St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-12-02

Owing to the appearance OF small pox
in Burlington the authorities have closed
the schools. A general vaccination has
been ordered.
One of the Brattleboro churches recent
ly held appropriate Thanksgiving exer-
cises in the Sunday school. The children
were given slips Of paper on which to
write the one thing they were thankful
for. The answers were read before the
school by the superintendent, who en-
phasized those expressing thanktulness
for The Sunday school and the church.
Some were thankful that there were no
schools to attend this week. Others that |
they had good fathers and mothers,
while the answer that surprised tie |
superintendent was that from boy who |
was 'trul thankfully" that Yale whipped
Harvard Saturday.
The Avalon house is the new hotel
recently opened by E. 6. Foss at Norris
vile, and Hotel Lamoille has been
changed to Hills hotel, Enos Hill. pro-
prietor.
The officials of the Vermont Fish and
Game League are discussing the propo-.
sition of substituting for the usual
banquet in January at the time OF the
annual meeting, lecture by such a man
as DR.. w. HI. Drummond, the author OF
the familiar French dialect poems or
Ernest Thompson Seton, the nature
writer. If this plan is carried out the
lecture probably will be held IN the
Howard opera house in Burlington.
Charles Tull, of Bellows Falls. has been
sentenced to eighteen months at hard
labor in the house OF correction tor the
larceny of $50 from the mail in the
Bellows Falls post office.
DR.. L. E. Niles, president OF the Mag
netic Electric Co. OF Amsterdam, N. y,
and who has just completed mansion
in his native town OF Pownai' mas
decided to start the coming year py
!, establishing Shetland pony stock farm
in his native town. Buildings tor use on
the farm are now being erected. In an
interview he states that he will run
! Thoroughbred stock farm. There are
only thirteen thoroughbred Shetland
J Monies both stations and mares in the
T country. and OF these Doctor Niles owns
> FIVE. Much interest is being manifested
in the result of the enterprise.
y Montpelier is to try the unique plan O
: investing in its own city bonds. The city
y council has invested SIS 900 now in thu
= sinking fund of the water department II
: CITY bonds. which will be taken up Dec. l
. At the last March meeting the city vote
r the surplus income OF the water depart
- ment for a period of FIVE years toward
- reducing the Indebtedness OF the CITY
: The sinking fund, which amounts u
:, about $4,000, is drawing only 2 pc
= cent in the bark, while the city is paying
q DER cent interest on it's bonds, and unde
the new arrangement the city purchase
it's own Indebtedness with income tror
~ its water department. If the income c
"A the water department should continu
"A at the present. figure, in few years, 1T !
- said. the surplus income will entirel
IS wipe out the indebtedness OF the city.
or On account OF the increase in the nun
i'd Der of cases of diphtheria, scarlet ievt
es and whooping cough, the opening OF tt
de nublic schools at Bratt'eboro, which we
set for last Monday has been deterre
&C two weeks. The schools already hay
,er been closed for two weeks on account
m. the prevalence of these diseases.
.st Fire destroyed the business portion
aft West Rutland, Thursday night, to Il
he amount of about $4,000.
,d Oliver H. Carpenter, 73 years old,
he former seectman of Brattleboro, W
be fatally injured at his home in the mort
west part OF the town, Friday night.
7as fell over the thills of a wagon striking
ON his head on the ground with great ,o1'
MS 1t is thought his skull was fractured
rye Most of the employees of the Inter-
md tional Paper Co. in the paper mill
da. Wilder are taking an enforced vacatit
vas work in that department having be
The temporarily suspended. The pulp mil
nto still running and giving work to
rds usual force. An accumulation OF maj
and featured stock and low water IN
tch. Connecticut river, which furnishes tc
eys, great extent the power to run the pla
ped are the reasons assigned tor a cessat
OF work in the paper department.
p to The 51st session of the medical dep'
pie ment of the U. Y. M. at Burning
fter onened Saturday afternoon with
Tess, largest entry class in the history OF
,out institution.
INTO Gov.LG. Mccullough has commiss
that $3.50, AIhsrt T, onez. the sculptor
az New York, to model bust OF non.
tors Huse, which will be placed in the 81
So, library.
s sa A railroad Y. M. c. A. at White R
1t is Junction IS among TIC 600 "a
GER the near IutuIe. DE- 80 $50
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