News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-02-09
The docket for the March term or


Chittenden, VT, county contains 14G
civil cases, seventyone divorce
cases, fifty eight chancery cases and
five criminal cases.
The children in ST. Adams, VT.
schools, by being encouraged to de-
post their pennies in the bank, have
now a total deposit Of $51S7 10 to
show for their thrift and economy.
Sportsmen in New Hampshire last
season killed 6203 deer.
Harry K. Lord, Al, old time BIZ
cycle rider, who was married on his
death bed last month to Miss Cath
crime Kearns, died at Brockton,
Mass. of cancer.
Fire destroyed the Rockland House,
Nantasket, Mass, with a loss OF
SIS, 600.
A class of Fitchburg, Mass. wom-
en- has been organized to take lessons
In war nursing and first aid methods.
DR.. John A. Douglas, 81, Oldest
practising physician in Essex county,
died at Amesbury, Mass, where he
had lived since 1865.
An adverse report on the bill to put
AFRICAN dodgers" out Of business was
filed in the Massachusetts legislature
by the committee on judiciary.
Three section workers we're run
down by a train at Grove Beach,
Conn. One man was killed and the
other two probably fatally injured.
George Buttertield was elected Sec
rotary of the Fitchburg, Mass. board
of trade and merchants association.
The Womens Defense club has been
organized at Old Orchard, Me-, as,
the result of the call of President
Wilson for preparedness.
Chester H. Ballard, 70, died at
Chicopee, Mass, of grip. He was
city almoner for fifteen years.
Albert M. Spear, an associate JUS
tice of the Maine supreme court, an
nounced that he would be candi-
date for The Republican nomination
for the United States senate.
The Schoman building, in the heart
of Plymouth, Mass, was swept by
fire and $40 900 damage was done.
George w. Williams, secretary
treasurer of the international Stero-
typers and Electrotypers' union, died
at Boston Of pneumonia.
Donald d. Whitaker, %, OF
Springfield, Mass, committed sui
eide by hanging.
Admitting liabilities of $40 1894. ST,
the Royal Dairy Lunch company or
Boston filed petition in bankruptcy.
Governor Mccall appointed Fred
erick p. Cabot of Boston to the. Bos-
ton juvenile court bench to succeed
the late Judge Baker.
An armed posse captured Thomas
J. Allen, who escaped from the
county Jail at Westerly, r. l.
Three horses were burned to death
and seven carriages destroyed in a
$4,000 fire in a stable at Brookline,
Mass. owned by Mary H. Russell.
After twenty -four hours afioat in a
dory during wintry weather, John
Forrest and Henry Boucher, who
were lost from the Gloucester, Mass,
fishing schooner Elsie, were picked
up by a steamer.
Bare feet are not immoral, but bare
legs are. This is the informal ruling
by Mayor Curley on theatrical condi-
lions in Boston.
The Danish steamship Arkansas,
which arrived at Boston from Copen-
hagen, is the first transatlantic ves-
sell to have her flag painted on her
decks to protect her from attack by
belligerent aircraft.
Sebastiano Buchieri of Peabody,
Mass. told the police that four men
attacked him near his home, threw
mud in his eyes and robbed him OF
$500.
Colonel Joseph H. Goulding of Will
mington, VT, banker and designer,
the Civil war.
A story of crime, whereby a family
of four has been supported for nearly
a year and half by the thefts OF the
head of the family, was revealed at
Waltham, Mass. in the confession or
Louis Devine.
The state board of education has
accepted the reSlSndtlOn Oh LIT. DdNlu
Snedden, Massachusetts commission
er of eduction. Snedden has accepted
a professorship at the Teachers col
lege of Columbia university.
John @. A. Field, 81, president OF
the Quincy, Mass, Savings bank,
and prominent in the granite busi
ness, died after an illness of two
Nearly 100 pigs were burned to
death in fire at Marblehead, Mass,
which completely destroyed a barn
owned by William Huntley.
Chatham is one of the busiest towns
On Cape Cod in the way of annexing
new enterprises. The towns latest
Is cold storage factory.
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