The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
STATE NEWS


The 600 striking employees of the
International Paper company at Bel
lows Falls have resumed work. They
have been on a strike for two weeks,
and as the weekly payroll is $4,000,
the loss in wages has been $4,000.
The men have agreed to go to work
for a week and meanwhile confer
ences will be held on the question.
C. p. Jenness, who has been in the
furniture and Undertaking business in
Barton for % years, has sold out to
B. F. and H. l.. Jackman of Glover,
and will go to California to reside on
account of his health. For 81 years
MI. Jenness has lived in Barton. Pre-
vious to going into the furniture bus
mss he was postmaster under demo-
cratic rule.
1T the last vi age meeting in Del
lows Falls $4,000 was voted with
which to pave the street leading from
the square tc the paper mills. BIDS
on the job were called Ter and when
they We're opened at recent meet
ng of the Vitae trustee it was
found that he am n, asked for lie
job ranged from $4,000 % S2.?n0 nr
$lG0J mp'e tha, III s;s4.L voted, A.
other meeting Of the Y tcrs will be
called to give or withhold authority
as to awarding the contract and pro-
viding the money therefor.
The Whitecap club of the Knights
of Columbus of Maiden, Mass, about
SO members, travelling in nine cars,
was at the Hotel Berwick in Rutland
over Saturday night. This group of
men had been touring the White
Mountains of New Hampshire. Each
year the club takes some such trip,
usually into Maine, but the members
were so enthusiastic over Vermont
scenery they intend to take their
whole trip in this state next spring.
A community canning kitchen will
be built in Hinesburg June II. This
building will be built by the same
method as many barns were built in
the old days, when the farmers used
to get together when one of their
number wanted to build barn and
have what was then known as a
charm raising" Everybody brought a
picnic dinner and materials and tools
with which to work, and all took hold
and put up the barn. Such will
be the procedure June II.
A party of 80 from Boston and
Worcester, Mass, arrived at the Cas-
plan House, Greensboro, Saturday
morning for short fishing trip and
the first day of their stay brought
down from the lake three-foot sal
mon, which they had baked for sup
per at the inn.
I John Spargo, whose "Bolshevism"
has just been added to his list of.
boolSs,.is a devoted gardener and at
his home in Bennington has notable
rose garden as well as many beds of
ANNALS to which he gives careful at
tention that they make unusual
growths, his larkspurs growing nine
feet tall.
Rev. James A. Perry, d.. D., who
was appointed pastor of the Method
| list Episcopal church at Bennington in
April, will leave soon to accept a
position with the board of education
in New York city at an increased sal
airy. DR.. Perry closed pastorate at
| Troy, N. Y, last month.
The verdict of $4,000 which was
given Miss Anna C. Dyer of Rutland,
a music teacher, against Charles IL.
Labor, retired hotel man, in la
breach of promise case. is to stand, SO
far as the court, which has had the
question before it as to whether the
fee is excessive, is concerned, The
case will now be taken to the supreme
/ court. According to testimony IN
court promise of marriage was made
between the two parties in 1901 and
for 10 years their friendship continued
with Miss Dyer expecting marriage
as soon as Mr.. Lalor became finanei-
ally able. Finally he announced that
he had between $4,000 and 100000
and as late as 1918 arrangements
were made to, have the marriage take
place in five or six weeks. The next
Miss Dyer knew he had married am
other. The suit against him followed
and Mr. Lalor's counsel has been try
ing to get the amount of the fee re-
/ duced as excessive. 1t is alleged that
the defendant. comedies that his
wealth exceeds 100000 at the present