St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-08

himself with the same weapon about
three miles from West Halifax, Oct.
20. He was subject to fits of in
sanity. He lived about two hours.
1t is believed Mrs. Whitney will re
cover. They had not been living to-
gether for some time on account of
his violent condition. Friday Mr..
Whitney had an auction of personal
property and his wife was present.
Several tins during the day he act
ed in manner alarming to his wife
and she avoided him.
MOrgans at New York Horse Show.
Among the entries for the 9th
annual exhibition of the National
Horse Show of America to be held at
Madison Square Garden in New York
city, Nov. Is to rs, are several we'll
known Morgans from Vermont. Ell
mer A. Darling of Mountain View
farm, East Burke, has entered in the
class for Morgan stations his Lyn-
don and Bah B. In the class for Nor
gan mares he has entered Carrie and
Jennie c., both of which have won
the Morgan trophy at the Vermont
state fair. The same farm will also
send tn mare Zephy by Cardinal. H.
R. G. Watson's Edge View farm at
Brandon, will send the stations
Reynard and Clifford Comet and the
blue-ribbon mares Bell Marea, Mink
and Della. Allen M. Fletcher of
Cavendish, will send his Prince Char
lie, winner of the blue ribbon at the
recent vermont state fair in the class
for stations four years old or over.
Col. Spencer Borden of Fall River,
rI, hi
mare Cherry Ripe, bred by E. A.
Darling at Mountain View farm. The
veteran Bob Morgan, now owned by
A. R.. Van Tassel of Du Bots, Pa,
has been entered and is expected to
prove that the age of rs does not
down a real Morgan. With Bob Nor
gan, Mr.. Van Tassel will send Belle
Fellows, the this years winner of the
Morgan trophy at White River juno
ton. Two choice Vermont Morgans
are entered by J. Rich Steers of Port
Chester, N. Y, viz, the stallion Del
vyn by Peters Ethan Allen I'd and
the little mare Dotty Dimples, bred
at STAFFORD All of the exhibitors
are members of the Morgan Horse
club which includes in it's member
ship in addition to most of the Nor
gan breeders in the United States,
number of the leading citizens of
Vermont and representative of old
Vermont families, who, although not
engaged in breeding horses, are glad
to make annual contributions to-
wards the work of the club.
Drowned at South Hero.
Benjamin Gordon, aged 10 years,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Gordon,
was found drowned about eight rods
from the shore of Sawyer's island at
South Hero, Oct. 20. On Saturday
morning he started in a boat for the
island, where he had blind. About
two o'clock boat was seen drifting
north from the island. Later the boat
proved to be young Gordon's. A
search was instituted at once and
early Sunday morning Bert Gordon
and Melvin Hyde went to the island
with grapples and soon recovered
the body. 1t is supposed that the
boat broke loose and in attempting
to recover it young Gordon lost his
life, as he was unable to swim.
Gov. Mead's Appointments.
Gov. John A. Mead has made the
following appointments
E. L. Wright of Middlebury, j. NJ
OL0VSuS OIL OEW0II, IT, II. E1dII0IC u
ST. Johnsbury, A. A. Halliday of
Bellows Falls and Arthur H. Hill of
Isle LaMotte, to be delegates to the
National Horticultural congress, to
be held at st. Joseph, Mo-, Nov. % to
December 2.
Senators William P. Dillingham; of
Montpelier and Carroll S. Bage of
Hyde Park, Representatives David
Of ond Fro II
PIumley of Mortified, to be dele
Judicial Settlement of International
Disputes, to be held in Cincinnati,
o., Nov. and 8.
William L. Gokay of Bennington,
a member of the state board of phar-
macists for term of five years, COM
Dec. 1, 1911.
Fanny B. Fletcher of Proctorsville
a member of the state board of Ii
brary commissioners, commencing
Dec. 1, 1911.
Frank G. Williams of Newport to
be delegate to the National Confer
ence of Supervisors of State banks,
to be held in New Orleans.
Vermont at New England Fruit
Show.
The officers of the Vermont state
horticultural society began at an early
date to arrange for a good exhibit
of fruit at the New England fruit
show. They were greatly handi-
capped by the extremely short crop.
There appears also to be great indif-
ference on the part of the fruit
growers. But it proved later that
the difficulty was that they did not
know how to select and pack fruit
for exhibition purposes. By much
personal effort an exhibit consisting
Of six barrels, 80 boxes and 1O5|
plates was placed in Horticultural
hall. The other New England states
had good crops of apples and large
sums of money to use for making a
display. The fruit was from II diff
ferent growers, but the majority of
it was from Grand Isle county.
There were $50 premiums of