St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-09-02
VERMONT NEWS

blood poisoning caused by an ulcer
I ated tooth.
= At their annual meeting at Rut
land last week the Vermont Under
takers and Embalmers' association
elected these officers: President, JohI
; b. Stearns of Rutland; first vice
president, M. S. Rounds Of Barre
second vice-president, W. w. Ben
nett of Manchester; secretary, +. G
Pease of Jericho; treasurer, J. A. Glib
SON or Enosburg Falls; delegate II
the national convention, G. A. Cal
derwOod of st. Johnsbury. The mem
bership of the committees are as fol
lows: Membership, Harry w. Morey
of East Fairfield, Gerald WEIGH oil
Bellows Falls, G. B. Dodge of Lyn-
6onville; executive, M. s. Rounds OF
Barre, w. w. Bennett of Manchester
J. A. Gibson of Enosburg Falls; leg
islative committee, G. A. Calderwood
of st. Johnsbury, L. S. Congdon OF
Wallingford and H. G. Carpenter OF
Montpelier.
At Salisbury, August 26, marble
shaft was unveiled to the memory OF
Ann Story, a widow of Revolutions
airy times, who, alone in the wilder
ness with a large family of children,
dug in clay bank of the Otter river
q hidden retreat.
The Ancient Order Of Hibernians
at their annual meeting at Rutland
last week elected the following off,
GERS: President, DR.. J. J. Dervin,
PouItney; Vice-president, Charles H.
Hastings, Ludlow; secretary, t. A.
Mullany, West Rutland; treasurer,
John F. Moloney. Rutland.
Cleveland Winters of Swanton, IT
years old, was drowned August 49,
He was subject to fits and had one
while bathing in the Missisquoi
river.
| Miss Pauline Drown of Brooklyn,
II years old, attempted suicide at a
band concert in Rutland August %.
She started to drink carbolic acid
from a vial, but a young man saw
her and knocked it from her hand.
She was badly burned but swallow
ed none of the acid.
Steven Smith, Bellows Falls
Russian, fired three shots at Mrs.
Michael Greek of whom he was jeal-
Gus and then shot himself on August
%. The woman will recover but
Smith was shot through the heart.
Irving ~ Smith of Brandon,
breeder of blooded cattle and horses
and owner of one of the largest
stock farms in Vermont died August
"a.
Harry NJ Wheeler of Calais met
death in a horrible way August %.
While spreading hay he struck a
bees nest with his fork. The bees
pursued him and unthinkingly he
held onto the fork. He stumbled and
the tines pierced his body causing
death instantly.
When school begins this fall Mont
pelier Will ehfisten- a new 100000
high school; Jeffersonville has a new
village school, West Derby, Topsham
and Highgate have new buildings;
and Windsor is trying a new depar-
ture with an eight-roOm, one-StOry
building, lighted by saw-tooth wind
ows in the roof.
The Second Congregational church
at Jericho had a surprise after SER
vice on August % when Luther G.
Stevens, in behalf of his brother, sis
ters and himself, presented the
church $4,000 in gold bonds to es-
tablish a fund to be known as the
Stevens Memorial fund.-" in men,
DRY of their parents and the income
to be used for church purposes.
The fifth summer meeting of the
Vermont State Horticultural society
was held Thursday at the fruit farm
of Luther Putnam in Cambridge. 1t
was the largest meeting held, there
being fully 500 persons there. Mr..
Putnam took his visitors on a tour
of inspection of the orchards and ex-
planned the numerous varieties of
fruit, the insects from which the
trees have to be protected and so on.
Among the speakers were E. H. Hal |
lett, state lecturer of the Grange, G. |
o. Ormsbee, state demonstration, who |
gave a demonstration of tree graft
ing, and H. v. Wheelock, who gave a |
scientific demonstration of apple tree |
pruning.
Henry Sindlinger, a German en-
ployed in Windsor, has become in
sane over the European war and had |
to be sent to the retreat at Brattle-
boro.
DIR. c. F. Dalton, secretary of the
State Board of Health, is sending
letters to all the physicians in the |
state regarding the epidemic of in
fantile paralysis Full quarantine
must be observed for four weeks and
cases should be kept I'M
der supervision for at least two
weeks. The cases and deaths report
ed to date were four cases and two
deaths in Putnamville, thirteen cases
and three deaths In barton, TOUR
cases and one death in Burlington,
one case in White River Junction,
and Cambridge, and two in
Monkton and Coventry. The disease
has been thought to be a children's
but many of the cases have
been adults.
At the special term of court held
at Chelsea Tuesday afternoon, States
Attorney F. S. Williams filed an in
formation against Wallace Avery of
charing him with having
the crime of rape upon a
little girl of the age of nine years,
TO which charge the respondent
pleaded guilty. The details of the
crime were given the court by the
states attorney, following the plea
Of guilty, and were of the most eX-
-remely revolving nature. The respon-
dent, who was without counsel, was
by a layman in the per-
son of Watson w. Bannister of
3raintree. The court melted out a
sentence in state prison of not less
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