Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-08-27
VERMONT NEWS.

A large Montreal touring car, with
six occupants, went over bank in AL
burg few days ago, landing on its side
in an oat field. Several of the party
were somewhat injured and required
the services of physician.
The large barn belonging to Victor
Martin in Bakersfield was burned
Wednesday morning. Three horses
and all the hay in the barn, large
quantity were lost. The cause of the
fire is not known, but it may have been
spontaneous combustion. The loss is
partially covered by insurance.
While John johnson and assistants
were setting a plate glass window in
front of Sidney H. NiXin's shop at
Brattleboro the wind took it out of
their control and it fell. Everett w.
Phillips was cut so badly on one arm
that he was taken to the hospital and
Solomon Nesbitt received bad cut on
one hand.
The body of John Long, aged 81, was
found about noon Sunday near the lake
shore about half mile from St. Adams
Bay. Whether he committed suicide or
the drowning was accidental is not
known. He had apparently been men
tally unbalanced for some time. He
had been missing since early Saturday
afternoon and the family were search
ing for him all night. Some young men
while bathing Sunday found the body.
In the pockets of George D. Horton,
of Clarksburg, a veteran of the Civil
War, who died Sunday at the Vermont
soldiers home in Bennington, upwards
of 50, 600 was found. Mr.. Horton was
a native of Windsor and was IA years
old. During the Civil War he enlisted
as member of Company A, End VT.
Regt., and after the war he settled in
Clarksburg, where he had since lived.
Napoleon Lewis, an aged resident of
Hinesburg, was injured Friday evening
while returning from Burlington. Eu-
gene Redmond, who was going toward
the north in his automobile, die not see
the carriage in which Mr.. Lewis and
his granddaughter, Crissee Lewis, were
approaching and ran into the team,
tipping the horse, wagon, and occupants
into the brook near Harrison Owen S
home. Mr.. Lewis arm was cut and his
wrist injured. He was taken to the
home of his daughter, Mrs. S. D. Reed,
where DIR. E. F. Burdick attended him.
Saturday morning he was removed to
his own home.
Vermont will be represented at the
national shooting matches, to be held in
Jacksonville, Fla, commencing October
IS, by team of fifteen men. This
team will be selected from a squad of
80 of the best shots in the State Nation
al guard. The entire sqaud will meet
at Fort Ethan Allen the latter part of
September, when trials will be held to
select the team which will go to Florida.
The thirty members eligible to compete
are the men who made the highest
scores shooting at Fort Ethan Ellen fol-
lowing the preliminary work of the
state encampment.
A peculiar bulletin has been received
at the Burlington police Office in which
B. w. Emerson is advertising for his
wife, who disappeared from Cleveland,
Ohio, July Is. Mr.. Emerson does not
wish to prosecute his wife, whom he
claims took at the time Ct her departure
$500 in cash, diamond ring valued
at 500, and forged a check for $225.
He does not want her arrested on any
of these charges if she is found, but
only wishes her returned to him so that
he may care for her, his claim being
that she is slightly deranged. At the
time of her going away she is supposed
to have been accompanied by another
man. Her husband offers SIS reward
for his wife's delivery to him and he
will give an extra $25 for the delivery
of the man.