St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-11-21

W give II cOntrOlllnR interest III the
company. The Vermont Marble Com
pany With its large number of contracts
tor building and interior work is in a
position to use much more Swanton
marble than has been put out in the
past. This means, of course, that more
work will be done at the mill here, and
1t would not be surprising if the capacity
OF the mill should be doubled inside of
two years.
Post Office Changes.
George H. Ross has been designated as
a member of the civil service board for
the post office at Rutland; Olin w. Han.
wood, letter carrier in the post office at
Bennington, has been promoted from
5000 to $3.50 year; Ernest L. Pond,
Willis A. Brown and Patrick H. Fleming,
letter carriers in the post office at Bel
lows Falls, have been promoted also
from 5000 to $3.50; W. S. Joslyne of
Barton Landing has been appointed a
railway mail clerk
The Champlain Transportation Com
pany has con racted to carry 10000
barrels Of apples from Grand Isle TO
Plattsburg.
A great many applications have been
received for the position of assistant
lighthouse keeper on Juniper island, off
Shelburne point
Rev. S. Halsted Watkins, vicar of Cav
airy chapel, New York, for the past three
years, has resigned the office to accept
the rectorShip OF St. ames church, Arl-
ington.
The Vermont Marble Company at
Proctor paid out $4,000 as wages due
to the men employed by it for the monnh
of October. 1t is the largest amount
paid out for any one month for d number
OF years.
A sweeping reduction of the working
force Of the Bellows Falls & Saxtons
River electric railway is announced for
winter. Twelve or Is men are now EN-
ployed. -Four or five only will be kept
through the winter.
By the will of the late Mrs. Carrie len
nngs the Baptist church in Burlington is
given $500 to be used in support Of the
church. The city of Burlington receives
500, the income from which is to be
used for the care of graves in Lake View
cemetery.
The Rev. George B. Lawson, pastor o.
the Baptist church at Btnningt on, has
IT ceived official notice of his appoint
ment as chaplain of the First regiment
Vermont National Guard. As soon as
the necessary examination is held Mr..
Lawson will receive his commission.
At special meeting of the town Of
Ludlow held Saturday afternoon the Sc
lectmen were instructed to build town
hall at an expense not to exceed SIP 900,
provided that they could make arrange
ments to have the probate office for the
Windsor district locate there.
Rev. Arthur Taylor OF Fair Haven,
has accepted the rectorship of st. Pauls
Episcopal church Southington, Conn,
rendered him by Bishop Brewster and
will assume charge OF the pastorate Dec.
1. He is to succe, d Rev. George H. Viii
son, who died last spring.
Kimball Blanchard of Wiliamstown,
aged 81 years, dropped dead at Barre
Friday noon while on the sidewalk The
cause of death was heat failure. Mr..
Blanchard was born and brought up in
Barre, where he has resided until the past
nine years. He leaves a widow, two
sons and two daughters.
Charles Ferris of Waitsfeld, who has
been i'll me time, last week coughed up
piece of pipe stem, one and three
eignlhs inches long He was ignorant
that it was in his system. He now re-
members that year ago he fell asleep
with his pipe in his mouth. When he
awoke the pipe was on the floor with a
part of the stem missing.
Brattleboro Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution have bt en- honored by an
application for memberships the society
made by a real daughter, Mrs. Sally
Prouty, who lives with her daughter,
Mrs. Oscar Smith, in Btattleboro. Mrs.
Prouty will be 81 years old December Is.
Her father served three months in the
Revolutionary war at the age of 16
years.
A south bound freight was standing on
the main track at Mortified Friday noon
when another train, not supposed to
stop at that station, came down the line
from Roxbury and smashed into the
waiting train. Both engines were COM
pletely wrecked. Several carloads of
apples and some of grain were split open
and their freight scattered over the road
bed. No one was injured.
The little ii months old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Campbell, of Randolph
was horribly burned last week. The
mother had lust emptied boiler OF boil
ing water into tub on the floor and did
not know that The child was near unit
she heard it cry moment later. Both
arms were burned t. the elbows and one
arm remained in the water until the
mother came to the rescue.
Mrs. w. c. Horton, OF Brattleboro,
has received word from Prot. Davenport
OF Bost on, fern specialist, that tern
which she found several weeks ago and
which he and DR.. Robinson, curator of
the herbarium of Harvard university
have b. en- trying to identify, belongs to
variety hitherto unknown. Prof
Davenport will preserve the fern. and
will name it after Mrs Horton in &C.
cordance with he established custom of
naming plants, after their discoveries,
Mrs Spaulding, who resides with her
son, Charles Spaulding, on hill farm
about two and halt miles from Sax
tons River, started across lots late
Wednesday afternoon to visit a neigh
Dor. She became bewildered and lost
her way and was out all night. Seventy
five men from Saxtons River went out