St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-10-02
VERMONT NEWS.

The Freshman class in Middlebury
college numbers II.
The president has appointed r. w.
Hurlburt postmaster at Hyde Park.
The American Canoe associate
will hold it's next annual meeting at
some point on Lake Champlain.
Senator George F. Edmunds has
returned to Washington much bene-
fitted by a short vacation at his
home.
The ST. Adams literary magazine,
1.-THE Quill" has suspended publica-
ton. Only one number was pub
lished.
John Gibson of Newport, r. L.,
goes to Burlington to become gen
eral secretary of the Y. M. c. A. in
that city.
The forty-first annual meeting of
the Vermont state teachers aSSOc1a-
ton will occur at Bellows Falls, Oct.
%, "a and rs.
DIR. w. S. Webb has bored about
1900 feet for gas, on his Shelburne
farm. He has not reached the gas
deposit, but says he will have either
gas or tea.
The store of T. c. Keyes and the
post office at Newbury were recently
burglarized but little of value was
taken as the thieves were evidently
frightened away.
The grocery store land post office
of W. c. Marsh at Sheldon was
broken into last Friday night and
the change in the drawer, stamps,
two watches and chains, gloves and
mittens stolen, also the depot at
North Sheldon was opened by bur
glars and some money and stamps
taken.
DR.. H. H. McIntire of West Ran
dolph, one of the commissioners from
Vermont to the worlds fair, has been
appointed a member of the standing
committee on transportation, agri
culture, tariffs aud finance. B. 3.
Smalley of Burlington, the other
commissioner from Vermont, is on
the executive committee.
Vermont's marriage laws are in
volved in a suit now before the
United States court in Boston. Gen
eral Butler is counsel for the defence,
and Horace w. Bailey, town clerk of
Newbury, is one of the witnesses.
General Butler insists that the laws
of Vermont prohibit marriages be-
tween male under 81 and female
under 1S.
William Collision Of Barton was
thrown from a load of hay last
Thursday, injuring his back and
spinal column He is in a critical
condition. About the same time
H. 0. Whittier fell from car which
he was loading with potatoes and
broke an arm. G. w. Jenness fell
from a load of hay, breaking his
shoulder blade.
Three men, while rowing above the
dam in the Connecticut river at Bel
lows Falls, lost control of their boat,
which went over the dam. Two
leaped into the water just as the
boat passed over, caught on q log
on the edge of the dam, hanging
nearly an hour, when they were res
cued by a boat from above. One
went over with the boat and was
drowned.
H. E. Lyon of Westport is making
speciality OF market gardening,
having a farm we'll located for it on
the shores of Lake Willoughby. He
raises from three to five acres of truck
yearly, which pays him on an aver
age 800 per acre. This is much
better than common farming. He
now has 5000 cabbages, 212 tons of
squash, besides large quantities of
turnips, carrots, beets, tomatoes, etc.
Miss Mary Howe, the well-known
singer of Brattleboro, had a narrow
and very fortunate escape from Sc
rious injury last Saturday afternoon.
while riding with friends in Worces-
ter, with whom she was staying
during festival week. The horse ran
into a heavy bus and the occupants
of the carriage were thrown violently
forward but escaped being thrown
out, and suffered no bodily injury of
any account.