Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-12
VERMONT NOTES.

President Guy p. Benton Of the Univer-
sity OF Vermont will deliver the address
at tho graduating exercises Of Spauldlng
high school at Barre on June %.
The Tooth anniversary of the Washing
ton county grammar school will be held
Thursday, June 10, with a reception and
dance at Montpelier.
Mrs. Lydia Puffer Clark of st. Johns
bury, wife of John G.. Clark. general SUI
perintcndent OF tho e. & r.. Fairbanks
company, died Friday after a long illness
When completed st. Johnsbury will
probably have a grand list in excess of
$4,000. There is a large increase in the
amount of personal property taxed.
a life-slzed portrait Of Gen. Phil sheri-
dan has been presented to Chamberlain
Post, G. A. r., of st. Johnsbury, by S. O.
Todd of St. Johnsburv Center, who paint
ed it,
The Vermont Spiritualist association
will hold its next quarterly meeting at
Barre June 10, IA and Is, at the Barre
Universalist Church.
DR.. f. H.. Godfrey of Chelsea was
elected president of the Vermont State
Eclectic Medical society, which held its
18th annual meeting at Montpelier June
4.
6. w. Evans's left hand was badly lac
Grated June 1 when it came in con-
tact with a circular saw on his farm
between Williamstown and Chelsea. The
little finger and thumb had to be ampu-
tated at the first joint.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Felix McGettrick of Rox-
bury, Mass, formerly of St. Adams, was
married June ( to Francis l.. Camp
bell by the Rev. f. J. campbell, a brother
of the groom. The bride was attended
by Mrs. Leslie blackwell of Montpelier.
Pupils of the ninth grade of St. Johns
bury have gone on a trip to Boston and
vicinity, having through their own efforts
raised s173 for the trip.
4 f~our-lcgged duck was Matched the
other day at the home of Napoleon Fraser
of Montpelier. The four legs are in a
row and the duck, which is active, can
use them all.
Rutland has offered a reward of So
for the arrest or conviction of persons
who have sent in false fire alarms or for
those who commit malicious acts in the
future. Many times of late the fircmen
have been called out for nothing.
The St. Johnsbury House property is
now owned by local men Interested in a
new hotel for the town, a committee of
the Commercial club having been success
full in raising the necessary funds. Add
tons and thorough repairs will be made
to the house.
The Montpelier pOstoffice has beer
raised to the dignity of first-class, the
receipts for the year ending April 1 hav-
ing been upward of $4,000. The office
was in the first-class for one year be-
ginning July /. 1911, but the receipts
then fell $l,S0o short of the required
$4,000. The post>naster's salary will be
$1,000.
one of the biggest raids in several
years was that made by officers Sat
urday at Barre when Manuel Villas
house was searched. Earlier in tho morn
ing he was arrested in Montpelier while
driving with a sack filed with bottles
of liquor under the seat, \ few weeks age
he paid d $500 fine and he still has a
sentence of nine to T. months at the
house of correction hanging over him.
Elroy Woods, employed by the Cham
plain Valley Telephone company. was bad
~ injured Thursday afternoon in sud
bury when a 20-foot pole broke off at
the ground as he was working at the
top, Wires connecting it with other poles
had been cut and as he was strapped to
the pole he could not escape. The pole
landed on top Of him. Unless he vas in
~ternally injured, his condition is not cx-
pected to become serious.