Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-21
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

January ID was the coolest morning
on record in ST. Johnsbury, the Their
mometer at Eastman'S drug store
standing at So below at seven o'clock.
Concord reports the same temperature
Ida Locke won a settlement of her
suit against the ST. Johnsbury & Lake
Champlain railroad, the terms being
about $4,000 She received an injury
to one leg while diSmounting from
train and claimed that trainmen start
ed the train before she got off.
William ]. Cross won a verdict of
$4,000 from the Passumpsic Fibre
Leather company, which he sued in
damages FOR injuries suffered because
of alleged negligence on the part of
the company. One of Cross's feet
was injured in the defendants mill at
Passumpsic.
While Walter Garrison and Joseph
Therien, car inspectors for the B. &
NJ, were making up an airbrake hose
at Lyndonvile, Jan. IA, they were
caught between the. cars. An engine
backed onto the train and on account
of the icy track the men were caught.
Garrison was thrown down and one leg
was so badly crushed that it was
amputated. Therein ESCAPED with the
loss of the heel of one shoe.
The negligence case of Harry T.
Morrison VS.. E. & T. Fairbanks &
Company of ST. Johnsbury has been
settled out of court. the defendant
company giving the plaintiff, it is
understood. $1,000. Morrison was
injured when tool fell. striking him
on the head, inficting severe wound
and in effect paralyzing a part of his
body. Suit was brought in Caledonia
county court. but the company wishes
to make fair settlement out OF court.
Several alarms for small fires caused
by overheated furnaces were followed
| by a $1,000 fire at St. Johnsbury
! Wednesday of last week. which badly
damaged the woodworking shop of G..
R. Lynch. Forty fremen worked for
three hours with the thermometer at
| SO below zero. Griswold & Mackinnon
own the building, which is damaged
to the amount of $751; 500 and they have
So. 200 insurance. Lynch's loss is
estimated at So. 500 with $1,000 insur-
ance. The fire caught around the
chimney.
A. S. Haskins, of st. Johnsbury
returned Saturday from Boston where
he had a prominent part in the New
England Convention of Optometry.
He was among the ones who took the
postgraduate lectures given by Earl
J. Brown, nj. D.. of Chicago, on
diseases of the eye, Prof. F. A. VOL
of Columbia University on the physical
construction of the eye, and S. w.
Baker, who gave an exposition on
Skiametry, the method employed by
trained optometrists in all examina'
tons of the eye. The work accom-
plished at the postgraduate course,
has an exceptionally important bear
ing on the science of conservation of
vision by means of properly fitted
glasses. It was clearly demonstrated
that the methods of trained optome-
trlsts based as they are on mathemati.
cal precision, are being recognized
throughout the country. ''More than
500 of the leading optometrists of New
England were present. The work
accomplished is of inestimable value
to themselves and the communities
they represented. The display of
optical machinery goods and aids to
vision was larger and more varied
than was ever seen at former conven-
tons. The optical manufactures of
New England are among the largest in
the world.