The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-24

Harry Fallon, 12-year- old son O
Mr.. and Mis-. John Fallon of RUTLAND
was struck in the cheek by bulle'
from a rife in the hands of a play
mate Sunday, but his condition is no
considered dangerous. The bulle
has been removed
News has been received in st. AL
bans that Lieut.. Paul Doolin, son o.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Doolin, who
has been in a hospital in France fol-
three weeks, is recovering in a rest
camp in southwestern France. Lieut.
enant Doolin, who is an aviator, be-
came suddenly i'll the latter part O
last month. Ee was taken to a hos
pital and upon examination it was
discovered that something he had eat
en- contained ground glass.
Ray C. Hicks, who went from Viii
mington to Scotland last year with
lumber unit, was married there Sept
ember 10 to Miss Elizabeth Bell, O.
Ofdgay, Scotland.
Mrs. A. J. Hancock, who will be
10 years of age the 9th day of Dec
cnber is the champion "farmerette'
in Coventry. She has planted, careC
for, and dug her garden and a patel
Of potatoes.
Because so many breeders in thG
state have disposed of their bloodcC
fowls on account of the high cost o.
poultry feed, directors of the Yer
mont Poultry Association have prac,
tically decided to cancel the annua
show, which was to have been hclt
in Barre in December. Similar actor
on the part of smaller poultry asso
Citations in Vermont is indicated.
U. S. Mentally appeared in RUTLAND
city court Saturday on the charge
trapping skunks out OF season. TIL
season did not open on the animal
until Oct 20, but several skunk
skins were found in the McNally bar.
in East ! ittsford previous to tina
day.
Private Charles Collctte, son of Nj
and Mrs. Joseph Collete of Orwell
died October 16 at Fort McHenry
Baltimore, Md, of pneumonia, follow.
ing influenza. He was % years Ok
and entraired for military service
July 5th Of this year.
Attorney w. H. Preston Of Fai
land, and Mrs. Preston have receiv
ed word Of the death of their son
Sergt. Gordon W. Preston Of Co. a
57th Pioneer infantry, Oct. 6, @
pneumonia. Death occurred on tn
transport Leviathan, which sailed
from the United States Sept 28th
The body was sent back to Hoboken
N. J., on another transport.
/ Miss Agnes Leonard, assistant tt
the postmaster at Center Rutland
was robbed on the main street of the
village DIM III GIlC 1l2 III VI q III IAAOSA
at $50 o'clock Saturday evening, the
| thief getting about $1,000 in negotia
| bic war savings stamps, a consider
able amount in postage stamps anC
some cash. Miss Leonard had tho
government funds in bag and was
transferring it from the store tc
Postmaster F. w. Bryne's home mex
door when a strange man suddenly
appeared from a hatchway in tn;
/ Byrne house and threw a coat oveI
the woman's head. He overpowerec
her and she was unable to make hel
aut cry until the man had disappear
ed
The body of C. C. Gilbert, son O
LYMAN Gilbert of Enosburg Falls
was brought from Allentown, Pa.
his home where he died, to Enosburs
Falls for burial last week, MI. Gil
bert was associate editor of TIL
| Concrete Magazine.
Private Norman Skeels of Milton
listed in a recent casualty report a
dead of accident, is alive and doini
well, being at Ellis Island recovering
from wounds. His parents receive
letter from him only Saturday. H
is a member of Co. F, 58th infantr!
Ee was wounded in August.
Wednesday night Mrs. Lockwood
: who lives st West Rupert, saw ligf
from her window. Going out to II
vestigatc she found lighted tore
: in the leaves between the house an
d barn, which are but few feet apar
c Some one had thrown it in from tt
highway. A bundle of cloth W.
It tied to the end of a stick about Nv
: feet long, which had been soaked
: some indammable substance, as Il
cloth had moi burned much.