Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-04-01
ESSEX JUNCTION

The tower. from which signal bells are
operated for tho railroad crossings. was
backed into some time during Thursday
night by fat bottom cars heavily loaded
with granite chips and coal on the spur
Just beside the Burlington & Lamoile
track, crushing into one corner of the
building breaking the railing and etairs.
and iniuring tho cement abutment to
which the building is anchored The
train backed fully the length of three
cars beyond the end of the spur, plough
ing up the road crossing and spreading
the car rails
Joseph Pecor reports having a tomato
plant which already has borne a tomato
the size OF an egg yolk
change In the personnel of the man
agement of The Essex Publishing company
occurs in the publication of its papers
beginning this week, when Harrison s.
Thayer, son Of Editor Lewis p. Thayer Of
Morrisville becomes an equal partner
with the present editor and manager,
Milo c. Reynolds. Mr.. Thayer received
his inactive duty status few weeks ago
from the navy. where he was paymaster
with the rank Of Lieutenant j. e. Since
his release he has taken a short course
at the linotype factory in Brooklyn. Mr..
Thayer will reside In Essex Junction.
Crowds gathered at the dam Sunday
watching the volume of water passing
over it, Six feet above the dam proper
was the depth of water passing over It.
according to the gauge measurements.
For some distance up the stream the
river IL free of ice and the huge cakes
as they drlfted down the stream to
plunge fully 20 feet over the dam. and
broken to bits by the fall. furnished a
spectacle seldom witnessed, as in for
mer years as rule the ice honeycombs
like that of still bodies of water and
disappears by sinking. The river to some
distance below the Bradley bridge has
been free of ice for the last several days
A daughter was born Saturday morning
10 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mayo.
Under the supervision of Miss Cady a
Glee club has been organized at the high
school. The officers elected follows: Presi-
dent Loomis Slater vice-president. Ber-
nice Tyler; secretary-treasurer. Walter
Osborne; social committee. Charles
Mudgett, the Misses Potter Marion Mum
son and Dorothy Norton. Meetings will
be held on Tuesdays and Thursday Of
each week Twenty students have already
Joined the club and interest and en-
thusasm is being manifested by them. II
is hoped that in the near future several
sixteen heads OF Holstein grade mich
cows were yesterday shipped from the
knoll to the Wright estate at Grand
Isle, il is understood that fancy price
was received for the animals
News Of the death of the infant daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy II. Nash of
Lowell. Mass. which occurred FRIDAY
has been received here Mrs. Nash will
be remembered as Miss Anna Drury,
daughter of T.. W. Drury.
II. O. Whitney has completed at his
saw mill an order OF nearly 10000 shiins
for the Rutland Railroad company These
have been shipped and will be distributed
to the section bosses all along the line
AT this season OF the year quantities OF
these shims are used to ballast the tracks
that become uneven by heaving from
frost. The shims vary in thickness from
quarter inch to two inches in thick
ress and are bored with two holes to re-
ceive spikes which hold them in position.