St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-10
SUTTON
Narrow Escape From lightning AT
o. w. Ingalls, PIace-TOwn
Happenings.

Happenings.
o. w ingalls, and family had
close call in thunder shower recent
ly when the lightning struck a few
feet from their house so near that it
Jared things from the walls in the
house.
The week day evening service is
to be held Tuesday evening this week
instead of Wednesday evening as the
pastor expects to be out of town
Wednesday evening.
The c.. E. meeting will be held at
the hall next Saturday night as the
social is to be Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Whipple, Mr..
and Mrs. c. A. Aldrich, H. A. Blake
and Fl. w. Carpenter attended the
Odd Fellows memorial service at
Burke Hollow Sunday afternoon.
There was good attendance and an
able sermon delivered by Rev. ]. q.
Angel of West Burke.
The evangelistic meetings that
have been conducted here the past
two weeks and three Sundays were
closed with the Sunday evening ser
vice. Rev. Mr.. LamaX left for his
home in Burlington with his auto,
Monday. There has been as good at
expected in a farming town at this
season of the year.
The pastor and Mr.. Lomax held
service at the North Ridge Sunday
afternoon with a very good attend
ance.
The G. E. society are to hold a So
cial at the Aid Hall Friday night of
this week and all are invited to at
tend
The next Grange meeting is to be
held Saturday evening the 18th.
Burleigh Parker and bride from
Derry, N. H, are making their grand
mother, Mrs. Charles McKown, a
visit.
Mrs. D. NJ Goodwin has been at
East Haven caring for her father, o.
L. Lund, who is very i'll.
Mrs. Skinner from Bennington
visited her sister, Mrs. Edwin Curtis,
recently. Mrs. Skinner is in poor
health and it was a rare pleasure for
her to make the visit.
F. r. Whipple has sold the farm
known as the Jesseman place on the
cross road from c. w. Wizards to
Whipple's Mill to WaldroR Hamilton,
who already has possession.
Alfred Burnham was born in
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in Vancouver, May 10, 1914. He
was the son of Mary w. and Curtis
Durham. He was educated in the
common schools and Hardwick AGA
denny and taught school for a time.
On March 8, 1872 he was married to
Adelaide Ball of Sutton. For a num-
Der of years he conducted carding
mill and tub factory at Sutton Hol-
low and later became a farmer. His
health failing, his daughter Mrs. D..
E. DanfOrth, resigned her position as
teacher of domestic science in the
Normal school at Johnson and took
her father to Vancouver hoping the
change might be beneficial and for a
time he seemed much improved in
health. On Feb. II. 1914 he was
taken to the hospital in Vancouver
and the doctors pronounced his
trouble advanced heart disease. Ev-
erything was done for him to make
him comfortable, but his doctors call
ed his disease incurable from the
first. He was very patient and hope
full and made friends with all the
other patients in the ward who called
him Dad His friends here re-
member him as a kind, pleasant,
hard working man. He was very
fond of flowers and birds and espec-
tally fond of children. He leaves
one sister, Mrs. S. D. Stone of Los
Angeles, Cal, who is in poor health,
one son, Herbert Alfred Burnham,
who is a teacher in the Normal school
at Johnson, one daughter, Mrs. d. E..
Danforth, of Wolfson Bay, B. c., who
has done all that could be done to
make her fathers last days pleasant
and comfortable. The funeral was
in Vancouver on May 10, 1914 and
burial in Mt. View cemetery.