The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-16

P. A. Clifford, formerly resident
of Rutland, but for Is years in Ell
mira, N. Z, and for five years pro-
prietor of the Hotel Rutland in that
place, died Friday.
The fourth death from influenza oc-
Cured in Rutland Tuesday, the vic
tim being John S. Rowell, a merchant
Thursday the number of new cases
reached high mark, DR.. George Rus
sell, city health officer, quarantining
SO houses containing As cases. Fri
day fewer cases developed. There
are about SO pneumonia cases in the
city.
Robert Osgood was arrested in
Montpelier Thursday on charge of
stealing a bicycle from George Ems
lies garage Sept. 7. The boy said
that he sold the machine for S. to a
man in White River Junction.
The directors of the Randolph SAN
itorium decided to keep the institu-
ton open, unless there should be a
larger deficit than they could meet.
The house has been full for the last
week, and extra help has been called
IN to assist in the care. Several of
the young nurses will be released to
go to larger institutions
During the rainy period just pas
sed, the water in the Missisquoi river
at Swant5n overlooked pastures and
meadows SO quickly that it was with
much hard work that stock was saw
ed from drowning. While J. o.
Corliss and son, Raymond, were try
ing to locate some cattle, the small
boat in which they were riding upset
and in the raging torrent it was with
difficult that they saved themselves.
A $4,000 fire in Windsor Friday
night destroyed the second story anc
roof Of the Windsor club Inn, 6
boarding house conducted by the Ma
tional Acme Manufacturing Com
pany. A composition board was uset
in remodeiing an old factory into the
boarding house and it burned rapidly
A large of the company's employee;
roomed in the building and many 0.
them lost all their personal belong
ings. The house will be rebuilt.
Miss Jennie L. Rowell of Burling
ton, chemist at Morrill, hall, which i
a part Of the University of Vermont
and Prof. Thomas Bradlee of Bur
lington, director of the University ex
tension service, were married Octobe
8 at the parsonage of the Colleg
street church in Burlington by Rev. !
C. Smart. The bride graduated from
the University of Vermont in 1908
Prof. Bradlee finished the course a
Cornell in 1911 and has been with tn
Vermont institution for five years.
Ernest Russell of St. Adams Bay
80, was killed Thursday when his au
tomobile overturned near Sunderlan
Hollow in the town of Colchester
He, with Ernest Rich, also of ST. Al
bans Bay, had been to Winooski an
were on their way home. AS the
were going down a steep hill tn
steering gear broke and the car turn
ed over, pinning Russell underneath
Rich was also hurt, but not serious
ly.
Not having heard from his so
since the lad left home last summe
without announcing his intention
Bernie Gilmore of Rutland has receiS
ed a telegram announcing that tn
boy was seriously i'll with pneumoni
at Camp Lee, Va. Mr.. Elmore ha
no idea where his son was until h
received the message that the boy ha
entered the war service.
The situation at the Vermont stat
> hospital remains perplexing as tt
q illness is confined to the nurses an
o employees. There are now over 1C
! cases, but it is hoped that the harde!
p part is over, as most of the case
begin to show some improvement
o Both Superintendent and Mrs. Wa
4 SON remain able to work and al
n handling conditions in an efficiel
n manner. Dr.. Stanley is somewh;
n better, but neither he nor DR.. ONE
t is able to take up any work. On.
s for the help of the physician sci
from Burlington the situation wou
be serious, indeed.
An interesting landmark in Roya
ton is an old willow tree standing /
the road in a corner where Il
e George Ellis and the Edmunds lar
Is now join. It grew from willo
If wand which Olive Billings used as
l. whip when she rode horseback fro
t, Connecticut in about 1778 to NAL
e her future home with her husban
20 John Billings, on No. 10 town pic
r Royalton. The stake that marked tt
lie divisional corner between the Billing
~ and the John Hubbard Jr. pitches w
removed and the willow wand plant
in it's stead. 1t is said that it was Il
first willow in the town.