St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-06-29

John D. Roess, aged rs, of Brattleboro,
| died Thursday. He was cigar maker,
whose reputation extended throughout
| New England and New York.
| Principal w. D. Parsons, who has been
| connected with the Bellows Falls high
| school for two years, has rendered his
resignation to the school board and next
year will travel in the interests of Dodd,
| Mead, & Co., publishers of school and
college text books.
, 81. Dressed Jr. principal of the Spring
| field high school for nine years, and
| county examiner and town superinten-
| dent for several years. has resigned his
! positions, having had an offer of So 600
! a year as principal elsewhere.
Past Great Sachem William A. Jordan,
| of Massachusetts,, visited Swanton last
week to meet the petitioners for chart
| er to locate a tribe of the order of Red
| Men in Swanton. He found SO names
| on the list, and formed a temporary or
ganization, with Fred c. Minis chair
| man, and J. r. Morrill, as secretary and
collector. It is expected that tribe will
| be instituted in about two weeks, and
| this tribe will give Vermont enough men,
| befs to form great council. At present
| the Red Men of Vermont are under the
| jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Last
| July there were over 400, 900 Red Men
in the United States, and more than 60,
| 900 gain will be reported at the first OF
| next month. There are now nine tribes
| in Vermont, and charter lists are being
| circulated in ten places. A tribe will
| PROBABLY be instituted in St. Adams in
| the early fall.
Mrs. Minnie Marsh Allen has resigned
| her position as director of music in the
| Barre schools to take effect at the close
| of the present term.
| Frederick A. Wood of Lowell, Mass,
| has been selected to make an investiga-
| ton of the financial history of Vermont
| for the Carnegie Institution. His work
| already begun, will extend over period
| of four or five years. The Carnegie In
| stitutlon is for research in various lines
| of science, and has undertaken to have
! an exhaustive economic history of the
| United. States written. 1t has established
| a department of economies and sociology
| of which Col. Carol D. Wright is the
| head, and an extensive organization OF
| special investigators has been affected.
| MIR. Wood is well equipped for the work
| assigned to him for he is the author Of a
| history of taxation in Vermont. The
| history as a whole will have II general
| divisions, such as manufactures, domes-
| tic and foreign commerce, money and
| banking and the labor movement.
Rev. E. c. Fisher, who has been pastor
| of the Congregational church at Guilford
| for number of years, has received a call
| to become pastor of the church in West
minister West, and expects to leave for
his new field of labor about July 1.
Rev. DR.. Gerald H. Beard has resigned
the pastorage of the College Street Con-
| gregational church of Burlington, to
take effect September 80. DR.. Beard
gives out that he has long desired to pur-
sue certain line of investigation and in
tends to devote year to special work
at Yale University beginning October 1.
| The call to Rev. Charles Wellman, of
| Lancaster, Pa, extended short time ago
| to be assistant pastor of the Church of
| the Messiah, Montpelier, has been ac-
| cepted and Mr.. Wellman will begin his
| duties next September.
| Charles Fl. Spooner, A. B., B. S., of the
class of rs, has been elected president of
Norwich University to succeed Rev. Allan
| D. Brown, deceased. Mr.. Spooner is at
present resident of St. Louis, Mo. He
was born in Charlestown, N. H., in 1857.
| The third annual convention of the
| Carpenters and Joiners Brotherhood
Union of New England was held at Bur-
| lington last week with rs delegates pres
emit. The following officers were elected:
1SS1OShtj II. JOASS vi u VICE
| president, R. B. Scott of Newport. r. l.;
secretary and treasurer, w. w. R. Mi
| ner of Springfield, Mass; reading clerk,
| A. M. Flagg of Lewiston, Me. The
next convention will be held at Provi-
dence, R. l.
| The Vermont Association of Boston
| will have an outing at Nantasket with
| a shore dinner at the Rockland house to-
day. The dinner will include special
music and after dinner speaking by guests.
| The affair is in the hands of committee
consisting of Arthur L. Robinson, Albert
| Clarke, Eugene n. Foss, Charles K. OAR
| ling, and N. L. Sheldon. says The Boston
Transcript, but, not withstanding, rec
| iprocitv with Canada and the generals
tariff question will not be discussed.
Barton Landing company. No. 9, Uni
form Rank K. of P, were mustered in by
Col. G. F. o. Tinker of St. Johnsbury,
assisted by Capt. c. M. Wiley of Barre,
Friday evening, June II. Twenty eight
of the 33 members were present. The
folio wing officers were installed: Captain,
F. D. Clement; first lieutenant, J. B. Col
ton; second lieutenant, E. A. Wiley; re-
corder, 81. 81. Person; treasurer, Fl. M.
Whipple; guard, Fl. L. Moore; sentinel,
E. B. Wiley.
Adjt. Gen. w. Il. Gilmore has received
word from Governors Island Depart
ment of the East, that the time limit of
the maneuvers at Manassas. Va, in
which the first regiment has been invited
to participate has been reduced from 10
to 5 days. The regiment will probably
leave the state on Saturday. Sept. 8, the
route not having yet been determined up
on. The transportion requests and bills
of lading for the regiment will be issued
by Gen. Gilmore.
Three teachers of the MiddIebury high
school terminated their relations with
the school last week. The principal, A.
F.Howes, the preceptress, Miss Ranslow,
and Miss Lord. Principal Howe has
been at the head of the school for the
past six years.
Rev. J. L. Atwell. pastor of the Metho-
dist church, at Fair Haven sailed Sat-