St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-04-11

| He was popular with his TRENDS and es'
| teemed BY MANY all over the state. lie
was married in 1887 to Miss Lucy
| Munson of Manchester, who with one
child, survives him. His father and
mother and two sisters are also living.
The Consolidated Electric company OF
Winooski has connected its new 10000
light dynamo at the gorge. 1t is the
largest dynamo Of its kind in the state.
Charles Ernest White of Bellows Falls,
who graduates from Hartford Theology.
cal seminary this year, has been solicited
by the American board OF commissioners
for foreign missions, to accept a posi-
ton as teacher in the Doshisla, in
Japan.
The new library for Middlebury col
lege is nearing completion; the finishing
touches being put on the interior wood
work. Over $4,000 worth OF decoration
will be put upon it, making 1t one oil the
finest rooms in the state.
movement is under way to purchase
a new organ to be used at the religious
services conducted at the Washington
county Jail, Montpelier, which is meeting
with much favor with the several relig-
ious organizations OF the city.
Col. ]. G. Estev was elected vice COM
inander of the Vermont Commandery OF
the Military Order of Foreign wars at
meeting held in St. Adams recently. The
commander is o. D. Clark, of Montpe-
Her, who was colonel of the First YER
Nala { olyot1
The prison commissioners met at the
House of Correction Friday morning and
heard the petitions of six prisoners for
parole. The board acted favorably on
one which will be granted, provided
Commissioner Perkins, who was not
present, is of the same mind. The board
then adjourned until May II. There
were present Lieut.. Gov. Bates, of st.
Johnsbury, E. M. Bartlett, of Island
Pond, and E. c. futile, of Rutland.
Ira H. Dayton, late Co. E, 4th Ohio
Vol. Inf, Mexican war, died Friday at
the Vermont Soldiers Home. He was
admitted to the Home April 81, 1892,
from Middebury. He has been cared
for in the hospital for the past five years
and his death was caused from old age
and the grip.
Postmasters have been appointed in
Vermont as follows: Bread Loaf Thos. E.
Boyce; Lowell George E. Curtis; West
Milton, c. H. Wright.
The supreme court has appointed Hon.
Seneca Haselton of Burlington, Orion M.
Barber of Arlington. and Alfred E. Wat
son of Hartford commissioners in the
case of the Rutland Railroad Co. VS.. the
Bellows Falls and Saxtons River Street
Railway Co. This case is based on a
petition of the Rutland Railroad Co. for
the appointment of commissioners to
settle the question of certain connections
between these two roads at Bellows
Falls.
At the annual village meeting to be
held Saturday, April 28 in Essex juno
ton, aside from the election of officers,
an ordinance will be voted on seeking to
regulate the ringing of locomotive bells
and the blowing of locomotive whistles
within the limits of the village. A reso-
luton will be presented petitioning the
railroad commissioners to station flag
men at the four principal railroad cross
ings in the village.
Gibber & Wheeler, lessees of the juno
ton house at White River Junction, have
retired from the management of that
hotel. it having passed into the hands of
J. S. Rand OF Pittsfeld, N. H., admins
traitor of the ]. B. Rand estate.
An interesting piece of work isgoing on
af EairutaW the St,t1 mar bnY,oa Of EraJ
erick B. Jennings of New York, between
Bennington and North Bennington. 1t
is the taking up, removing and replant,
ing of some 40 full grown maple trees.
Fully 80 men and several teams are en-
ploved on the work.
What has for years been known as the
State Line house, half in Pownal and
half in Wiliamstown, Mass ceased to
be known as a hotel March 81. The
house has probably made the Vermont
and Massachusetts officers more trouble
in the past few years than all the other
houses in its vicinity. 1t has recently
come into the possession of A. c. Hough-
ton of North Adams, who gave the &C.
cupants permission to remain in it until
April 1.
The project of building new theater
in Burlington, which has been under con.
sideration fer some time. is likely to take
on new life this spring. 1t is well kno WI
that John Cosgriff had plans drawn for
the proposed new building on his prop
erty, but suspended operations last year
on account of other business which en-
gagged his attention.
A movement is being made to supply
the two villages ofRoyalton with electric
lights.
Mrs. W. S. Webb has presented the
Shelburne free library committee with
check for $50.
Hiram S. Utley, an inventor OF many
improvements in artificial marble, is dead
at his home in Austin, a suburb of Chi.
cago. MIR. Utley was veteran of the
Civil war and was born at Manchester,
August IS, 1914.
Last Wednesday morning Edward
Bean, of Woodstock, employed on the
new town hall building, while taking
down staging, fell 40 feet, striking on
the snow. He was taken home and the
doctor called, who says he found no
bones broken and no injuries were ap.
parent which would prove serious.
Chas. H, Gay, at one time editor Of
the Rutland Herald, died in New York
Sunday
A number of prominent citizens o
! Washington, including Col. M. Nj
Parker, well known in Vermont, have re
Gently organized the Alaska Banking