St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-17

a plank slipped and let him into the
water near the big flume. Just as
/ the suction was drawing him down
he managed to reach out and get
hold of a stavo of the hume and,
after a terrible struggle, to pull
himself from the water.
Charles II. Thompson, the Pro-
gressiJe state chairman, escaped
death or serious injury Thursday
when the Buick car he was driving
collided with a large Cole machine
driven by H. M. Fisk of Norris
vile. The accident occurred at
Silver Ledge camp between Mont
pelier and Middlesex. Mr.. Thomp-
son received two fractured ribs and
severe bruises. There have been
three other accidents this season at
the same point.
Burlington is making great prep
arations for entertaining the Tooth
anniversary of the Vermont Medical
society on Oct. 8, 9 and 10. A paper
and surgical clinic by DR.. John B.
Beaver of Philadelphia and the same
by DR.. w. Gilman Thompson of
New York will be features of the
meeting. DR.. John A. Witherspoon
of Nashville, Tenn, president of the
American Medical association is ex-
pected to speak.
BY the will of the late Charles B.
Wetherby of Burlington the Kurn
Hattin home receives $4,000, the
Proctor sanatorium $4,000 and
the balance of the estate will pro-
vide a home for aged men of the
state.
The annual meeting of the YER
mont Library association and the
State Library commission will be
held at Woodstock, October 1 and
2. The New Hampshire association
has been invited to unite with this
meeting and will provide one speak
err. A trip to the Pomfret library of
which Mrs. Abba Chamberlain is Ii
brarian will be a feature of this
meeting.
The annual state convention of
the w. G. T. U. will be held at
Burlington, October 10. A feature
of the convention will be debate
on Resolved that prohibition is a
better temperance measure than
local option" with Pres. Benton of
the University of Vermont as
speaker for the affirmative.
Norwich University opened last |
week with 80 freshmen, the larg-
est entering class on record. The |
whole number of cadets will be |
over IT'S.
BIO" was shot and killed at Essex |
Junction Sept. 9 by the derrick
foreman at the new dam, probably |
in seIf-defence The Italian had |
been discharged for intoXication and |
had been threatening the foreman's |
life.
The farm buildings and con-
tents, belonging to Sylvester H. and
Walter J. Howe at Tunbridge were
burned Sept. IL, the fire catching |
from the silo engine. The loss is
estimated at $4,000 partially in
sured.
Fire, thought to be of incendiary
origin, destroyed the old fork fac |
tory, a saw mill and a grist mill at |
Hartford Thursday. The loss will |
be between $4,000 and $4,000 par
TALLY covered by insurance. The |
fork factory where the fire started |
had not been used for IL years
and there was no waste in it. None |
of the mills was in operation.
The seventh annual conven- |
ton of the Vermont Association of |
Local Fire Insurance Underwriters |
was held at Burlington Thursday |
and Friday. The following officers
were elected: President, H. HI. |
Hickok of Burlington; vice presi-
dent, A. B. Noyes of ST. Johnsbury;
second vice president, G. P. Davis
of Windsor; secretary, G. F. Root
Of Newport; treasurer, w. F.
Clark of Rutland. The new mem
bers to be elected to the executive
committee are E. L. Walker of Bel
ows Falls, and C. c. Graves of Wat
F. L. Brigham of Bradford
vas elected the regular delegate to
he national convention to be held
n Cincinnati and others to go will
)e H H. Hickok and T. S. Peck of
Burlington, ]. w. Fowler of Man
hester, C. G. Graves of Waterbury,
J. D. Taylor of BrattlebOro, F. H. +;
3urnham of Rutland, A. E. Plas-
ridge of Mortified, N. N. Atwood
# st. Adams and J. G. Brown of
Montpelier.
John Sheridan, a railway mail
Jerk on the Central Vermont, was
rrested Thursday charged with
he larceny of two registered letters
rom the United States mail He
as been in the mail service for {
Z years and been trusted and faith t
I'll. [
Mrs. Eliza Little6eld Brown of
rutland celebrated her Tooth birth
av. Friday She has lived in Rut- s
and for 81 years. She spends most 4
f her time in bed, but sits up part
f each day. She enjoys converse '