St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-15
VERMONT NEWS.
Gill odd Fellows Home.

4,rstces of the Gill Odd Fellows Home
y. ndlow closed last week tuesday
o4,ing at after an exceedingly busy
n naSl;on Col. H. W. Hall as chair
s.o,, presided. The accounts Of the past
n n"or were audited and the financial
lending of the institution found to be
Silent. the permanent fund having
Loer materially increased. Several new
oooniications were received and consid-
e eTd A contract was made with DR..
Prvant of Ludlow to act as attending
nbysician for the coming year. The
Home is in excellent condition in every
norticular and the health of the inmates
e GOOD. At present there are only eight
taxing advantage OF the benefits of the
Home Three deaths have occurred dur
Ing the year.
NAV Term United States Court.
The May term of the United States
oonrt will open at Windsor, on Tuesday,
Nav 81. at 2 O'Clock p. m. There are
five cases set for trial by jury: Lydia
Goodwin against John E. Kelley, and the
same plaintiff against John Sivright.
These two cases are the result of the
seizure of a lot of whiskey in which it is
claimed undue violence was used and
damages are asked. Two railroad cases,
Abbie M. Garfield against the Central
Vermont Railroad Company, and John E.
O'Connell against the Fitchburg Rail
road Company. D. D. Muir, receiver for
+he Merchants National Bank of Rut-
land against the United Sta Fidelity
and Guarantee Company. This is suit
brought to recover the amount of the
bond of Cashier Mussey.
Minister Returns to Vermont.
The Rev. c. H. Coolidge has received
call to the South Woodbury. Congrega-
tional church and has accepted. Mr..
Coolidge returns to his native state after
five years labor outside the state, two
and one-half years at Piermont, N. H.,
and the same period in West Newbury,
Mass. Mr.. Coolidge was first stationed
at West Fairlee. Two years he preached
at Fairfield, seven at Orange, and four at
West Newbury, where he was honored as
Newbury's representative in the legisla
ture of 1894.
Barre Anarchist Sentenced.
Arturo Bernacco, the Barre anarchist
who was recently found guilty of muir.
derous assault on Chief of Police Patrick
Brown in Barre on Dec. Goth last, was
sentenced at Montpelier, Friday, by
Judge Watson, to serve not more than
25 and not less than 81 years in the
state prison at Windsor. The convicted
man has been in delirious condition for
some time and on the evening of May
attempted to commit suicide. The SEN
tence was passed at this time at the
request of the prisoners who wished to
be at work. He was taken to Windsor
Friday,
The Norman Williams Public Library,
Woodstock, which has been closed to the
public since September %, 1900, opened
for the issue of books, Monday. During
the interval marked changes and addi-
tons have been made TO the building and
its furnishings. A handsome double
wing has been added to the rear, new
steel book stacks are substituted for the
former wooden ones, while the marble
castings OF the Older portion are changed
to correspond with the new order of
things; the oil finish ofthe interior wood.
work has been refinished, new glass set
in the windows, and $50 light Spring
field gas machine installed for use in case
OF emergencies. While the period of
closing has been a considerable hardship
to students and readers in general, its
privileges will be even more thoroughly
appreciated than before.
The French library in Barre has just
been presented with copy Of Hitetcok
& Browns edition of the Teaching of
the Twelve Apostles" containing the
Greek text and translation. In the edi
ton, this bret summary of the christian
religion was written probably not later
than 100 A. D., and possibly as early as
l2O A. D. For more than 1900 years it
was lost and the fact that it had ever
existed was known only from a few
quotations from it in the writings of the
early church historians and theologians
In 1875 Bryennias, Metropolitan of
Series in Misopolamia, discovered an old
manuscript containing writings in the
Library OF the most Holy Scripture in
Constantinople. He published the
Teaching" at Constantinope in 1888,
and this edition is made from his. 1t
will be found very interesting and in
Structiye
Some necessary repairs will be made to
the Burlington breakwater as soon as
the water gets low enough, 1t is proba-
Die that no permanent work will be done
THIS season owing to the failure to pass
IN congress of the river and harbor bill
which included appropriations of several
hundred thousand dollars for permanent
improvements to the breakwater. Some
parts OF the structure are in bad condi
ton although how bad cannot be ascer.
tanned until the water goes down.
Edward c. Parmalee, a former Yer.
monter, who has borne the title, "Colo
RADIOS foremost Mason died at his
nome in Denver, COL, Friday, from acute
asthma, aged so years. Mr.. Parmalee
went to Colorado when a young man
and served as grand secretary of the
Grand Lodge of Colorado for 80 years.
AT the time of his death he was also Sec
rotary of the Grand Chapter of Colo
rado, secretary of the Scottish rite of the
state and Grand Recorder of the Grand
Oommandery, Knights Templar.
Some time ago the Barre Baptist
church received an offer of $4,000 from the
estate of the late Daniel S. Ford toward
the church debt of $4,000 provided the
church would raise the other $4,000. OF
this amount the sum of $4,000 is already
guaranteed and the church has until
June l, 1902, to raise the other $4,000.
Sllas Brewster died Thursday at the
soldiers Home in Bennington, aged S9 |