St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-07-13

An application for sample of the goods
| is complied with by the sending of new
| bill of perfectly legal issue. One person,
who tried the experiment out of curl
osity, received a genuine So and is now
perfectly satisfied and will experiment no
further.
Arrangements are being made to fit
tingiy celebrate the 125th anniversary
of the town OF Bethel. The first settler,
Benjamin Smith, located in Bethel in the
fall of 1879. the charter is dated Dec. 8,
1879, the first deed is dated April II.
1850, and the first child, Asa Smith, was
born September 6, 1880.
Rev. E. L. Leavitt, pastor of the Uni
versalist church at Woodsville, N. H.,
who rendered his resignation July 8, to
take effect August Is, has accepted a
unanimous call from the church at Bel
lows Falls He will assume the duties
of his new pastorare Sept. 1.
The Vermont Morgan Horse Breeders
Association is arranging for the shipment
of Vermont's exhibit of Morgans at the
ST. Louis exposition the coming month.
Among the animals to go from Vermont
will be Col. Joseph Battell's Gen. Gates,
and Rex. owned by E. c. Ryder of Wey-
bridge.
Colt. M. Chapman, chairman of the
republican state committee. promises the
best the country affords, for campaign
speakers in Vermont this fall.
MiddIebury is to have a suitable build
ing to accommodate the scholars which
were handicapped last term by the burn
ing of the graded school building. The
committee having ia charge the restora-
ton of the burned building is preparing
to begin at once work upon the struct-
| ure. They have $21 900 with which to do
the work.
An unsuccessful attempt at suicide, the
| fourth in four weeks, was made Friday
night by c. S. Harding IN one of the sa-
looms in Bennington. Jealousy of his
wife, proposing woman, was the pro-
| bable cause, as he had threatened several
| times recently to kill her and then take
! his own life. He emptied a two ounce
bottle of laudanum into glass OF beer
| and was about to drink it when it was
| knocked from his hands by the bar
tender.
Ernest Albert Yarrow, a graduate OF
Mt. Hermon Mass J, theological school,
was ordained in the Congregational
| church of Rutland, Thursday. The
| young man was examined by a council
| representative of Rutland county Con-
gregational churches. Rev. c. S. Beard
| less of Hartford, Conn, preached the
| ordination sermon. Mr.. Yarrow will
| be married August f. and with his wife
will start on August 10 for Turkey, as a
| foreign missionary, supported by Rut-
| land churches.
| James Darling. Barre boy. seeking an
| appointment to the naval academy at
| Annapolis, passed the examinations but
could secure only an appointment as
| alternate. He was not satisfied with
| this and secured an interview with Presl-
| dent Roosevelt, who told him he would
| give him full appointment if he would
go to West Virginia and remain until
| spring.
John Perkins of Woodstock, aged rs,
committed suicide by hanging at the
home of his son in North Bridgewater
Wednesday afternoon. He had been
deranged for several months.
A stock company to be known as the J.
E. Stafford Lumber Co. of Gaysvile has
incorporated. The capital of the stock
of the company is $25, 900. divided into
shares of $25 each. Repairs on the mill
at Gaysville, which was partly carried
away last spring, have been begun.
Judge L. B. Sherwin, of Hyde Park,
who has been i'll for a long time, died
Thursday. He was a native OF Stowe,
where the early part Of his life was
passed. but for many years he had been
engaged in the drug business at Hyde
Park.