The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-11

service at the Watervliet Arsenal,
Watelvliet, N. Y. He left st. Adams
for Watervliet Sunday.
Charles Nichols and Merriam Rice
of Bennington were before Judge |
Holden charged with breaking into
Charles r1indill's summer cottage at
North Bennington. They pleaded
guilty, but sentence was deferred. |
Officer Hurley has recovered practi-
cally all the stolen property.
The large auto ferry which was
used this summer by the Grand Isle
Ferry Company between Gordon's |
Landing and Plattsburg, dragged it's
anchor in the recent severe storm
and drifted out into Lake Champlain.
1t was brought back with some diff
Guilty and is now held by a 300-pound
anchor.
George E. Davis, who conducts al
garage at lion, N. Y, came to Ben
ning-ton Saturday and identified as
his property a fve-passenger Over
land automobile stolen several months
ago. AS a result Of the garage mans
trip to Bennington, Thomas e. Don
nelly finds himself the loser to the
extent of Ford truck and some boot
money that he traded for the Over
land.
With So hours of continuous rain
fall, Burlington is soaked to the very
brin. The Winooski river has over
flowed its banks and flooded many
acres of the fertile in'tervale north of
the city, endangering much stock
pastured there. Lake Champlain was
never so high at this time of year,
and hundreds of articles in cellars in
the city are floating merrily around.
Harold NJ. Sumner, an engineer at
the Vermont copper mines in South
STAFFORD, was found on the Sharon
road pinned under his automobile
where he had been for IL hours. One
of his ankles was caught and every
accident was caused by the dense fog
which made the auto lights Of little
avail. The car left the road and
plunged part way down a bank. Mr..
Summers bruises were severe, but no
bones were broken.
A British military medal has been
awarded to Private D. J. Egry, New
port.
1t is expected that the work of
making chocolate will commence at
the new factory of the Vermont Milk
Chocolate company in Burlington
this week.
Sergt. George Wallace Bronson,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Bron-
son of Detroit, Mich, but formerly
of ST Alosns> died at Camp Mills,
N. j., Sunday morning, of pneumonia,
following influenza. Burial was in
St. Adams.
With 81 large number of cases of
influenza in town, Orwell is without
a physician, as DR. V. H. Coffee is Sc
riously i'll with the disease, and bron-
chial pneumonia on Saturday night
brought to an end the life of DR.. L.
F. A. Outlet. A doctor from Shore
ham, and the only one in that place,
has been tying to spare a little time
from his own patients in order to
help out III Orwell, and a Pittsford
doctor has also done what he could.
The lady conductor on the street
railway of Bellows Falls, Mrs. Adam
Koloses, who eloped September II
with MotoIman John r. Ryan, has
returned t. her home. She tele-
phoned ntly from Holyoke, Mass,
that she would like to come home
and her husband went there for her.
Ryan wrote his wife, who was left
at Bellows Falls, that he would like
to see her again and she has gone
to Middletown, Conn.
A. G. Rice overseer of the poor for
the town CT Rockingham, was called
to Babylon, L. l., by the serious i'll
ness of h:o son, DR. Carl Rice of that
city.
Frank Cali, 1G, of Barre is recov-
ering from bullet wound in his
chest received from a discharge of
% calibre rifle in the hands of a
small boy. The matter is under in
vestigation by the police.
| Timothy E. Callahan was elected
by the city council of Montpelier as
alderman from Ward 5 to fill the va