St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-02-01

Beginning this week the office OF State
Auditor Horace F. Graham, Of Crafts.
bury, at Montpelier, will be kept open
the year around. Auditor Graham has
engaged D. T. Hanley, of Hyde Park, as
bookkeeper. Mr.. Hanley will accom-.
pany Mr.. Graham about the state for
a week to get familiar with the methods
of the auditors Office, after which he will
locate at Montpelier permanently. Mr..
Hanley is native of Essex county and
has been for ten or twelve years book
keeper for ex Gov. c. S. Page at Hyde
Park.
By the distribution of the national
fund for land grant colleges in the vari-
Gus states of the Union, the University OF
Vermont will receive $25 900, the same
as each state university. The appro-
| priation originated in an act of Con-
gress drawn by the late Senator Morrill,
OF Vermont and started in 1890 with the
payment OF SIS, 900 to each institution.
This was increased annually till it reach
ed the sum Of SOS, 900 annually for each
state and territorial university in 1900.
Since then the payments have uniformly
| Deen 9zo,OUU year.
One day recently while clearing the
railing OF ice at Hotel Barton Mr. Mears,
the manager, had the misfortune to so
injure one eye as to put it out and the
doctor gives him no hope of recovering
the sight oft. Mr.. Mears was pushing
the ice from the rail about the piazza
when one foot slipped and the end of the
broom handle hit him in the eye.
In reply to letter from Lieut.. Gen. Ad-
ma R. Chaffee, chief OF staff of the United
States army, requesting the appointment
OF two persons to represent the state of
Vermont upon his staff. in the inaugural
parade, March 4, Governor Bell has
| selected Capt. Lee S. Tillotson, of st. AL
bans, and Capt. c. M. Brownell, of Bur-
liDgton to act as aides.
The Lenox hotel at'Montpelier is clos
ed and its management has passed out of
the bands of s. 6. Doty. who has run it
since the middle OF last February. Mrs.
Doty left the city short time ago and
1t is said that the TACT that she has an
nounced her intention of remaining away
and the accumulation of small bills, are
the causes OF the closing OF the house
MIR. Doty says he feels certain be can
meet the bills through the disposal Of the
furniture which he owns, most of the
| creditors maniesting an inclination to
be lenient and give him time to settle up.
MIR. Doty asclibes Mrs. Doty's decision
not to return to overwork and dis
enlargement about their affairs. Tie hotel
will probably be opened soon by other
parties.
Eta Chapter of Delta Delta Delta of
the U. Y. NJ, recently held its annual mi.
tiation in the societies rooms. The ini-
tiates were Charlotte Baird, Amsden;
Alice Fox, Bradford. Pa; Alice Hyzer,
Randolph Center; Alice Isham, Williston;
and Gertrude Pollock, Bradford, Pa, all
OF the Freshman class. Following the
ceremony there was a banquet at the
Van Ness House, Ethel Chapman 'O5,
Sutton, acting as toastmistress. The
subjects and speakers were: "Our Initial
es," MAZDA Joslyn, OF, Burlington; "A
Voice from '08", Alice Fox 'OS. Bradford,
Pa; Tine New Pledging System Mrs.
Forbes, 81, Burlington, The Gymnas-
ium," Daisy Enrght, '05, Windsor,
Facts and Farcies," Eva Jones, 'O5
Burlington, What a piece OF Work is
Mani" Gertrude Whitemore 'O6, Hudson,
Mass. There were about a dozen Alum.
nae members present.
The Sons OF Veterans will hold their
annual state encampment at Richford
next June.
F. w. Childs and E. W. Gibson, of Brat.
tleboro, and A. P. ChiIds of Castleton,
are members of a syndicate of ten men,
including several from South Carolina,
who will erect winter tourists hotel
u miles from Aiken, S. c., during the
next few months. Several Brattleboro
carpenters will work on the Job. The
hotel will have fifty rooms and the cost
will be about sos 900. A large tract of
land near by has been bought for golf,
tennis, and other amusements.
Ice in the channel of Lake Champlain
is now 35 inches thick, where usually at
this time OF the year there is open water.
A letter has been received by trustee
of the Fair Haven library, from Andrew
Carnegie's secretary, offering on behalf
of Mr.. Carnegie the sum of $4,000 for
the erection OF free public library build.
ing, provided suitable site is provided
and the town agrees to raise annually
the sum Of $500 for its care and main
tenance.
Twenty-four partridges have been
seized at the Rutland cold storage plant
under the law prohibiting the keeping of
such game out of season. This action
was taken as a result OF the recent visit
OF State Fish and Game Commissioner
h. 9. Thomas, of Stowe, to Rutland.
The propretors of the cold storage plant
claim that the partridges belong to per-
sons to whom they had rented the room
in which they were found. The officers
boxed up the birds and left them at the
plant.
Among the appropriations made in
Congress by the House committee on
rivers and harbors is one OF $4,000 for
Burlington harbor with authorization of
d contract for $51, 1886 more. For the
improvement of the narrows of Lake
Champlain an immediate appropriation
of 50. 500 is made.
The home at Washington, D. c., of the
family of Edward l.. Temple, formerly
well known Rutland man, was DESTROYED
by fire Wednesday. Miss Merrill, form.
efly OF Middlebury, had a narrow escape
Mr.. Temple was somewhat burned. The
contents were total loss.
The senior class of Bellows Falls high
school has decided to visit Washington,
D. C., instead of spending 5000 or $500
on a reception at commencement time.
A deer weighing over 400 mounds wac