St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-22

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deposits, some of which has been
opened and worked. Hyde Park
sends out IS cars of freight and
North Hyde Park SO. The past year
Stowe sent out two cars a day and
received about three a week, which
would be doubled if on a through
railroad. Her summer tourist BUSH
ness is large and gaining every year.
She entertained 1900 summer Wis
itors this year and the Summit house
1900 more. This would be doubled
with a big summer hotel that would
soon follow the building of a rail-
road Morrisville has freight bus
mess of $4,000 and "a passenger
traffic of $4,000. This would be
greatly increased by another rail-
road like this, giving a direct line to,
Boston and New York.
Following the rendering of these.
reports enthusiastic speeches were
made by superintendent Gallagher
of the Lowell Lumber and Asbestos.
company, who told of the business,
cost of freight by teams to Johnson.
etc., the Hon. F. G. Fleetwood, c. H.
A. Stafford, the Hon. T. c. Cheney,
the Rev. w. E. Bunker of Morris
vile, H. A. Grow of Stowe, L. P
Thayer of Morrisville and the Rev.
E. F. Newell of Waterbury.
Fatal Burning i'm Fairlee.
Bert Stetson of Fairlee returned
to his home Saturday night to find
his mother, Mrs. Mary Stetson, aged
Sc, lying dead on the floor of the
shed with all of her clothing burned
from her body. A lamp, which had
been thrown in a pail of water, in
dicated that her clothing had taken
fire while filling lamp, presumably
lighted. The blaze communicated
to the woodwork, but burned itself
out. Mrs. Stetson was a widow.
In Supreme Court.
In supreme court at Montpelier
last week arguments were presented
in the Caledonia county case of
Trustees of Caledonia County gram
mar school V. George T. Howard and
Kent, an ejectment case in
volving lot of land. The lower
court discharged the case as to
with costs and a verdict was.
rendered for the defendant Kent to
recover her costs. The case was
taken to supreme court and at the
October term, 1910, the verdict was,
set aside and the cause remanded.
County court rendered another vir-
dict for the defendant, Kent, and
were filed. The argu-
ments. were made for the Grammar
school trustees by V. A. Billiard,
who with Elisha May represents the
plaintiffs and for the defense by w.
A. Dutton and Alexander Dunnett,
assisted by Judge H. H. Powers.
Great Orchard Project.
E. H. Everett of Bennington has.
completed setting out 1000 apple
and pear trees on the Carpenter farm
that he bought late last spring
About 10000 more fruit trees will
be planted on the Carpenter and
two other farms that Mr.. Everett
owns. The $4,000 trees that Mr..
Everett set out on the Holden farm
have done .splea1didly and the losses
from weak or Head trees have been
very small. The trees are watched
and cared for by an intelligent nur-
especially to prevent mice
from gnawing the trees near the
ground. Mr.. Everett has planned to
erect in time canning and evapo
rating establishment to dispose of
such fruit as is unfit for export. If
the soil prove favorable to the
growth and vigor of the trees. Mr..
Everett will plant many thousand
more trees, making the orchards.
in size any in the country
James c.. Canning is in Heaton
hospital at Montpelier with a broken
hip sustained in fall while deer
hunting near Niggerhead lake. He
climbed on a rock to get a good view
and in some way slipped and fell.
He lay in the snow two hours shout
ing and firing his rife. Perley Cos
liant of Groton was hunting in the
section and heard rifle shots, finally
locating Canning.