St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-12-19
State Board of Agriculture.

held throughout the state this winter
the assistance of Col J. Fl. Brigham,
assistant secretary, department OF agri
culture, Washington. D. c.; Prof. c. W.
Burkett OF the Agricultural college Of
New Hampshire, and some of the hest
agricultural speakers of other states
also Profs. Hills and Jones of the Yer
mont Agricultural college; ]. o Sanford,
state highway commissioner; w. E. Ran.
ger, state Superint endent OF educa ion
Or. ii. D Hplton, secretary state board
of health; R H. Holmes, president Yer
mont Bee Keepers associa ion; T. L.
Kinney, expresident State Horticultural
soc1t ty, and many other men of the state
who are experts in some oil the leading
agricultural interests of Vermont. Meet
ings have been in session al East Charles
ton yesterday and today and will be
held at Coventry Thursday and Friday.
Draws 80, 900 Salary
Dan Willard, assistant general man.
ager OF the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
visited relatives in North Troy recently,
coming there in his private car, with his
family. porters and cooks. Mr.. Willard
is North Hartland boy who went to
LyndonvlIle about % years ago, being
employed two years as fireman and then
two years as engineer on the Passump-
sic railroad. He then went to the 800"
line first as engineer and then as fore
man ct the engine house. He worked his
way up to the position of assistant SUI.
periutendent of The 500" line, filling it
acceptab'y several years, and was then
called to the Baltimore & Ohio as as
slstant general manager at a salary of
SO 900 year.
The following pensions are announced {:
Increase, Charles L. Bartlett, Bristol,
$50; WILDER Moore, West Fairlee, $14;
Waldo S. Fisher, Mortified, S. Mex.
lean war survivors-Increase, Michael
Cross, Beaver, $12
For the past two years there has been
an average Of $50 prisoners in the house
of correction at Rutland and they earn
ed tor the state $500 per year while
the gross expenses of the constitution wer e
$4,000 per year. For the past two
years there has been an average Of 142
prisoners in the state prison at Windsor
and they earned for the state $4,000 a
year, or more than the cost Of the insti-
tuition. In the first case the prisoners
earned $50 year; in the second they
earned 5000 each.
Last week Thursday afternoon the
south bound express killed Thomas
Ducatte, middle aged farmer, and his
horse and demolished the sled at the
dangerous Finley bridge crossing two
miles from Bethel. Several fatal
accidents have occurred there before.
Samuel W. Parker OF Newport is max
ing pipe organ and it is nearly com
pleted. The organ manufacturers at
Bridgeport. Conn, have told Mr.. Par
ker it he makes an organ throughout he
will be doing more than any employee
in his factory is competent to perform.
With them it is each man for a depart
ment, and he is an expert in that line
only.
In the state industrial school at YER
gennes there are now 176 inmates, the
largest number the school has ever had.
The Dole Brill Slate Company, OF
Mortified, it is announced, will declare
the first dividend in January.
The net receipts OF the rummage sale
at Burlington last week, under the aus
pices of The Woman's Relief Corps were
about 5000. The money received will go
Tor charity work among old soldiers and
sailors Of the city and vicinity. The
corps in Burlington numbers 107 mem.
bers and there are over 1000 women in
Vermont belonging to the Corps.
The North American Protective Fish
and Game association, at its meeting in
Montreal favored the prohibition by the
Canadian government OF spring SEEMING
of wall eyed pike in Lake Champlain.
Mrs. Fred Kemp, station agent at
North Barre, made deliberate al TEN pr
to kill herself Wednesday evening by
throwing herself in front Of a moving
train at the Blackwell street crossing Of
the Montpelier and Wells River railroad
in Barre. The engineer did all in his
power to stop the train after he discov'
cred the woman lying across the track
but the engine was upon her in a twink.
ling. She was the mother of several
small children and her husband lives in
Hardwck. She was taken to the city
building and died Thursday morning,
The large gang of Italians who have
been doing rough work the last season
on the James c. Colgate farm in Ben
nington, and also in working about the
grounds on which Mr.. Colgate will build
a $4,000 house next year, have gone to
Boston The grounds about the site o.
the proposed new house have been ar.
ranged according to the plans of Bos
ton landscape gardener.
The Lane Manufacturing company Of
Montpelier is building one OF its largest
saw mills for the government. 1t is to
be set up and used at the Portsmouth,
N. H navy yard.
The Vermont and Boston Mining com
pany have recently purchased and put II
operation a diamond steam drilling ma
chine at their mines in Berkshire. The
machine is designed to reach great depths
and takes up core of rock two inches
in diameter, by which the nature OF the
rock can be readily ascertained and deer
living veins located. The machine is now
at work on level 100 feet below the
surface.
Rev. Gerald H. Beard was installed as
pastor of the College street Congrega
tional church, Burlington, last Wednes
day. The installation sermon was BY
Rev. Prof George Trumbull Ladd, D. D
LII. D., of Yale, and was very able anG
scholarly discourse.
The Chateaugay on her last trip tt
Essex and Westpott for the season