St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-03-15

the same disaster. Those of Edwin
H. Grice and Muriel G. Anderson
asked for damages in the sum of
$4,000 and the jury returned YER
dict of $2,48O.55 and found the de-
PENDANT guilty of negligence.
Mans Death Follows Wife's.
c. H. Waddel1, SO years old, died at
his home in Burlington, March 4, of
meningitis of the brain, after two
weeks illness with rheumatic fever.
He was a widely known club man and
had been interested in several insur-
ance and advertising promotion
schemes. Mrs. WaddeH died
the same morning y follow
ing an operation for appendicitis
performed the night before. She
taught school Friday morning and
went to the hospital in the afternoon.
Her husband was Frustrated by her
sudden illness and the shock prob
ably fastened his end through he was
not informed of her death.
Young Man Who Disappeared
Located.
Ira Maynard, 28 years old, the son
of Mrs. Stewart Maynard, of West
Rutland, who disappeared from Mar
ing his mother that he was leaving
| for home, has been located in Lin
coin, N. B. His mother has received
a letter from him in which he says
that he left Marble, December 16, for
San Francisco from which place he
started east short time later. 1t
appears that he became ill>during the
| first stage of the journey and upon
recovery obtained a position in a cold
storage plant i'll Lincoln, N. B.
Brattleboro Hospital Guaranteed.
Nurses and patients at the Brat
| tleboro Memorial hospital have been
! placed under quarantine following
| the discovery of several cases of
| diphtheria at the institution and I'M
til the ban is lifted none of the %
! persons who are undergoing treat
3ment will be allowed to leave and
no new patients will be admitted.
Five persons have thus far been af-
hlcted with the disease of whom
three are, nurses and two patients.
First Voted in 1888.
Harrison M. Villas of Burlington,
SO years old, voted in ward five last
week, voting the republican ticket,
as he has continuously since
the formation of the party. Mr..
Villas cast his first vote at the
March election in johnson in 1898,
and his first vote for president for
William Henry Harrison in 1870.
The New Haven Buys Wells River
Road. y,
4, Parties in the interest of the
Vermont Valley Railroad company
corporation of the state of Yer
mmont, have purchased the interest
of the Sortwell estate in the Mont
pelier and Wells River railroad
the Barre railroad, and the Barre
railway This announcement was
made March from the Offices of the
New Haven railroad. 1t is further
stated that as soon as the Legal
preliminaries can be arranged, the
properties will become a part of the
Boston and Maine railroad system
The announcement of this purchase
and its projected merger with the
Boston and Maine, discloses a new
: step Iken by the New Haven in its
! contesGN against the Grand Trunk
inns hemov acquired line includes
ABOUT oo 19iles of road The line
q was openeuA in 1873 and of late
$ years, eHoe opnt in one year, has paic
: G eeeo PEI Hoo At Won its stock Of
meets with the hosts, a nlTe Main IT. con anf
o at Montpelier with tn V We eI C On
e trail, which is based !. fho nc CO.. 1e,
Trunk 1t is understood 70 bavr
d been a valuable seeder to the Granf
Trunk system nrticularIy in con,
o nection with tneBarre ouarrias -
st The Sortwell cate possassed
le controlling interes IN Ill three I;,,a.
g. which have just banged s., - :
Y, Hitherto. the Bostonhn Maine line
to have had no directl communicated
w with Montpelier or Arre Outside o
"a the Montpelier and Tells River rail
ay road, the Central VFmont has hat
ay no competition. Thu acquisition o
up the three smaller rods will give tn
he Boston and Maine atirect entranc
RS into the important Anite fields @
Central Vermont
%. Potato Day at NntpeIier.
-al The potato show wen by tn
of Montpelier Board of 1ade Wedne:
1st day proved, as did thlprevious e.
err hibits, to be very succetful. Durin
ew the entire morning EXHIBITS poure
of in until by noon two large table
in were covered with Atatoes.
of great many people frd the su
tiff rounding towns availedthemselv,
,st. of the fine weather toAttend Il
the show and most of then1had fro
for four to twenty potatoes lat look,
on good enough TO carry awa4he priz
18th The quality of the potat8 was