St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-05-10
VERMONT NEWS.
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Noe 40 to ITO inclusive. 1neSe u.s.
VS. ITO. feeding stuffs; No. Iii, plant
S 5;ssases: seed inspection; tomato, lettuce
und rhubarb culture; grating; bordeaux
@a;Itnre making; and dairy feeding; 112,
nnmmercial fertilizers; 113, preparation
md use OF sprays; ia, alfalfa growing
q Vermont; lis, disease resistance in
no+atoes. These bulletins aggregate 1872
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KNIGHTS of Columbus Convention.
The sixth annual meeting OF the YER
mont State Council. Knights OF Colum-
bns. was held in St. Adams. last week.
II was one of the most largely attended
ofany that has been held in the state,
between 500 and 600 visiting Knights
being in the city, and every council was
renresented by its full quota of delegates.
The third degree was exempliied by
D.D.LI. Fitzgerald and staff, OF New
York, there being 90 candidates. There
are now / / councils in the state, one hav-
mo been added during the past year,
that one being at Brattleboro. The order
in the state comprises something over
900 members, about 40 OF whom have
Joined during the past year. These
officers were elected: State deputy, Flor
ence A. McCarty, of Rutland; secretary,
John E. Flanagan, of Montpelier; treas
yrer, Ira H. LaFleur, of Middlebury;
advocate, James H. Burke, of Brattle-
boro; warden, F. c. Mayo, st. Johns
bury; chaplain, D. ]. O'Sullivan, of st.
Adams; delegates to the National council
at Los Angeles in June, Florence A.
McCarty, OF Rutland, and Felix W.
McGettrick, past State deputy; alter.
mates, Thomas Magner, of Burlington,
and E. A. Sweeney, of Montpelier.
Modern WOOdmen Meeting.
A large gathering of representatives of
state lodges of Modern Woodmen &C.
cured at Brattleboro. Wednesday, nearly
200 attending the annual state encamp-
ment.
A street parade was given at noon, a
feature of which was the informal
drill teams of Brattleboro, Barre and
Graniteville. An exhibition drill was
given in the evening before nearly 1900
Deople. At the business session the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Consul,
H. G. Aver of Bridgewater; adviser, S.
E. Miner of Brattleboro; excellent
banker, N. M. Lewis of Wells; clerk,
B. G. Hawley of Cambridge; escort,
NJ. B. Small of Jericho; Waterman,
Angus McAuley of Wilder; sentry, c. c.
Stannard of Lowell; managers, N. W.
Tennison OF Swanton, =. NJ. Morse of
Bakersfield, and E. L. Hall OF Sheffield =;
delegates to the national encampment at
Milwaukee, F. Louis Linsenmeir OF
Winooski and w. P. Whitcomb OF Mont
pelier; alternates, c. L. Dye OF Rutland
and II. c. Gleason OF st. Johnsbury.
Thursday marked the 11Sth anniver-
sarv Of the settlement of Montpelier.
Col. Jacob Davis started from Brookheld
on May 3, 1887, and the next day,
having cut bride path up the banks Of
the river, camped on the North Branch
near where the old Jail now stands. This
was the first permanent settlement,
according to Thompson, although Jacob
Frzzle, a trapper and hunter, had been
Il an occasional sojourner in this section OF
i what was then wilderness.
The death has been announced of Mrs.
May Elizabeth Washburn, widow OF the
late DR.. John H. French, former state
superintendent OF Vermont schools, and
also of the Burlington schools. Mrs.
French died April 90, after weeks i'll.
ness with pneumonia at her home in
Holley, N. Y, aged II years.
Prof. Edward D. Snow, founder and
for II years principal of the commercial
department OF the Rutland public schools
has resigned, the resignation to take
effect at the end of the school year. He
will organize a commercial school Of his
own somewhere in New York state. He
isa graduate of the Rochester, N. Y,
business college and has been one of the
most successful teachers in Vermont.
Stephen 7. Grady, a farmer of Pownal
mas filed petition in bankruptcy, with
Liabilities OF $23, 1926 and assets of
$11,57457, of which $3.50 is claimed
exempt.
Arrangements for the annual school for
the health officers of Vermont to be held
in Burlington June 1928 have been com.
pleted. At the opening sessions there
will be addresses by Gov. c. ]. Bell, Rt.
Rev. Bishop ]. S. Michaud, of Burlington,
and Frank L. Greene, of st. Adams. One
of the features will be an address on The
Epidemic of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis
by DR.. Donald Lewis, of New York city
Some of the other speakers will be, DR..
A. c. Abbott, of Philadelphia, DR.. A. b
Doty, of New York, Prof. F. c. Robinson,
Of Bowdoin College, DR.. W. A. Clark, oil
the Massachusetts state board OF health,
DR.. E. R. Baldwin, Of Saranac Lake, n. Y
State Superintendent OF Education W.. b.
Ranger, of Montpelier, will also speak
on School Sanitation"
DR.. Sanford Wager, for so years a
practicing physician at Burlington, died
suddenly Of heart trouble Friday. he
was SO years old Wednesday. Doctor
and Mrs. Wager were planning to cele'
brate ON Saturday the seth anniversary
Of their wedding. Doctor Wager was
born in New Jersey. A wife, son, daugh
ter, and brother survive.
A special town meeting will be held to.
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