St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-04
VERMONT NEWS
Boston Corporation Purchases Big
Power at Bellows Falls

Chace and Hartman Inc, of Bos-
ton, owners of the Connecticut Riy-
er Power Co., have acquired the
Bellows = alls Canal Co., and a ma
jority of STOCK of the Fall Mountain
Electric Light and rover Co. of Bel
lows rails. The amount involved is
said to be 100000. No
change in the operation OF
the Bellows Falls plant will
be made at present but
1t is thought the deal is part of a
scheme to connect them with the
power plant at Vernon and the
plant which will probably be built
at Fifteen Mile Falls.
The dead body of Charles Somers,
a young deer hunter was found Nov.
&c near Arlington. Fully 400 men
and boys had been securing the
woods for him. 1t is thought that he
/ fell over a precipice and broke his
neck. He had been gone since Sat
urday morning but the snow on the
mountain covered his tracks and
made the search difficult.
Charles H. Thompson of Brattle-
boro has been asked to become one
of a committee of four to have
charge of the organization and ex-
tension of the national progressive
party throughout the country. The
Pro gressives in Vermont have leased
their present headquarters at Mont
pelier for another year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Lord of Rut-
land observed their golden wedding
anniversary on Nov. 27. An unusual
feature was the fact that a brother
and a sister of Mr.. Lord have within
three years celebrated their 50th an
niversary, and a brother of Mrs.
Lord has been married So years.
The Inter-Church Federation met
at Burlington Wednesday and elect
ed the following officers: President,
Henry Bond of Brattleboro: vice
presidents, Guy Potter Benton of
Burlington, the Rev. Fraser Metz
ger of Randolph, w. W. Stickney of
Ludlow; recording secretary, H. A.
Durfee of Burlington; treasurer, F.
c. Dyer of Middlebury; executive
secretary, the Rev. John A.
Scheuerle of Manchester. Rev. G. H.
Merrill OF St. Jonnsbury is a mem
Der of the comfy committee and
Rev. Paul Dwight Moody of the So
cial purity committee.
Word has been received at Mid
dlebury college that the government
of France has conferred upon A.
Barton Hepburn, a graduate of Mid
dlebury in the class of 1871 and
trustee of the, college, the appoint
ment of officer of the Legion of Hon
or, in recognition of the part taken
by the New York Chamber of Com
merce, when Mr.. Hepburn was pres
ident of that organization, in the
reception to the French Champlain
delegation on the occasion of it's Wis
! it to America to present Robins La
France for the Champlain memorial
at Crown Point.
During the open deer season in
Rutland county very few deer were
shot, but nine bears went down be-
fore the hunters guns and several
rare animals were killed including
pine martin, a single crested cormor-
ant, a sea bird, a brown bear, and
silver fox.
Eliza Cassavoy of Burlington,
domestic, has fallen heir to large
fortune. Her father ran away half
a century ago leaving wife and
three children and without securing
a real divorce married another
woman in Little Falls, N.
Y. Afterwards he accumulat-
de large fortune and the
courts have decided that it belongs
to his first family.
The 18th annual exhibition of the
Vermont State Poultry association
will be held at st. Adams, January
.14-17. D. P. Shove of Fall River,
Mass, and H. B. May Of Boston will
be judges. Over 80 cups are onered
and the cash specials have been in
creased.
Mrs. Mary Mead of Middlebury
was found dead in her bed on Nov.
26, by one of her neighbors. She
was II years old the Sunday previ-
Gus to her death. She was down
town the day before she died and
was in good health for one of her
years. She is survived by one son,
Carl, who is a prominent lawyer
in New York City, and step-daugh- |
ter, Mrs. William Hobbs of Ober- |
lin, Ohio.
Mrs. Margaret Carter, the colored |
woman, who shot and killed Pearl
Hooper, near Fort Ethan Allen, in
Burlington, on Sept. 8, and plead
ed guilty in the first degree, was
on November 26 to i'm
prisonment for life at Windsor
Harold Pease of Orfordville was
accidentally killed by his own gun on
25. Mr.. Pease was 20
years old and was hunting with
who was about 10. Pease
dropped his gun and it was dis
the shots inficting wounds
that proved fatal before help was
H. Charles Royce, a prominent
lawyer and one of the best read men
in the state, died at his home in st.
Adams on November %, after a
short illness. He was born in East
in 1864 He was a grad
late of the University of Vermont
ind Columbia college. He married
Miss Christia Burgess, daughter OF
Bishop Burgess of Illinois and she
md two children survive him. He
lad lived in St. Adams since 1887