Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-11-27
Washington County
MONTPELIER

riage Thursday by quiet manner at !
their homo on Franklin street in Mont !
pelier. Several of their relatives and /
friends gathered In the afternoon 10 help !
them celebrate the occasion. They were
married In Mortified and lived there |
for short time, hut for AZ years they
have lived in Montpelier Mr. Fisher fol- |
lowing the vocation Of n carpenter as |
long as his health would permit. OF the
IL children born TO them nine are living
These include Henry r. George. William
j.. Charles e., and Ernest l.. Fisher OF
Montpelier. Robert 6. of Burlington. Mrs.
y. ]. McAvoy. Mrs. Thomas Carroll and
Miss Ruth Fisher of Montpelier. The
gifts presented them include gold coins.
Among those attending was Mrs. John
Girard, aged 81 years. sister OF Mrs.
Fisher
Lewis Lord of Berlin appeared In city
court Friday morning. pleading guilty
TO the charge of breaking the city ord
nance by leaving his automobile within
Is feet of a hydrant. He tried to Jockey
the matter at first by offering accord
ing to the city attorney the sum of s..
to settle the matter. The court imposed
n fine of 81 and costs OF sos which Lord
paid after which the attorney gave him
some advice relative to the matter.
the accounts in the state highway COM
missioners office the clerical assistants
in that office are now forced to divide
the items into minor details in order that
they may be approved under the new sys-
tenn, entailng n great deal more delay to
the towns which for years have sent
into their reports for work construction
| the days work for any implement In
Icluding the man driving the same. Now
the use of the piece of machinery is
separated from the expense of the man
driving it. This change is form under the
now financial system is delaying the
states paying it's portion of road work
! to a great extent
| The funeral of Mrs Exara Girard 'oc-
CURED from ST. Augustine's Church at
nine o'clock Saturday morning. the Rev.
=. ]. Long officiating. The deceased died
Thursday night after a long illness at the
age of 81 years. She is survived by her
husband and parents. The interment was
| in the Catholic cemetery.
| There has been dividend of q per cent.
declared in the bankrupt estate Of the
Montpelier Turning Works by Referee
w. y. Theriault. When the final meet
ing of the creditors In the estate of j. w.
Vaughan of Barre was held last week it
was found there was not money enough
TO meet bills that were presented by the
several creditors present so that the mat
ter has been refcrrd to the court for an
order.
+, The first department was called to
the house of Frank Huntington near
| the car barn on the Barre road about
1875 o'clock Monday morning for n fire
that Quilted the building. TIL
house was occupied by the family of
n INla.
and himself went to Barre Sunday af-
ternoon and had not returned. The fire
started in the back side Of the house.
There was no fire in the kitchen stove.
The low water pressure for time in
tcrferred with the progress Of putting
out the fire. but when a gate was clos
ed near the Pioneer the pressure in
creased and the firemen were able to
save the front part of the house The
flames had broken out Of the building
before the department reached the
place. The use of n chemical automo-
bile fire truck was appreciated more
than ever for the horses were unable
to make the long run with any rapid
ity. The loss is about $1,000
Some ten men have completed a two
weeks course in the State college up
ON COW testing. testing milk cream,
cheese and similar products 80 that
now they are ready to begin their du-
ties as manager of COW testing assoc
Citations.
surveyors are WORKING in the road in
East Montpelier relative to a federal
aid project which they expect to ask
the government to lay out for the com =
ing years work. This includes the vii
lage in that town and will go little
distance each side OF the village. Sur
veyines are also being taken in Iras-
burg. Dandy and Royalton.
a meeting of the milk producers i'll
Washington county took place Monday
evening in the Odd Fellows hall. in which
some 70 of those interested in the pro-
ject attended. Richard Pattee of Boston.
J.. s. Adams of Bowdoin, Me-. and T. B.
Phelps of stowe were speakers. Mr.. Pattec
spoke of the increase IN membership from
1900 January to over 10 600 at November
this year. Mr. Phelps urged opposition
TO the Turner Center form OF cooperation
Of creameries and that the creameries in
Vermont manufacture butter and cheese
al the present high prices.
W. G.. Hastings. State forester, has
been appointed to so to Boston December
. and TO attend conference of tho box
manufacturers association relative to
forest products. All the State foresters in
new f.IEianu nave Oeen asked TO attend.
He will also go to Albany. n. Y, the Sth
and 9th to attend the conference of fed.
eral and State foresters relative to the
white pine blister rust The commissioner
Of agriculture will go to Chicago Satur-
day and attend conference on livestock
sanitary matters.
In the matter of the Montpelier Turning
Works in which a 70 per cent. dividend
was authorized last week the trustee
4. G. Eaton. paid the dividend Tuesday.
1t amounted to Sl.79o. There are but a
the most Of the creditors did not file their
claims within one year from the date
the proceedings commenced. so they can
not receive any portion of the funds.
George Barber. who was returning Mon
day afternoon from Pembroke, n. H.
where he went TO get the body of Louis
BrogGi, saw the accident at Jones' cross
ing in Lebanon. \. H.. where Mrs A. e.
Smith of Thctford Centor, VT. was i'm
iured she had to be taken to the hos
pital at Hanover. There we're four per-
by the train. The automobile was de-
molished even worse than ttr~ one that
was hit at Jonesville last summer. Mr.
Barber could not figure out how three
out of the four in the automobile escaped
injuries.
81 Louis Broggi, for some years a resi-
dent of Montpelier, died in Pembroke
sanitorium Monday after a long illness
OF tuberculosis having developed II AZ n
i, | result of influenza suffered a yenr 400