Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-05-13
Washington County
MONTPELIER

Washington county court has taken a
recess until May 10 when more court mat
ters will be taken up or adjournment oc-
ours shortly afterward. If the jury is not
re-called for the Poor case, it looks as
though the final adjournment would take
place shortly after the 10th. The hearing
that was to have taken place in the Tan
nor divorce case did not occur.
A message was received from Butte,
Mont, Thursday evening that James J.
McMahon, superintendent Of one of the
Anaconda copper mines in that place.
died May 6 as the result of an operation
performed last week. Micheal Mcmahon.
a brother. has gone there to bring the
body to Montpelier. The deceased was n
native Of Waterbury. born July IA, 1876 a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Mcmahon.
He was member of the Knights of Co.
lumbus and Eagles and had been employed
in Butte for many years. He is survived
by his mother, a sister, Mrs. j. q. Frant-
nj. and two brothers, Thomas Mcmahon
and Michael Mcmahon of Montpelier. He
was Spanish American war veteran.
having served in Company II, Vermont
National Guards.
A. G. Preble. deputy fire marshal.
has ma le on Investigation of the fire
that occurred in the Jesus Ala barn
self that the fire started from care
lessness. He said Tuesday that it
looked as though some one went into
the barn smoking and that some of the
ashes dropped out of pipe, cigar or
cigarette starting the fire under the
stairs. 1t was first claimed it must
must have started from n short circuit
in the electric wires.
w. q. Hastings. State forester is
supervising the set Of the trees in
Niles park back of the State House.
the land having some months ago been
given to the State by Miss Katherine
Niles. a carload Of trees arrived Mon
day and Tuesday a gang of men COM
menced the setting Of these which in
clude hemlock. pine. spruce, naples,
dog wood. cedar and in fact almost
every specie of tree grown in Vermont.
when completed the hill hack of the
State House will be greatly improved
in looks and will set off the State
House to n better advantage.
Frank Reynolds of the State proba-
ton office is in Heaton hospital for
care and treatment.
The Brighton Furniture company of
Island Pond has filed a statement with
the secretary of State that the COM
pany has paid up $4,000 of it's capital
stock.
The Rev. +. Bloomfield received word
Monday that twins, boy and a girl,
were born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Bailey, the latter being Mr..
Blomfield's daughter. They live in
Jersey City N. ].
w. II. Jeffrey. State probate officer.
has returned from the northern part
of the State, where three children were
taken in custody and were sent to a
hospital for treatment, and one woman.
whose name they did not announce,
was sentenced to the house of correc-
ton for eight years for assisting in a
criminal assault upon her daughter.
II. NJ. Mcintosh has returned from a
trip to the southern part of the State
with government inspector on the fed
eral road project. They visited the four
miles length in New Haven; 12 miles In
Dorset and adjacent towns and five miles
in Enumeration. Thursday. they went to
East Montpelier to look over the road
there. This is the one that the federal
government wanted something better than
gravel used in construction because Of
the large amount of automobile traffic.
| Clarence Day. who has been employed
for wear or more in the State engineers
Office completed his services Saturday
| afternoon and after few days rest
appointed Junior highway engineer for
the State OF Illinois. He was formerly
a resident Of Fitchbu,g. Mass. and at
tended Norwich University.
The annual meeting of the Washing
| ton county branch of the Red Cross
occurred Monday morning in the
| memorial room In City Hall with 12
| delegates attending. The following
officers were elected: Chairman. DR..
| w. w. Brock; vice chairman, Mrs. d.
| w. Cooley, Waterbury,; secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. G. p. Barber Mont
pelier A delegate will go to Boston to
take the course of study in peace time
activities and delegate will also at
tend the conference on Red Cross work
in Boston May 20 and 81 The finan-
cial report showed there was s3O1042
cash on hand.
The fire department was called out
at 1925 o'clock Monday morning for
IA fire in the barn of Jesus Ala. The
blaze was discovered by Mario Yane-
| loni, formerly of the Barre fire de-
partment. who rang in an alarm. One
or the men about the meat market was
| washing an automobile but had not
| seen the fire. The damage was about
| 5000. Those early at the fire were able
| TO remove seven head of stock, includ-
| ing one horse. There was one COW
which is worth about 81 1000 and for
which Mr.. Ala paid 5000 when 1t was
two years old. These were not remov-
ed any too quick for flames were
| coming out of the barn when the
horse was taken out. Shortly after
the departments returned 1t was call
ed to 1853 Berlin street for a chimney
fire.
Frank d. Wing. aged 63 years. die l
at his home Monday morning follow
ing short illness of pneumonia. He
was native of Berlin. a son of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. f. Wing. but had lived in
montpelier most of his life. He was
prominently connected with different
fraternities in the city, but gave most
or his time to the knights of Pythias,
IN which he was j. past chancellor
commander as we'll as a past State Of
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