St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-27
tor Dillingham; will probably be in Wash
ington at the time 10 preside.

.oI OlilngHam VIII probably be IN Wash
ington at the time 10 preside.
Matte Fish and Flora Parcher OF
Waterbury, two blind girls, have be, n
designate d by Gov Stickney as benefc.
laries to be educated at the expense OF
the state at the Perkins Institution and
Massachusetts School for the Blind, To-
Gated at Boston.
A So counterfeit is in circulation and
may cause considerable trouble as it is
hard to detect. The colorirg is very
good and the imitation OF silk fibre quite
sklltul. The principal distinguishing
mark is the poor quality of the paper.
Ibis is what led to It's detection by 7. M.
Hayes, paying teller Of the Federal Trust
Co. OF Boston, recently. An eagle sur
mounting globe is one of the engrav-
ings on the counterfeit.
The case OF D. D. Muir, receiver of the
Merchants National bank of Rutland
against the United States Fidelity and
Guaranty company of Baltimore, in
winch the receiver seeks to recover 500
OOO, the amount OF Charles w. Mussey's
bond, will probably not come I'D ior
trial at the February term of the United
States Circuit court. The case may be
tried at this term by the consent of both
parties. but either side may continue it
one term. The court sits next at Wind.
sor in May.
lohn W. Tower, of Bennington, former
ly well known dwarf, who Travelled
with MANY OF the largest shows in this
country and Europe, is dead of pneu.
monia. He was 81 years of age. His
height was 46 inches, and he weighed 65
pounds. Mr. Towers first wife was
Llbbie Dillingham;. also we'll known as a
dwarf, who was Al inches tall. His sec.
ond wife, who survives, is 40 inches in
height.
The granite shaft for Ex-Governor
Fuller's monument in Morningside Gem
etery. Bratteboro. was hoisted to its
place last week. The shaft is SO feet,
nine inches high, and weighs % tons. 1t
was quarried at Barre. The bottom
stone weighs II tons, and the total
height OF the shaft when completed will
be As feet.
The matter OF Incorporating the vii
lage OF Island Pond is being discussed.
The net amount of the debt of the
town of Cambridge is $4,075. although
a school house costing over SIS 900 to
replace the one burned has been built at
| cambridge village dnring the wear. The
auditors recommend tax of 143 cents.
Woro was received Thursday by the
Vermont Farm Machine Company of
Bellows Falls that butter made from
cream separated by its improved United
States separator was awarded the high
est score at the National Butter Makers
Association in session in St. Paul last
week. The score was SO, one point
higher than any other in about 800 en-.
tries.
The oldest living member of the La
noble county bar is the Hon. George
OF Stowe, who was admitted at
The December term in 1841. 60 years
ago; the next is Col. E. B. Sawyer, of
Hyde Park, who became member in
IS49.
William Pickering Hill, formerly we'll
Known in Montpelier as "Squibs," died
Sunday, F, b, II, at Denver, Col, aged
u years. For ten years Mr.. Hill was
On the staff OF the weekly Argus, during
he tditorship of Hiram Atkins, where
:nder the sobriquet of "Squibs," he
wrote much that was widely read. He
was graduate OF Dartmouth college in
1899.
The second battalion of the Vermont
National Guard will not attend the inau-
duration of President Mckinley. AS |
Governor Stckney and staff will proba.
ply not be represented at Washington at |
he time Vermont troops. if there, would |
lave no one to escort. A conference has |
already been held between some OF the |
IffiCers in regard to a trip to the Pan
American exposition, but no definite de-
,ision has yet peen reached. If the bat.
,alion goes it will probably leave direct
y after muster in August.
Mrs. Berenis Thompson of Brooklyn,
\. y, who has set to music some of the
owe poems OF Miss Helen Hay, daughter
ii Secretary Of State John Hay. was boz n
n Walingtord and lived in Rutland for
several years during her childhood
Howard H. Shields of Troy, N. Y, has
lcceptt d plans drawn bv Architect Viii
lam c. Bull for $40 900 house that is
o be built this season at Bennington
enter. This structure, which is to be in
olonial style, will be quite unlike any
,ther house III the town