St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-05-12
VERMONT NEWS

Timothy e. Sullivan of st. Adams
20 years old, was fatally injured May
z while engaged at his work as cal
Inspector for the Central Vermont
Evidently in switching he went be-
tween the cars to meet another traiI
that was coming in and was caught
between the couplers.
Mrs Margaret Perkins Of Bristol
81 years old, committed suicide May
by hanging. She had been de-
spondent.
Doris Warren of Fairfax, the
three-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wayne Warren, died at the Fan
ME Allen Hospital May as the re-
suit of burns suffered the Saturday
before. She was left alone few
minutes and found some matches.
Robert E. Morrison of Fairfield
was found guilty in Franklin county
court last week of assault with in
tent to kill his employer, Leon Roddy
The youth who is only 20 years old
was sentenced to not less than seven
nor more than 10 years at Windsor
Horace F. Graham of Craftsbury
H. w. Varnum of Jacksonville, G
p. Smith of Burlington and ex-Gov
w. w. Stickney of Ludlow have been
named by Gov. Gates as a building
commission to erect a building fol-
] the supreme court, state library and
historical society or to make repairs
to the capitol at a cost not to exceed
$150,O00.
Giuseppe Corsini, a marble car
yer in the employ of the Vermont
Marble Co. at Proctor, committed
suicide May 5 by jumping off an iron
bridge. 1t is thought he was brood
| inc a fTo q afin7 w
ing $500 between himself and son.
On May 15 the Cross-state Trans
portation Co. will begin running
mountain climbing automobiles over
the Green Mountains between Rut-
land and Stockbridge. Stanley
steamers with Is passenger capacity
will be used. The new route will
cut the time of travel four hours and
the cost $2.05.
Donald E. Gensler, a member Of
the varsity baseball team at Prince
ton in 1908, walked into a drug store
at Bennington May 1, complaining OF
headache and became unconscious be-
fore a physician could be summoned
dying soon after. He had been en-
ployed by a Bennington scale COM
pany.
Mrs Alvah w. Foster of Wo1cott
gave birth to triplets a week ago Sat-
urday Mrs. Foster and three chill
dren are doing nicely and if the three
little tots which weighed 10 pounds,
thrive as well as they have begun,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fosters home will be
a mecca for callers this summer to see
the famous Foster triplets. Before
this remarkable and unlocked for
event in the lives of Mr.. and Mrs.
Foster, the children in the family
numbered five, the two oldest being
students at Peoples Academy in Nor
risville.
About 40 optometrists, many of
them accompanied by their wives, at
tended the eighth annual convention
Of the Vermont State Optical So
ciety in Rutland last Thursday. There
were two business sessions and the
convention ended with banquet at
the hotel. The ladies had theater
party after which maple sugar on
snow was served at the hotel, some of
the eye doctors joining the ladies for
the Vermont delicacy Thursday af-
ternoon. A S. Haskins of st. Johns
bury entertained the convention with
stereopticon lecture, Invisible
Rays of the Spectrum" Mr.. Has
kfns is a specialist in the use of the
Violet ana ultra rays.
Details of the 100000 war
contract awarded some time ago to
the Canadian Car and Foundry Com
pany by the Imperial Russian govern
ment for the manufacture of $780,
600 shrapnel aand howitzer shells at
an average cost of $17.85 each, be-
came known Wednesday for the first
time and it is now learned that the
Vermont Farm Machinery Company
of Bellows Falls has secured a sub
contract amounting to $3.50, 200 from
the Canadian company. At the pres
ent time the farm machine company
is advertising for first-class help and
the plant is working day and night.
1t was known that the work came as
a result of the war, but few if any of
the wOrkmen knew just where the
contract came from or for what gov
eminent it was being done. Besides
the contract taken by the Vermont
Farm Machine Company, two other
Vermont plants get a slice of the
work, the Robin Hood Ammunition
Company of SWanton, having been
giving a sub-contract for SIS 900 and
the Horatio Hickok Company of Bur
lington one for $175, 900.
Only a part of the Morgan horses
owned by the late Joseph Battell of
Middlebury were sold last week,
Tuesday, as the prices were extreme
ly low. Tight money was given as
the cause. Over 400 men were pres
ent at the sale. The triple blue rib
bon stallion Scotland was sold to Mr..
Lunk of Bangor, Me-, for $500; Rob
ert Bruce brought $3.50 from C. A.
Stone of Boston, who also purchased
the stallion Green Mountain Boy for
$4O5; the blue ribbon mare Roxy
Gates went to w. S. lob of New York
for $3.50. Mr.. Battell had valued
Scotland at $4,000 and in his life
time no one could have bought him
for less. Between 80 and 40 horses
were disposed of.
The railroads at Brattleboro have
been ordered by the public service
commission to construct union pas
senger station at Brattleboro before
October /, but no order has been CIV
en- for an overhead pass.
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