St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-08-02
VERMONT NEWS.
THE Soldiers Home.

MI renort of the Soldiers Home
lt u. at the annual meeting July 26,
i bows that the receipts for the year end
SUI Inlv /, were $21,475 of which So:
lns came from the State and 81, l5O
nv The limited States. The expenses
ilou The wear were $40, 1868 which is about
~ 10 o00 less than for the year previous.
T t,o expense per capita for last year was
d lno q reduction of $31 from the pre-
q :"ns wear. This reductionin expense has
s slOn brought about by the improvement
~ The farm under Col. lannon's manage
VI O,e nj He has brought the farm into a
h;Ch state of cultivation and furnished
r mo- of the vegetables and dairy pro-
ancts for the institution from the farm
us The old officers were elected as
neoiIows:-P President Hugh Henry, OF
CHESTER U clerk, q. W. Spafford OF Rutland;
treasurer, John c. Stearns OF Bradford.
Dog Attempted Suicide.
What was apparently deliberate at
tempt on the part ola dog to commit sui
eide occurred in Manchester during a thun-
der shower. The animal, which was a
ssven.year.old shepherd dog, owned by
= e Blackmer, of that place, has been
Ior some years terrorized during electri-
Cal storms. When the shower came up
thursday he sought refuge in the main
building of the Bradley Butter Box Man
ufacturipg Co., at the station. He was
driven out by the employees. Soon after
ward he was seen to run madly into the
engine room and jump deliberately into
the rapidly revolving fly wheel. The en-
eineer stopped the machinery as quickly
es nossible. Two spokes had already
hpep taken out of the twenty foot iron
wheel.
Beaver Curiosity.
W.D. Keyes of the state fish hatchery
has left at the Argus Office in Montpelier
a curiosity in the shape Of a tree stump
puawed off by beavers. Mr.. Reyes has
been on a fishing trip on the Magalloway
river in Maine and found beaver colony
near Lincoln pond, one of the houses
being unusually large. There were
several tree stumps showing where the
beavers had felled trees for food and one
of them he sawed off and brought home
1t is something few people have ever
seen and bears plain marks OF the
beavers teeth. He says beaver are in
creasing in Maine, their killing being
absolutely prohibited, and that they ar,
also working in New Hampshire, in the
vicinity of the Connecticut lakes.
Lincoln Favors the Bears.
The Hon. Robert D. Lincoln Of Chicago
recently occupied "Hildene" his new
summer residence at Manchester. ON
day last week a young bear cub wa'
found in the woods near the house. MIR
Lincoln was offered the use OF one OF TIL
old Burritt Brothers bear traps, (which
has caught over so bears. panther ant
man." He declined, however, ant
said, II am of the opinion that it woult
be rather better to encourage their pro
pagation and then to invite Presiden
Roosevelt up here to go bear hunting"
Advantage of Gravel Roads.
Two strips of road have been photo
graphed for the use of the state highwa
Commissioner, c. W. Gates, of FRANKLIN
One represents recently constructe
part OF a highway in the village OF Har'
ford. The other lisa section OF the higt
way on Taft's fiat, between the Junctio
A and Wilder, after FIVE years use. I. L
II Hunt, the present road commissioner
u directed the construction of each on
q and both of them admirably illustrat
the use OF gravel in building roads in TIL
state.
Profitable Sow.
Cannon S. Brush, ofNorth Cambridg
is the owner of a profitable sow. She
four years old and her litters of pigs hay
been as follows: First litter, FIVE pig
second, thirteen; third, fourteen; iourt
sixteen; fifth. fourteen; sixth, sixtee
The seventh litter came along July 4 ar
Just to celebrate the day SHE had eightet
pigs, estimated at $3.50 each. She hi
added $2O5 to the income OF the farm
the past three years.
Aston E. Green committed suici
Thursday by hanging in the sugar hou
on the F. H. Goodwin farm near Dani
Corners, which he was managing. Disa
pointment resulting from his wite's po
health is given as the cause.
The estate of John Boomhower
Rockingham has brought suit again
the Casein Co., of Rockingham,
$4,000 for alleged negligence. VII
Boomhower was cleaning a MACH
July %, 1908, the wheels were start
and crushed him to death.
Articles of incorporation for the Ne
port Driving club, with a capital sto
of S25OO, have been filed in the office
the secretary OF state at Montpelier.
John Robinson Of Bennington recen
found in one of his pastures two thf
year old steers and one three-year-e
heifer, lying in row, dead having be
struck by lightning some days before.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 OF
$4,000 needed to erect a Young Me
Christian association building at b
nington has been pledged and
structure will be built as soon as
remaining amount has been raised.
the Is associations in Vermont, six ht
buildings of their own, Island 20
Proctor, Brattleboro, Montpelier,
Johnsbury and Burlington.
In Windsor county conrt, Wilt
Cowdry, who with Harry Casl
robbed Scott Tinkham's store at Quec
FIVE years ago, pleaded guilty to gr'
larceny, Casner having already made
similar plea. In two state cases
volving the furnishing OF liquor the j
disagreed.
By reason of the breaking OF cable
the southern division of the Rutland I
road one day last week, William War
burgh was struck in one side and in
chest. Nine ribs were broken, his CT