St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-04-21
VERMONT NEWS

While playing on the bank of a
stream in Lower Cabot, Little Ella
Heath, seven years old, was drowned
on April IL. She fell into the small
brook and was washed into the
Winooski River. No one saw the
accident but it is thought she was af-
ter water for her mud pies. 1t was
seven hours before the body was
found in only four feet of water.
Silas f. Hazelton of st. Adams,
aged 81 years, drowned himself in
Lake Champlain on April IL. He
had been ill about a week with small
pox and while delirious eIuded his
nurse.
Ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury. died at
his home in Burlington, April Is,
from the effects of a shock sustained
while at Battle Creek, Mich. He was
born at Acworth, N. H., July IL,
1888, but came to Vermont when
only two years old. He was educa-
ted at Peoples Academy, Norris
vile, and graduated from the med
ical department of the University of
Vermont in 1859. In 1860 he mar
ried Miss Paulina Darling of EImore
who survives him with six children.
For 10 years, Gov. Woodbury. was
IududSOI VI Lie DULL W.
and for 35 years owner and proprie-
tor of the Van Ness House. At the
time of his death he was president
of the Mead Mfg. Co., the Crystal
Confectionery Co. and the Queen
City Cotton Co. He enlisted in May,
1861, in the End Vermont regiment
and lost his right arm at the battle
of Bull Run. He was mayor of Bur-
lington in 1885 and 1886, lieutenant
governor in 1888 and governor in
1894-5. He was a member of the
various Masonic, Odd Fellow and
Knights of Pythias bodies and past
department commander of the Loyal
Legion and the G.. A. r.
John Drugg of Stowe, 68 years, a
retired farmer, committed suicide
April Is by hanging himself from
rafter in the barn. He had been
in poor health for five years but had
not seemed respondent. Besides his
wife and two children he leaves a
mother 81 years old.
Edward M. Roscoe, superintendent
of the Barre schools, died Friday af-
ter a very short illness. Grip was
followed by cerebral embolism. He
was born in New Haven, May IL,
1873, and was educated at Beeman
ACdu0My anu OO1lSSS.
After teaching in New Jersey and
New York he came to Waterbury.
In 1904 he was elected principal of
the Springfield High School and in
three years was made superintend-
ent. He came to Barre in 1912 to
succeed o. d. Mathewson when he
became head of Lyndon Institute.
He had been president of the Yer
mont State Teachers Association and
the Vermont Schoolmasters' Club and
was very prominent in all the edu-
cational affairs of the state. He is
survived by his wife who was Miss
Nella Sanborn of Bradford and one
daughter.
DIR. B. ]. Andrews, for a quarter
of a century superintendent of the
Mary Fletcher Hospital at Burling-
ton, died April IL, after a long i'll
ness. He was born at Jericho in
1850 and graduated from the med
ical department of the University of
Vermont in 1885. For nearly a de-
cade before his retirement from the
hospital in 1914 he had been blind.
Glen G. Minkler of South Hero is
one of the club winners in the boy
and girl agricultural club of the
northern states, according to infor-
nation recently sent out from the
United States department of agri-
culture. He was one of the 81 corn
raising champions. The yield re-
ported by the young man from South |
Hero was 74.33 bushels. The total |
cost of raising was $30.48 and the |
net profits $72.96. The list of |
names was selected from an enroll |
ment of over 100000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eliakim Bigelow of |
Stowe celebrated their golden we'd |
ding on April IL. Mr.. Bigelow was
One of the men who went to Califor-
MIA in search of gold in 1852 by way |
Of the Isthmus.