St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-01-11

E. H. Fitzhugh, who recently resigned
as general manager OF the Central Yer
mont railway, has left st. Adams for
Montreal to assume his new duties in a
larger field, as third vice president of the
Grand Trunk railway. Mr.. Fitzhugh
still retains the office of vice president of
the Central Vermont railway.
William J. Foster of East Montpelier,
aged 67, died last Wednesday morning.
He served in companies B, 4th, and c,
8th, Vermont volunteers, in the civil
war.
Leo c. Tine OF Montpelier, the 16.year-
old boy, who stole 5000 from his parents
and was finally captured at Manchester,
N. H., was brought to his home Friday.
He was very contrite and it is probable
that there will be no prosecution.
The work of engrossing the acts of the
recently adjourned legislature is progress
ing rapidly at the office of Secretary of
State F. G. Fleetwood in Montpelier, in
the hands of George L. Hunt, deputy
secretary of state. Mr.. Hunt is averag-
ing to engross nine pages of foolscap, a
day. Each of these pages contains AZ
lines, averaging ten words to the line.
Thus it will be seen that Mr.. Hunt
is writing about 1920 words day.
But even at that rate the time al
lowed for the work will not be much
more than sufficient, as many of the
larger bills like the license law will
take several days to copy and none of
these long bills has yet been copied. A
day OF nine hours is the time that is being
put in the work.
Mrs. 7. Wheeler Milet, the oldest in
habitant of Manchester, died Saturday,
aged az years..
Supt. D. L. Morgan of the house of cor.
rection states that there are 1856 at hard
labor, and six jail prisoners in the house
of correction compared with 1914 at hard
labor and "a Jail prisoners a year ago.
During the year 842 house of correction
and 241 Jail prisoners have been confined,
179 being from Rutland county.
The 3Oth annual meeting OF the West
ern Vermont Masonic Association will be
held in Fair Haven January 25.
]. F. Kelley OF Richford is to receive
$13 240 from the insurance companies
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The state librarian is distributing to
the various public libraries in Vermont
copies of the Revolutionary Rolls, COM
piled by Prof. ]. E. Goodrich, of the Uni
versity OF Vermont, Burlington, autho-
tized by the legislature of 1904.
The will of the late S. N. O. Bosworth
OF Montpelier has been recently probated
and the only public bequest is 5000 to
the Berlin Congregational church, the re-
mainder OF the property going to rela-
tives.
Capt. J. E. Eldridge of Randolph, de-
partment commander of the Vermont
6. A. R., announces that the next annual
state encampment will take place in
Brattleboro February %.
Byron S. Jones, we'll known resident
of Burlington, president of the Citizens
Coal Co., and prominent in the Metho-
dist church, died Wednesday of cancer
after long illness. He was Sc years
old.
George L. Nichols, aged 70 years, one
of Montpeler's oldest business men, died
Thursday of heart failure, after an illness
of two weeks. He is survived by a wife
and one daughter, Mrs A. P. Weston, of
Providence, R. |. Mr.. Nichols was born
in Middesex and went to Montpelier in
1860. Later he ESTABLISHED a clothing
store which he has conducted for many
years.