St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-02-15
VERMONT NEWS.
no Rebuild the BrattIebOrO & White
hall.

conference Thursday between the
stockholders, officers and commissioners
If the Brattleboro & Whitehall Railway
company resulted in an agreement where
bv the Central Vermont will rebuild the
Rrattleboro & Whitehall, now a narrow
ouage, 35 miles long between Brattle-
6oro and South Londonderry, as
standard guage road. The Brattleboro
3, whitehall officials will not defend the
foreclosure proceedings begun by the
New London and Northern road against
the Brattleboro & Whitehall company,
except to have provision for the run
ming of the Brattleboro & Whitehall in
satisfactory manner. The Brattleboro
& Whitehall road was leased to the New
London and Northern before the latter
system passed under the Central Yer
mont control. The Central Vermont
will give the Brattleboro & Whitehall
company $4,000 in first mortgage bones
so that the little road may maintain its
existence as an organization. 1t is ex.
nected that the change will mean the
extension of the Brattleboro & Whitehall
several miles into the large timber tracts
of the Green mountains. The following
officers were elected President, E. A.
Brigham OF st. Adams; secretary, w.
Stuart of Burlington; treasurer, Arthur
NJ. Vaughn of Randolph; auditor, T. L.
Kinney OF South Hero.
Thawed by Electricity.
Many towns and cities in the state are
having difficulties with frozen water
pipes, and Montpelier's success with an
III xyso, ~ ~ N ob;va ;s of .ota~ack
Connections were made with two pipes
that had been frozen for about week,
and in less than minute after the cur
rent was turned on the water began to
trickle from one of the pipes, and it was
only 312 minutes before it was running
good stream. At the other place it took
nearly a half hour before the water
started but there is about 100 feet of
pipe from the cellar to the main and it
was frozen pretty solid. In all the num-
Der OF feet of water pipe In both places
was about 40.
The machine is simply transformer
larger than those used in house fur
nished with electric power for lighting.
1t is carried on sleigh and connection is
made at a pole with the main electric
wires, the 1920 volts being transformed
4 through the machine to between 80 or
40 volts, the amperes being estimated at
between $50 and 800. Copper cables
are connected with the machine to the
frozen water pipes and the current heats
& them. The machine costs about 500
i without the cable which comes to about
seven cents a foot. In the cable are
q thirteen copper wires.
State Dental Meeting.
DR.. Thomas Mound, secretary OF the
4 Vermont State Dental Association, has
4 arranged the program to be carried out
n at the annual meeting which will be held
q in Rutland March Is II. Among den.
lists who will read papers and lead dis
cussions are Drs. Henry McManus, OF
81 Hartford, Conn, F. Fl. Brown, OF Leba.
non, N. H, G. .. Mitchell OF St. Adams,
A. !. Flanagan, of Springfield, Mass, E.
81 E. Davis, OF Boston. G. F. Barber, of
III birmingham, Mass, H. II. Hamilton OF
Newport, E. o. Klnsman, OF Cambridge,
Mass. The address OF welcome will be
delivered by DR.. Henry Turrill OF Rut-
land, and the presidents address by DR..
H. Burbridge, of Woodstock. There will
be the election OF officers and hearing OF
reports. Thursday evening musical
and literary program will be rendered in
Grand Army hall, followed by an nfor.
NAL dance. Refreshments will be served
Fourteen Universalist clergymen at
tended the conference at White
ID River Junction last week. An ad.
dress was delivered by Doctor Nash,
81 ofBoston, general field secretary. The
present revival movement was discussed.
The state meeting of the Modern
9 Woodmen of America will be held at
Brattleboro beginning May 3.
Rev. V. NJ. Hardy recently resigned his
IN pastorate at Foxcroft, Me-, to take effect
u February /, and with Mrs. Hardy ex.
poets to return to Morrisville and occupy
his home there.
The 61st annual session of the Yer
mont conference will convene on Wednes.
day, April 10, at Enosburg Falls, and
continue through until the following
81 Monday. Bishop Moore, who was elect
AZ ed at the general conference held last
year at Los Angeles, Cal, will preside.
The preliminary program Of the confer
ence will soon be issued.
Acting under the provisions Of No. 43
Of the Acts of 1904, which pro-
vides for a permanent common school
81 fund, the nucleus of which shall be
81 the $240,000 recently returned to the
state by the national government in
settlement of certain war claims. Gov.
81 Bell has appointed the following commits
sioners who serve without pay: Joseph
A. DeBoer, of Montpelier, Charles H.
q Stearns, of Johnson, Justus Dartt, OF
"a Springfield Nelson w. Fisk, of Isle La
81 Motto, Thomas P. Simpson, of Sheffield,
81 and John A. Mead of Rutland.
The Sth annual meeting of the Yer
" mont State Horticulture society was
held at Vergennes last week, with the
largest attendance in the history of the
# society. Fifty varieties of apples were
"a shown, also cut flowers and plants from
the state experiment station at Burling.
81 ton. Interesting and instructive ad
81 dresses were made and discussions held
The treasurer's report showed the
receipts of the year to be $519.50; ex.
III penditures, $34.75; cash on hand,
81 $494.75.
The Brattleboro woman's club, sue.
cessful organization which started there
in humble way nearly nine years ago
is about to open a public cooking school
~ with Miss Maude E. Field of Leverett, a