St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-02-21
VERMONT NEWS


Fred FELTON, Twitchell of Los Ange-
les, Cal, which will take place at
their home, 566 Verbena Drive, al
noon, Feb. %. Mr. CiIlins is a grad
uate Of the Burlington high school
and the University Of Vermont. In
college he made an enviable record
as a baseball player, and since his
graduation in 1909 he has become
widely known as a member Of the
Boston American League team His
fiancee IL the daughter of a promin-
ent citizen Of Los Angeles, and is
a popular member of the social cir
cles of that city.
w. P. Wiley of Essex Junction,
had an exciting experience Wednes-
day, while returning from the
pumping station at the reservoirs,
where he had been to carry gaso-
line. He placed a lighted lantern in
the bottom of the sleigh for warmth
and the heat ignited gasoline which
had been spilled on his buffalo robe
and coat. The empty cans exploded
and he was thrown from the sleigh.
His clothes, horse blanket and lap
robe were somewhat burned and the
back of the sleigh scorched.
M. w. A. Regiment.
The organization of a regiment of
Modern Woodmen of America has
been organized in Vermont through
the efforts of Major Joseph A.
Evarts of st. Adams, of the 191st
battalion and the regiment has been
assigned to the national organization
by Ma1or-Gen. J. III. Mitchell, COM
handing. 1t will be known as the
18th regiment and will be the only
M. w. A.. regiment east of Ohio.
The field and staff officers have been
commissioned and are as follows:
Col J. A. Evarts, commanding;
Capt 3. H. Shangraw. adjutant;
Capt. James Simpson, quartermas-
ter; A. J. Clark, sergeant-major.
The regiment will moboIize some
time in June at a convenient point
at which time the regimental and
national colors will be officially pre-
scented, perhaps by Major-General
Mitchell in person.
Railroad Buys Trees.
Following up their reforestration
policy inaugurated experimentally
last year, the Rutland Railway Light
and Power company have ordered
5000 young trees to be set in vacant
places on their forest lands in Pitts
ford and Chittenden. These will be
placed in a nursery tract in the
spring and transplanted later. Most
of the trees will be white pine, the
company having had good results
from those already planted. A few
of the lot will probably be Scotch
pine, something new to Rutland
county, so far as anything furnished
by the state forestry department is
concerned. The nursery tract is a
half acre of efnced land where the
young trees are planted in rows two
feet apart, the trees being five feet
apart in the row. In each row there
are about 1000 trees. In this nur-
sery the company now has about 40
600 trees set last year that Will be
ready for transplanting to their per-
manent homes the coming spring. |
The remainder Of the total of $4,000 |
purchased were planted permanently
last year and a large proportion of
them are doing well. One thousand |
cedars, which were placed in swampy |
lands, are thriving and the company
would have planted more of these
this year but can not secure them
from the state forester. Two thous-
and Norway spruce trees are also
growing we'll.
An Imemnse Spruce.
The Roy Lumber Company of |
West aBrnet are numbering on their |
mountain timebr land about one
mile from their mill and are cutting |
record breaking stock of choice /
lumbed. Recently a monarch of the |
forest, an imemnse spruce tree was
cut. This tree was 80 feet long, |
8 feet in diameter at the but and 8
inches in diameter at the top, and |
scaled 1875 feet of lumber. 1t 1
was hauled to the mill with one pair
of horses on a bob sled, and even
tehn the road was so steep in places
that two bride chains had to be
used.
Paid 1928 for Cow.
Claiming that she knowingly sold
him a COW infected with tuberculosis
although she guaranteed it was
sound, l. N. Chase of Brandon and /
Arthur A. Beeman Of Norwich have
brought suit in Rutland county
court against Mrs. Fanny d. Erhardt
of Berlin, this state, to recover
$4,000 damages. The allegation is
that the COW infected a number of
other members of a valuable herd of
Ayrshire cattle at the Forest Park
stock farm in Brandon, owned by
the plaintiffs, and that in addition to
suffering from the loss of cattle by
death, Messrs, Chase and Beeman
were unable to make sales they /,
would otherwise have negotiated be-
cause the news was spread abroad
that tehir herd was infected. Some
of the best lawyers in Vermont have
been engaged for the case and it's
trial will be one of the most import
ant at the March term of county j
court The COW which caused all
the trouble was an Ayrshire named
''Dolfibble Tibbie g" and the price
the plaintiffs paid for mer was $725.
1t is alleged in the declaration that
the COW died of tuberculosis short
time after it was taken to Bran
don and that as a result of infection
fro mthis animal, ten other members
of the Forest Park herd succumbed
TO tuberculosis Teh ulaintiffs also I