The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-12

IL 10 A1lOClSIOOd IlS 10 clSSAS1ACo u
duties in the New England division
office in Boston and will cease tc
travel.
The manufacturing plant of the
Bellows Falls Pulp company has been
shut down and will not be opened
this winter. All orders, however, will
be taken care of by the New York
factory. The manager of the local
plant, George NJ. Baker, is now en-
ployed by the Vermont Farm Ma
chine company.
Anthony Sullivan, age Il years, a
nephew u Mrs. Patrick Gaynor, Rut-
land, with whom he lives, was acct
dentally shot in the abdomen by a
rifle in the hands of boy companion
Thursday morning, the bullet passing
through his body. He is in criti-
cal condition at the Rutland hospital.
Horatio C. Simmons, go, of Ben
nington, died W ednesday, at his home,
AFTER an illness OF two weeks. Mr.
simmons was widely known in bust
ness circles, having for many years
made and installed the Simmons heat
ers in hundreds of New England resi-
dences al public buildings. Besides
MS wife lie is survived by three sons,
all in service and one daughter.
The Icnss delayed opening of the
University Of Vermont for that sec
ton not connected with the students
army training corps took place We'd
nesday. Tie number of students in
this section is 225, of whom 40 are
men. The latest figures for the
army training corps show a member
ship of 470. This makes the total
enrolment for the college 1876, of
which 49, are women, the largest
number of female, students the uni
versity has ever enrolled.
fla. Mccarthy of Rutland
has been accepted as a Knights of
Columbus war secretary for overseas
duty and expects to sail soon. Mr..
Mccarthy is a member of Rutland
council, K. c., being the second man
from this fraternity to become a sec
rotary for war work. He is also a
member Of the board of education
and one OF the assessors of Rutland.
Russell Duncan, a student at Mid
dlebury college, had his left leg bro
ken between the knee and the ankle
late Wednesday afternoon while in
football practice on Porter field.
Friday night at II o'clock the ban
on all public gatherings in The city OF
Burlington, which was put into effect
more than five weeks ago with the
outbreak Of I'M. enZa, wa a,ove:i
After only four days of resuming
activities following the epidemic OF
! Spanish influenza in Enosburg Falls
the lid was again clamped on Thurs
day by the health officer, II new cases
having developed.
Herbert Johnson, colored, of Ben
nington, was sentenced to spend the
next nine months at hard labor at the
house of correction at Rutland Thurs
day. Jordan attacked with a knife q
man who was fellow boarder al
| Burlington Inn.
Members of the Connecticut Valley
Poultry association held a meeting
/ Tuesday at Bellows Falls and decided
to hold no poultry show this year
No show was held last year on ac
count of war conditions but it is hop
ed that the exhibitions can be resum
ed next year.
Three war students, Lyle Robin;
Beckwith of Chelsea, and Lawrence
Clark Jones and Clayton Henry Kin
ney of Rutland, who took the law ex
aminations at Montpelier Friday
were admitted by the supreme cour
to the practice of law.
Laura A. Davis of Chester, from
one ounce of sugar beet seed furnish
ed her by the boys and girls cIuI
work department of the agriculture
extension service Of the University o
Vermont, planted 10 rows totalin>
800 feet in length and produced IT
pounds of beets. She reserved 1
pounds for seed purposes, and iron
the remaining 100 pounds extracte
eight quarts of "very nice syrup,
three quarts to the bushel.
Rev. Frank A. Stockwell, who re
signed the pastorate of the Univel
salist church at Morrisville last Dee
ember to engage in Y. M. C. A. worl
: has received a commission as char
lain in the United States army wit
; the rank of first lieutenant, and e7
poets to leave for overseas in til
near future. Mr. Stockwel has con
pleted a five weeks course at tt