The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-22

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Bellows Falls celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary Friday. Rela-
tives and friends helped to make the
event memorable and the couple re-
ceived many beautiful presents.
Beginning Monday, Oct. 81, the
bells of the Episcopal, Baptist and
Methodist churches of Enosburg
Falls will be rung at 1890 o'clock
and on every week day thereafter I'M
til peace is declared.
A strange meeting was recently eff
fected at Camp Devens, when Private
Joseph Puricelli of Barre had the
pleasure Ct greeting the man who
captained the Italian army unit in
which the Barre man had served
while a resident of Italy some years
ago.
DR.. w. D. Bowen, a prominent
physician Of Saxtons River and chair
man of the Rockingham school
board, who enlisted in the medical
corps last spring and was assigned to
Camp Upton, has been promoted to
the rank OF G. captain.
Rev. Charles A. Boyd of Burling-
ton will move to Readsboro where he
will become the pastor of the Baptist
church. Mr.. Boyd has been for four
years the secretary of the Vermont
Sunday School Association and has
been most successful in his work.
There are still over 400 cases of
influenza az Springfield.
The store Of Joseph Rosenberg at
Lakeside, near Burlington, was
broken into last week and a revolver,
a quantity of cigthG etes and thesrb
quantity of cigarettes and So in
money was taken.
Floyd S. Adams, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. K. w. Adams of Rutland, was
fatally injured at Whitehill, N. Y,
last week while performing his duties
as brakeman on the Delaware and
Hudson railroad.
Edward Cross, son of MI. and Mrs.
Thomas Cross Of Arlington, was one
of the boys who went down with the
ship Ticonderoga. He was the third
Arlington boy to lose his life in the
service.
Private Harvey D. Wheeler, "a, of
eds artt,tondi
Stratton, died of double pneumonia
at Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, Oct
II. He was drafted about August 1
and just before leaving for camp was
married to Iva Bevis of Athol, Mass
Mrs W,lfred Miner, wife of Phi
vate Wilfred Miner, died in Brattle-
boro Friday of pneumonia at the age
Of Is years. She was married to Pri-
vate Miner April 2, 1917. He is at
Camp Devers, leaving Brattleboro in
September. i @y
Nathan F. Lewis, 80, who repre-
scented the town of Wells in the leg
islature Of 1910, held the office of
treasurer of the town from 1908 until
he was appointed postmaster in 1914
a prominent merchant and chairman
of the Liberty loan committee, dice
a few days ago of influenza.
Peculiar things happen on the bat
tlefront and one Of them was the
meeting Of Walter Calhoun of Mid
dlebury, of Co. B, 312th ammunition
train, with his brother, Philip Cal
houn of battery B 312th field artillery
the latter lot even knowing that his
brother Was overseas. The meeting
was at one of the large environments
near Bordeaux. On another date g
sailor from Orwell named Rawson, OF
one of the u S. feet, while on shore
leave in Bordeaux, was walking along
the river bank and saw a soldier
washing his shirt. Lacking anybody
to talk with, he approached the sol
der and to his surprise it was Philip
Calhoun, whom he knew in Middle.
bury.
Rev. A. G. Wilson of Bellows FALL
has notice that if his passport tt
France issued to the Red Cross il
August, can be obtained by the Y. M