St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-20
VERMONT news
A Salvation Army

A salvation army A10nappef.
The growing of a bull dog in
a New York down town hotel, called
attention Sept. to the room occu-
pied by Benjamin B. Bolton of
Montpelier and 10 year old Mabel
Bryant, also of Montpelier, and led
to the arrest of Bolton one a charge
of abduction and one of a more seri-
Gus nature. Bolton registered at the
hotel the Tuesday before as B. W.
Bolton and child. The girl is
the daughter of a member of the
Salvation Army of Montpelier and
when Bolton was arraigned in court
he said that the parents OF the caild
sent her in his care to Winsted,
Conn, where she was to attend
school He claimed that afterward
he secured permission from the bar
racks TO take her to New York city.
Bolton was held IN pail of $3,00d
Mills Close on Account of Log Drives
On account of the passage through
Bellows Falls of the Is, 00O,000 feet
drive of logs belonging to the Con-
necticut Valley Lumber Co., the
mills of the international Paper Co.
and the other paper mills of Bellows
Falls were closed down for at least
a week. In spite of recent rains
there was not water enough in the
Connecticut to float over the dam
the logs and at the same time run
the mills, as paper mills take an
abnormal quantity of water.
Delegates to Various Congresses.
Gov. John A. Mead has made sew
eral appointments to various con-
crosses as follows:
AS delegates to the third annual
Conservation congress to. be held at
Kansas City, Sept. 25-27: Byron H.
Combs of East Berkshire, Austin F.
Halves of Burlington, Frank D.
White of Rutland, John w. Titcomb
of Lyndonville, L. C. Balm of Bris-
toll, George H. Soule of Fairfield, w.
A. Hanks of Bristol, e. G.. Norton
of Vergennes, M. F. Barnes of Ad-
Olson, L. H. Cook of Dandy, E. A.
Chittenden of st. Adams, W. H. Bos-
worth of Bristol, Charles Downer of
Sharon.
Killed While Picking Cherries.
The lifeless body of N. B. Cove,
a farmer residing in the town of
Marshfield was found Sept. 1 L under
a cherry tree on his farm by a
searching party. Cove had gone out
with his dog Sunday afternoon after
cherries. His dog returned alone
next morning and a searching party
was at once organized with the
above result. The man apparently
met his death from a fall from the
tree, as broken branch near him
indicated. He was badly bruised
and several bones were broken. He
was 81 years old and unmarried.
Government Buys More Morgans.
The Bureau of Animal Industry
of the United States department of
a orricu1t11rn inst nJ1roh in
Meade county, Kansas, four addi-
tional horses for use in the Govern
ment breeding work that is being
carried on in Vermont with the OBJ
ject of preserving and improving the
Morgan breed. These animals are
the seven-year-old Morgan mare
Fanny P. (Vol. III, A. M. RI, two
yearling FLIES by Headlight Morgan
Ca son of Ethan Allen I'D and a colt
foal out of Fanny P by Headlight
Morgan. One of the FLIES is out of
Fanny P, and the mare is again
in foa1 to Headlight. These horses
are among the descendants of a
large consignment of selected ami |
mails in Vermont and Illinois in the |
early nineties by the Morgan Horse
Company of Carpentersville, ILL.,,
and sent to southwestern Kansas to
take advantage of cheap pasture
there. The venture was not sue
cess, the company disbanding and |
the horses being scattered over a
wide territory. Some of this stock
still remains in Kansas and Okla
homa. The animals bought by the
government will be taken to the
Morgan. Horse Farm at Middlebury.
VERMONT NOTES.
To the twentieth annual meeting |
of the Association of Military Sur
geons at Milwaukee, Sept. rs: Maj. |
G.. r. Anderson of Brattleboro, Capt.
J. H. Dodds of Burlington, Lieut.. J.
T. Hagan of Pittsford, DR.. w. E.
Putnam of Bennington.
To the fourteenth annual session
of the American Mining Congress at
Chicago, Sept. 1929: George B. I
Milne of Barre city.
To the fourth International Good |
Roads Congress at Chicago, Sept. |
1921: S. S. Ballard of Montpelier,
c. G. Warren of Waterbury, 1. F.
Hobart of Westford. E. L. Scott of
Barre, G. w. Gates of Franklin and
J. Walter Lyons of Rutland.
DR.. w. N Bryant of Ludlow has
been made supervisor of the insane |
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of DR.. G. S. Foster of Putney. |
WEST BURKE.
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