Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-08-21
HAPPENINGS In VERMONT

has returned hone from a vacation Of
two weeks MIR Icvecquc and family Wis
ited in Boston and also visited relatives
in Candidates. Lllah ILL of Cowans-
VILE, is visiting friends here Miss Josie
Flanagan 10 visiting her sister Mrs II.
A bowling Of st Adams
special village meeting has been
warned for the fire station Friday even
ing, August %, at $50 O'Clock, ito see
what action the village will take towards
meeting the expense already incurred
and the expense which may be incurred
IN connection with the effort to retain the
United States customs house in Richford
This refers to the recent action of lead
ms citizens in sending two attorneys to
Washington. II. C.. to atter'i a hearing
on the application Of the Canadian Pacific
Railway company to send cars to New
port Under seal TO- entry there instead of
a: tho port of Richford.-Six young men
appeared bsicrc d. w. Carpenter, JUS
tee of tie pea>,e. In Justice court. Mon
day morning, and pleaded guilty to
charges and received sentences az fol-
lows: Guy Longe of Montgomery, as
sault on Homer H. Wcstover, sentenced
to servo three months in Franklin coun-
~ jail .zeno Whitman Of Richford, Har-
~ Eardswiok of Stanstead, Que. Thomas
Flynn of Albany n. Y, Robert Gould of
Walthan Mass, and John Corey of Bur-
lington, each pleaded guilty to breach
of the peace and paid fines of Sc and costs
each, amounting to the following sums:
HardwEck Flynn and Corey S11.34 each;
Whitman. sli.14; Gould. sl3n Nearly all
of these mon are strangers who recently
came to this village to work on Satur-
day night and early Sunday morning they
were accused of boisteroua and unseer1ly
conduct on Main street, although no
charge of intoxiCati0n was made. Longs
.vas taken to tati by Special Officer Lib
erty. G. It. tadd States attorney
prosec ut cd The fire alarm. was rang at
1880 O'Clock Monday morning through a
mistake. Harold Whitehead, son OF
George whitehead. was playing with
other boys and while or this roof over
the stairs leading down between tho
stores of w. B. Green and II. II. Com
ings thouEhtlessly seized the electric
wire running from one building to the
other The Insulation had worn off and
the lad could not let 60 and was receiv-
ing n large amount of Juice" His cries
brought william Greene, Jr.. who struck
the wire near the boys hand with pole
and Jared It out of his hands. Mean
while a. J. Livingston had telephoned to
the Sweat Comings company to turn off
the current as a boy was on the live wire.
This was mistaken in some way and the
fire alarm sounded. The boy was not SER
iously injured and was about at play In
the afternoon.-Mrs. +. J. COlcord has re-
turned from Boston. where she was called
by the serious Illness of her son, Carl o.
Colcord. with plourisv of the lining of
the heart His condition is better.
Mrs. clara Rashaw, aged % years. died
August is of senility at the home Of her
son, Henry y. Hashaw with whom she
lived. The funeral was held at East
Franklin Wednesday afternoon, the Rev
D. G. Guest of this place officiating, and
the burial was in the cemetery at East
Franklin.-Homer II. Westover and Miss
Lucia Locke, both of this place, We're
married August IS by the Rev. J. II.
Wallace.-It is expected that work VIII
be started Monday on repairing the abut-
rnent on the southwest end of the river
bridge in this village.