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

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chairman, Elizabeth H. Winslow, OF
Brandon, Mrs. M. H. Buckham, OF
Burlington, Mrs. W. P. Smith, of St.
Jobnsbury, Edward Nd. Goddard, of
Montpelier. Another meeting will be
held in Burlington the first part OF
February.
Not Adapted 10 Vermont.
H. G. Thomas, state fish and game
commissioner has ordered 500, 900 eyed
brook trout eggs from the American
Fish Culture Co., at Carolina, R. l., to be
shipped to the state hatchery at Roxbury
January 81, while 100000 more will
come from Worthwhile, Mich, few DAYS
later. Commissioner Thomas is busy at
the hatchery making needed repairs, pre-
paratory to raise annually 100000
brook trout and 100000 lakers. Hereto.
fore it has been the custom to include
salmon, steelheads, rainbow, brown, and
Loeb Leven trout in the product, all of
which will be abandoned as not adapted
to Vermont waters. The commission ex.
poets to rent the Swanton hatchery to
the United States government for the
coming year, it proving very advan-
tageous proposition.
A TrOtting Doe.
John North, Tyson farmer, has chal-
lenged the local trotters, matching up
his trotting doe for mile heats on the ice
at Echo lake. North has broken the doe
to drive sulky and hopes to do mile in
2.10 or better. North caught the animal
a year ago, but the game warden com.
PEELED him to release it. The animal per-
sisted, however, in returning to the house.
In course of time the doe attained it's
growth, became hardened, and North
conceived the idea of breaking it to har.
ness. The doe has developed great speed.
On a level stretch, it is said, she has made
a mile in 221 and as runner, her natur.
al gait, the animal has made much
better time, but North has laboriously
trained her for trotter.
Rev. George L. Story, of Essex Juno.
ton. formerly field secretary for the YER
mont State Sunday school Association,
has been appointed field secretary for the
North Carolina Sunday school Associa-
ton and has already gone to his new
duties.
The State Board Of Pharmacy com.
pleted the work of its January meeting
at Montpelier last week. The board or.
gained at this meeting by the election OF
c. c. Bingham ofSt. Johnsbury, as presi-
dent; J. 6. Bellrose, Burlington, secre.
tary, and W. F. Root, of Brattleboro,
treasurer. The other members of the
board are z. B. Hopkins, Brandon, and
A. W. Higgins, Rutland. The board will
hold all it's future examinations at the
state house instead of going from place
to place as has been the custom. The re.
naming meetings of the year, for the ex.
animation of candidates, will be held
early in April. July and October. Two
applicants for registration successfully
passed the required examination.
The annual meeting of the Forestry
Association OF Vermont will be held at
Montpelier today. In the evening there
will be an illustrated lecture by DR.. B. E.
Fernow OF Ithaca, N. Y, on "The Evolu.
ton of Forest Growth; also an ad.
dress by Prof. L. R. Jones OF Burlington.
Hiram Hyser, aged 80 years, died at
the soldiers home, Bennington, Deem
Der 81, of old age. He served in Co. B,
5th VT. Vols, enlsting from Rutland.
He was admitted to the home from
North Adams, Mass, in 1905, and he
had been discharged and readmitted
since. His only relativeis a brother, who
lives in Boston.
The dental office of DR.. E. w. Knight
of Bellows Falls, was destroyed by fire
early Wednesday morning. Nothing
was saved. DR.. Knight estimates his
loss at $4,000, and he carries an in.
surance OF $4,000. The office, which was
one of the best equipped in New England,
was in building by itself. Deep snow
and high wind troubled the 6remen.
They succeeded, however, in saving a
barn fifteen feet away.
Town Clerk Henry L. Kenyon, of
Mortified, has paid bounties on GA nox-
ious animals from May l, 1904, to Janu-
airy 1, 1905, amounting to $38 10. This
included one bear at $12; 16 foxes, $12;
and Al hedgehogs, $14.10.
The endowment fund of $4,000 for
the perma nent maintenance of the Mark
Skinner library at Manchester, has been
turned over to the trustees. The fund
was bequeathed by will OF the late Fran.
els Skinner Willing, of Chicago, founder
OF the library.
Rev. J. F. Whitney has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the First Con-
gregational church of South Royalton,
to take effect April 1.
The inventory of stock of the insolvent
firm OF l. Levine & Co., of Swanton has
been completed and it is estimated that
the assets are about $500, with liza.
bilties OF about $4,000. An offer of 35
cents on the dollar has been made to the
creditors.
At recent meeting of Co. H, V. N. G.,
of Montpelier, the board of managers
unanimously voted to authorize the pur-
chase OF sub-target gun at an expense
OF $3.50. The state will pay SIS toward
the gun.
Gov. Charles J. Bell has appointed F.
A. Rich, of Burlington, as a member OF
the board of cattle commissioners. Er.
nest Hitchcock, of Pittsford, has received
his commission from the state board of
agriculture as state forestry COM
missioner
Gov. and Mrs. Bell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter, Col. and Mrs. w. E. Putnam, OF
attleboro, and CT. F. S. Billings of
Woodstock, will go to Boston, Thurs
day, to attend meeting of the Vermont
Association of Boston.
John W. Newton, formerly one of St.
Adams most prominent citizens, died at
the Soldiers Home at Togus, Me-, last
week, where he had been for the past 20
years.