Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-12

The club house of the Eagles Ice Yacht |
club Will be put on the ice to-day, near !
the yacht club wharf. The ice is thick
enough to allow ice boats anywhere inside
the breakwater and Commodore Miller |
and II. i. Pashby will put their boats
out this morning. Superintendent c. w.
Smith of the Consolidated Ice company
and another man went out as far as the
breakwater yesterday and one fishing
shanty that of Peter Hickey, was put on
the Ice inside the breakwater. When the
work OF cutting ice for cold storage pur
poses begins there will be work for almost
every unemployed man in the city who
can stand the pressure.
Papers were filed with the county clerk
Saturday In the case of Pearley Russen
of Jericho VS.. Henry Pecor of Essex
This case was heard before a justice of
the peace in Jericho and comes up on
the appeal of the defendant Pecor. The
plaintiff Is represented by L. l.. WILDER
of Jericho and the defendant by Allen
Martin of Jericho. The declaration
alleges that Pecor hired black mare
from Russen to drive from Jericho to
Essex and back and that he did make
less" The cause is stated in three
separate counts, one in trespass, one in
trover and one in case.
Examinations for first grade, or clerical
and third grade or sub-clerical positions
in the field service, which includes GUS
toms and internal revenue. were held at
the civR service room of the federal
building Saturday Fourteen applicants
appeared for the clerical and seven FOR
the sub-clerical examinations which were
given under the direction of C. T.. Saw
yer. local secretary, and c. L. Orton OF
the local board of civil service examiners.
No applicants were examined for the
second grade as there are no vacancies
at present. The next examination sched-
uled for Burlington is for railway mail
clerks, and will he held February 4.
Philip Mcmahon was taken into custody
Thursday afternoon on the complaint OF
Mrs Kaplan, who runs a second hand
store. that the man had entered her place
of business and had stolen silver napkin
ring of some value. According to the
story, Mcmahon snatched ul the ring
when Mrs. Kapla.. was not looking but
he was observed y young girl who put
her hand In the mans pocket and snatch
ed the article out, then held the door
against him until she had notified tn po-
| lice. Mcmahon was taken into court late
| in the afternoon and Judge Palmer, after
hearing the evidence, and, ascertaining
that money would be furnished the man
to get out of tow continued the case for
80 days and allowed the respondent to go
on his own recognizance.
| 1t may interest the people of Burling-
! ton to know that potatoes cannot be I'M
ported from Canada, according to de-
cision from the treasury department. n
notice of Quarantine No. IL from the
department of agriculture relating to the
admission of foreign potatoes from GER
tain countries and their prohibition from
certain other countries is now In effect
This notice forhdding the importation Of
potatoes includes Canada among the pro-
lhibited countries The reason for this is
that certain diseases of the potato have
developed, notably the powdery scab in
certain countries, which diseases have not
yet been developed in the potato crop of
the United States. Formerly large quanti-
tiles of potatoes We're brought through
this customs district, especially when the
crops were scarce on this side of the line
The delegates and alternates to the
| county convention of Woodmen have been
elected by Alpha camp and are as follows:
| Delegates. T.. y. Nichols, \. O. Palmer
| Y. Mcmillan. II. II. Sails, William
Thyme, j. r. lsham, y. T. Childs, f. l..
Roberts, William Riley, Jr.. Joseph Cote
| r. c. Jackson, X. W. Parish, and the
altcrnates, ]. s Granger, l.. j.. Bean
oscar Heininger, John LaRose, y. $.
Dewey, William Nemeau, G. y. Short
! sleeves. George Munson +. q. jerome
Frank Dague, William Simpson and y
Lausevin. The county convention will
be held In Milton on April !, and a part
of the work will be the election of tive
delegates to the State convention, Whi'l
is to be held in White River Junction
| May |, where in turn three delegate
will be elected to the national conven
ton to be held in June in Toledo, ohio
Consul Nichols has appointed JOSEPH
Cote chief forester of Alpha camp.