St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-12-22

: other companies on the following dates
Company D, St. Johnsbury, January 8
+ company L, Newport, January 10; CON
pany G, Woodstock January II; com
. pany E, Bellows Falls, January 81
, company l. Brattleboro, February 7
. company K, Bennington, February Ia
; company c, Brandon, February %
! company NJ, Burlington, March 7; com
pany B, ST. Adams, March IA; company
H, Montpelier, March 81; company F
Mortified, March %.
Held on Serious Charge.
Nelson Bonner, the Morristown farm
) er who, November l, was hit over the
head with an axe by his 13-year-old son,
throat with a knife, appeared before JUS
tice of the Peace A. A. Niles in Morris
vile, Thursday. He was held in the sum
of $1,000 for his appearance at the next
term OF the Lamoille county court to be
tried on a charge of assault with intent
to kill. Being unable to furnish bail, he
was placed in the county jail at Hyde
Park. Bonner was intoxicated at the
time that he assaulted his wife, and
claimed that he remembered nothing of
the happening. He was badly injured
about the head by the blow struck by
his young son and was taken to the
Mary Fletcher hospital at Burlington
for treatment. Mrs. Bonner has moved
back to her old home in New York.
Suicide in Richmond.
Jesse Olmstead, aged so, committed
suicide Thursday morning by shooting
| himself in the head at his home in Rich
mond. Dependence over the thought
that he was becoming blind is considered
the cause for his act. He left a note say
ing that he would be a burden if he be-
came blind. He was at one time master
bridge builder for the Central Vermont.
He leaves wife and seven children.
During the past two years it has cost
the State $3,S71.65 to run the House of
Correction, or little more than 1900
year. This year the farm and garden
in connection with the institution has
earned sufficient money to enable the
superintendent to turn over to the
State 81, 290, besides supplying sufficient
vegetables, milk and eggs to supply the
prison.
The Windsor Farms company, with a
capital stock of $4,000, organized by
five citizens of Windsor for the purpose
of buying and leasing land and build
ings, handling farm produce and doing
a general business, have filed articles of
incorporation in the office of the secre-
tary of state.
William Lachance was arrested in
Richmond charged with taking horse
and wagon belonging to Fred Earring
ton of Quechee, and taken to White |
River Junction on Monday of last week.
In court he waived examination and was |
bound over in the sum of $500 for the
countygcourt.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Spiritualist Association is to be
held in Montpelier, Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday, January IA, Is. and 16.
Among the speakers of note from out
side the state will be E. w. Emerson of
Manchester. N. H.
Sheriff Frank H. Tracy has settled his
account with the Washington county
prison board for the year ending Decem-
Der 1, and has paid into the states
treasury, $1,00S.31 as net income for
prison labor during the year. The pris.
oners under his care earned during the
year ST, S98.73. 1t is asserted that the
$1,008.31 paid by Sheriff Tracy for this
prison labor is more than will be turned
into the state treasury for like service by
the thirteen other sherffs of the state
combined.
Henry Picord. who claims to come
from st. Johnsbury, and Mrs. Julia Sui
ham were arrested in Waterbury last
Wednesday on the charge of adultery.
They were unable to furnish bail and
taken to Washington county jail to
await appearance in county court. Last
Saturday Picord and Mrs Sulham
pleaded guilty to the charge against
them and Judge E. M. Harvey sentenced
Picord to not less than one nor more
than two years at hard labor in the
House Of Correction at Rutland and
Mrs. Sulham to not less than ten months
nor more than two years in the same
They were taken there
Monday morning.
Lynn M. Hays, state supervisor of the
census announces that he will hold exam
ihdtl'uo lOl dppllCantS as enumeratOrS |
early in February. There are 800 dis
tricts IN Vermont and about the same
number OF enumerators. Already 100
applications have been received. The cen.
sus will be taken April Is, 1910, and
will last one month. Cities of more than
!, 900 inhabitants will take IA DAYS.
The examinations are not hard.
The Baptist and congregational
churches at SaXtons River have agreed
to cooperate and have each appointed
on fellowship to devise ways
n which the two churches may work to- t
yether to accomplish purposes that can !
not be attained singy.
Somebody broke into the feed store of !
:. M. Seaver & Co., at Wlliamstown 7
asst week Sunday night and ransacked c
he place for money. 1t is not known 8
whether they took any of the grain or
not. 2
The city government cf Burlington has f
)egun campaign to stop the illegal en- t
'loyment of children in the shops and P
Mills of that city. il
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