The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-03

ALEDONiAN. THURSDAY
VERMONT NEWS
There were IL commitments to the
house of correction at Rutland dur
ing September.
Edward Leclair was found dead in
his rooms at Barre, supposedly of
gas poisoning.
Three thousand persons at the Bel
lows Falls station saw the war relics
train, Saturday.
The funeral of Carl Mooney, who
died at Gettysburg, was held Sunday
at his late home in Fair Haven.
Elvin Cohurn of East Charleston
died at Camp Devens last week of
pneumonia, following influenza. He
went to camp September 4.
Miss H. e. Blanche Gibson, for
nearly 40 years an employee at the
Brattleboro retreat and since 1883
the matron there, died last week.
The joint centenary observance
and Sunday school training confer
ence for the Burlington district of the
Methodist churches is to be held
Thursday and Friday at Rutland.
Zebra Graves, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Graves of Bennington, has been
promoted to be a corporal and ap-
pointed clerk of Co. 1, 57th pioneer
infantry. The regiment has been NOV
ed from Spartanburg to Camp Mer-
rift, N. J.
Because of the quarantine against
Spanish influenza, the annual conven-
ton of the Vermont Teachers asso-
citation will not be held in Montpelier
on October 8, 10 and II as originally
planned. the next date set is Nov
ember 7, 8 and 8.
Miss Alice M. Cronk of Winches-
ter, N H., who graduated from the
Brattleboro Memorial hospital in
1916, has written Brattleboro friends
announcing her safe arrival overseas.
She is member of the army nurses
corps and trained at Camp Devens.
News was received in Waterbury
Sunday that Betram Michae, Burke,
who was born in Duxbury, April IA,
1890, the sor of Mr.. and Mrs. Mi
chael and Mary Hayes Burke. died
Saturday a. Camp Devens of Span
ish influenza He enlisted last spring
from Franklin, N. H.
Miss Beatrice Mcnamara, for Is
years table girl in the Junction
House, fell from hotel stairway and
sustained triple break of her right
leg. Following a call by DR.. Dean
S. Drake, she was hurried to the
Mary Hitchcock hospital at Hanover,
N. H.
Among the II men who were re-
Gently transferred from the St. Paul, |
Mimi, aviation mechanics training
school to the Rockwell aviation field
near San Diego, Cal, was Nelson
Hitchcock, formerly an employe of
the Bennington garage, they all be-
ing graduates of the st. Paul school. |
Mrs. James Hunter and son, Ken |
meth, of Bennington, have gone to
New York with the expectation of
seeing Mr.. Hunter before he sails for
overseas duty. Mr.. Hunter, who was
formerly a Bennington tailor, is
member of the 57th pioneers, which
has been stationed at Spartanburg,
S. C.
On account of the prevalence of in
fuenza the Brattleboro board of
health, including the selectmen and
DR.. Henry Tucker, held conference
and decided to close all schools and
moving picture theaters for one
week, ana TO prompt the cnufcneS
from holding any services until after
next Sunday.
Miss Mabel E. Belden, the 13-year-
old daughteE of Deputy Sheriff and
Mrs. D. e. Belden, of Benson, is de-
serving of ruch credit as one of the
fastest drivers in the war savings |
stamp drive. During the campaign
in Benson, when stamps to the value
of over $1,400 were sold, Miss Bel
denis total sales amounted to $1,206-
IS, and she has over $500 more
pledges.
Bellows Falls has not had very
good success with woman employees
on it's stree trailway. Two women
have boon birod tho fret ono oattino