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Newspaper
The Evening Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
3
In St. Johnsbury Vermont government subscriptions and despatches are described as part of a 1916 news issue. The notice references republication rights and second class matter status for the publication while noting post office registration and date March 1916.
The Brattleboro area reports influenza spreading with more than 200 cases in town and diphtheria quarantines in St Albans. Local notices mention a funeral hearse incident, nursing relief efforts, and community updates as residents cope with illness and ongoing public health concerns.
A damaged wartime transcript shows a sequence of taunts and shouts during a confrontation. The speaker uses derisive epithets and lines like Kamerad and Hamoradt as threats and expressions of hostility. The text is fragmented and difficult to parse but conveys combat atmosphere and intimidation.
Editor H. S. Howard argues the Vermont Legislature should create a state run inland water terminal at Burlington to lower transport costs for coal iron ore granite and goods across the state. He notes wide public interest, cites prior votes, and urges unified state funding rather than local pockets bearing the cost.
City news describes a false alarm at the Main and Third streets corner when a small boy rang the fire alarm on Thursday forenoon. Firemen found no fire or smoke and returned to the station. The item mentions local residents, meetings, and social events around Newport including club gatherings and a New Year novelty dance.
The Boston Herald notes Canada’s extensive role in WWI from 1914 to 1918. It cites nearly 500 000 Canadians overseas and casualties near 50 percent, plus Canada’s wartime funding of over a billion dollars in loans and more than half a billion in credits for munitions.
Mr and Mrs Stephen Newton and Lyndol spent New Years with friends in Albany. Mrs R M Wells and daughter Marvin visiting her sister Mrs Herbert Carter in Albany have been sick with grippe. Mrs Sarah Payer died Monday evening at her daughter Mrs C W Locke's home aged 87 after nine months bed rest. Funeral Thursday afternoon Rev R A Hamilton officiated with interment in Pleasant View. Mrs Edmund Gross ill and moving. Several in B H Alden family have influenza. Centenary meeting at M E church well attended with helpful addresses and a large supper crowd. Mr and Mrs A A Warris and daughter Gertrude of Newport visited Herbert Smith. J B Gray and family moving to new Water Street home. Mrs Merton Hall died Wednesday evening of double pneumonia after influenza leaving husband two year old daughter, parents, sister Mrs Evi Root, brother Alphonse Emond. Mrs Stanton Hitchcock and Mrs Chesney Brooks of Newport visiting C M Brooks. Mrs Ernest Going ill. Mrs HJ Stannard in Barton. Lik McMullen returned from two days in Boston.
Hayden Bean ill with influenza. Harry Shurtleff, Miss Maud Sharc of Montpelier, Mrs. Graham and family of Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Niles, Mrs Lida Niles and son Chaves, and Mrs W Brooks of Coventry attended the funeral. Grace Williams visiting Sugar Hill New Hampshire this week.
Household updates from St Johnsbury Center include visits from Miss Mabel Gray Miss Susan Caldwell and Miss Edith Hovey with relatives. Norwich University will be a unit in the ROTC redesignated as an army corps unit for the school year and may offer infantry instruction with government aid for uniforms and equipment. Major Arthur Edwards named professor of military science and tactics.
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