The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-04-30
ABOUT THE STATE


The Caledonia Forest and Strear
club is to plant in the streams Of tina
county this spring 244, 900 trout fry.
Beginning with the next schoo
year, the tuition at st. Johnsbur.
academy is to be $50 per pupil. Thi
increase is because of greater de
mands for vocational departments
etc.
James Mcdonald was injured a
Lyndonville one day recently when h
fell from the top of 35-foot electric
light pole to the ground. The safety
strap which fastened him to the pole
slipped off. One arm was broker
above the wrist and he was badly
bruised and lamed.
Rising water in Lake Champlain al
st. Albans bay during the last few
days caused the breaking up of the
lee, which inflicted considerable dam
age to lighthouses, etc. H. l.. Sam
son, proprietor of the Lake View
house, met with loss Of several hun
Ired dollars when his pavilion. which
was built partly over the water. was
torn TO pieces, causing it to collapse.
Charles Marsh was arrested in Es-
sex Junction last week just after he
had placed torpedo on the railroad
track to make the train slow down so
he could get on, which he had accom-
plished when arrested. He had also
set fire to the grass along the track.
II is understood that Marsh has es-
capped from an institute for the feeble
minded in Boston.
When Mrs. Fred Whittemore went
Saturday morning to the house az -
Western avenue, Brattleboro, in which
the Whittemore family had lived for
some time, but in which Mrs. White
more had left furniture and household
articles packed for shipment to Bur-
lington, she found that some person
or persons had broken in and stolen
several articles of value. When the
burglary was committed is not known
as neither Mrs. Whittemore nor her
son had been at the house for over a
week. Every trunk had been ran
sacked, and included in the articles
which Mrs. Whittemore knows were
taken are two raccoon skin mufTs, val
ued at $25 each, a silver water pitch
er and two silver goblets, valued at
$35, one double barrel shotgun with
an unusually short stock, in a sole
leather case with brass plate on one
side marked IF. W. valued at s25,
and several other small articles of less
value
A cat belonging to A. j. Perkins of
Deweys Mills recently caught a fish
measuring Is inches in length.
Miss Florence Nelson of Ludlow
was recently awarded gold medal
at the Boston arena for the New Eng
land skating championship for 1914.
Mr.. Bashaw, working on the state
road at Jonesville, was badly hurt a
few days ago, when drill which he
was using slipped and the handle
broke his nose and hurt his skull.
Through the efforts of Mrs. l.. Car
penter of Essex Junction, Col. Goe-
thals, governor Of Panama, has sent
a contribution toward fund TO build
a parish house for the Congregational
church at Essex Junction.
Charles, young son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
rowlv escaned drowning fscen,iy
when as he was fishing IN tho roar ~
his home he fell into The water ua
has infantile naralvsis and was nrable
no get Ia the shore but comnanion
ii wears old Who saw The aeridant
rescued him =
In order to take short cut TO her
home Mrs Sarah PilIinoq of Head
y;lio walled down ,ha ra;I,oad ,raaL