St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-04-10
New BrattlebOrO Business.

New BrattlebOrO Business.
Arthur B. Clapp and Charles A. Boy
den, president and treasurer of the
Brattleboro Trust Co., have bought of
DR.. c. H. Sholes, of Boston, the four
story brick building known as Milestone
building at Brattleboro, and have leased
the lower floor and basement to the E.
r. Clark Automobile Co. of Springfield,
Mass. The company will become incor-
porated in this state, and will use the
building for a garage and repair shop.
The company is composed of Ned Clark,
DR.. M. ]. Stoddard and E. A. Stoddard,
all former Brattleboro boys. A vul-
canizing plant will be installed, which
will be the only one between Springfield
and Rutland
State Baptists Meet.
Three meetings of state Baptists were
held in Rutland last week Tuesday.
About 20 clergymen from all over the
state held afternoon and evening ses-
sions at the Baptist church for inter
change of ideas and social intercourse;
there was a meeting at the Bardwell
house of the trustees of the Baptist State
Convention, the principal topic discussed
being the apportionment OF funds; and
officials of the Vermont Young Peoples
Baptist Union also met at the hotel to
map out work for the coming year.
The annual charity ball given by the
Ladies Aid of the Heaton Hospital
association at Montpelier last week,
| will MAJ tho hne,D,+oI about Q100
Chief Yoeman A. D. Turner of the navy
recruiting Office, Boston, has opened a
branch Office in Rutland which he says is
the first office for recruiting for the navy
ever opened in Vermont. Yoeman Tur-
ner is in Rutland principally to instruct
about 20 candidates for the navy who
have made application within the last
few weeks.
The unusual sight of an aged brother
and sister contesting against each other
for their rights has been witnessed in
Washington county court in the case of
Betsy Slocum of Morrisville against
Harvey Jersey, ex-mayor and a retired
preacher of Barre. The plaintiff and
defendant are brother and sister and the
suit is brought to recover 81, 397.1S and
| interest since 1908 on note which it is
alleged the defendant gave the plaintiff.
The defense is that the note has been
paid in full and that endorsements there
on have been erased. Both Mrs. Slocum
and Mr.. Hersey are over 80 years old
A verdict of $13SS and costs was
awarded the plaintiff.
A. K. Richie has been elected president
of the Bennington County National
Bank to succeed the late John S. Holden
J. Holden, son of the late president, has
been elected vice president A. ]. Cooper
of the Cooper Manufacturing Co., has
been made director to fill vacancy ir
the board. The new president, who is
a native of Perth, Scotland, has beer
director of the bank IS years and vice
president for the past ten years.
Reports come that the brook trout fry
at the Roxbury state hatchery are dying
again this year from the same kind of q
disease which prevailed among them last
year. 1t is said that 100000 have
already died. Strenuous efforts art
being made to stop the epidemic A
year ago a government expert was sent
there to make an investigation.
Dwight a Niles, who recently shot ant
killed his wife at Newport, and Later
made an attempt to kill himself, is now
i'll of pneumonia in the Orleans county
Jail.
George 0. Stratton was elected presi
dent of the Vermont Mutual Fire lnsur
ance Co., Wednesday, to succeed the lat'
Col Fred E. Smith. L. P. Gleason wa'
elected vice-president. He is now {
director of the company. The vacancy
in the board of directors was filled by
the election of led S. Stanton of Rox
bury.
Owing to a change in dates of TIL
Great Eastern celebration at Sherbrooke
Que, to the week usually taken b,
Barton and the following week, tn
management of the Orleans County Fai
Association has decided to change it
dates for the next fair from Septembe
9-12 to August 20-23.
The summer field day of the New Eng
land Fat Mems Club, which numbers
several Vermont men in its membership
will be held in Concord, N. H.
Barney T. Cole, who is charged will
robbing the post office in Craftsbur,
several years ago and who has sine
been fugitive from justice, arrived il
Burlington last week from Californi;
and was placed in the Chittenden count,
Jail. Cole was apprehended in Pacifi
coast town, where he was employed il
restaurant under the name of Georg
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