St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-04-13
STATE NEWS.

The first appointment from Vermont to
a scholarship in the University of Oxford
under the will of the late Cecil John
Rhodes, has been made by the University
of Vermont, and the honor falls to Walter
A. Dane, graduate of that institute in
the class of 1908, now teaching at the
Burr and Burton seminary in Manches-
ter. The scholarship has yearly value
of 81, 500 and is tenable for three con-
secutive academical years. Middlebury
college will have the appointment next
year. No appointment can be made in
1906, but in 1907 the University of YER
mont will again name man, this rota-
ton to be followed in future years. Mr..
Dane is native of Newport and fitted
for college in that town.
On Wednesday, April 5, at the home of
Hon. N. P. Lewis. Brooklyn, N. Y, were
married Miss Alma 6. Wright of Castle
ton and Hon. Mason S. Stone, formerly
Vermont state superintendent of educa<
ton, and latter1y connected with school
affairs in the Philippines. Rev. William
81. Hopkins of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was
the officiating clergyman. Owing to the
recent death of Miss Wright's father,
only the relatives and close personal
friends were present at the ceremony.
The marriage was the cementing of an
early attachment. Miss Wright is the
last of her immediate family, her mother
having died some years ago. Since the
death of her father she had lived with
relative in Brooklyn. Early in May Mr..
and Mrs. Stone will take up their abode
for the summer in Castleton.
The members of the Methodist church,
Burlington, have increased the salary of
Rev.. E. Mead, their pastor, $500 for
the coming year.
The New Park hotel at Woodstock
will be reopened about May / under the
the management of w. L. Wood, G. w.
Scarf, of Burlington, is the new pro-
prietor.
William E. Sayner, of New York. was
arrested in Rutland last week on a
charge of embezzement. He was EN-
to get subscriptions through Vermont
for his magazine Expansion" He
was employed in January and has been
getting subscriptions ever since. He
never turned in cent.
J. Harry Engels of Rutland died
Wednesday of pneumonia at the Rutland
City hospital.
Mr.. Engels was born in Brandon 43
years ago. He leaves no relative nearer
than an aunt. AS musical director
and composer, Mr.. Engels was well
known throughout the state. His
musical ability was marvellous. He was
a Mason, Knight of Pythias, and
member of the local lodge of Elks.
The annual convention Of the Yer
mont Episcopal diocese, is fixed for st.
Lukes at st. Adams on June Is. It was
decided by the trustees that no attempt
to reopen the girls school at Rock Point
be made until September 1905.
Counsel for the defendant in the
famous Islander case of S. D. Wilson Us. p.
w. Clement not filing afhdavits in re-
spect to the bond OF the plaintiff, the
second trial will be held at Windsor at
the May term of United States courts.
A decision has been reached by the
vestrymen of St. Paul's church in Bur-
lington to raise the sum of 81 500 need
ed to complete the Sis, 900 necessary to
build new parish house and work with
that end in view will be begun at once.
Bethel is on the verge of the greatest
industrial development in its history
owing to the placing upon the market of
Bethel white granite, the stone which is
to be used in the construction of the
union railway station at Washington,
D. c., the gateway of nation.
Work has been begun on the found
atoms of $4,000 parish house for st.
.Joseph's church of Burlington, one of the
largest and most prosperous in the
diocese. Up to this time the accommo-
dations for the resident priests have been
far too inadequate and they have lived in
apartments in the rear of the church.