St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-02-23
VERMONT NEWS

Feb. II at the home of Nathan
Morse. He was a veteran of the
Civil war and would have been IS
years old in February. He was vet
Urinary surgeon and practised until
about two years ago.
Emory Deforge of Winooski had
the unpleasant experience of being
detained at CRANKY, Que. Feb. IS,
while on the way to see his best girl.
The chief of police held him as sus-
pected German spy. After he had
paid his lawyer for securing his re-
lease he was left entirely without
money.
Brandon is suffering from what
looks like an epidemic of spinal men
nights. 1t started with the sudden
death of Zeno Hopkins on Feb. IL.
James Peabody died the following
Wednesday and his daughter is seri-
ously i'll with the same disease, as is
also Charles Needham. All of them
took part in a play a week before
and it is thought they may have con-
tracted the disease from the costumes
which were rented from a Boston
firm. Other cases have since develop
ep and churches. schools and all en-
tertainments are closed.
Rev. Alfred J. Hough, for AZ years
a member of the Vermont conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
plans to retire from the ministry
April 1. He has recently been pastor
of the church at Brownsville. He has
bought a house at Lebanon, N. H.,
and will reside there. He has twice
held the position of chaplain of the
Vermont house and at the present
time is grand chaplain of the Yer
mont Grand lodge, F. & A. M.
A Woodstock man gathered from
his flock of 46 hens during the month
of January $50 eggs. Early this win
ter he placed an electric light in his
hennery and turned on the light every
morning at four o'clock. In 1915 from
rs hens he gathered only $50 eggs
during the same month, an average
of less than six eggs as against an
average of nearly 20 this year. His
electricity cost him one cent a day.
Fred Hall of Burlington. 55 years
old and unmarried, was accidently
asphyxiated Feb. IA in a fish market
where he was employed. He had
about $500 in his trunk at his home.
Miss Emily Greene of St. Adams
was given a birthday party on Feb.
IA at which the combined ages of five
people totaled AS years. The re-
freshments served included cake
with Sc candles.
Judson E. Cushman, for IL years
tax commissioner of Vermont, died
Feb. ~, aged SIS. Mr.. Cushman was
born in Braintree and was admitted to
the bar in 1886. He had served as
grand juror for the city of Burlington
and states attorney for Chittenden
Tn 1QOE he nIaatnd
lessor of medical Jurisprudence at the
university of Vermont and had held
the position ever since.
The report of w. A. Pattee. building
inspector of the city of Montpelier,
for the year shows an expenditure of
S212,562 in the city for new buildings
and repairs OF this amount over
one-half, or $4,000. was expended
for the construction of the Rialto and
Union buildings on State street. There
was SIS. 900 invested in the erection of
residences, $4,000 for stonesheds and
additions, and $4,000 for the new
poor farm building.
John B. Minard of Saxton's River,
II years old, died Feb. 16 as the re-
suit of burns received Jan. 16 when
his house was destroyed. He opened
a door and the flames enveloped him
burning the top of his head badly and
he also inhaled fire.
The death of Almon E. Douglass of
Stowe, Feb. 10. from pneumonia, was
followed on Feb. IA by that of his
youngest son, George A. Douglass, 2S.
who was stricken with pneumonia on
the afternoon of the day of his fathers
death.
At the 41st annual meeting of the
q
Middlebury last week officers were
elected as follows: President, G. c..
Spencer of Vergennes; presidents,
c. Davis of Grand Isle, M. F. Cram of
Bridgewater and r. H. Holmes of
Shoreham; secretary and treasurer, F.
Manchester Of Middlebury.
A fatal accident occurred at Hunt
ington on Feb. Is when Earl Smith
was instantly killed by a falling tree
at a lumber camp. He and another
man were saving down the tree which
hit him, crushing his skull and break
ing both limbs. He was 80 years OLD
and unmarried.
st. Peters church, Rutland, plans
to build a gymnasium and clubhouse
and for that purpose will set aside the
offerings on the second. third and
fourth Sundays of each month. They
will need $4,000 for the building.
G. c. Carpenter, state commissioners
of weights and measures, had a pecul-
lar experience with a large feed con-
Germ a few days ago. The company,
which is one of the largest in the
state, was selling feed, weighing the
bag and contents for 100 pounds, and
was doing business enough so that
the profits through that illegal meth
cd, were SIP day or over $4,000 a
year. Mr.. Carpenter found the error
in the method which after much pro-
testing the concern agreed to correct
but insisted that it would have to raise
the price on it's feed to meet the de-
creased profits.
Plans are under way for a state
equal suffrage conference to be held
in Burlington March and when
such noted equal franchise leaders as
Mrs. Carrie Chapman, Mrs. Susan W.
Fitzgerald, and Mrs. Elizabeth Glen
dover Evans will speak.
Jennie Chik. as she was known with
the Bob OFT show. Jennie Ossiledchik
as she was before her marriage in