St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-03
VERMONT NEWS
St. Johnsbury Man Elected President
of the EmbaImers' Association

neral Directors and Embalmers met
at Burlington, August 81, and
elected the following officers: Pres
ident, c. A. Calderwood of st. Johns
bury: first vice president, ]. B.
Stearns of Rutland; second vice
president, NJ. S. Rounds of Barre;
secretary, f. G. Pease of Jericho
Center; treasurer, j. A. Gibson of
Enosburg Falls; ergeant-at-arms,
R. w. Barnum of Pittstield. M. S.
Rounds was elected a delegate to
the national convention of undertake
ers.
Henry Sylvanus Tillotson, aged
II, of Morrisville, died August 25.
He was a member of the James w.
Warner post, G. A. r., having enlist
] ed in 1861 in Company E, 7th Vt.
regiment.
Miss Suzanne E. Throop, Rad
cliffe, 1913, has accepted the posi-
ton of Dean of women at Middlebury
College.
Ira t. Eastman, age 72, dropped
dead, August %, at the home of his
niece, Mrs. E. ]. Fallon in MontpeI-
| Ter. VaIvular disease of the heart
was the cause of his sudden death.
The annual meeting of the Auto
mobile club of Vermont will be held
| Saturday, September 9Th, at one p.
m, at The Pavilion Hotel, Mont
pelier. There will be election of Of
GERS and other important business
transacted.
The friends of Charles Beals, who
died alone in his home at Poultney,
August "a, were unable to enter the
house until his dog who was guard
ing the house was shot. This dog,
Mr.. Beals' constant companion,
threatened to bite who ever attempt
ed to enter the house.
Miss Grace Wiltshire Tyler, for
merly of Morrisville was murdered
August % by a Greek in Cincinnati,
Ohio, where she had been for sever
al years, sent there by her father,
who was almost hypnotized by the
sect known as the "Revivalists.
Her life there was practically I'M
known to her friends save for few
letters to ner foster parents. All
that is known of her sad death was
learned from a letter from the ma
iron of a Rescue Home in Cincin-
natl where she had been from No
vember 1912 until January 1913,
when she again went to live with
the Greek, who afterward killed her.
Walter Richardson of Samson
Vile had his right eye torn out when
some lumber fell on him while he
was working at the Domino Manu-
featuring Co. of that place. The
other eye is not harmed.
Az a cave-in in the Welch quarry
at Wells, August rs, Lorenzo Moore
was fatally injured. Several other
workmen, all Hungarians, were quite
seriously injured.
Edward Sullivan, a circus man,
thrown out of employment, July %,
when the Buffalo Bill Circus went
out of business in Denver, Colo,
without paying any of their help,
was arrested in Rutland, August
rs, by railroad officials. He had
been beating his way on trains to
his home in Burlington and was
within 81 miles of his destination.
Mrs. Ida E. Hall of Greenfield,
Mass, daughter of the late Mrs.
Emily r. Kelsey of Brattleboro, has
filed an appeal through her counsel,
Judge E. w. Gibson, from the pro-
bate courts allowance of her moth
er's will, which bequeathed the bulk
of her property from $4,000 to
$4,000 to Frederick w. Kuech, Mrs.
Kelsey's guardian. BY the will this
daughter received $25 and her broth
er SIS. She claims her mother was
mentally incapable at the time the
will was made and was unduly in
fiuenced.
Arthur EIdridge was instantly
killed near Lancaster, N. H., Aug
'ust 26, when the auto he was driv-
ing turned turtle, and both he and
his companion, Alfred FOurnier,
were pinned under the machine for
half an hour. Both the men were
from Whitefield. Fourier had no
bones broken and his injuries were
slight.
/ Wilbur Gray, 20, committed sui
eide August 26 in Lincoln by hang
ing himself in one of the barns of
the Ira Stewart farm. No cause for
the deed is known.
Harmon May was found burned to
death near his shack near Bolton.
Probably the cause of the fire was
pouring a large amount of kero-
sene into the stove.
The Universalists of Vermont and
the Province of Quebec held -four
days convention at Rutland last
week and elected these officers:
President, o. K HOLSTER, Barre;
vice president, George Felch, st.
Johnsbury; secretary, the Rev. u.
F. Fortier, Rutland; treasurer, s.
S. Watson, ST. Adams; trustees, w.
R. Rowland of East Corinth and R.
L. Richmond of Rutland; preacher
of occasional sermon, the Rev. A.
M Smith, Concord; delegates to gen
eral convention at Chicago, the Rev.
H. C. Ledyard of Mortified, the
Rev. J. B. Reardop of Barre, the
Rev. Flint M Bissell of Wilmington,
the Rev. R. d. CrammeF of Norris |
Vile, the Rev. H. A. Parkhurst, the !
Rev. H. L. Garfield of Woodstock, |
the Rev. D. E. Trout of Brattleboro, |
George Fetch of St. Johnsbury. Mrs.
D. E. Trout of Brattleboro, Mrs. |
Alice Allen of Waterloo, J.. O., w.
r. Rowland, w. H. Douglass OF I
Northfeld,N Mrs. H. L. Calheld OF |
Woodstock, Rollin S. Childs Of Brat |
tleboro, Mrs. T. E. Levey of Lud- |
low, George A. Perry of Springfield,
w. H Gladding of Randolph. Ar
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