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Newspaper
The Evening Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1919
Page
1
John R. Eagan a Middlesex farmer in detention at the Washington county jail began dismantling cell facilities damaging about 200 dollars of property. He removed radiators a wash bowl moved a bathtub pulled the register and window and smashed medical equipment before officers restrained him and he was sent to the State Asylum at Waterbury.
Sugar in Burlington fell from 18 and 20 cents a pound on Saturday to 12 cents on Monday after the Justice Department said it would prosecute violations of the profiteering law. District Attorney W A Bullard notified Washington of local pricing and two grocers who charged 20 cents may face action. One retailer refunded the 8 cent difference. Supplies are rising and several stores are selling two pound packages from 11.5 to 12.0? per pound as Cuban shipments trickle in. Officials foresee retail prices near 20 cents if wholesale costs rise with the Cuban crop.
Berne reports fourteen thousand persons were shot by Russian Bolsheviki in the first three months of 1919 by order of the extraordinary committee at Moscow, according to an official note in the Bolshevik paper.
John Martin aged 75 and Aurilla Simmons aged 74, both long friends, married Monday at St James parish rectory Somerville. Rev C T Mc Grath officiated. They will reside in Weatfield where Martin operates a hinge farm.
The board of estimate in New York voted unanimously to investigate the subway elevated and surface traction lines with a view to possible municipal purchase and operation. In separate dispatches, Harry Learned and Harry O. Martin were promised unconditional release by the Mexican-American consul after arrests at Mazatlan on assault charges. Hartford prosecutors moved to extradite Adolph Panarelli to Connecticut for murder charges connected to deaths from wood alcohol.
Chamberlain Post No 1 Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman's Relief Corps No 4 will install new officers in Grand Army hall St Johnsbury on Thursday afternoon. A noon luncheon for drivers voters and their families and the Ladies of the Woman's Relief corps precedes the installation. Mrs Elizabeth B Wheeler White River Junction Senior Vice President will install the corps officers and Charles Ross St Johnsbury Past Post Commander will install the Chamberlain Post officer. The Woman's Relief Corps regular meeting follows in the evening.
Beginning Friday January 2 enumerators will begin the 11th decennial census in Vermont to count inhabitants and gather agricultural statistics. The work will be confidential, not used for taxation, and completed within two weeks in towns and a month in farming areas. Vermont’s two districts are led by J C Duering and G Herbert Pape. The state’s population is surveyed to reflect postwar changes from 795,088, a 4.6 percent gain, with prior estimates from 114.
Poland Austria Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary appeal to the Pope to secure repatriation of about two hundred thousand subjects held prisoner of war in Siberia who have suffered hardships. Reports from Washington describe other war related items including a hospital death of Thomas Barry and discussions of leaks in Supreme Court decisions. The notices cover various incidents as winter news from Rome New York Washington Paris Ireland and Newfoundland.
Washington December 30 Norman Hapgood tendered his resignation as minister to Denmark though not yet confirmed by the Senate to answer charges that he sought financial assistance for the Russian Soviet government. New York immigration at Ellis Island remains heavy but temporary and not expected to alter labor markets. Poughkeepsie Sugar theft occurs during a hot box freight delay on a New York Central line. Pierre South Dakota December 10 Senator Hiram Johnson files as a Republican candidate for the presidential nomination and seeks independent backing at the March primaries.
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