St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-12-05
VERMONT NEWS.
More Rankrupts.

Petition number 629 OF the voluntary
bankruptcy files was received at Burling-
ron the first OF last week and was that of
Charles L. Bugbee OF Hartford. Mr..
Bugbee is manufacturer of carriages
and sleighs and fails for larger amount
than most of the petitions Indicate. The
liabilities shown in his petition are ST.
1906, of which $11, OFT is given as
unsecured and $685. s. cured. The as
sets given exceed by little over 81 900
the amount OF liabilities and are $1S, oil.
OF this amount the petitioner exempts
81 ,185.
Another petition filed was that of
Martin Mack of Middlebury. a laborer.
Mr.. Mack had liabilities of $491, all Of
which is unsecured, and assets OF $50 all
of which he asks to have exempted.
Canal boats loaded with nearly 1000
barrels OF apples have left Burlington
for New York.
A Bratteboro woman, while rum
maging about the house recently, found
a pincushion upon which were $50
needles. The cushion was bought at an
auction / 5 years ago, and had been laid
away unno'iced. The needles were all
we'll preserved.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Poultry association will be held in
Woodstock during the first week of
January next. This will be the third
season it has been held there.
Newburv is paying it's war tax of $15,-
600 for which the town was bonded in
the early '7O's
The valuable summer hotel property
at Morey Lake i'll Fairlee known as the
Glen Falls house, which was a part OF
the estate OF the late George A. Dickey,
has been sold to c. F. Bracy.
The new water tank OF the Wells &
Richardson Company, in Burling-
ton, holes 10000 gallons OF
water, which is supplied to the build
ings used by the company, it being so
arranged that $4,000 gallons is for use
only in case of fire.
Vermont lumtermen may be interested
to know that great demand for lumber
is reported from all parts of the Adiron.
dacks and lumbermen there are in great
need OF help. They are paying $40 a
month and board for experienced hands
Spruce lumber has advanced 81 a thous
and since election,
Charles M. Clark of Burlington, agent
of the Rutland railroad died suddenly
Friday afternoon from apoplexY while
sitting at his desk. He had been at the
office during the day and during the last
few days had been feeling in better
health. He had been agent of the Rut
land railroad in Burlington for two
years, coming from Boston. He leaves {
widow, and an aged mother in Alburgh
The following pensions have beer
granted: Increase, David B. Reid, Wells
River, $12; original. widows, johanna E
Edwards, Jacksonville, So.
Several farmers having cattle in bacl
pastures had quite time hunting then
up alter the recent blizzard. One man il
Richiord hunted two days for his sheer
and finally noticed one of the animal
poke his head out of a drift near fence
pletely buried but none the worse TO
their rather cold burial.
discovery made in the Chittendel
meadows a short time ago shows how
long timber may be preserved unde
ground. A farmer, who was digging
we'll on a terrace several feet above tn
level OF the stream, came upon a SCUM
log at depth OF 18feet, These meadow
fats have been long time in formini
and it must have taken hundreds, it no
thousand, years to cover this log wit
10 feet of earth.