St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-01-10

rene court In session at Montpelier
last week were the following: At
torney-General r. G.. Sargent has
filed a motion that he be allowed TO
amend his petition filed with the
court concerning disbarment of w.
b. Aldrich Of Barton. The case is an
old one, occurring in 1901 when Al
drich represented two girls In a dis
pute over furs purchased OF the Gil
man company of Newport. Settle
ment was made privately by the
girls and the reported action and
legal proceedings OF Mr.. Aldrich
after the settlement was made and
he was informed Of it, were said to
be the cause of complaint but the
charges were then withdrawn and
papers filed. John Young Of New
port appeared for Aldrich and OBJ
jected to bringing in such papers
saying that If 10 years of a mans
life were to be gone over in that
manner, he believed more than
few lawyers would be In a worse
predicament than Aldrich. w. M.
Wright of Barton appeared for the
state.
In the Franklin county case of
Ella A. Barney, Administrative, VS..
the Quaker Oats company, in which
in lower court for the death OF her
husband in the grain elevator ex-
plosion at Richford in 1908, Judge
Haselton's opinion affirmed 1udg-
ment.
In Caledonia case of Woodsville
Guaranty Savings Bank VS.. Blan-
chard and Kicker and trustee, Judge
Watson affirmed Judgment for
plaintiff.
Request from Gov. ProctOr's Estate.
The trustees of the Home for
Destitute Children in Burlington
received Jan. /, as a complete sur
prise, an offer Of much needed help.
It came in a letter from Mrs. Flet-
cher d. Proctor, explaining that ex-
Governor Proctor had been deeply
interested in the work of the home,
particularly in the infant depart
ment, and Just before his last i'll
ness had prepared, but not executed,
a codicil to his will by the terms
of which the home was to receive a
bequest, and adding that Mrs. Proc
tor and children desired to carry
out Governor Proctor's intent. The
offer was that if the home would
raise an equal amount and continue
to offer equal opportunity to children
from all parts of Vermont, and |
maintain an infants department, !
Mrs. Proctor and the children would |
give $4,000 to the permanent fund
of the home. G.. P. Smith, the chair
man of the board of trustees, I'M
mediately notified Mrs. Proctor that
the home would undertake to raise
the funds necessary to secure the
gift. The home has been obliged to
curtail for lack of funds, and in
this retrenchment the infants de-
partment has suffered most. This
additional $4,000 if It can be rails
ed, will not only make the finances
of the home safe, but will enable it
to do more extended work.
Strange Coincidence.
Hiram Russell, of Cabot, recently
related a strange coincidence TO +.
H. Bruffee the Plainfield undertake
er. Dec. IA, the body of Aunt"
Harriet Scott, wife of Lieut.. Scott
and who died in this town Dec. IL,
was taken to Cabot for burial. At
the close of the burial service Mr..
Russell told Mr.. Bruffee that he had
twice assisted at the burial of Lieut..
Scott and now was assisting in the j
final duties of Mrs Scott's burial.
Lieut.. Scott was an officer in the
Civil War. Mr.. Russell was also a
soldier in that war, and in Lieut..
SCOTS company as was Willard Per-
~ of this town. One day while in
a skirmish Lieut.. Scott was mortally
wounded The comrades did all
that they could for him but he died
in a short time. Fearing the enemy
would take the body Mr.. Russell
made a rude coffin from boards TAX
en- from a nearby fence in which
II. K
ing that the home friends might
sometime wish to have the body re-
moved Mr.. Russell wrote the name
of Lieut.. Scott on a slip of paper
and put it in a bottle then placed it
on the grave Later Mr.. Russell re-
turned to his home in Cabot. The !
local order Of Masons Of which
Lieut.. Scott was a member wished
tho body brought home and by the +
given by Mr.. Russell the :
grave was found by brother masons G
and the remains were taken to l
Cabot where Mr.. Russell again as 8
sisted in the burial. '
Big Profit from Rutland Fair. s
The Rutland County Agricultural I
society cleared $4,000 over and t
above the expense Of the fair Of 1911
to the reports of the Off
GERS at the annual meeting helu at
Rutland last Wednesday afternoon.
The total receipts were SIS, 214.31 t
and after paying $1,000 on old in t
$2,700 on building and '
ground improvements, and $1,000 i
toward the new grandstand, in addi- t
ton to current expenses, there is a t
balance of $500 in the hands of b
Treasurer Will L. Davis.
The largest days receipts were
$5,35495, when 1921 paid admis-
sions were recorded. The society
paid $2,711.63 for races, $2,326.12 \
for premiums and judges, and $2,- /
$685. for special attractions. 1t v
was decided to make a new floral J