Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-09-17
NEWS OF THE STATE
Interesting Happenings Here and
There From all Sections of Old
Vermont

The grand jury of Windham county
have just completed its first session
since 1912. They reported to the
Court that the county's Jail upon
which $4,000 was expended a few
years ago in repairs and improve
mcnts needed more modern plumb
ing system and that three of the cells
did not have proper locks. They also
reported that several cemeteries in
the county were not kept up accord
ing to law, recommending that the
states attorney be asked to bring the
matter to the attention of the town
officials.
A large consignment of fingerlings
trout from the Bennington hatchery
have just been received at Rutland.
The trout which are excellent speci-
mems of the square tailed native
brook specie were planted in several
small tributaries feeding the larger
fishing grounds. They varied in
length from two to three and a half
inches.
A 720 gallon truck belonging to the
Standard Oil Company went through
a bridge in Hancock Thursday and
landed in the White river. The truck
was not badly damaged, but the
bridge is total wreck. 1t took sew
eral horses and mules to drag the
truck downstream where it could be
drawn back into the highway.
The 95th annual meeting of the
Vermont Baptist State convention
which is to be held September %, %
and "a, at the Rutland church, is ex-
pccted to call together between 800
and 400 delegates.
To receive an alternating electric
current of $4,000 volts through ones
body and to live is an experience that
has come and will come to very few,
if any others, than Lieut.-Col. d. H.
Maury, consulting engineer of
Washington, d. c. Col. Maury is
in Rockingham hospital, Bellows
Falls, badly burned in several places
as the result of an electric shock at
the Cavendish station of the Colonial
Power & Light Co. He will recover,
thanks to miracle and to the prompt
first-aid efforts given him by those
who we're with him at the time of the
accident.
The 10th season of Camp Abnaki
was officially closed last Monday, but
there is quite. a party of campers
there yet, closing up the camp for
the winter. The season just closed
has been very successful one, and
with the largest number of campers
in its history, a total of 1888.
The enrolment in the Brattleboro
high school which opened for the
fall term was 325. This is the largest
enrolment in the school history and
is GO larger than that of last year.
There was also an increased attend
ance in the grades and in the paro-
chial schools.
Floyd, 1O-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Williams of South Read
ing, was seriously hurt one day last
week, when he went to drive a neigh
boris horse out of the yard. The
horse kicked him in the face, knock
ing out every tooth and splitting the
upper jaw, beside cutting him about
the face.
Prof. Henry E. St. Antoine of Bur-
lington, graduate of the college of
medicine in the University of Ver-
mont in the class of 1915 and who
took post graduate course at Har-
ward college, has been appointed
member of the medical staff of the
United States marine hospital, Balti-
more, Md, and will be in charge of
the new psychiatric ward building,
which will accommodate about "a
patients. Prof. St. Antoine is quite
a young man and is an expert on
mental and nervous diseases, having
treated hundreds of cases while serv-
ing in France, where he was located
at base hospital, No. 1T.
Alargc Apperson automobile from
Brandon, bearing the number 23005,
while en- route to Rutland Saturday
to carry local party to the Rutland
fair, did a triple complete turn on the
road between Rutland and
Pittsford while travelling at a high
rate of speed. 1t is stated that one
or both hind tires blew out as the
auto hit this strip of road, the ma
chine turning completely around
three times, taking off the rear rims