St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-11-25

had been communicated to the house, |
and their escape was none too soon for |
their safety. Little was saved from the
house. The losses include a double |
house, four barns, one large shed, and a |
large silo. Seventeen head OF cattle and
four hogs were also burned. The prop
erty was insured in the Vermont Mutual
Co. for So 600 which will nearly cover
the loss.
A motion to set aside the verdict in the
case of Gilman B. Wilson, of Dorset,
against William G. Freddy, of Phila-
delphia. recently tried in United States
court in Rutland. in which a verdict of
$40, 1856 was awarded the plaintiff,
has been decided in favor of the defend
ant by Judge Wheeler. The Judge orders
the plaintiff to remit SIS ,660S3 of the
verdict within 20 days, or the whole
vel dict will be set aside.
Francis Batcheder & Co. of Boston,
have purchased land at Sheldon on which
to build butter factory, which will be
erected at once. A bridge will be built
over the highway running to the B. &
M. station and side grade will be laid.
The agent and general manager of the
company has been in conference with
the farmers and received much encour-
agement
A cablegram received from ex-Gov. c.
S. Page of Hyde Park contained the news
that he would sail for home on the
Kronpripz Wilhelm, leaving Bremen No
vember IL.
| Judge Carolus Noyes died at Burlington
last Wednesday of apoplexy. Though
| feeble of late he had been about the city
| daily. Hewas member of well known
Hyde Park family. He was born Jan. o.
| 1923, and was graduated from the Uni
versity of Vermont in 1S47, being
classmate of G. G. Benedict, George Fl.
Paul and John B. Perry. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced
law at Burlington tor long time, being
prominent in local affairs. He repre-
sented the town of Burlington in the
state legislature in 1860. He was judge
of the city court. 1S72-73 He leaves
wife and one daughter, Mrs. Clyde Buck
stof, of Oshkosh, Wis.
D. w. Temple, for many years dry
goods merchant in Montpelier, died
Thursday night, after three years
illness. He was SO years old.
T. B. Hopkins, Brandon, has been ap-
pointed by Gov. Mccullough member
OF the state board of pharmacy. The
commission bears date OF Nov. 80, 1908,
and the appointment is for five years.
DIR. w. M. Huntington. veteran ply
sician and highly esteemed citizen of
Rochester. died at his hume there Thurs
day. He was "a years of age and leaves
a wife and one son, DR.. W. D. Hunting
ton, at one time surgeon general of the
state and widely known throughout YER
mont. At one time the deceased repre-
sented the town of Rochester and he was
the first president of the White River
medical society, member OF the Yer
mont state and the national medical
societies and a member of the pension
board from 1890 to 1895.
On November 16 over 100000 was
distributed among the employees of the
Vermont Marble Co. at Proctor as
wages for the month of October. This
is one OF the largest pay rolls the COM
pany has ever met, although the amount
Of the roll is constantly increasing.
The resignation of W. H. Greene,
station agent at the Central Vermont
station in Burlington for the past 10
years, sent in last June, has been
accepted. He will be succeeded by w. H.
P. Luckett of South Royalton. Mr..
Greene has also acted tor the Rutland
road, the station being union one.
The first reduction in cotton mill
wages iu this state has been announced
at North Pownal, when notices were
posted in the North Pownal Manufact-
uring Company's mills ordering cut OF
ten per cent. on and after November %.
This plant is operated on the schedule
paid in Berkshire County, Mass. The
mills in this section raised wages early in
1902. following the advance in Fall
River, and the pending decrease is in line
with the general movement throughout
southern New England. Business there
has been dull this year on account OF the
high price of cotton, the mills in North
Pownal and Williamstown having been
shut down two months during the
summer.
The Brattleboro chapter of Daughters
of the American Revolution voted at its
November meeting to give $500 toward
the tablet that is to be placed on the old
camp, ground by the patriotic societies
OF Vermont. Mrs. Nettie Starr Clement
presented the chapter with a brick
secured at the time the hall of records
originally "the new jail, )" was being torn
down in the City Hall park, Brooklyn
The memento is valued from the tact
that Ethan Allen is said to have beer
confined in the dungeon there during thu
Revolution.