St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-03-30


order to get the product to the railroad
is obliged to cross the mountain to
Braintree, the nearest railroad station,
seven miles from Granville.
St. Adams people are reaching out for
trade and an attempt will be made to
get the Island business this season by
running boat between North Hero and
St. Adams Bay.
Edward Desc of st. Adams and R. E.
Henderson of Wells River have signed
articles of agreement to wrestle in Mont
peier April 10, for a purse of $235, the
winner to have 5000 and the loser $35.
H. M. Dufur will referee.
The Charles Fl. More granite concern
has just booked an order for the largest
shaft monument ever cut in Montpelier.
The shaft itself will be So eet long and 4
feet square. 1t will be placed over a
vault marking the resting place of Mrs.
Henry M. Bennett, who was native OF
band is now interested in the Keith thea
tire Of Boston. 1t will be shipped to AS
bury, N. J., and with the curbing, which
will surround the lot upon which the
huge spire will stand. will cost in the
ncighborhood Of 100000.
The town Of Berlin stands in a fair
woy to lose it's free mail delivery service
as Postmaster Silsbv will recommend
that it be discontinued unless the owners
OF houses have their houses properly
numbered.
A Congregational Club for central
Vermont will be organized in Mont
pelier April 4.
Secretary Thorp and Physical Director
St. Lawrence of the Montpelier Y. NJ. c.
A. have resigned.
Fred G. Haskins has been appointed
postmaster at Bristol and F. Henry
Foss at Vergennes.
While Oscar Hudson was running a
clapboard machine at Bradley's Mills
Thursday the saw split, one OF the fly
ing pieces striking Hudson in the head
and instantly killing him. He was IS
years old and unmarried.
McKannon Brothers & Co., the well.
known Burlington music dealers, were
robbed of $3.50 from their safe one day
last week. The money is thought to
have been taken while the EMPLOYEES
were in the store. The robberyis wholly
unaccountable in every respect.
A new round house will be built at
Rutland Tor the Rutland railroad. 1t
will hold 10 locomotives and be the
largest in the state.
About 1000 horses have been sold at
speed auctions since the first of the year
and the market for trotting. bred horses
still remains firm, with an upward ten
dency.
Plymouth Rocks are ahead this time
A gentleman oil Bellows Falls claims to
be ahead with his flock of Wyandottes,
but Cambridgeport can beat him. An
amateur in poultry raising had last
spring flock OF 20 chickens Of the Ply
mouth Rock variety. In the fall II Of
the cockerels were sold, the combined
weight when dressed being 66A pounds.
During the months OF January and Feb
ruary the eight pullets have laid $50
eggs. E. H. Albee has flock OF % hens
which have laid 1858 eggs during Janu-
airy and February.
Fire at St. Adams Saturday morning
destroyed the grain and feed store and
storehouse Of 7. G. Driscoll, the grain
and feed store and storehouse OF H. B.
Weeks, and Quilted the dwelling of Mrs
Rosa Ronyea. The total loss is about
100000 with SIS, 900 insurance.
Hon. William A. Lord. speaker of the
House of representatives. received tele.
gram Saturday from Senator Proctor
announcing that he had been appointed
bank examiner for the district of Yer
mont to succeed Elisha May of st. Johns
bury. Mr.. Lord is senior counsel in the
much talked of Brewster case and al.
though having been confined to the
house for nearly four weeks by illness is
q raining steadily,