St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-03-23
VERMONT NEWS.
West Rupert Farmer Arrested for Adulter-
ating His Syrup.

aE1ng HIS syrup.
c. w. Sherman, a wealthy West
Rupert farmer, was arrested Thursday
by Deputy y. s. Marshall +. S.
Whitaker of Rutland charged with
selling a gallon of aduIterated maple
syrup on April %. 1909, to Allen Slade
and Company of Fall River, Mass. The
capias on which the arrest was made
alleges that the syrup waslabelled Pure
Vermont Maple Syrup" although it was
found to contain water. Sherman was
arraigned before T. A. Merrill of Rutland,
u. S. Commissioner His attorney, E.
IL. o. Brien furnished bail of $3.50 and
Sherman will appear at the next session
of U. S. District Court.
Have no License Commissioners.
The city of Rutland and the other
towns in Rutland county which voted
wet, Castleton, Fair Haven, Benson,
Wells, Mount Tabor and West Rutland,
have no license commissioners because
of the inability of Assistant Judges
Frank M. Ptumley of Sherburne- and
Horace M. Redheld of Hubbardton to
agree on a license board for Rutland.
The time for appointment of men to deal
out the4censes expired Thursday night
but there is no penalty fixed by law for
non-appointment of the boards and no
provision made for failure of the assist
ant judges to make such appointment, SO
most people think that the matter will
go to the courts.
Demonstration Train.
A special train will be run on the Rut-
land division of the New York Central
lines from Alburg to Bellows Falls and
Bennington inclusive on April 1915
next. The railroad runs this train in CO.
operation with the State commissioner
of agriculture and the University of
Vermont. In the train will be carried
exhibits illustrating forestry, spraying
crops and dairy1ng, the latter consist
ing of two or three cows of desirable
and undesirable conformation which
will be used for demonstrating these
points. The three passenger cars will be
fitted up with lecture platform and will
be devoted, one to horticulture and
forestry, one to fertilizers and crops. and
one to dairying and stock feeding.
Stops of an hour each or thereabouts
will be made at various stations. Two
or three addresses, not to exceed Is
minutes each, will be given in each car
and about 5 or 20 minutes given to
demonstration in the baggage car. All
addresses will be illustrated by charts,
specimens, or otherwise.
The morrill, Centenary.
President M. H. Buckham of the
University of Vermont has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address on the
occasion OF the State celebration of the
anniversary OF the centenary of the
birth OF Justin S. Morrill, to be held in
Bethany church in Montpelier April IA.
Ex-senator George F. Edmunds, who is
spending the winter at Aiken, S. c., has
been obliged to decline the invitation to
speak, greatly to his regret. being un-
able to make the journey to Vermont at
this season of the year. He has sent
letter for the occasion. Gov. 6. II.
Prouty will speak and the remainder of
the program is not completed The
Montpelier orchestra will furnish music.
Attempt to Escape from Prison.
Another daring attempt at escape
from the Windham county jail in Newfane
has come to light. The police and the
authorities have been trying to keep the
attempted escape secret. Archie ST.
Peters and Edgar Haskins occupied the
same CELL and Friday, night about 12
o'clock, after they had been locked in
their cells, they took a chain from under
their cot, made a tourniquet with the
chair round and twisted the locks from
the door of their cells and the jail proper,
finally escaping into the corridor of the
Jail where they were detected by the
Waterman, Morton Dunson. They have
been taken to Windsor for safe-keeping.
Fatal Fire in Springfield.
With his body burned almost to a crisp
and suffering intense agony, B. c. Cupler
died after four hours following a fire in
r. J. Kennedy's woodworking shop in
Springfield Friday afternoon. George
Graham and R. J. Kennedy, also burned
quite badly in the same fire, will recover.
The fire started at 2:4O O'Clock. pail
of tar that was being heated on top of a
stove in the shop caught fire and Mr..
Cupler tried to hurl it through the
window. but lost his hold and was
enveloped in the flaming mass.
Woman Painfully Burned.
Mrs. Harold 6. Bryant, aged 80 years,
sustained severe burns over the entire
upper portion of her body while using
kerosene to start fire in her stove at
Rutland Friday. Her husband also
suffered severe burns on his hands and
arms when extinguishing the flames.
Prof J. W. Votey. of Burlington, who
has been engaged for some time as
consulting engineer for the state board
of health in connection with the regula-
tions affecting fire protection of public
buildings will make a report soon on
conditions in the state, which he says
are already much improved.
What is cold in the head? Nothing
| to worry about if you treat it with Ely S
Cream Balm. Neglected, the cold may
grow into catarrh, and the air-passages
be so inhamed that you have to fight for
Il Il hot w.