Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-28
STATE NOTES.

The State Letter Carriers Association
will meet in Burlington May 30.
M. A. Green, editor of the Rutland
Herald,is engaged in writing biography
of Edward Bellamy.
The Vermont Funeral Directors and
Embalmers' Association will hold it's
next meeting at the Van Ness house in
Burlington, in June.
A. NJ. McPhail, of New York city, is
in Vermont arranging dates for Fore
paugh & Sells circus about the middle
of the summer. Mr.. McPhail was adj
vance agent for Wallace Bros. Circus last
season.
James G. Mcdonald of St. Johnsbury,
who was sergeant of the Fifty-fifth
Canadian battalion, and served with the
Canadian troops during the Fenian raid
of 1870, has just received from the Brit
ish government medal as recognition
of services rendered at that time.
Col. Kittredge Haskins of Brattleboro,
representative to congress from this dis
trict, has announced his appointments of
candidates to the cadetship at the naval
military academy at Annapolis. Henry
&. Fuller of Brattleboro has been named
as the cadet, with Leigh Noyes of St.
Johnsbury as alternate.
Capt G. M. Brownell, of the Twenty
sixth United States volunteer regiment
which is now en- route home, will not re-
turn with his command. Other officers
OF the regiment who will not return are
Col. Edmund Rice, Maj. Guy V. Henry,
Sur. Maj. Charles F. Mason, Capt Alex
ander Creig, Capt. John Bordman, Lieut.
Duncan Eliot, Lieut.. Garrison Bell Lieut..
j. r. Goodale, Lieut.. r. III. Sillman.
j. J. Williams of Montpelier is pro-
crossing successfully with the construc-
ton of his automobile, and expects to
complete it by the first of June. The
construction of the gasoline engine is a
novelty and will furnish about eight
horsepower at interchangeable speeds
varying from one to over % horsepower
the mechanism being very simple and
compact. The machine promises to be
an improvement upon vehicles of this
sort.
News has reached st. Johnsbury of
the death at his home in Hopkinton,
Mass, March IL, of Rev. Frederick S.
Fisher, formerly of st. Johnsbury and
well known throughout Vermont. Mr..
Fisher was rector of the Episcopal
church at Vergennes and later of St.
Andrews church, st. Johnsbury. From
there he went to Deposit, n. Y, which
charge he gave up last October and
moved to Hopkinton, Mass, to be near
relatives and friends. Mr.. Fisher was i'll
but few days with pneumonia and his
death was very unexpected.
The experiment station at Burlington
| is distributing four bulletins, on apples.
| feeding stuffs, potato scab and its RENE.
dies, and commercial fertilizers. The
! first discusses the Fameuse apple and its
adaptation in Vermont; the second shows
the character of the feeding stuffs that
are being sold this year in this State the
| third describes potato scab and its cause
and points out ready means of proven.
/ ton; and the fourth gives the analyses
of the commercial fertilizers which are
sold in Vermont. These four bulletins
are free to anybody who cares to ask fol
them. Such parties as desire to receive
| the station publications in the future
without charge and without further ap
| plication, should ask that their names be
placed upon the mailing list. A poSta
card stating desires and addressed to the
! Experiment Station, Burlington, Yer
mont, is sufficient.