St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-03-09


nishing liquor and sentenced to nine
months in the house of correction at
/ Rutland. Wooster tried to prove an
| abb, saying he was in Barre when the
| man, who was arrested for drunkenness,
i obtained the liquor.
| Early Friday morning fire broke ont in
a wooden block on Church street, Bur-
| lington, which was occupied as an ORR
| entail store. The total amount of stock
carried was $4,000: total insurance,
| SIG, 900. The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
| Mrs. Freelove Cutler, widow of limo
| thy Cutler, of Montpelier, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Hattie Cutler
| Hall, Thursday, and was the Oldest per-
son in the city.
The Waits River Valley Grange, No.
800, was organized at West Topsham,
T Thursday night, by Hon. Charles ].
Bell of Walden. There were SO charter
| members. S. Nd. Hood was elected mas
| ter and Grant Jackson, secretary.
| Mrs Harrison Abbott, of Randolph,
an aged woman, who lived alone, was
| burned to death in her house at an early
| hour last week Tuesday. The fire was
| discovered about five O'Clock by neigh
| bors. The house was then so nearly con-
sumed that it was impossible to subdue
| the flames. The origin of the fire is
unknown. Mrs. Abbott used an oil stove
at times for heating purposes, and it is
possible that the stove exploded.
A. ]. Mcdonald, So years old, was
drowned in the Castleton river near Cas-
Teton Wednesday morning and the body
was found about O'Clock by section
foreman near the cemetery bridge, quar-
ter of mile from the village. McDon-
aid was last seen at six in the morning
at Bomseem when he started with his
dinner pail for work. It was either an
accident or suicide. He has been despond-
emit for several days as he separated from
his wife three weeks ago.
Rev. Joseph A. Sherburne, we'll known
Methodist clergyman, died at his home
| in Barre, last week Monday, after a
| weeks illness with pneumonia. He was
born in Orange, November %, 1921, and
was son of the late David Sherburne of
| that place. The near relatives living,
| besides a wife, are four sons, Rev. l.. o.,
pastor of the Methodist society at Bel
| lows Falls; DIR. H. K, of Rutland, DIR. F.
W., of Boston, and Frank A, grocer; one
daughter. Miss Ada j., who resided with
her parents in Barre. also one brother,
Newell, of Eagan, S. D. He has occupied
from active work in the ministry 20
years ago.
c. ]. Bell has just closed two weeks
meeting Of the State Board of Agricul-
ture in Rutland and Bennington counties
and next week will begin a series of
Grange meetings in Washington county,
which will close the work of the board
for the season. Mr.. Bell says the board
| has already held rs meetings. all success
| ful, in different parts of the state and the
| interest in the Grange movement is con-
| stantly increasing.
Edward L. Hutchinson, of Felchville,
| who surrendered himself to United States
| District Attorney J. L. Martin early last
month after opening letter containing
a check, was arraigned before Judge FL.
FL. Wheeler in the United States court
last week. He pleaded guilty and was
| sentenced, to eight months in the house
of correction at Rutland. Hutchinson
| threw himself on the mercy OF the court.
| He formerly lived in Halifax, and while
there opened letter addressed to George
Prouty and containing "a check for $25.
He forged Mr.. Prouty's name and
secured the money at the Peoples Nation
| al Bank in Brattleboro.
Some idea of the great depth Of snow
| in the Green Mountains is had from the
| stories of the rough experiences of ply
| sicians and others in attempting to reach
| the sick in sections remote from the main
| thoroughfares. Mrs. James Atwood,
living northeast OF West Dover, towards
| Wardsboro three and one-fourth miles
| from the nearest neighbor, became i'll
several days ago, requiring the attend
ance of Wilmington doctor who was
obliged to walk four miles through drift
ed roads, otherwise impossible. At the
funeral of Mrs. Atwood eight men and
several teams shoveled and plowed for
hours, only at last to be obliged to take
hand sled to convey the body to the
cemetery, several miles distant, in West
Dover village.
| w. Fl. H. Murray, age "a years, died
| last week at 9Guilford. Conn.,, where he
lived in retirement. He once resided at
Burlington and was a poor farmers
| boy. He became a popular preacher,
author and lecturer, and was famil1arly
known as Adirondack Murray. Muir
ray worked his way through college
starting in at Yale with 81 6S cash
capital.
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