St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-04
Vermont News.
Middlebury COLLEGE.

OF us founding VIII De celebrated July
5. The sermon to the class, Sunday
morning, July 1. will be delivered by
President Ezra Brainerd, l.. l.. D. "a
Sunday evening the anniversary services
of the Christian Associations of the Col
lege will be held Monday, undergradu.
ate day, the program is as follows: TO-.
80 a. M, Class day exercises of the class
OF 1900 on the college campus; 90 p.
M, Preliminary meeting of the associated
alumni in the college chapel; 500 p. M,
Merrill and Parker prize speaking in the
| Congregational church.
Tuesday, commencement day: $50 a.
M, annual meeting of the associated
alumni in the college chapel; 10 80 a. M,
Commencement exercises in the Congre-
| gational church. The annual meeting OF
Vermont Beta, Phi Beta Kappa will be
held in the lecture room Of the church at
close of the exercises 3 90 p. M, dedica-
ton OF the Starr Library. The address
will be delivered by Professor Brainerd
Kellogg, LII. D., SO, Dean of the Brook
lyn Polytechnic Institute.
Wednesday, Educational day; II 80 a.
M, Educational conference in the Con-
gregational church. The Rev. ]. E. Ran
kin, D. D., LIZ. d., President of Howard
University, will preside. Among those
who will deliver addresses are President
William ]. Tucker, D. D., LII. D., Dart
mouth College; President, Matthew H.
Buckham, D. D., University of Vermont /;
President Franklin Carter, Phi. D., LII.
D., Williams College; President Charles
S. Murkland, Phi. D., 81, New Hamp-
shire College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts; s 90 p. M, A Roman drama in the
Centennial building, under the direction
of Professor NJ. R. Sanford.
Thursday, Centennial day Centennial
services in the Congregational church.
Hon. John W. Stewart, LII. D., 46, will
preside. The Grafton will be delivered
by Professor Walter E. Howard, LII. D.,
II, of Middlebury College; the poem by
Professor Edwin H. Higley, A. NJ, '68,
of Groton Mass.
Comforting of Degrees.
Death from LOCkjaw.
The body of Ernest Bruce was taken
to Randolph from Boston Saturday
morning, to the home of his mother,
Mrs. Alice Bruce, accompanied by his
uncle.
Mr.. Bruce went to Philadelphia three
years ago to work, but for the past year
and a half had worked for Boston firm
He had had charge of a grocery store in
Charleston for some time. At the time
of the Bunker Hill celebration, June IS,
he received an injury to his hand from
the explosion of a shell. He was in a
hospital for brief time, but had return
ed to work. Tuesday he was taken i'll
and Wednesday night died of trismus,
more commonly called lockjaw. He
was % years old and lett wife, an eight
year-old son, Robert, and two brothers,
| William who came from Philadelphia,
and Floyd, of Randolph.
TheNorwich university cadets went into
camp Friday morning at Mortified near
| the barracks. The usual camp rules are
| observed and in addition visitors are not
permitted to enter camp without permits
sion. All cadets are required to be in
camp by 10 O'Clock each evening and
tattoo comes at 925. The camp has
been named Capt. Alden Partridge, in
honor of the founder of the college.
Shortly before six o'clock last week
Tuesday morning, the reflection of the
sun on a large show bottle in the win
dow of Marcott Bros. drug store at
Wilnooski set fire to the draperies and
| had the flames not been at once discov-
cred, would have resulted in a serious
confagration.
cartridge factory to be run in con-
l
nection with the Robin Hood Powder
company, will begin operations at Swan.
ton as soon as the plant can be ready
The company which is capitalized at
100000, has leased the John P. Rich
mill.
At meeting of the executive commit
tee of the State Grange of Vermont held
at Montpelier it was decided to hold the
next annual State Grange meeting at
Brattleboro, beginning the second We'd
nesday in December.
Richard c. Field, son of United States
Marshal Field of Rutland, died suddenly
Tune 9th, at Haverhill, where he has
been engaged in the shoe industry with
Gale Bros, for several years. He was a
young man of rare promise and is
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He died from the effects of tonslitis and
diphtheria.
At the Amherst college graduation last
Wednesday President Harris conferred
the degree of master OF arts upon Alfred
T. Halves of the class of '97 of Burling-
ton.
Dustin Shaw pleaded guilty in the
Windsor county court Saturday to in
dictments charging him with breaking
jail and impeding an officer. The court
adjourned Tor the week, and upon resum
ing its session will take up the trial o
the two Shaws for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Hoffman.
Supt. Whitehill of the Montpelier pub
lie schools, accompanied by Mrs. White
hill, sails June so from Montreal for I
European trip.
The following postof1ices became inter
national money order Offices in Vernon
on July 2: Barton, Enosburg Falls, Lyn
donville, North Bennington, Saxton'
River, West Rutland and Woodstock.
Jairus W. Hodge, of Lyndon, has bee
granted an original pension of S12 pc
month.