The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-23


the various lumber yards of Burling-
ton.
Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. NJ. w. Covey of Manchester
Depot, was found dead in her bed
Saturday morning at tea house
where she was employed, from the eff
fects of chloroform taken to relieve
toothache, from which she had been
suffering.
Rutland BARRIERS are to receive an
increase in wages and with the in
crease the price of shaves and hair
cuts has gone up.
Farmers in South Starksboro have
been losing cows through some kind
of an epidemic. George Varney lost
four and number more are sick.
At the foot of the hill near the old
meeting house in Rockingham a sign
is to be placed on which, in letters
of gold, will be the inscription, aye
Olde Rockingham Meeting House,
1857"
Rev. Douglas G. Guest of Brattle-
boro has been appointed pastor of
the Methodist church in st. Adams,
to succeed Rev. J. Benjamin Magee,
who has become army chaplain. Mr..
Guest will assume his duties October
6.
E. B. Cobb, selectman and acting
overseer of the poor in Stowe. where
he also had held many other town of
fees, died Wednesday of stomach
trouble in the house where he was
born 81 years ago.
Relatives in Brattleboro have re-
ceived word of the death in France
of Maurice Livezley of Willimantic,
Conn. He was in the first ConnectI
cut regiment to go overseas. Mr..
Livezley formerly lived in Brattle-
boro.
The season at Lake Dunmore
closed hurriedly last week when the
proprietor, Hugh J. McKinnon, and
mis- wife left while Sheriff Higgins was
coming from Middlebury to serve a
body writ on them. 1t is alleged that
among the unsettled debts of MI.
McKinnon were 5000 for rent of the
hotel, partially secured by a $500
bond, milk bill of $178, owing to
Leicester farmer, and large num-
Der of smaller bills.
Skunks that come from a hill back
of the liberty gardens in Bellows
Falls each night and dig for white
grubs, have turned out several pecks
of potatoes every night. During the
| daytime the gardeners pick up the tu-
bers and repeat the process.
The little town of Stratton in
Windham county, one of the most
sparsely settled communities in the
state, has made the first report to
headquarters of work by the woman's
Liberty loan committee, the chair
man, Mrs. Ray E. Lyman, reporting
that already she has three bonds
pledged.
! Edward Leene, son of MI. ane
Mrs. P. B. Leene of Bellows Falls
who for nine months has been in tht
thick Of the fight in France, has beer
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instructor and will be located a
Camp Meade, Md. He spent a weel
with his parents before going t.
Maryland.
Mrs. Harry Stratton, born il
Wardsboro Center in 1861, was kille
in an automobile accident near Cum
berland, Md, Sept. IL, when the ma
chine she was driving went over
bank and pinned her and her husban
beneath it. He suffered three broke
ribs.
Commencing next Sunday, all sci
vices of Trinity Episcopal church i
Rutland are to be held in the churc
room of the parish house to conserv
coal. 1t takes six furnaces to hes
the entire church plant and by til
new plan only one furnace will hav
to be used, thereby saving from so t
35 tons of coal.
Pvt. Clarence A. Douglass, son {
Mr.. and Mrs. George Douglass {
Pittsford, who was wounded
France July 80, is now in the Bosto
City hospital with wounds in or
foot. Saddler Richard Fredette, SO
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fredette {
Pittsford, also has been wounded
the foot and is in a base hospital
sFrance.