Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-08-19

| time to criminal law. He served In the
civil war and then after some years IN
Washington went to Virginia, wnere ne
| lived until he came to Vermont again
eight years ago. He leaves five brothers,
A. S. Sparrow and ivan Sparrow Of Mont
| pelier, dward Sparrow of Calais, hiram
sparrow of East Montpelier ana curtis
sparrow of Midway Mass.
| Elmer Pierce and Miss Reba Collins or
| Montpelier we're married at towe Aug
! IL, according to Information tnat
! brother of Mr.. Pierce received from
Elmer Pierce that evening the
young people put one over on their
, friends. Mr.. Pierce obtained n marrias3
! license and when leaving his place OF
business. which is the Pierce clark
restaurant, he told some OF the employees
that he was going to get married. He
had previously told some of them he
would he married on the 18th OF the
month but they did not believe him on
| either occasion. After a short trip tney
will return to Montpelier.
Three cases have been entered In county
court. These are: in ohancery, Montpelier
Savings Bank & Trust company vs. j. w.
Laitson. ct AL. foreclosure; on the d.
vorce docket Elizabeth Greaney of Barre
VS.. Charles Greaney of New YORK CITY,
Ruth Perry 1t Barre VS.. Lyle Perry.
Tho oil painting of G. w. Gates. re-
cent governor of Vermont arrived
at the executive chambers Saturday
morning. Mr.. Gates arrived from Frank
lin during the day and the picture.
which was made by Mr. Carbee Of Bos-
ton, was hung with others in the ex-
ecutivc office.
large number of the granite manu-
facturers left Saturday afternoon for
st. Louis, Mo- where they Will attend
the annual convention of the granite
producers association. Among those
going from Montpelier were William
Farwell George Anderson and VI. j. M,
Jones.
Rolling thunder was heard in Mont
peler most of the time Sunday after
noon, but no shower hit the city. al
) though a hard shower passed over por-
lions of East Montpelier and Middlesex.
The four children Of Mrs. Margaret
Blanco have been taken to the city
farm for care while their mother Ia in
an institution for an alternate sentence
in place of a. fine of $500 which was
imposed In city court last week. The
matter was referred to the charity COM
mittee of Montpelier city council which
Investigated it and found that applica.
: tion had been made for help. The State
board of charities and probation after
, investigating the matter declined tt
have anything to do with the case
claiming it was a city matter and thai
it agreed with the judge of the cour'
In imposing the penalty. Mrs Blancc
pleaded guilty to illegal selling Of in
. toxicating liquor.
lightning struck the transformer II
y the rear of the National Life Insur
. ance company's office about one oclocl
:, saturday afternoon during the heav!
= thunder storm that passed over thi
city. Workmen there tried to put ou
| the fire and had to resort to the fir,
y department. AS soon as It arrived tn
" use of n Pyrene gun extin gu shed tn,
. Flames The storm put several Of tn,
. telephone company's line out of com
= mission and did quite a little damag
- TO the electric company. much heav
:. Ter storm must have hit in the regio,
of Worcester. for there was lot o
- drift wood that came down the strea m
- but as far as could be learned no da m
- age was done.
:. The remains of Mrs Ida Bruce Bach
= man. who died in Boston. arrived her
- SUNDAY for the funeral and burial Tn
- deceased was born in Mortified s
. years ago. She lived in Montpelier 70
= time and about Il years ago went L
Boston where she has since made he
~ home. She is survived by daughte,
- Mrs Frank Putnam.
!" Amos Reed of Burlington has commenr
ed work as caretaker at the Taft lodg
&c and will also do the lookout work 10
- fires for the state.
All persons who had aSDira lions to r
e' county officials filed their petitions an
- their assent to become candidates fl
o. office Saturday afternoon. according
a. the statutes. Some Of them had to h,irr
ie up because they thought Sunday woul
1" comply with the law, but the law sa,
-" not less than 30 days so that Saturda
:" night was the last opportunity. Tho.
80 who have filed their assent for senator
ei are Fl. NJ. Farnham and j. b. E,stee
=" Montpelier, ID. b. Dwinwell of Calai
~ Prof H. +. Shaw of Mortified and C.
ru Dana of Woodbury.; for sheriff, F.
lis Tracy of Mon,pe,ier and T. E,,or
us Waterbury; for assistant judges i. v
- Bates of Moretown, l.. r. Wells
re Middlesex and G. H. Dale of Waterbur
IT. for States attorney. C. B. Adams
sic Waterbury and F. r. Thomas of Mon
Oh pelier; for judge of probate +. J. Mart
49, OF Barre.
re A. n. Stratton for the State forest
on department has commenced the inspe
'e- ton of timber lots for the purpose of =
n curing red pine and white spruce Sc
no from the cones and completing arrang
he ments with the farmers on which Z
les timber grows that men from the forest
department may visit the land and q
the seed. If in this way they are al
to get first class seed it will help m
no terially at the nursery in the distribute
ids of better quality of seedlings.