Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-07-24
Washington County
MONTPELIER

Miss Hannah Lynch. a native Of Rut-
land. died at Heaton hospital Friday
morning. following a short illness She
was taken 10 the hospital Thursday morn
ing for an operation which was performed
during the afternoon deaYh following a
little after midnight. She was born
October Q. 1868. a daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Michael j. Lynch. but most Of her
life was passed in Montpelier. She leaves
sister, Mrs. d. F. Ryle, with whom she
lived Ave years; two brothers, John of
NJ Montpelier and James, an eng neer in ST.
Adams. Also several nieces and nephews.
including Allen Lynch in France, and
Miss Lynch. employed in the secretary OF
states office.
AT the meeting of the Knights of
Pythias Thursday evening F. X. Felt
was elected treasurer in place of L. H.
Pollard. who declined to be installed
The following delegates We're elected to
the grand lodge: B~A Sumner. Frank
Wing, l.. II. Pollard and B. c. Brown
The State treasurer has made his
assessment of-taxes against Montpelier
which shows that the city has IS miles
Of highway. that it pays a tax of 1854 II
this year on grand list of SIT 1916 in
1918 and that the city will receive a Ave
per cent. State highway apportionment
$47S.G that it can use road construc-
tion.
The jury in Montpelier city court
Monday morning found L. Fl. Pick I'd
of the Central Motor Car company of
Montpelier not guilty of breach of the
automobile laws II was claimed he
drove his car without number plate
on the rear of his machine. It appears
that he did do this, but that he was
Y l., to.
know It was gone. The complaining
witness was Mayor Fl. G. Shurtleff. who
called the attention of Pickard to the
absence of the number plates. The
respondent testified that he did not
know the number plate was gone. Mr.
Ladeau, employed by the company, tes-
titled that the plate wac on the machine
when used by him earlier in the day
but that he had to change the locat ton
a little in order to attach ropes to
draw another car he was going after
! Incidentally F., l.. Laird in arguing the
case before the jury. handed the city
officials a sharp rap when he said that
he had lost a number plate off his car
while driving over the streets of Mont
pelier and he expected others had
The jury had the case but few min
utes, returning a verdict for the re-
u
Juror Stone prosecuted.
When the owner of the Little Cen
barber shop was ready to start bust
ness Monday morning he found thai
he was short his razors and then in
vestigation showed that robbers hat
taken all the razors in the shop. which
is owned by T.. Menard. Mr.. Menart
had to get some new ones before HI
could start business. The stealing OF
the razors was witnessed by mar
sitting In his room in the Hyde block
so that a good description of the mer
was obtained. The man thought tina
the shop and therefore did not motif,
the police The robbers made thei
entrance by removing a screen from
one of the windows.
The city of Montpelier through thu
state commissioner of highways S, n
Bates. has made application for one o
the federal-owned trucks that hav
been shipped to Rutland, but at TIL
present rate OF distribution, this cit!
does not expect to see one for use th
fall. The Board of Control has author
lied the remodelins of two suitable 70
road work and has placed one OF thes
in windsor and the other in Rutland
The board does not have another meet
ing until July %, so that by the tim
decision Ia made In this matter an,
the repairs made on the machine, /
! probably will he too late to use tn
truck this fall in road construction
} Miss Frances Hibbard of Randolph