The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-24
NEWS OF THE STATE
Interesting Happenings Here and
There From all Sections of Old
Vermont

Joseph Campbell, formerly a mot
orman for the Burlington Traction
Company, pleaded guilty in Chitten-
den county court yesterday to assault
with a dangerous weapon with intent
to kill Catherine Spriggs on the
morning of June 20. He was sem
fenced to serve not less than two and
a half years nor more than tour
years in the state prison at Windsor
The Cole Fur company of Burning
ton has fled articles of association in
the office of the secretary of state
for the purpose Of conducting store
in Burlington to handle furs and
other merchandise. The capital stock
os $4,000. The signers of the papers
are G. P. Cole, Ralph w. Dunsmoor,
Ida L. Cole and Mabclle Dunsmoor,
all of Burlington
The state fair association expects
to have many new attractions this
year and among them will be motor
cycle races. These will be held Fri
day, September II. Purses to the
amount of $3.50 are to be offered. 1t is
also epected tat several motorcycle
clubs will offer special prizes.
Citizens of Burlington will pay only
81 on a dollar of the grand list in
stead of 1920 on a dollar dunng the
year 1919, if the vote of the peoF:e
of the city at the special city meet
ing yesterday is taken as the final
word on this matter.
Between 1000 and 1900 persons are
expected to attend the field meeting
TO be held Monday, August A, on the
Rutland fair gruonds under the auspi-
ces of the grange and the Rutland
County Farm bureau, when Oliver
Wilson of Peoria, H., master of the
national grange, is to be one of the
speakers.
Willard Page, a representative of
the American Tobacco company in
Montpelier City court yesterday was
fined SIS and costs for having OPP
Grated an automobile last Thursday
night without a license.
One hundred and twenty-siX girl
employees of the Vermont Milk
Chocolate Company at Burlington
went out on strike yesterday from the
wrapping department in a protest
against the dropping of their rate OF
pay from its present standard of 212
cents for wrapping a carton of Nor
folk chocolate bars to 2l4c the old
rate of pay.
The sixth fire of incendiary origin
in five weeks broke out in the paper
barrels of the McAuliffc Paper Com
pany of Burlington in the rear of
their plant Monday evening at 9.14
o'clock. Both the McAuliffe people
and the fire department are of the
opinion that the work is that Of some
fire fiend who finds this place an eX-
ccllcnt one to try his hand.
Burlington faces something akin
to industrial disaster as a result of
the present acutcness of the housing
problem. Nowhere in the city are
houses obtainable and the way to
further industrial expansion is most
effectively blocked.
At the quarterly meeting of the
Green Mountain Fire Insurance COM
pany held Tuesday, the books showed
that over $125,000 worth of insurance
has been written in the first month
of doing business. The meeting was
we'll attended by the directors outside
Montpelier.
The state headquarters of the Am
erican Legion have been notified from
national headquarters that men of the
United States merchant marine are
not eligible at present for member
ship in the legion. This point will be
taken up and decided at the national
convention, to be held in Minneapolis
next November.
Governor P. w. Clement has offer
ed to Professor Gray of Dartmouth
College the work of auditing the
accounts of the State officers which
has not been accepted yet, for it
means Professor Gray giving up his
vacation if he does the work.