St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-02-25
VERMONT NEWS.
vermont Headquarters Open.

Vermont Headquarters Open.
Over 100 enthusiastic Vermonters at
tended the informal opening OF the head
CHARTERS oil the Vermont association last
week Tuesday night at Hotel Westmin
ster Boston. The FIVE rooms offered a
clad welcome and pictures OF past pres-
dents of the association. Admiral George
newev, Senator Proctor and other well
known Vermont men made the place
seem almost like ones 6reside. Most of
the prominent Vermont dailies and week
lies were on file and Vermont books
invited inspection.
After social hour excellent cider fur
nished by DR.. Campbell OF Bellows Falls,
and butternuts and apples were offered
nv attendants 10 country costume. Then
came substantial collation.. The house
committee, N l.. Sheldon, chairman, is
very anxious to fix out the rooms with
photographs of historic relics that speak
of Vermont's fame and valor, and any
resident of Vermont who desires to assist
in this work should communicate with
him at the Niles building, Boston. 1t is
believed by those who have the headquar-
n tiers in charge that they will prove the
y beginning oil better and more preten
3 tiOus club home. There will be an at
\ tendant in charge at the rooms all day
Il and evening and all visiting Vermonters
u are invited to drop in and make them
selves known. The association has
planned to hold sugar party in March
soon ter sap begins to run.
u Fire mt Barre.
4 A FIRE started in the basement Of tie
u Currier block on Main street in Barre,
early Saturday morning, that prove to
n be the most disastrous one that ever Wis
y tied that city. The fine Currier building
\ and the Sheplee building, one OF the city's
landmarks are entirely destroyed and
\ the loss is placed at 100000 with an
4 insurance OF $65, 900. Five large. bust
4 ness firms are burned out together with
\ six Offices and six families are rendered
Z homeless. Hardly one of the ttnants
saved a single article of clothing EXCEPT
n that on their backs. The stores burned
( out are: B. w. Hooker & Co., the larg-
y est furniture dealers in central Vermont,
4 whose loss is placed at SIS, 900; Sowden
n & Lyon grocers, whose loss is 5000;
\ Boston Bargain Store, with loss OF S14.-
900; Veale & Knight. dry goods, loss
$4,000; Union Clothing Store, loss
4 $4,000. All these firms are fairly well
4 insured with the exception OF B. W.
4 Hooker & Co. The loss on the Currier
h block is$25 900 and on the other So 600.
Il The photograph studio OF c. Bau, the
Office OF DR.. Frank M. Lynde, dentist. OF
Townsend & Towsend, granite dealers,
s of VIC. Towsend & Co., granite dealers,
III Is Matrnnnl,ta,, I ia Tpc 70
II and OF William Buff, architect, were wiped
d out with all their contents, and the insur-
4 ance is very light.
II 1t is thought the fire started in the
basement near the furnace, and as it was
almost impossible to get at it the work
81 OF the fire department was not effective.
At 80 a second alarm was rung in and
d call sent TO Montpelier for aid. Five
q hours after the fire was started it was
y under control. All the firms burned out
u are open for business in temporary quar-
tiers and are looking tor new accommo-
81 dations.
81 Barre Bank sold.
y The sale Of the controlling interest in
d the National bank OF Barre, to Frank 6.
81 Rowland and associates, last week, con-
NJ stituted the most important financial
n deal ever made in Barre. Most of the
M purchasers are stockholders in the Barre
M Savings Bank and Trust company. 1t Is
understood that the price per share was
@ about $40. Those who disposed of
81 their stock were Or. B. w. Braley, pres
ident; Fred N. Braley, vice. president; Ira
81 Calef OF Washington, James M. Perry, L.
d D. Allen, the A. P. Braley estate and God
j dard Seminary The stock acquired
from these with the holdings OF the pur-
D chasers give them control and enabled
them to elect board OF directors OF their
own as follows: Frank G. Rowland,
8 George Howaud, D. M. Miles, B. A.
q Eastman and DR.. J. Henry Jackson.
Il Subsequently the directors elected these
81 officers: President, George Rowland Of
East Montpelier; vice president, David
81 NJ. Miles of Barre. The money in
"a voIved and the sum that changed bands
"a in this transaction is said to have been
81 $1,000.
IA Dewey Buys Home.
3 Town Clerk Waterbury of Stamford is
4 authority for the statement that the
# recent sale of the villa and estate at
3 Stamford adjoining the famous Rock Hill
s# dairy farm, once the property OF Capt
Benjamin D. Greene, who is fugitive
@ from Justice in Quebec for connection
with the Gaynor- Carter frauds in Savan-
nah harbor, is for a country seat Tor
A Admiral Dewey, who is in future to
~ make this a summer home. According
Isl to Town Clerk Waterbury. Admiral
Dewey, after buying the estate endeavor
@ ed but failed to secure 10acre strip ad
3 Joining from the Rock Hill dairy farm.
So No terms could be made for title from
# It's former owner, Capt. Greene.
A Courageous Woman.
M Mrs, Charles Evtrts OF Salisbury, gave
an exhibition of nerve one morning last
Z week which has rarely been equaled in
s that vicinity. She was shelling corn with
I'D corn Smelling machine, in the barn at
Z her home, which is about half d mile
3 north OF the village. Finally, in putting
cob of corn into the machine, the tore
hnger of her right hand got into the cogs
Z N such a manner that she could not
S% eXtrlcate it. The cogs held her finger so
IN tightly that the pressure soon became
8 very painful, but she waited and called
# orhep for fully an hour. At last, despair
Ell ing of any relief aud unable to longer
81 endure the pressure of the machine she
# literally tore the finger off at the second
# lOInt and the,, n IL cd ~ ltnIv tO the vii