St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23
VERMONT NEWS.
Comfy Cornrnissionern.

Comfy commissioners.
The Iuterdenominational Comfy Com
mission he'd a meeting at Montpelier
last week, and the annual election of
officers and directors took place. The
list follows: President, Rev. c. FL. Mer-
ril, St. Johnsbury; secretary, Rev. c. F.
Lowe, Barre; Observation-Disclosures, Rev.
]. o. Sherburne. St. Johnsbury; Congre-
gational, Rev. L. ii. Elliot, Waterbury /;
Baptist, Rev. w. A. Dawson, Burlington.
Christian. Rev. 6. w. Morrow, Burling-
ton. Besides those already mentioned
Revs. w. B. Dukeshire, Guy c. Lamson of
Montpelier and w. A. Smithers of Water
bury were present.
County Examiners.
Governor Bell with the advice of w. E..
Ranger, state superintendent OF educa-
ton. has appointed the following county
examiners for the biennial term: Addi-
SON, Thomas E. Rice, Middlebury.
Bennington, ]. Francis Allison, North
Bennington. Caledonia, William H.
Taylor, Hardwick. Chittenden, John E.
Allen, Westford. Essex, Aida F. En-
right, Concord. Franklin, F. Fl. Dewart,
ST. Adams. Grand Isle, Mary Mont
gomery, Isle La Motto. Lamoille,
William A. Beebe, Morrisvile. Orange,
John M. Comstock, Chelsea. Rutland,
Winthrop I. Abott, Proctor. Washing
ton, o. D. Mathewson, Barre. Wind
ham, Herbert D. Ryder, Bellows Falls.
Windsor, M. ]. Whitehill, Hartford.
Mrs. Katherine Rooney died Friday in
the town OF Fairfield at the age of 1O2
years. She was the mother of eight
children.
Tests which have just been made by
leading Rutland maple sugar makers
show that maple sugar can be made in
the fall as well as in the spring, although
the quantity is considerably smaller.
This discovery may revolut1onize the
sugar making industry, as the process
will not be patented.
Bank Robbed as Rochester.
Sometime bet ween one and two o'clock
Thursday morning, burglars blew open
the safe in the bank of Briscoe & Upper
of Churchville in Rochester and secured
about So 600. The robbery was reported
at about nine O'Clock Thursday morning.
Three men with top buggy were seen
driving in the direction ofRochester soon
after the explosion in the bank was
heard
Vermonfers in Washington.
The first meeting OF the Vermont State
association for the fall, was held at the
rooms OF the Washington club, Washing
the sweeping republican victory were Of
fered to one another by members, Judge 81.
B. Moulton, president of the association,
who presided, declared that in last Sep
TENDER, when the Vermont state election
was held, that state sounded the slogan
for Roosevelt, which went echoing from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. The address
of the evening was delivered by Rev. S.
HI. Green, pastor of Calvary Baptist
H. t. = "a T..Io C+o(
ford will deliver the address at the meet
ing in December.
sons of the American Revolution.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Society, Sons of the American Revolution,
was held in Montpelier Wednesday alter
noon. The officers elected for the ensuing
year were: President, Henry D. Holton OF
Brattleboro vice president, Charles S.
Forbes of St. Adams; secretary, Walter
II. Crockett of St. Adams; treasurer,
Clarence L. Smith of Burlington; regis
trar, 81. L. Stlllson of Bennington; his
torian, George G. Benedict, of Burling-
ton: haplaiD, the Rev. M. L. Severance
of Burlington managers, Alfred A. Hall
of St. Adams, William E. Hawks of Ben
nington, Frank E. Alfred of Newport.
Porter FL. Dale Of Island Pond. w. t.
Dewey of Montpelier. Col. J. 6. Estey Of
Brattleboro and Heman w. Allen of Bur
lington; delegates to the national con-
gress, W. w. Sticknev of Ludlow, F. D.
Hale of Lunenburgh, Z. S. Stanton Of
Roxbury, W. B. Howe of Burlington and
Hale Park Mccullough of North Ben
nington.
list of more than 1850 names OF
Revolutionary soldiers who lived and
died IN Vermont has been compiled and
three real sons of the Revolution have
been Dissolved. During the year new
roster has been completed and issued.
In the evening an address was delivered
By the Rev. DR.. G. Glenn Atkins, of Bur
lington, at the public meeting held in
representatives ball. His subject was
The Venture of Liberty. A paper by
ex-Gov. Frederick Holbrook of Brattle-
boro, dealt on personal "reminiscences.
The State Vote.
The official vote of Vermont for presi
Dental electors as returned to the secre
tary of ST ate is as follows:
Republican electors, Walter H. Berry
49, 59, Edward B. Finn, 40 419. Frank
A. Bond, 40 427, Arthur F. Stone, 40,
434. Democratic electors. Alex. Coch
ran, 9777. T. Hoxie Hall, 977O, john H
Donnelly. 9769, II. N. Deavitt, OLGA. So
cialist electors, Royal A. Martin, S54
John w. Arvidson, $50, J. Walter Shelley
S54. William A. Jones, S5S. Prohibi
ZIONIST electors, Frank w. Wheeler, 1872
Willard A. Strong, 7SS. Clarence B
Wilson, 792, Eugene M. Campbell, 791
Relatives of Thomas Daley, whose
body was found in the slip near the
drawbridge at Burlington recently, be
lieve that Mr.. Daley came to his death
by foul play.
NJ. M. Judge, lineman of the Boston
& Maine railroad, fell from a signal pole
in the West Lebanon yard last week
Tuesday. His neck was broken. Hehas
a wife and two children in West Somer
vile, Mass.
A gang of workmen at work in a gray.
ell pit at White River Junction recently
unearthed quantity of human bones
short time ago human skull was dis
covered in the same spot. The bones are
supposed TO be those of Indians, who
were buried there. According to tradi
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