St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-01
VERMONT NOTES.


was beyond control when anyone ar.
rived. The loss is about $4,000
with partial insurance. 1t will prob
ably not be rebuilt as the owner is
aged and in failing health.
M. L. Hunt of White River juno
ton, a clerk in the G. V. railway of
flee, is in jail as the result of strik-
| ing his wife and knocking out three
teeth. He and his wife had not
been living together and she sup
ported their three children. He was
angry because she refused to talk
with him.
Rev. H. c. Lanyard of the ST.
Lawrence theological school at Can
ton, n. Y, has accepted call to the
Universalist church at Mortified.
Miss Lucy E. Roberts of Hamp-
ton, N. Y, school teacher, 33
years of age, has brought suit
SO years old, for breach of prom
Use. The ad damnum is $4,000. Mr..
Bucklin admitted on the stand that
he had asked her to be his wife but
denied that he had ever refused to
marry her.
Rev. c. ". T. Richeson, who is &C
cused of the murder of Miss Avis
Linnell in Boston, was a candidate
| for the pastorate of the Federated
church at Randolph two years ago,
and made a great impression when
| he preached as a candidate.
Henry McDermott, the Oldest man
in ST. Adams, died Oct. %, at the
age of SO years. He was a native of
Ireland and had been in America IS
| years. Five sons survive him.
Rt Rev A. c. A. Hall, bishop of
Vermont, is in Uxbridge, Mass,
where he will remain until the mid
die of November He then expects
to resume work by slow degrees.
The remains of Capt. Winfred B.
Carr, who committed suicide at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, were brought
to his home in Georgia last week for
burial Miss Jeanette Clark to
whom he was to have been married
Nov. 1, and her parents accompanied
the body to Vermont.
Robert T. Lincoln has sold his
home in Chicago for 1000 and
will keep only his summer home at
Manchester His daughter, who
eloped Is years ago with a football
player and later divorced him, is the
only representative of the third
generation of the war president.
Louis Luck, in his 92nd year,
died of pneumonia Oct. % at his
home in Burlington. He is survived
by his wife, four sons, and two
daughters.
The Rev. Archbold A. Lancaster
of st. Louis, Missouri, has accepted
the call to the pastorate of the Mid
dlebury Congregational church and
will begin his new duties there Dec
ember 20.
Walter Freeman, aged 36 years,
and the smallest man lin the state, is
dead at his home in Barre. He was
three feet and six inches in height,
weighed SO pounds and had lived in
Barre all his life, and for a short
time in Plainfeld. His father, moth
er, brothers and sisters are all of
normal size, his father being perhaps
the smallest of them. He was of
normal size when born, but his
growth was stunted. At one time he
received an offer to travel with
circus, but declined. He was not
strong and did little work except
about the house.
Deloros Lebree, a deaf and dumb
man, SO years old, was struck by a
stock train on the Lake road at
Walden, Oct. l6 and died that after
noon from the injuries. He is sur
vived by his father and several
brothers. Eight years ago he was
struck by a freight train at the same
place and lost Na;n eye.
D. w. Cooley of Waterbury has
contracted with the Consolidated
Lighting Co. of Montpelier for all the
electricity from his plant at the Pal
isades.
Edwin C. Wilder of Brattleboro, At
years old, committed suicide Oct. 10
by shooting himself in the right
temple, dying 80 minutes later. He
had just affixed his signature to a
deed conveying his equity in the
home to his wife. Family affairs
are supposed to have caused the
trouble He had been married three
times.
The farmers of Waterbury and vi
cinity met at the Green Mountain
House on Oct. 10, and organized.
The principal subject discussed was
that of better market for their pro-
Frank Jones, I. V. Williams and
r. Parker all of Greenwich, N. Y,
on Oct. 81, came hunting for game
across the border into Pawlet. Ward
en- F. J. Loveland arrested them and
Justice F. M. Blossom imposed a fine
of $25 in each case or a total of
1851.
At the fifth annual meeting of the
Vermont association of Local Fire
Insurance agents at White River
1 tavern, Hartford, last Wednesday
night, the following officers were
elected: E. S. Leonard, Bellows
Falls, president; A. E. Plaistridge,
Mortified, first vice president; and
Guy Wilson of Bethel, second vice
/ president. F. L. Bingham of Brad
ford was reelected secretary and w
A. Clark of Rutland, treasurer. On
the executive committee are G. F.
Root of Newport, A. B. Noyes OF
ST. Johnsbury, Syldon S. Watson OF
ST. Adams, w. w. Russell of White
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