St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-03-13

Dana ID. Dickinson, OF WilliamSYille
aged sc years, died Sunday night, Mar
3. He was formerly owner of the wood
working mills there and one of the
towns most prominent citizens. He
represented Newfane in the legislature il
1870 and 1872 and was one of the old
est trustees of the Vermont Savings
Bank at Brattleboro.
The marriage engagement of Miss
Edith Goddard Hart, daughter of Mrs
Orrin F. Hart, of Boston, to Aaron Hin
man Grout, son of ex-Gov and Mrs
Josiah Grout, of Newport, is announced
Hon. Burleigh F. Spalding, appointed
justice of the Supreme Court of North
Dakota, was born in Orleans county
Dec. 3, 1853, and is a son of Rev. Benia.
min p and Ann (Folsom) Spalding also
natives of the Green Mountain state. AS
Methodist Episcopal minister the
father engaged i'll preaching in Vermont
and New Hampshire for many years, but
is now living, retired, and with his son
went to North Dakota in 1899. The
paternal grandfather, Noah Spalding,
vas a schoolteacher of Vermont, and
was politician OF some note, while the
maternal grandfather, Rev. Moses Fol
som, was Free Baptist minister of New
| Hampshire and Vermont.
An attachment of $4,000 was placed
on the property of the Rutland Railroad
Co., March 2, as the result of a suit
brought by w. w. Rider a Bristol attor-
ney, for severe injuries said to have been
sustained in wreck on the Rutland
railroad, at Vergennes, Dec. l. 1906. The
case is returnable at the next term of
Addison county court. 1t is claimed that
Mr. Rider is still confined to the house by
his injuries.
Congressman Kittredge Haskins has
been engaged to deliver the Memorial
day address in Barre this year under the
auspices of Crandall post G. A. X.
Hon. Frank Plumley, of Mortified,
will speak in White River Junction
Memorial day before the Hartford
Soldiers Memorial association.
Business at the Vermont Maple Sugar
Market in Randolph promises to be
unusually heavy this season owing to
the pure food law, which makes it neces-
sary for confectioners to use the real
maple article in their products instead of
a maple-extract substitute which they
have heretofore relied upon. Orders for
"a tons ofsugar have been received at
the market within day or two and
more are in prospect, which it will take
a pretty good run of sap to fill. An
exhibit from this market will very likely
be made at the Jamestown exposition.
Gov. Fletcher D. Proctor has appointed
John L. Alger, principal of Vermont
Academy at Saxton's River, member of
the state board of normal school COM
missioners to succeed Robert H. Ford, of
St. Adams, resigned.
Senator W. P. Dillingham; is expected
soon in Montpelier. He will be at his
home there several weeks before going
abroad with thecongressional committee
to study the immigration question.
John Roberts, Thetford farmer, drove
on the railroad track and lives to tell his
experience A passing train demolished
the sleigh and tore the harness from the
horse, but John and the animal were I'M
injured
The largest real estate deal made in
Mortified for several years is the trans
fer of the Mortified house, owned and
operated by NJ. E, Warrington for the
past II years, to Frank L. Sanderson, of
Boston. The consideration is $4,000.
Mr.. Sanderson has been for several
years travelling salesman.
1t is rumored that Charles c. Gilmore,
of Swanton, has intentions of buying the
lake property and Missisquoi Park at
Highgate Springs of Mrs. Judson L.
Scott.