St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-15
VERMONT NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Miller of New
port observed their golden wedding
on Dec. Z. Fifty years ago Dec. was
Thanksgiving day. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Miller were born in Westfeld. Mr.
Miller is senior partner of the firm of
Prouty and Miller, doing lumber bust
ness in Newport for over 40 years. He
represented the town in the legisla-
ture of 1892
White River Junction is to be illu-
minated for Christmas by the Elks,
whose plans call for colored mean
descent lights hung across the princi-
pal streets at intervals of every SO or
rs feet.
Mrs. Helen M. Boutwell, of Castle
ton was dubbed over the head by an
unknown man who entered her room
Dec. 8. Her son-in-law, Robert
Downes is under arrest and it is sup
posed he intended to strike his wife,
who is a daughter of Mrs. Boutwell,
and was sleeping with her. Downes
and his wife separated about two
weeks before and he had acted very
jealous of her.
The town of Woodford claims the
youngest deer slayer in the person of
Ward knights, II years old, who bag
ged a spikehorn buck weighing 1875
pounds during the second week of the
deer season. He used the old fash
toned carbine such as some of the
European armies used and condemned.
The st. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
plain railroad station at Wolcott with
all records and some freight was COM
pletely destroyed by fire Wednesday
night. Fire was discovered while the
agent was at supper and had made
such Roadway that nothing could be
done. Some cars on the siding took
fire but it was put out A box car and
coach on a siding will accommodate the
public for the present.
Miss Florence LeMoreux of West
field, who was i'll of poliomyelitis a
little over year ago, and stayed for
a year in Miss AuStin's sanatorium at
Barton, but who never was able to do
more than move her fingers, died OF
pneumonia Wednesday morning at the
home of her father in Westfeld, where
she had been the past month.
The body of Henry Bidwell, tender
of the drawbridge at Aliens Point be-
tween South Hero and the Winooski
river was found Dec. 7 by a railroad
section hand. 1t is thought that he
died from heart failure while fishing.
The second annual meeting OF the
vermont state dSSOCldlAOh LII SAAO W.
lief of the Blind was held at Burling-
ton, Dec. z, and the following officers
elected: -President, Prof. A. R. Gift
ford of the University of Vermont;
secretary, Mrs. F. w. Ward of Bur
lington; treasurer Henry G. Fuller OF
Burlington. Mrs. G. w. Wales of Bur
.1ington, president of the Chittenden
county branch of the association, and
Mrs. E. G. Smith of st. Adams, presl-
dent of the Franklin county branch,
are the vice-presidents of the state as
ISOLATION The number of blind per-
sons in Vermont, which was $50 &C
cording to the census of 1910, is stead
lily decreasing, owing to the sc1enufc
methods now employed for preventing
blindness in very young children, the
medical inspection of school children
and the increased number Of children
who now wear glasses.
Warren or Bob Whitehead OF Al
ercorn, P O., is under arrest charged
with being implicated in the death OF
Mrs Frank Dipper, an aged widow.
He has been taken to the jail at
lSweetsburg, P. Q. He is said to have
confessed to a chum who was with
him all the day of the murder, the two