St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-09


each to ex Sen. Barnum's son, {. w.
Barnum. of Connecticut, and restau-
rant firm in Albany has just ordered $50
pounds OF dead trout. To improve the
breed of trout in Lake Griffith this ener-
getic fish breeder is transporting !, 900
trout weighing from one-half to one
pound each from his hatcheries to the
lake on the mountain.
The third annual festival of the White
River Junction Musical Association will
be held at Gates Opera House May I'll.
Henri G. Blaisdell is musical director and
the soloists are Miss Helen Wright,
soprano, Miss Adah c. Hussey, contralto,
and Arthur Beresford, basso, all of Bos-
ton and ]. H. Mckinley, tenor, of New
York, assisted by Dana Mooney of New
port, N. H., pianist, and Charles T. Grill
ley Of Boston, impersonator. These,
with Blaisdell's Orchestra, assure to all
who attend most delightful enterta ain
ment.
The following Vermont pensions were
granted last week: Original Arson R.
Bell, Enosburgh, Sc; increase, Gorsalvo
c. Hatch, Lower Cabot, So, William S.
Roberts, Soldiers Home, Bennington,
$12.
The prospects are very bright for an
automobile mandatory at Rutland,
that will employ at the outset 100 men
additional hands promised within year
or two.
Seneca Haselton, of Burlington, has
presented the Vermont Antiquarian
Society with three "Middlebury I'm.
prints" two dated 1911 and one in
1915.
1t is announced that to show their in
terest in the city's high school and to en-
courage the literary work, Gov. and
Mrs. E. c. Smith OF st. Adams, have de-
cided to give each year prizes amounting
to $10C, that are to be known as the
Smith Literary Prizes"
Bushrod Fletcher committed suicide at
South Woodstock Thursday afternoon
by hanging himself in a barn. Fletcher,
who was rs years old, lived with the
family of Leonard Eaton. He had been
i'll all winter, and this is supposed to be
what led him to commit suicide.
County Clerk Harmon has received an
order from Chancellor John w. Rowell,
of Randolph, directing him to issue a
temporary injunction against Mayor
D. Spellman and Acting Superintendent
of Streets E. D. Kennedy, of Rutland,
restraining them from doing any work
upon the streets OF this city except under
the direction and control of a standing
m, ~ Il 4 j
highways. The decision practically
transfers the street committee power,
formerly exercised by the mayor, to the
city council.
Ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury., of Burling
ton, and Col. M. J. Horton, of Poultney,
are candidates for department comman-
der of the G. A. R. OF Vermont.
The Vershire creamery company plant
was destroyed by FIRE Sunday afternoon.
The origin of the fire is unknown. The
loss was $4,000. The building and ma
chinery was insured for $4,000.
The republicans of the first congress
sional district will nominate congress
man at convention to be held in Bur-
lington, June %.
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snow in Vermont Saturday. In Wood
ford three inches fell, and some lum Der
men used sleds getting in logs to their
mill. The mercury was nearly down to
zero Saturday morning.
A young man named Haythorn re-
ceived nearly fatal injuries in the Tiffany
knitting mill at Bennington Thursday
afternoon. He was working on
staging when he fell on a wnder that
was in operation. One of the owners of
the mill seeing him fall had the presence
of mind to stop the machinery or he
would have been drawn through it. One
arm was broken and cuts on his face and
head required 16 stitches.
Col. ]. Gray Estey, of Brattleboro,
will go to Europe this month to meet
the European representatives of the
Estey Organ company. He will remain
awhile in London and will go to Ham,
burg to meet Louis Ritz, the Estey rep
resentative there. He will also spend
some time Paris, visiting the exposition.
Ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury. is a candi.
date for the office of department COM
mander of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie in Vermont.
A. W. Wright of New York, native of
Grafton and distinguished in the piano
trade and eastern manager Of the John
Church Co., recently returned from a trip
in Europe where he engaged at st. Peters
burg the celebrated Russian pianist,
Gavleowski, to come to the United States