. Accord
y ing to the population each person
. takes out II books yearly and accord
: ing to the patrons of the library, eacl
q takes out - books. There are 10
> people in the town and 1850 books IL
!. the library.
Sutton will erect a memorial to tn
8 memory of John Colby the most famou
Q name among the Free Baptist minister
n of the early days of the denomination
!. His home for IL years was In what is nov
o known as Sutton. He began with his ow
10 funds and later finished with his ow
IT hands the first church building of tn
: town and 1t Is proposed to observe tn
X centennial of his work on June I, s and
d. A. Perry OF Barre has bought of Sup-
r. W. Stanyan of the Wells River rail
| road strip OF land on North Main stree
In Barre comprising Ga acres. OF which
ID are In Barre town. This gives Mr., PER-
frontage of $500 feet on North Mai
street within a few rods of the Jone
- Brothers stone she'd where over 800 me
work and within easy distance of SO,
~ eral other large sheds. Mr.. Perry wi
y, cut the plot up into building lots an
probably build number Of one, two an
three tenement houses.