St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-12-14
VERMONT NEWS.
state Expenses.


For 81 months beginning December /
of the present year it will cost the citizens
of Vermont 81 682.171 to run the COM
monwealtb. By fixing the appropria-
ton year and fiscal year to begin together
on July it has been made necessary to
make the appropriations for 81 instead
of "a months. The appropriation year
began December 1 and the fiscal year
July 1. The appropriations therefore
are larger, but no increases are granted
any institutions except that provision is
made Tor paying an accumulated short
age of $375in running the insane ASYLUM,
5000 in house ofcorrection. and $4,000 IN
the industrial school. The committee on
ways and means made every institution
show ND its bills so as to start off with
clean slate.
The appropriations ina lump sum for
the 81 months are: Debentures for ad-
journed session, $50, 900; session of 1906
SOS 900; Vermont hospital for the insane,
$3.50 ,S31 state prison, $83 ,50O house
of correction. $25 ego; state industrial
school, $65, 100; interest on bonds, $780,
900; payments of auditors warrants,
1915, 900; total, 81 $4,000.
The Consulting staff.
The consulting staff of the Brattleboro
Memorial hospital. the name adopted
last week by the directors instead OF the
name The Hemlocks hospital, under
which it was incorporated, included
some eminent specialists, in addition to
well known physicians in Windham
county. Following is the list: DR..
Maurice Fl. Richardson, DIR. Hugh Will
DIR. Reginald H. Fits, of Boston; DR..
John J. McGrath and DIR. Brooks H.
Wells, OF New York; DR.. Howard A.
Kelley and DIR. Guy L. Hummer. OF Balti-
more; DIR. ]. II. Carmichael and DR.. K.
Fl. Seelye, of Springfield, Mass; DR.. 6.
F. Gale, DR.. FL. D. Holton and DIR. S. E.
Lawton, OF Brattleboro; DIR. George S.
Foster of Putney; DR.. P. P. White OF
Williamsvile.
Sentences Shortened.
United States District Attorney Martin
states that. in view of Judge Wheeler's
ruling allowing John c. Farrar, of Water
bury, to take advantage of the recent act
of Congress giving federal prisoners
eight days month Communication of SEN
tence for good behavior, which is three
days a month more than the state law
allows, he shall direct that the act be ap-
piled TO the sentences of other federal
prisoners in Vermont. This will shorten
the sentences OF M. A. Mcclure, of Rut-
land 7. w. Ketchum and D. "a. Lewis,
of Vergennes, convicted of bank wreck
ing.
More Changes in PastOrates.
Rev. M. A. Hainer has resigned as
pastor of the Christian church at Lincoln
and has accepted a call from the
Christian church in Newton, N. Fl. The
Universal:st churches in Derby Line and
West Derby have decided to call Rev.
George Emery, of Fitchburg, Mass, to
the pastorate. Rev. E. E. Marggraf,
who has accepted a call to the Univer-
salist church in st. Adams, was the
former pastor of these churches. Rev.
Charles B. Carpenter, to whom call
was extended by st. Thomas Episcopal
church, Brandon, early in November, is
expected to arrive in Brandon, with his
family from Tenafy, N. J.. this week.
Killed BY Gazing ina of quarry.
Three men were killed, one was fatally
injured. and several others narrowly es-
capped death Tuesday afternoon by the
caving in of bank of earth at the Grit
fith-Nathanielsl slate quarry at SouthPoult-
ney. The victims, who were Italian and
Hungarian laborers, were buried under
tons of debris which dropped fully one
hundred and fifty feet into the quarry at
the bottom of which they were workirg.
The newspaper men about the press
table at tie State House helped Editor
his 35th birthday last week at the River
side, and he had an appetizing spread
served to them. The officers of the house.
including Speaker Mortified, Clerk T. c.
Cheney, Fred Hamilton and Charles
Plumley, the assistant clerks, were
present. Following the spread the re-
porters and their friends enjoyed a smoke
talk in the room of E. A. Mutt. Editor
F. L. Green and others kept the boys in
Tha cchn
their regard for Mr.. johnson by present
ing him with handsome leather cased
toilet set.
Two cases of poisoning at Montpelier
are laid by some to the door of penny
suckers, the candy that is sold on the
end of sticks. Two children who ate
that kind of candy that they bought at
the fair in the armory were taken violently
i'll with nausea and the sym toms indicate
it is thought, that the candy poisoned
them. The candy was Of a pink color.
One of the two children came down with
scarlet fever, but it is thought that the
poisoning greatly aggravated the onset
of the fever.
DR.. John A. Mead of Rutland, las de-
clined the appointment which he recently
received from Gov. e. ]. Bell, as one of
the delegates from Vermont to the ma
tional convention of state sealers.
Charles E. Crane has resigned his posi-
ton in The Associated Press Office in Bos-
ton, and January 1 will go to Brattle-
boro to assist his brother E. H. Crane,
in the management of The Reformer.
There are some apprehensions of a
scarcity of water in White River Junction
unless conditions change. Frank Col
Inns, superintendent of the Hartford Wa
ter Co., whose reservoirs supply water
to that village and West Lebanon, N. H.,
reports that the springs supplying the
reservoir are nearly full, and that a rain
fall of one inch followed by FIVE or six
inches of snow, will supply all normal
demands during the winter.
Mrs Elizabeth Frances Bowler Lillis,
aged At. wife OF James A. Lillis, a promi-
nent Rutland merchant, died Wednesday
morning as the result of an operation.