St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-12-08
VERMONT NEWS

Damon hall, new public building
at Hartland, was dedicated Dec.
with an address by Clark c. Fits of
IBrattleboro The building is the gift
/ of Luther and William E. Damon.
Fire early Sunday morning, Nov.
f28. destroyed the plant of the Lud-
lington Manufacturing Co. at Whining
ton. causing loss of $15O,000 About
f16O persons were thrown out of en-
ployrnent, a third of the number wo-
men and girls.
Because a bull gored and trampled
ION her outside of its pasture last June
Mrs Hattie e. Moses of Lebanon, N.
H, has sued its owner, James K. Howe
of Tunbridge, for $4,000 in the fed
eral district court for her injuries.
Her husband has sued the owner for
$4,000 for doctors bills and loss of his
wife's services.
John ]. Murphy, cashier of the
Marble Savings bank at Rutland who
left town suddenly on Nov. &c, has
not been found yet although he was
seen in New York. His accounts were
found in perfect condition and his
friends cling to the theory of some
mental arrangement.
Figures compiled by Dorman E.
Kent of Montpelier, librarian for the
Vermont Historical society. show that
the number of natives of the state
mentioned in the last edition of who's
Who in America" is exceeded by the
record of no other state in the union.
Another fact that will cause no COM
ment is that 80 per cent. of the 1000
left Vermont to do their work else
where.
/ BY fashioning the handspring of an
alarm clock into a saw by the aid Of
jackknife Joseph Merton who was
confined in the Grand Isle county Jail
cut his way to freedom Nov. 20 and
is supposed to have escaped into Can
ada He was in for breaking and was
the only prisoner in the Jail.
At the annual meeting of the Addi-
son county Agricultural society, Dec.
IL. officers were elected as follows:
President, John E. Weeks of Middle
bury: 1st vice-president Col Silas S.
IIsley of Middlebury; End vice-presi-
dent. William C. Hack of Orwell; sec
rotary, Frank G. Dyer of Salisbury;
treasurer Charles F. Rogers of Mid
dlebury.
The eight year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Walter Richardson of Albany
was almost instantly killed Nov. II
when a gun hanging on some pegs on
the wall dropped to the floor and in
some way was discharged.
The body of Mrs. Eliza Parrant Dip
per. aged TO- bruised and blood-mark-
ed, was found in her bed room at her
home in Abercorn, P. O., three miles
from Richford, on the afternoon of
Dec. 1. The coroner's inquest made
report that the woman had been Grim
finally assaulted, and murdered and
the house had been robbed. The wo-
man was a widow and lived alone but
within 200 yards of neighbors. She
was an eccentric, sticking to old
fashions such as wearing a hoop
skirt but she was much respected.
She had complained of hearing people
lin her house and had found traces of
them in her kitchen but refused to go
to live with neighbOrs, as she had been
asked to do. She carried sums of
money varying from SIS to $500 in a
bag tied around her body, but after
her death there was only 1928 in the
house.
Charles Daley of Rutland, 20 years
iold, was instantly killed Dec. 1, when
he fell from a window in st. Peters
hall on the third floor of the parochial
school building. He was standing in
the open window when he lost his
balance. Daley was one or the best
Il
{ all around athletes in Rutland and
was practicing for a basket ball game.
In the audience which listened to
the great Scotch comedian, Harry Lau~
der, at Rutland, Nov. 20, was Daniel
Austin of Pittsford who celebrates his
Tooth birthday this month.
The Rutland Business Mems asso-
citation will decorate the streets in
front of the principal stores with abour
300 small evergreen trees set in brighl
red tubs.
Middlebury college will receive
$4,000 by the will of Prof. John A.
Howe, which has just been probated
at Albany, N. Y. He was a member
of the class of 1853.
Austin Wilkins of Morrisville ceIe-
brated his 5Oth anniversary as Ma
son on Nov. 20, at a special meeting
of his lodge.