St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
VERMONT NOTES.

VENIUUlVk VU1EOs
The Appalachian club of Boston
will hold its annual outing for 1911
in Brandon. A number of mountains
in the vicinity will be explored and
winter trip to Mt. Killington
made. The outing will take place
between Christmas and New Years.
The club has already visited Lake
Champlain and Mt. Mansfield.
Frank c. Williams of Newport, F.
H. Harrington of Brandon, DIN Mer-
rill of Enosburg Falls, G. P. Smith
and H. l.. Ward of Burlington and
w. w. Russell of White River juno
ton are attending the annual con-
vention of the American Bankers
Association at New Orleans.
During the gale which swept Lake
Champlain from Nov. 10 for several
days, five barges and two tugs were
wrecked on Colchester reefs at loss
of $4,000.
John c. Brownel1 of Burlington
while playing in ''The Fortune
Hunter at Cincinnati, was married
to Miss Estelle Wynne of that city.
The romance began in Burlington
several years ago when both were
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company. Since then Miss Wynne
has devoted herself to concert sing
ing.
Clarence H. BIuford, the proprie-
tor of a resort near Fort Ethan AL
len, where Clara Washington and
Beatrice Stewart were recently muir
dered, in Chittenden county court
at Burlington last week was fined
$500 and costs of S8.76. Bluford
also furnished bail in the sum of
500 for his appearance before the
grand jury in the murder case.
A stranger who entered the res
taurant of Mrs. Rose Mitchell, of
Burlington, Nov. IA, is suspected of
having gotten away with $50, the
property of Mrs. Mitchell, who neg
1ected to watch the man, while the
daughter was in the kitchen getting
a sandwich that he had ordered.
When the girl returned with the
order, the customer had vanished
and with him a purse containing
$50 mostly in five dollar bills,
which had reposed behind the count
er, had disappeared.
A notable addition to the equip
ment of the University of Vermont,
has been made in the erection of the
new green houses in the rear of Nor
rill hall. The buildings, which rep
resent an outlay of over $1,000, con-
sist of three green houses running to
a head-house containing laborato-
ries for experiment and research
and heating plant.
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Atwater,
of Central Valley, N. Y, who were
married Nov 12, expect if the wealth
er proves favorable to come to Yer
mont, where Mrs. Atwater who was
the widow of Sen. Thomas G. Platt)
has some property, returning in
time to start for California where
Mr.. Atwater goes under contract
with the Queens Aerop1ane Co.
John Henry, aged 22 years, I'M
married and employed by the East
Haven Veneer company, was horrib-
ly burned Nov. 13 by falling into
vat of boiling water used for steam
ing veneer logs. He was fixing
chains and crawled to the edge of
the tank, neglecting to pull down
the cover. He slipped, plunging
headlong into eight feet of boiling
water. His entire body is covered
with burns and it is thought he will
die. A fellow workman, who res
cued him, had his hands seriosuly
burned
The directors of the St. Andrews
Benevolent society of Barre have
bought the charter rights and other
property of the Northern Casualty
company of Vermont, which has an
authorized capital of 100000. The
home Office of the Northern Casualty
company will be located in the How
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under the same control and man
agement of the st. Andrews Bene-
VIOLENT society The Northern Cas-
ualty company will be operated
throughout the United States and
will carry on a general casualty in
surance business.
The Congregational church of
Quechee has purchased the Metho-
dist edifice for $1,000 and will use
it as parish house.
Six practitioners we're admitted to
the Vermont bar last week, out of
the nine candidates who took the
examinations. The names of the
six are: William Rensselaer, Nc
Feeters of Enosburg, Samuel Esta-
brooks Richardson of ST. Johnsbury,
Levi Pease Smith of Burlington,
James Dyer Spellman of Rutland,
Allen Robert Sturtevant of Middle
bury, Harry Wellington Writers of
ST. Adams. In addition, Pedro Capo
Rodriguez of Rutland and Roswell
M. Austin of ST. Adams passed the
examinations.
Rev. w. V. Berg of Brandon has
accepted a call to the Pilgrim Con-
gregational church, st. Louis, to be-
come it's associate pastor. He will
have charge of the vesper services
and the work with the Boy Scouts
The livery stable connected with
the Pavilion at Montpelier, two
barns and an Office building, were
burned on Nov. %. The IL animals
were saved as we'll as the carriages,
but the sleighs were burned. There