Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-29
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

The mari ponds in Sutton have been
sold by M. nj. Taplin, Harry Dickens
and TT. r Cutler to Hannibal Hamlin
Of Brookline, Mass.
Charles Butler Of st. Johnsbury is
authority fer the statement that we
have had 80 thunder storms so far
this season, the greatest number in
any one season since he began to keep
record.
st. Johnsbury has a community
Kitchen" where any may 60 for as
sistance with their canning or can
have it done for them by experts for
ten cents q can, when materials are
furnished.
Members of the Caledonia County
Bar association had q banquet at st.
Johnsbury Friday night in honor of
two OF their number who were re-
Gently commissioned, Capt. Leigh /.
Harvey and Lieut.. Joseph Fairbanks.
Members of Chamberlin post, G. A.
r., were the guests of the bar associ-
alton.
The Congregational church in Lyn-
don viii be 100 years old Nov. so, but
the observance of the anniversary was
held Aug. 10, bringing it at time
when the summer people, many of
them especially interested in the
church, might participate. There
were many historical sketches and a
centennial fund was started, over
800 being pledged at one meeting.
In another destructive electric
storm Aug. 20, property was dam
aged in Danville. The Congregations
al church was struck and the steeple
0%E hxot< IL he.
side of the building, scattering shing-
les and clapboards IN all directions.
The chimney on theMasonic hall and
the town hall were torn off, trees
struck and electric lights and tele-
phones burned out.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wright of Hardwick
wandered into the woods Monday,
! August 20, and was out over night,
being found the next day by the Boy
Scouts of Hardwick. Mrs. Wright is
p years old and deaf. She was des-
pondent over domestic affairs and APP
parently desired to end her life She
lay under a log all night In the rain
and was badly chilled from exposure,
but is recovering.
st. Johnsbury is to have another
educational institution. The Green
Mountain School for Girls, is to be
opened In the fall by Miss Caroline
Wood Woodruff, a teacher in the pub
lie schools for the last Ii years. She
is associated with her cousin, Mrs.
Roger Williams, of Cuba. The school
will receive both boarders and day
pupils and is designed as a finishing
school and preparatory school.
Joseph H. Warren, a respected cit
izen of the town of Wolcott for the
past SO years, committed suicide by
hanging himself Aug. II. The body
was discovered by his daughter, who
resided with him, early in the after
moons. and she hurriedly notified
neighbors. No cause for the rash act
is apparent as the deceased, although
along in years, had been in his usual
health and there was no intimation of
his intentions.
Judge George c. Frye, acting as a
court of inquiry at st. Johnsbury, an
nounced Friday at the conclusion of a
three days hearing that the state had
shown sufficient evidence to hold Mrs.
Alvah Kenerson and May Hicks with
out bail for the special session of the
grand jury. The respondents charged
with the murder of Alice Bradshaw,
were in court, but were not put on
the witness stand. John Kerwin, al
I so held IN connection with the crime,
was not in court. The case was sub
mitted TO the court of evidence and
without argument. Tt is evident from
the battle between the lawyers for
the defense, Potter, Writers and Al
exander Dunnett, and attorneys for
the state, Attorney General H. G.
Barber, and States Attorney Camp
bell that the case viii be bitterly con
tested.