The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-31
VERMONT NEWS

EIINONl NEWS
Harry Wilmore, employed by the
Norton Hardware company of Fair
Haven and driving the company Ford
truck, got stalled on a railroad cross
ing there a few days ago and was
struck by freight train, which threw
him several feet and badly smashed
the car. Wilmore received no injuri-
es except a bad cut on the right leg.
A brick addition to the shoddy mill
of the John T. Slack corporation in
Springfield will be used for carbon
izlng plant.
The janitor at Hardwick academy
last week cut down II young NAPLES
on the campus that were killed by
the severe weather of last winter.
IF
Prof. Frederic S. Lee of Woodstock
has been sent to England and France
on a special mission by the United
States public health service.
An overturned lantern set fire to
gasolene at a sidewalk tank in front
of the store of Isaac Rosenberg in
Burlington recently, and Mr.. Rosen-
berg was somewhat burned himself
in trying to put out the flames.
Rev. Sanford X. Meek, pastor of
the Baptist church in Brookline, has
sold all his household goods at auc-
ton and with Mrs. Meek has left for
Ohio. They went by automobile, Mrs.
Meek driving the family car and Mr..
Meek small automobile truck.
Peter Rousseau and Antonio Cioffii
Rutland boys, were in court last week
on the charge of breaking into a
camp in Mendon owned by Charles
E. Novak of Rutland They admitted
the charge and were sentenced to the
Vermont industrial school at Vergen-
mes for the remainder of their minori-
ty.
Rutland merchants are considering
plan of opening their stores at 8
a. M, every week day and closing at
6 D. m. every day except Saturday,
and at 10 p. m. on that day. The plan
will be presented to the war service
department of the federal govern
ment and the action of the merchants
will be governed by the reply receiv-
ed.
Samuel Anton Howard, jr., of
Rutland has been recommended as
eligible for appointment as a second
lieutenant in the field artillery, u. S.
A, after training at Camp Zachary
Taylor. Harold A. Gardyne of Mont
gomery Center has been appointed a
second lieutenant following a course
of training at Camp Lee, Va.
Miss E. M. Kittredge of the New
York botanical garden, who has been
IN Woodstock several months making
botanical collections for Miss Billings
has returned to New York. Several
interesting plants not before reported
from this region have been collected,
among them rare orchid and fern,
but until more study can be given
to some Of the plants collected it will
be impossible to say how many have
not previously been found in the
state.
Judson J. Smith, a Pittsford farm
CT, died in the field Friday of heart
trouble. He was born in 1914.
About 1000 bushels of potatoes
were raised on the school gardens, in
Burlington last summer.
The school census taken in 1918 il
Rutland shows there are 1916 boy
from six to Is years old, and 1885
girls between the same ages.
Charles Roberts, 81, who died las
week at his home in South Walling
ford, was a veteran of the Civil Wa
and his death was due to an ailmen
contracted during the war.
Mrs. Harriet Whitney of Hyd
Park fell down the cellar stairs a
the hotel in North Hyde Park recent
ly and received injuries from whic
she died a few days later.
| Alison Chester Ralph, who wa
] born at Warren, died at Charlestowl
i ". Va. Oct. %. Employed at til
General Electric company at Scht
nectady, N. Y, he had been sent
West Virginia on some work.
: brother and sister reside at Wartel