St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-04-01
VERMONT NEWS
me Eetty Green House 100 ears old.

The BETTY Green House 100 Years Old,
This year will see the rounding out of
f,ll century of existence of the dwelling
= BELLOWS Falls familiary known as the
"uetty Green house, that has been a
familiar landmark in all these years.
II was erected in the year 1903 by
Squire" William Hall, jr., who came be-
+a,qen 100 and 1900 from Salem. N. H..
,rhere he was born in IVA. For mum.
her of years he was the village merchant
If Rockingham, being the second
postmaster of that village, 1S02-18OS.
He had a partner there in trade named
narel ". Hall, who succeeded to
the postmastership in 1908, evidently
mon the removal of Squire Hall to Bel
lows Fails. This dwelling was then his
home until his death in 1881.
Mr.. Hall in March, 1917, owned a
orist mill about a mile from the mouth
0C the Williams river, burned in that
month This was the site of the first
mill of any kind in town, the erection of
which was begun in 1860 by Michael
Lowell. one of the very first settlers in
this town. Squire Hall was for many
wears a merchant in Bellows Falls in
company with Henry Atkinson Green,
the father of the late Edward H. Green.
their store being on the present site of
rni1D block. Later he was of the firm
ofHall & Goodridge whose store was in
what is now Mammoth block on the
south side of the square, and they owned
boats that ran on the Connecticut river
between here and Hartford, Conn,
dealing heavily in wool and sending it
to market by their boats. He also had
commission house in Hartford to
which all kinds of country produce was
sent having as a partner there, William
H. Brace
Squire Hall was a trustee of Middle
bury college, and strong Federalist in
the political divisions that occurred dur
ing the war of 1912. He was member
of the governors council in 1914 and
represented Rockingham in the legisla-
lures of 1S26-7. He was one of the
strong men of this part of New England
in his day.
An Unwilling Patient.
One Hungarian in Proctor does not
methods One night last week he
wandered up to the Proctor hospital to
see a sick brother. 1t happened that the
nurse, who was acting superintendent in
the absence of the head nurse, was ex.
pecting a patient from Center Rutland
concerning whom she had heard no
particulars When she discovered very
detected looking man in the reception
room she at once ordered him as best she
could by gestures 1.-THE Hun could not
speak English) to go to the bath room
and battle. AS the foreigner did not pay
any heed TO her, two nurses took him
iorcibly to the bath room and after some
remonstrance on his part which they
mistook for stubbornness, they Invested
him of his clothing and put him into the
tub Later when the man, after being
put into a clean night shirt, was tucked
into bed, an attache of the hospital was
summoned in as interpreter and through
him the alleged patients real motive in
visiting the hospital was learned. AS
soon as he was given his street clothes
the man lett without seeing his brother
Boston Maple Sugar Eat.
Many gallons of Vermont maple syrup
was served March 26 to $50 members o
the Vermont association of Boston anC
their invited guests at the Hotel West
Minister. 1t was the annual "sugaring
off Of the association. There were The
buckets, the evaporators and sugar pan:
and the fire arches. The only thing
absent was the trees, and they were
hardly missed, for buckets full of rea
sap were served Just as it ran from the
trees. The exhibit of sugar utensils wa:
sent by W. E. Burt of Burlington anc
was arranged in a large alcove t.
initiate sugar house. Scores of barrels
Of snow had been brought to Boston
from the mountains of Vermont, anC
this was placed in pans on the tables
When the syrup had been boiled TO JUS
the right point it was served to tn,
guests, who poured it on the snow anC
ate it as they did when they were in Yer
mont To make the affair as realistic a,
possible, paddles made from maple wood
cut Vermont, were furnished each per
son in lieu of spoons. The sugar anC
syrup this year were made at the hom
OF Charles X Darling at Corinth.
State Association Meetings.
A bulletin issued recently by the Yer
mont Association of Boston contains TIL
following list of proposed entertainment
Tor this year.
April 16.-Smoke talk.
May 10.-Smoke talk. Celebration o
Capture Of Ticonderoga by Ethan Allel
and his Green Mountain Boys.
June 18-Smoke talk, Subject to b
announced Legislature authorized
issue ofcoins June 10, 1885.
August l5.-Celebration ofanniversar,
OF Battle of Bennington, August 16
d III Annual excursion or picnic.
September 17.-Smoke talk. Mont
gomery's army invaded Canada, 1775.
October 22.-Smoke talk. Firstgenera
y school law enacted 1882.
& November 19.-Smoke talk. Univer
slty of Vermont incorporated Novembe
q 3, 1871.
4 December 17.-Smoke talk. FRS
church organization effected at Ber
nngton December 3, 1862.
Lonesome Pine.
Il WE Wood of Woodstock purchase,
a big white pine on the farm of F. Z
button in Pomfret, recently, and it ha
Il been cut and drawn to a mill to be Gu
i INTO boards. The tree measured /
inches in diameter, 80 feet from tn
Il bottom The butt log, IA feet long, wa
~ inches in diameter, and measured owe
q IOOO board feet. The trunk was entirel