St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-03-23
VERMONT NEWS.

The folio wing officers of the Vermont
Dairymen's Associa ton met at Montpe-
lier, Wednesday, to consider and take
action ON proposed changes in the future
policy of the association: President, II.
c. Bruce, Sharon; vice president, George
Terrill, Morrisville; secretary, F. L.
Davis, North Pomfret; treasurer, Nd. A
Adams, Derby: and auditor, c. F. Smith.
Morrisville. 1t was unanimously voted
that in the future all special premiums
ON butter be abolished. ~Fbe money that
would have been expended for these spec
ial premiums and the money received tor
butter that has been on exhibition will
revert to the association, and any money
that NAV be contributed by those who
in the past have offered special premiums,
will all go into special fund to be
divided pro rata each year, according to
the score of the butter exhibits. In
adopting this method the officials of the
association are practically adopting the
rules no " in force in the national associa-
ton. The Vermont association il the
largest in the country aside from. the
national association and the officials
have felt for some time that with the old
methods in vogue the Vermont associa-
ton was little behind the times.
The question of the place of holding
the next annual meeting was informally
discussed. This will probably be at
Montpelier. A formal invitation has
already been received from St. Johns
bury, but it is probable that the meeting
viii be held at Montpelier.
GniIford Woman Died of Burns.
Mrs Stephen Smith, a we'll known resi-
dert of Guilford, died last week as the
result ofburns which she sustained Mon
day afternoon. Just how the accident
occurred will never be known. Mrs.
Smith was sitting near the stove when
her daughter, Miss Mary E. Smith, left
the house for few minutes. On her
return she found her mother enveloped in
flames, and before they could be extin-
guished Mrs. Smith had lapsed into an
unconscious state, from which she never
recovered. 1t is supposed that her
clothes caught fire while she was attempt
ing to fix the stove. She was terribly
burned about the legs and body, and
although physician was summoned at
once, nothing could be done except to
make her as comfortable as possible.
Mrs. Smith had been a resident of Gull
ford for many years, and was a highly
respected woman. She leaves one daugh-
ter, with whom she had lived for long
time.
Train Wrecked near Cambridge.
The Burlington & Lamoille passenger
train leaving Cambridge Saturday
morning left the rails between one and
two miles south of Cambridge at 10
O'Clock the accident probably being due
to the spreading of the rails. Six per-
sons were injured. The train consisted
of one passenger car, one baggage car,
and one mail car, and all left the track,
going over an embankment. There were
oil, od fn he
train crew and all were tossed about
frightfully as the cars rolled down the
bank. None of the passengers were
pinned by flying debris except Mr.. Stin-
son and he was not seriously injured.
None of the train crew or mail clerks
were injured A grove of trees, some ten
or twelve feet below the track prevented
the cars from going down 80 feet into
the Lamoille river.
All Of the injured will recover. They
are: Mrs. G. FL. Bickford of Hardwick:
Mrs. II. M. Lee of Middlebury; M. Sher-
man of Cambridge; Guy Start of Bakers
d. E. Johnson of Essex Junction; Mrs. E.
Hill. 1t was feared for time that Mrs.
Bickford would die but it is expected she
will recover. This is the fourth wreck on
the Central Vermont road in the past
week.
Tables of figures showing the immi-
grafton of foreigners into New England
during 1908 have just been completed by
the Rev. Joel S. Ives, of Hartford, Conn.
1t shows total of more than 1O2 500.
The smallest number went to Vermont,
1,611; and the largest to Massachusetts,,
65, 757.
Some important changes have been
10 Il, 0F
Telegraph Co. at Bennington. Instead
of being salaried office any longer the
operators receive commission. Out of
this they have to pay every expense of
the Office, including boy, telephone, etc.
The office will be moved April 1 to some
place where the rent is cheaper. There is
said to be general dissatisfaction with
the new arrangement provided for.
It seems that it is not generally known
that receipts of the license law go into
the high way fund, but such is the case.
The total receipts up to December 1,
according to the state treasurer's report,
were $50, 215.02, and of costs paid
$7,219.57, leaving a balance OF $4S, $685.
45 to be added to the state highway
fund and distributed among the several
towns of the state. This will give each
town So 80 for each mile of highway or
an average OF 5000 each.
DIR. ]. NJ. Clarke of Burlington has sold
the Lake View Sanitarium to DIR. Walter
D. Berry of Waterbury. 1t is understood
that possession will be given Sept. 1.
Previous to coming to Burlington DIR.
Clarke was assistant superintendent at
the asylum for insane at Rrattleboro.
He conceived the project of establishing
a private institution tor the treatment of
nervous and mild mental diseases and in
1882 located in Burlington, where he
has since been. DIR. Clarke will remain
at the sanitarium for the present.
Mrs. w. F. Bramen of Montpelier died
before midnight Saturday night. aged rs
years. By the death of Mrs. Bramen the
provisions OF Mr. Bramen's will become
available. He died December last leav-
ing an estate valued at more than $780,
900. MIR. Bramen bequeathed at the
death of his wife one-fifth of his property
to the kellogg Hubbard library, the
Heaton hospital and the Church of the
Messiah, Unitarian, of Montpelier, Cod
~ o+ Pnrre and the