St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
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Mrs. Harry White OF Fitch Bay, P. O.,
is spending few days with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs A. l.. Finney.
Miss Cunningham S room in the Graded
School building is SO crowded that she
has been obliged to divide her scholars,
half of them going in the morning and
half in the afternoon.
!. B. and w. w. Waterman are going
to open a and 10 cent store, occupying
one side of the store in Stern's block in
which Arthur Crawford is located. They
will have on sale a great variety OF
articles, usually sold at these popular
prices. They are enterprising young men
and we hope they will meet with success.
Campbell & Blodgett and E, J. Blod-
gett have hired the store in the Darling
block recently vacated by II. w. Dexter's
iewelry store They will move their in
surance and other business there soon
H. w. Dexter has gone to Lowell, Mass,
where he has good position, while his
brother will remain here for the present
doing repair work.
The Lyndon Civic Federation held its
January meeting in the Darling Hall last
Thursday evening with a good attend
ance The speakers of the evening were
Mrs. p F. Hazen, Mrs. Walter T. Smith
and Mrs. Rebecca Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury. Mrs. Hazen, who is president OF
the State Federation, also a member OF
the State Board of Charities and Cor
rections, gave most interesting descrip-
ton of her experiences along these lines.
Mrs. Fairbanks read the valuable paper
on Forestry which she gave at the State
Federation at Windsor. Mrs. Smiths
talk on the needs of the library was a
most practical and helpful one. Her
| knowledge OF literary needs is wide, and
she has the power of expressing that
knowledge in the best way. The meet
ing as a whole was most successful one.
A Terrible Accident.
| A terrible accident occurred Sunday
afternoon which resulted in a small hire
and caused the death of Miss Lornda
Dunton, an elderly and much respected
| lady. Miss Dunton was living alone up
stairs in her house on Main street and
there was no family downstairs.
Whether an oil stove exploded or what
caused the fire will never be known, but
in some way the fire started in her room
and she came downstairs with her cloth
ing all ablaze. She evidently tried to
open the front door and failed, for some
of the neighbors seeing the smoke, broke
open the door and found her blazing
mass at the foot of the stairs. They inn
mediately extinguished the flames by
rolling her in the snow, but she never re
covered consciousness and died before
morning. The fire company was on
hand and soon subdued the fire which
had made some havoc in her rooms up
stairs 1t is a strange coincidence that
she should die in almost the same man
ner as her father, John Dunton, who was
burned to death in the same house Just
before he reached his 1O2d birthday
Lorinda Dunton was 81 years old. She
had lived alone since her fathers death
and was universally known and liked
for her kind heart and quaint ways. a
thrill of horror went through the whole
community at the thought that her Ole
age should be cut short by such revolt
ing death. Her surviving relatives are
a brother, Silas Dunton, of this town
and a sister, Mrs. Martha Hastings, liv
ing in Massachusetts, The funeral ser
vices are to be held today "wednesday
in the Baptist church at the Center,
Cornelius Gronberg is visiting hi
family here Miss Estelle Gronberg hal
had a relapse after her recent illness anc
Mrs. Myra Conner Abbott of South Bar
ton is taking her place at the creamery,