St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-05-14
VERMONT NEWS

Bellows Falls through its Mers
chants Association has forwarded to
President Wilson a protest against
the reduction or removal of the tar
| if duty on manufactured paper. Bel
lows Falls is dependent to a great
extent on the paper industry and it
it feared that a reduction in the tar
if may send the plants to other
countries where labor is cheaper.
Miss Lyle Eastman of Chelsea will
have to lose a leg as the result of a
fall while skating on the ice last
winter. At the time it was thought
that she was not badly hurt but a
Malignant growth developed from
the hurt.
The Baptist congregation in Ran
dolph has become so small that the
church is considering selling the
edifice to Bethany church. Bethany
church is federated with the Meth
odist church and will either build
new or accept the offer of DIR. Dav-
ison, state secretary, to buy the Bap-
fist house of worship for $4,000.
The location is one of the best IN
Randolph.
More than half the village of
South Albany was destroyed by fire
May 6 when IS buildings and most
of their contents were ruined at a
| loss of from $4,000 to $4,000. The
fire started early in the afternoon
from a brush fire and in two hours
the entire village east of the river
and north of the A. A. Webster barn
was in ruins. The fire leaped from
one building to another so that lit
tie personal or household property
was saved. The loss is as follows
A. A. Webster, store and stock OF
goods, barn and automobile; E. j.
Douglas, house, barn and blacksmith
shop; Mrs. H. D. Rowell, house and
two farm barns; Will AInes, house,
barn and wood working shop;
Charles Copeland, house and barn;
M. B. Anderson, barn; church prop
erty and number of other
smaller outbuildings.
In supreme court at Montpelier
last week w. r. Aldrich of Barton
was suspended for one year from the
practice of his profession. The
charges were unprofessional conduct
in dealing with his clients and soil
citing business in an unprofessional
way.
C. A. Jimmo of Sewickley, Pa, 45
years old and mentally unbalanced,
attempted to commit suicide May D
| in the toilet room of passenger
coach of a train from Troy when
near Rutland. He was saving away
at his throat with a dull jackkn1fe
and asked Mayor Brislin OF Rutland
to loan him a sharper knife.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock
died in New York May 5. He was
born in Woodstock, Dec. %, 1856
and was graduated from the UniVer-
sity of Vermont in 1890. He was
banker and broker in New York and
was married only a year ago.
Harley J. Andrus, two years old,
was drowned in a spring near his
home in Castleton, May 5. He had
been missing only 10 minutes wnen
his mother found him lying race
downward in the water.
Nora J. Shouldice of North Clar-
endon, 20 years old and former
empIoye of the Rutland telephone
exchange, was found dead in els
tern May Z She was subject to
fainting spells and rope and pail
indicated that she had lost her bal
ance while drawing water. She had
threatened to kill herself.
Fire at Graniteville May des-
troyed the general store of Odule
Gilbert and other buildings at loss
of $4,000. Lightning caused the
fire which left three families home
less.
Norman F. Cabot, aged go years,
was found dead in bed May at his
home in Brattleboro. During the 20
years he was treasurer of the YER
mont Savings bank of Brattleboro,
the oldest savings bank in the state,
he had but one vacation, and that
for three days on the occasion of his
mothers death.
Arthur H. Fuller of Bellows Falls
has been elected captain of Company
E to succeed Preston H. Hadley, re-
signed.
Inc burglary at Brattleboro was
followed by one at Bellows Falls,
May z, when the home of George
r. Wales was entered. Most of the
goods taken were wedding presents
given to Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Barker
two years ago. At the home of
George L. Durham in Brattleboro
the Saturday night previous they Sc
cured $500 worth of silver and in
both cases they helped themselves
to food from the refrigerator.