St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-01-13
VERMONT NEWS


Montpelier has been selected by
Postmaster General Burleson as the
Vermont forwarding station for relief
for the Belgian sufferers.
Joseph Mahoney, 10 years old, died
at the Rockingham Hospital, Bel
lows Falls, Jan. 5, of gangrene,
caused by gun shot wounds sustained
the Tuesday previous. He slipped on
his door step and the shotgun he was
holding exploded, the shot, wadding
and powder entering his left thigh.
| Edward N. Thomkins, so, a farm
er of Guilford, was found dead in his
room, Jan. 5, having committed sui
| eide by shooting himself through the
head with rife. He had been in
poor health for some time
John A. Howard, quartermaster'
clerk at Fort Ethan Allen, was
found the first of this month to have
disappeared, leaving a shortage of
$500 or $4,000. He asked for 10
days leave of absence Dec. 18 and
said he was going to be married. He
had always borne a good reputation
but the woman who went with him
was a well-known camp follower.
They were located at Winnipeg by
Burns detectives and will be brought
States court.
Richard Turner of Swanton, go,
was burned to death Jan. 2. He
lived in small room and was in the
habit of smoking in bed. No one
really knows what happened as the
fire was under control before his body
could be rescued.
The public service commission has
given down a decision in the matter
of the equipment of locomotives with
headlights and cablights under No.
$50 of the acts of 1912, in which it
is ordered:
THAT every railroad corporation
doing business within the state shall
equip, maintain and use upon its 10
comotives operated within the state,
excepting locomotives used exclusive
ly in yard service and locomotives
operated exclusively during the pc
riod from one hour before sunrise
to one hour after sunset, headlights
of not less than $500 apparent beam
candlepoWer when measured with
the aid of a reflector, rated in ac-
cordance with the average of the
centre readings between 500 and
1000 feet ahead and upon a reference
plane three feet above the rails; and
shall equip, maintain and use upon
all locomotives operated within the
state cablights of sufficient intensity
to plainly illuminate the air, water
and steam gauges and to permit the
reading of orders thereby"
The Vermont Bar Association at
it's annual meeting at Montpelier, Jan.
e, elected the following officers:
President, Charles d. Watson of st.
Adams; first vice-president, John G.
Sargent of Ludlow; second vice-pres-
ident, George B. Young of Newport;
third vice-president, M. G. Weber of
Rutland; secretary, John H. Mimms
of Rutland; treasurer, E. M. Harvey
of Montpelier; board of managers, L.
G. Moody, Montpelier; J. T. Stearns
of Burlington; George o. Stone, Yer
gennes, o. B. Hughes, Brattleboro.
Mrs. Maude M. Wilkinson, a piano
player in a moving picture theater
at Bellows Falls, attempted suicide
Jan. by taking two tablets of BIZ
chloride of mercury. She has two
children and mother.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Rutland County Agri-
cultural Society was held Jan. and
it was announced that the officers
would arrange at once for raising a
guarantee of $4,000 for the annual
snow or 1919. In spite OF colo ana
rain over $4,000 was taken in ad-
missions at the last fair and the prof
it's were nearly $4,000. Officers were
elected as follows: President, F. M.
Wilson of Rutland; vice-president, |
w. E. Carter of Pittsford, and Robert |
Mead of West Rutland; secretary, w.
X. Farnsworth of Rutland; treasurer, |
w. L. Davis of Rutland; trustees, F.
M. Wilson, w. H. Spaulding, ]. G.
Dunn and M. S. Sawyer of Rutland |
and B. G. Buxton of Middletown
Springs.
Ephraim Haskell of Brattleboro,
member of STANDARDS famous bril-
gade, who had to use crutches for
over 80 years as the result of a wound
received at the battle of Gettysburg,
died Jan. 6. He was born in Will
mington, Jan. 81, 1927, and in Sep
TENDER, 1862, enlisted in Company F.
1 9Th Vermont. He was one of 200 I
men sent out on the picket line and
was wounded by the bursting of
shell.
The Vermont Quarries Company of
has applied for articles of
to take over the prop