St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-05-04

Capt. Benjamin vaHquette, Civil war
veteran of Rutland, aged GO, died Thurs
day morning. During the war he served
with Gen. Lew Wallace's Zouayes. His
wife died just six weeks ago.
Ed Holley, the Temple trapper, has
caught this winter As foxes, 16 musk
rats, ID skunks, 6 minks and 4 coons.
He uses no gun or dog, but depends
wholly on his traps.
Fred C. ellis of Bennington died We'd
nesday evening from consumption, with
which he had been i'll for some time. He
was 80 years old. At the breaking out
of the Spauish-American war he and a
brother enlisted in the regular service
and were assigned to the 9th q. S. Inf.
and accompanied the res iment to Cuba.
While there they contracted disease
which finally developed into consum ton.
The brother died about IA months ago.
The young man is survived by wife
whom he married FIVE years ago.
The contract for the state hospital for
the insane to be built at Waterbury has
been awarded to William Deal, his bid
being $5,195. The heating contract
was awarded to A. B. Franklin & Co.,
of Boston, for $2.572. At the last sessios.
of the state legislature the sum of $40, 900
was appropriated for the erection of a
building or ward for tubercular patients.
The plans provide for the erection of
two-story brick veneer building at the
rear of the present building and in direct
communication with it. Provision will
be made for % patients. The building
will be thoroughly heated and ventilated,
the fan system being employed.
The Rutland Heating Co., which pro-
poses to furnish public heat for all the
principal streets Of Rutland. has been
organized with capital of 100000.
Fred Godfrey, deputy sheriff, will soon
establish in Woodford a farm for the
raising of blue Alaskan foxes. The skin
of an Alaskan fox is valued from $40 to
$25. They propagate rapidly.
Owing to a scarcity of potatoes many
of which were frozen the past winter,
nearly 100 carloads have been imported
to Vermont from Canada recently. They
retail in the city markets for $1.25 a
bushel and cost only so cents in Canada,
plus a duty of IS cents bushel.
sioner of Stowe, makes a denial of the
reports that have been in circulation
through the newspapers of the state that
any Vermont game birds have died of ex-
posure during the winter. When these
rumors first came out he made inquiries
in every county in the state, and the re-
ports that have come to him show that
both the deer and game birds have win
tered in excellent shape and have come
out in good condition. In particular he
received a report from one section where
the deer have previously had a hard
time, and he has received assurance that
they were never as well after the winter
season. While the deer may have had a
ord in he Mr
Thomas does not think they suffered
much in Vermont. He is pleased with
the result of the Rutland case and thinks
well of Judge Munson's decision that
huntsmen must see the horns and believes
it will do away with the excuse put out
by some irresponsible huntsmen.
After four years successful work as
pastor of the Congregat ional church in
Irasburg, the Rev. e. P. Treat has re-
signed to accept a call as pastor of the
Congregational church in Richmond.
c. w. Labounty, for the past eight
years employed in the Cambridge Tran
script Office, and since January 1, 1901,
business manager and editor of the paper
has resigned.
At special meeting of the Montpelier
board of school commissioners, last week
E. 6. Ham was reelected as principal OF
the high school and superintendent of
the city schools.
John Gilman, West Fairlee boy and
Dartmouth College graduate, is at West
Lebanon, N. H., from Washington, D. c..
where he has passed the winter. He is
expecting to receive this month his COM
mission from the United States govern.
ment as a civil engineer in the con-
struction of the Panama canal.
A herd of cows, 81 in number, that had
furnished milk for milk route at White
River Junction during the winter, was
killed by order of the state cattle COM
mission last week on the Taft farm near
the village. These cattle had been adver-
tised to be sold at auction the Monday
preceding. DIR. George Stephens, V. S.,
tested them and found the herd were in
fected with tuberculosis. The sale was
stopped and the cattle killed under Doctor
Stephens supervision. The affair
created great deal of comment in town,
and patrons of milk routes talk of insist
ting that the dealers shall have their
cows tested every three months and pro-
nounced free from tuberculosis before
selling the milk.
The grand lodge of the state of Yer
mont, l. o. o. F., will meet at Bellows
Falls May "a, IS and &c. Aside from
the regular business sessions of the grand
encampment Tuesday, May "a, the grand
lodge Wednesday and the state assembly
of Rebekahs Thursday, there will be a
grand parade Tuesday and entertain
ment Tuesday and Wednesday nights.