The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-11-19
STATE NEWS

On Sunday last some one removed
the dynamo and battery attachment
from gasoline engine at the resi-
dence of George Gould in Cabot. The
matter was brought to the attention
of Deputy Sheriff Lance of that place
by the owner of the engine, Albert
Lamberton of Marshfield. On Wedues-
day afternoon Charles A. Graham OF
Cabot was arrested by Lance on the
charge of grand larceny and brought
to this city and placed in Jail to await
a hearing next week
The Vermont commandery, Military
Order of Loyal Legion, has received
from Mrs. Emerson III. Liscum a
Chinese flag which floated behind the
walls of ITEM sin, China, and was
among the trophies captured by the
Ninth United States Infantry when
the city was taken. The flag will
be draped at the banquet hall at the
Van Ness House. Burlington, on the
evening of November II, when the
annual meeting and banquet of the
commandery will be held.
During the season, which closed
October 2S, there were received at the
Island Pond canning factory sixty
six carloads of blueberries. These
were put up in gallon and quart cans,
265, 600 of the formr, 1904 900 of the
latter, and packed in cases holding
either six gallon cans or twenty-four
quart cans. The firm shipped 33, 600
cases, the berries going to almost
every State in the Union. The factor
furnishes employment for about fifty
people.
Orleans county claims the distinc-
ton of having family of English
stock, five generations of which are
living on Vermont hill farm. The
oldest representative, the great grand
mother, is hale and hearty at the age
of ninety seven years, and striking
feature of the group is that each gen.
Grafton is represented by the first
born and in the female line. The an
cestor of the family, James Hum
phrey, was born in England and came
to this country when fifteen years
old. Marrying a Vermont girl, he
settled in Bloomington and was prom
inently identified with the early his
tory of the town. He was blessed
with a large family, and of nine chill
dren eight are now living, all being
at the home farm, except a son, John
".
Charlestown. n. H. The elder Hum
phrey served in the War of the Re-
bellion and was killed in front of
Richmond.
Sheriff Wakefield of Hardwick has
received word from the Lowell, Mass,
police saying that Charles Lamera
is in their custody and will be held
until the necessary papers can be Sc
cured for his return to Vermont.
Lamera, it will be remembered, is the
gentleman who escaped few weeks
ago from that section, after rifiing the
trunks of some fellow workmen at
Woodbury..
@. r. Witherill 81 Sons, of Corn
wall, made large shipment of stock
for South Africa last week. The lot
comprised sixty head of Spanish and
American Merino sheep and number
of mules. The stock left by steamer
from New York Monday. Stowell r.
Witherill is in South Africa, looking
out for the interests of the firm.
The eccentric genius, DR.. Albert
L. Rawson of whom New York papers
are publishing incidents was born in
Chester, Vt, in 1928. When young
man he travelled extensively and while
in England painted miniature por-
traits of Queen Victoria and the
Prince of Wales. He founded the
American Society of Water Color
Painters and was at one time presi-
dent of the National Defence Associa-
ton, a society organized to fight An
thony Comstock' S league He received
the degree of IL d. from Cambridge
University. DR.. Rawson laid claim to
the honor of founding the order of
the Mystic Shrine