St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-04-16
VERMONT NEWS
Man Who Evaded Christmas Tree
Law Heavily Fined

Law Heavily Fined
P. w. Perkins of Tannersville. N.
Y, was found guilty by a jury in
Washington county court Thursday
of dealing in evergreen trees with
out a license. He secured conditional
deeds of several farms last Novem-
Der and cut thousands of Christmas
trees. The court charged the jury
that it could bring in a verdict of
guilty if it thought he made con-
ditioanl purchases of farms as a
lcover to evade the law. Perkins
was fined $500 and costs. He will
appeal TO the supreme court. The
case increases in Importance since
the state will next proceed to collect
the % cents tax which is placed on
every evergreen tree cut in the state
by persons other than owners of
lands in greater amounts than 20
trees. 1t is estimated that Perkins
shipped 100000 trees from La
noble and Washington counties.
New Morgan Horse Farm
The most notable event in Morgan
breeding thus far recorded for the
present season is the establishment
of an extensive stud at Windsor,
Vermont, by J. Rich Steers and c.
G. Stillman of New York. They
have rented the Captain Lord place,
latterly known as the Bailey place,
one and one-fourth miles north of
Windsor village on the Hartland
road and are assembling there herd
of Morgan brood mares and stall
lions With commodious stables,
paddocks and ample pasture, in
a locality which is rich in Morgan
history and which still preserves
the traditions of the Morgan breed,
this stud should readily make itself
a center of interest. The choiceness
of the breeding stock which Messrs.
Steers and Stillman possess will
cause their farm to take a foremost
rank among similar Vermont estab-
! lishments.
Earl LaRoche, five years old, the
only son of Mr.. and Mrs. Amos La
Roche of Hartford, was drowned
April 9 in the White River. He and
another small boy were amusing
themselves throwing sticks in the
river and he fell in. The body was
recovered an hour later.
The girls in the senior class at
Spaulding high school, Barre, are
to be graduated this year in white
sailor suits with red ties and each
will wear a red rose.
Beatrice, the 6 months old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Elkey, of
Rutland, fell from her high chair
Monday afternoon, April z, and died
! that evening of a fractured skull.
About $50 Italians employed in
the foundry and yard of the Howe
Scale works at Rutland have struck
for higher wages. They receive
$1.4O and want $1.75.
Miss Florence Price, pastor of the
Congregational church at Georgia,
and we'll known throughout the
state as field secretary of the Wom-
ans Foreign Missionary society of
the state, died April 9 after three
weeks illness with Bright's disease.
She came from ST. Paul to Vermont
several years ago and was one of the
best workers in the state.
1t has transpired that John Win
ters, the convict who was supposed
to escape from the prison at Windsor
on April Z did not do so, having
been found hidden within the walls.
He threw his cap over the wall and
left the ladder leaning against it,
thinking that after dark he would
have a better chance to escape.
Morrisville students will aid in
the move to reduce the high cost of
living by wearing caps and gowns
at the graduation exercises at Peo-
pies Academy. 1t was found by
investigation of the faculty that
girl graduates had expended as high
as $3.50 for graduation.
Charles Balas of Proctor, a young
Slav, pleaded guilty in Rutland coun-
ty court last week to the charge of
manslaughter in causing the death
of another Slav, and was sentenced
to not less than four nor more than
five years at hard labor at Windsor.
Rev. r. H. Trill, pastor of the
Congregational church at Hyde
Park, has resigned to go to the
Congregational church at Cowans-
vile, P. @.
Henry o. Wheeler, superintendent
of the Burlington schools since 1880
with the exception of one year, has
resigned.
At Middlebury the family of Les
lie Sparks is erecting a monument
to the memory of Frederick Deaf
trick, who was bugfer in the English
army at the battle of Waterloo.
The National bank of Barre ceas-
ed to exist on April and the Quar-
ry Savings Bank and Trust Co. took
it's place, with a capital stock of !
100000 fully paid up.
The body of an unknown man was
found on April Z beside the track |
not far from the station at Leices-
ter Junction. The body was badly |
mangled and the only thing on it to |
identify it by was a foreign news
paper. The man was evidently a |
IaboTer, 8 years old, 5 feet, 6 inch
es in height and had a red beard.
During the holidays young
woman not over II called at the |
home of William Couture in Bur-
lington and asked permission to |
leave her three months old baby
while she transacted some business
The mother never returned but Mr..
Couture has received a letter from
S. B. Brady, U. S. army, telling who
the mother of the child is but that
the father is unknown. Mr.. Couture