Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-05-20

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so their residence is not known. He was
81 years of age.
Mrs. Rosa Hathaway of East MONTPELIER
has been committed to the State Hospital
for treatment. She was in probate court
Thursday afternoon and caused quite a
little excitement, when II was decided that
she was to be committed TO the insti-
tuition temporarily. She Is woman of
middle age.
Guy Reeve of the Department of Justice
has been visiting the stores in Montpelier
relative to fair prices. He took data as
to the cost price of goods; what they were
selling at and when they were bought
along with other information tending to
show whether too large profit was being
made.
The first allotment of the 1900 books
which the American Library Association
has sent back to Vermont as n result of
there being no further need of them in
the war has been sent to the sanatorum
in Proctor.
The Republican voters of Montpelier
decided in n caucus Saturday, the equal
OF which has not been held for many
years for selection of delegates to q
State convention, that they would elect
the men they wanted on the delegation
from Montpelier and that efforts to put
over states that had been previously ar.
ranged could not prevail, at least Satur.
day evening. There were two states ar.
ranged one of which was headed by
II. NJ. Cory and the other by ]. NJ. Bout
well. The rest of the ticket was COM
posed of the same men on each side
but the Republicans decided to place
both Messrs. Boutwell, and Cory on the
ticket, Mr.. Boutwell, In first place and
L., t,,1 r "a -
ticket was made UP of the persons tina,
composed the tickets but some changes
took PLACE. When it came to the selec.
ton of city committee none of them
excepting L. 3. Gilbert would stand for
reelection, with the result that new
committee was selected. excepting Mr.
Gilbert. The regular delegation from,
Montpelier is composed thus: J. NJ
Boutwell,, Col. +. b. Thomas, f. NJ. Cory
w. n. Thoriault. NJ. w. Dewey. +. w
Mitchell, Joseph Abair, Henry Holt
f. H. Tracy, Joseph Frattini. @. d. Pit.
kin, while the altcrnates arc A. c
Theriaul.. Major G.. E. Carpenter, F.. r
PitkiD, @. e. Bailey. J. H. Gowdcy
II. j. Fitzgerald, Merrill Harris. Harrit
Yeti. Ralph Denney, Alexander Hall ant
| w. T.. Poole. The new city committee is
| j. II. Gowdey. +. 3, Gilbert. William
| Cory. Alexander Hall. John c. Cat
tanach and Frank Facini: committee
man-at-large. c. E. McKenna.
The body of James !. Mcmahon, VIII.
died as result Of all operation in Butte
Mont. where he had lived for 20 years
| arrived here Saturday evening and the
/ funeral was held at St. Augustine.
Church at 2:30 O'Clock Sunday afternoon
The body was accompanied East by
| Michael Mcmahon. "a brother, who wen
West for the purpoue of bringing tn,
! body to his native town. Mr.. McMahor
was superintendent in one of the cop
per mines The Spanish WA
Veterans attended the funeral in a body
the deceased having been member o
| Company II, Vermont Nationa! Guard
during that war.
Louis Shambo. the youth who die
! quite bit of thieving in Montpelier
has been taken to the State prison I,
serve MS sentence. Efforts to hav,
1 Governor Clement place him on pro
baton or transfer him to the indus
trial school were without avail H
remained in the county Jail here unit
! Governor Clement decided not to in
terfere with the usual routine O
Justice.
j. Ward Carver. who was attorne,
for George A. Long, who last white
was found guilty of killing Lucin
I broadwell in Barre in May, 1919, ha
visited the man in the State prise,
and finds that he is conducting him
SER well there the warden statin
that he is an ideal prisoner Mr.. Car
yer talked over the exceptions whic
were taken at the time of trial Man
persons who had followed the cas-
closely have written Mr.. Carver stat
ing they believe Long was innocent q
the crime. The arguments in Suprem
court can not be made this term O
court for the transcript which
made part of the bill Of execution
is not yet out. 30 that the execution
can not be entirely completed
W. II. Jeffrey. c. a. Smith and F.. 7
Tracy have returned from New Yorl
where they attended a conference reIati,
TO prison reform and prison labor Sheri
Tracy was called upon by the chairma
OF the conference to speak the fir.
DAY or the conference, some of the 9th,
speakers being absent, and was paid
fitting commentator upon his being
pioneer in prison reform and the paro
system The last day of the conferenc
j. +. Weeks spoke on contract labor
mont expire December 81 and that nc
. ones would not be made which NEAR
Vermont drops out of the contract lab,
manner of handling prisoners. He ais
referred to Sheriff Tracy's success wi,
parole system told how the State adoptt
his method three years ago.
T.. r. Davis has brought suit In Wasl
, ington County Court for the foreclosu
of the property held by Fred n. Bralt
and M. w. Churchill has brought
similar action against Alfred A. Thoma
q. A. Peck, ct al, have brought su
:, against the Eagles fraternity on "A de
. which was the result of the fraternity
buying. some years ago the Peck bloc
! located on Main street in Montpelier
II. d. Hopkins of Montpelier, who W:
driving carriage along East Sta
>, street Sunday morning, reported to Il
State automobile department Monde
. morning that the driver of autom obile !
u had run his car into the carriage al
: that some damage was done. The car
: registered to Robert Gridley of Rocheste
u He was the driver Of the automobile tn
- went off bank in Warren year ae
" when his father was killed.
The body of Mrs. Urusla Hayward w
. brought Monday forenoon to Weybride
- where the funeral took place at o.
- O'Clock in the afternoon. She died at {
home of Benjamin NJ Hayward, her SO
. In Montpelier of a breaking down due
g old age. She was II years of age. born
y Weybridge daughter of Mr.. and MI
- Eratus c. Peck. and was the widow
80 teh late Judge A. y. Hayward of We
. bridge. Beside her son here. she leav
another son, T. y. Hayward of l.,