St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-02-17
VERMONT NEWS.

make up bundles of letters for Canada.
are now required to acquaint themselves
thoroughly with the names and locs titles
of the postoffices in the provinces of
Montreal and Quebec. There is feeling
among these clerks that their work is
hard enough now without imposing this
additional burden. The Canadian pos
tai clerks, it is claimed, hardly assert at
all the mail they deliver at Newport.
The pouches for ''the States" are dumped
upon the mail car and the clerks this
side of the line can arrange the letters on
their run.
Mrs Sarah Barnes of Barre, who is in
her Goth year, has just received word of
the marriage of Mary Ward of Waltham,
Mass, her great granddaughter. 1t is
so seldom that one lives to celebrate the
marriage of a great granddaughter that
the event is worthy OF mention.
o. D. Adams, head of the Enos Adams
Co., of Bennington, died Saturday from
a complication of diseases. He had been
i'll five weeks. He was Cd years old. He
was born in Bennington and had been in
business nearly 40 years, first with his
uncle, the late Enos Adams, and since his
death with the present company. He
elected to town Offices.
Rev. A. M Bradley of Sangerville, Me-,
preached at the Universallst church at
Barre, Sunday, as a candidate for the
pastorate as successor to Rev. Effie K. M.
Jones.
Thomas Miller Of Bratt1eboro, a veter-
an horseman, widely known in southern
Vermont. was attacked in a stall at his
stables Wednesday, by stallion. The
horse seized his hand and to free himself
Miller was forced to climb into the man.
ger and choke the animal. He then fell
backward through a window and was
found unconscious in the snow outside.
His wrist was disjointed, the bones pro-
truding from the flesh and his hand and
wrist badly crushed. 1t probably will be
necessary to amputate it.
A meeting of the Republican state COM
mittee will be held at the Van Ness
House, Burlington, Friday evening, Feb.
10, TO fill any existing vacancies on the
committee, fix the time and place of hold
ing the forthcoming Republican state
conventions, condsider the best measures
for the successful prosecution OF cam
paign work incident to a presidential
election year. 1t will be necessary to fill
the vacancy from Rutland county, caused
by the death of Ira r. Allen, of Fair
Haven, and it is probable that Thomas
Nd. Deal of st. Adams, the Franklin
county member, and Horace W. Bailey,
of Newbury, the Orange county member,
will retire, as they are now holding posi-
tons in the government service. The
death of Ira r. Allen created a vacancy
in the Office of chairman of the COM
mittee.
The estate of Electa Brewster, who
died at Huntington in 1877, has Just
been settled by Judge Bingham in pro-
bate court. The original value OF the
estate was about $4,000, but owing to
the large number of heirs it has taken II
years to effect settlement. The deceased
was the last of family of eight brothers
and sisters to die and as she was the only
one who had property the division of her
estate was a question OF moment. The
seven brothers and sisters all left heirs
with one exception and to these heirs the
property reverted. The heirs of Keziah
(Brewster) Williams were not found un-
til recently and the property revertiDg to
them, amounting originally to $1,000,
had increased to $743.S7. This amount
has now been distributed to the three
heirs.
The February meeting of the Vermont
Commandery, Military Order Of the
Loyal Legion, was held at the rooms of
Inc OIueI III DuIuuStOu, EIludy cNSHIuS.
nominating committee. consisting OF
Capt. T. S. Peck, Lieut.. Hugh Henry,
Lieut.. w. H. Humphrey, Capt. A. w.
Fuller and Lieut.. J. h. Goulding was ap-
pointed to nominate officers and report
at the May meeting. Memorial reports
of Capt. P. D. Blodgett by Col. e. III.
Powell, and of Gen. Stephen Mofhtt by
Gen. T. S. Peck, were presented and will
be published and distributed to members.
State superintendent of education w.
E. Ranger, of Montpelier, will GO to
Atlanta, Ca, February 20 to attend
convention of the superintendent de-
partment of the National Educational
Association. The latter part of this
week he will be in Boston, where the
heads of departments of the American
Institute of Instruction will meet to
make arrangements for holding an insti-
tute next summer at Bethlehem, N. III.
John Kennedy of Rutland, veteran of
the Civil war and well known resident
of that city was found frozen to death
Friday morning in a vacant lot a short
distance from his home. He left home
Thursday evening to attend political
meeting. and that was the last seen OF
him. His body was discovered by a
neighbor. He had been dead for several
and had lived in Rutland for so years.
He is survived by wife and four child
rem.
The three year.old son of Richard
Wartman, of Dandy, was terribly scalded
Wednesday. Mrs. Wartman was going
from the kitchen stove to the pantry
with dish of boiling lard when the little
fellow ran against her, causing her to
spill the hot lard upon his head, and the
lard ran down his chest and back. She
tore the clothes from the little ones body
but not until the boiling lard had cooked
the flesh to the bone in several places.
The water OF Lake Champlain rose
three inches during the month of January
and January 80 it was Is inches above
low water mark.
Several of the stockholders in the Pow
nal Creamery Association that was re-
Gently founded in that village, claim that
they havebeen deliberately swindled.
They say that party claiming to repre-
sent New York concern induced them to