St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
Vermont News.

Townc's hotel at Bellows Falls has
rc-Opened.
The Brattleboro high school opened
with ~ pupils.
Woodstock is to have local tele-
phone exchange.
Lanya, the Fletcher hospital incendi-
AIRY, has been found guilty.
There is Il large demand for cattle in
Addison and adjoining counties this
season.
Three lunches of grapes cost Will
lston man SI3.Ol the Burlington
city court.
There were 43l arrivals at the
American house, Richford, during
September.
Seven hundred tickets were recently
sold to an "Uncle Toms Cabin per
Torrance in Barre.
The Rutland Review is now IA morn
ing and evening paper, a semi weekly,
a weekly, and Il Sunday.
At Concord. n. H., f. f. Warren of
Worcester was sentenced to three years
imprisonment for stealing.
Frederick Martin of Norwich found IL
coin in his yard which bore the date
l7lO and the words ''George II Rex"
1t cost prominent Brattleboro man
SIP for not obeyimg ii subpoena to the
county court during the liquor prose
cutions.
In four days the Brattleboro post
office sold $500 two-ccnt stamps, or
more than one-half the usual average
for Il month.
Israel Wood reports the rainfall for
September ut West Brattleboro 81
inches. September, lSS2, according to
his reckoning, il was III inches.
Rutland has had genuine case of
smallpox, but the patient has full Y re-
covered, and all who were exposed
have passed the danger period in safe
ty.
Principal Hardy of Randolph makes
it Il study to give his pupils practical
lessons, and one of his subjects was Il
very practical talk on the postal sys-
TEN.
Hon. Bradley Barlow has given no
tee to the Judge of the insolvency
court that he will not contest the petit
ton to adiudge him an insolvent
debtor.
The number of books drawn from the
Brattlcboro library during the month
of September was $50, of which ! 300
were works of fiction and 245 his
torical.
The West Randolph postotiice sold
one hundred postal notes in September,
exactly as many as there were money
orders issued for the quarter ending
October /.
Post Parsons, G.. \. r., was organized
and mustered in at st. Adams, Thurs
day evening, with fifty charter mem
beers, 10y Department Commander \. b.
Valentine.
The amount of newspaper postage,
prepaid 10y publishers, collected ut the
post office in the quarter from July to
October was S9ll.04- the largest quar-
ter'S receipts yet PheniN.
Mrs Joseph Dusham of Benson is in
jail under $1,000 bonds for an alleged
incendiary attempt ON the carriage
factory of Strong Brothers ut Benson
on the night of June -.
Among the directors of the Vermont
and Boston telegraph company elected
at the annual meeting on the Sd. are
g. W. Gates, Henry c. Sherman and
George Smith of White River Junction.
Orrin Daley of Montpelier has raised
squash of the Boston Marrowfat
variety, which is twenty-one inches
long, forty-four inches in circum-
ference, and weighed thirty seven and
one-half pounds.
State Superintendent Dart has pub
licly expressed the opinion that the
subjects of physiology and hygiene may
lie properly omitted in the examination
of teachers until suitable text books on
those subjects are decided upon.
Justice Field has dissolved the tenn
porary injunction granted in the suit OF
Hazard ". the American Loan and
Trust company TO prevent the respond
ents from issuing 1000, 900 bonds OF
the Vermont Consolidated railroad.
Here is another one: A correspon-
dent of the Chicago Times thinks that
DR.. Bradley Blakslce of Addison, \. Y.
IL the oldest Mason. and SAYS he was
born III Brattleboro eighty nine years
ago, and was initiated oct. 10. 1915
At the recent fire at St. Adams, the
Burlington firemen received dispatch
from St Adams calling for help at IL. 80
ii. m, and twenty minutes later fifteen
men and two carts, with 1900 feet OF
hose, were on the train ready for bust
ness.