St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-03
VERMONT NEWS

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Colonel Joseph Battell of Middle
bury, the Morgan horse enthusiast,
died in Washington, d. c.. Feb. %,
aged 76 years. He leaves no rela-
tives. He was author of many works
on horse breeding. The Bread Loaf
Inn, one of the famous hostelries of
the state, was owned by him and on
a tract Of about 10000 acres of tim
Der land he was working out some
of his own ideas on forestry. One
of his peculiarities was that he never
allowed an automobile on his prop
erty. In 1905 he gave to the United
States a farm of 500 acres in Wey-
bridge to be used for breeding Nor
gan horses and in 1910 he gave the
state of Vermont 500 acres of virgin
forest including Camel's Hump for a
public park.
Prof. l.. c. Cook of the agricul-
tural school at Randolph Center,
died Feb. 81, from jaundice. He
was born in Irasburg 80 years ago
and married Miss Mabel Granger,
granddaughter of the late Rev. P. N.
Granger, for many years a Methodist
minister in this section.
Thanks to Senator Hollis of New
Hampshire, Daniel H. Cray is to be
postmaster at bellows L ais anu uOI
James E. Bryne who is secretary
and treasurer of the democratic state
committee.
The annual meeting of the YER
mont State Bankers Association was
held at Burlington, Feb. %, and the
following officers were elected: Pres
ident, H. NJ. Mcfarland of Hyde
Park; vice-president, H. G.. Wood
ruff of Barre; secretary, c. S. Web
ster of Barton treasurer, d. l..
Wells Of Orwell; executive commit
tie for two years, Henry O. Carpen-
ter of Rutland, Levi H. Bixby of
Montpelier, S. C. Carpenter of Rich
ford, w. H. Bracket of Brattleboro;
executive committee for one year, H.
H. Webster of Bennington. The
principal speaker was Alfred L. AK
en- of the reserve bank of Boston.
Vernon A. Bullard of Burlington
was on Friday, selected by President
Wilson for United States attorney
for the district of Vermont. Mr..
Billiard is a native of Hyde Park,
born in 1858 and was educated at
Johnson Normal School. He grad
uated from the law department of
the University of Michigan in 1884
and practiced law for 10 years in
Underhill before removing to Bur
lington. He represented Underhill
at Montpelier in 1890 and Burling-
ton in 1904.
Vermont and Maine are the only
New England states against which
guarantees have not been issued
since the outbreak of the foot and
mouth disease in the Chicago stock
yards and Fred l.. Davis, state live
stock commissioner is doing all he
can to keep out the disease. At
Bennington last week he put into eff
feet a quarantine against shipments
into Vermont from New York state.
Lamoille's boy burglar, Glendon
Tuthill, made a complete breast of
his exploits before he was turned
over to the United States officers. He
admitted that he made the break at
Hardwick and showed the officers
where they could find mileage tick
cts worth $3.50. In his room at
MOrristown, the officers found $19.45
in cash and few stamps. At his
home in Gilmore some of the whiskey
stolen at Morrisville was found. The
boy has wonderful nerve for a IA
year-old and the officers are inclined
to believe his story that he worked
alone in making the breaks.
John E. Goodrich, noted educa-
tor and retired professor of the
University of Vermont, died Feb. "a,
aged "a years. He leaves a wife
and one son. He was a native of
Hinsdale, Mass, and after his grad
uation for the University of YER
mont and Andover Theological Sem
mary taught in various schools I'M
til 1877 when he became associated
with the university. He was chap
lain of the First Vermont cavalry.
Eight persons were injured in a
coasting accident at st. Adams
Thursday evening. They were coast
ing on Congress street and struck
a pole. About a foot of the traverse
was broken off and the occupants,
stunned by the terrific impact, lay
without moving for some minutes.
A traverse following crashed into the
first traverse. Raymond Ladue had
both legs broken, one in two places,
William Ryan and James W. Murphy
had one leg broken and Marguerite
Mullen was thought to have suffered
internal inquiries. The rest are
badly but not seriously hurt.
Campbell Stevens of Barre, 10
years old, was badly injured Thurs
day evening while coasting on a
flyer" His skull was fractured,
four teeth knocked out and his
tongue so badly cut that several
stitches had to be taken.
Twelve roomers had to hustle out
of doors in their night clothes when
fire did $4,000 damage to the Pol
ley building in Fair Haven.
The tenth conference OF the
schools OF Vermont with the Uni
versity of Vermont will be held at
Burlington March lib, subject