St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-05-10


who have been members of the lodge con.
tlnousiy for twenty five years. Mr.. Sa.
BINS jewel was the fifth to be presented
in the state.
At a meeting of Vermonters recently
held in South Pass adena, CAL, W. l.
Jacobs, former proprietor of the Barton
Monitor, was elected secretary of Yer.
mont society formed there at that time.
The society voted to have a sugaring off
later and some Vermont maple sugar
has been OF dered.
At the Bristol village meeting by
vote of 1877 to 81, it was decided to es-
tablish new gravity water system and
it was voted to issue $4,000 in bonds
for that purpose. The water supply will
be taken from the Seth hill brook, in Lin
coin.
The fish commission at Washington is
gratified with the work of collecting eggs
of wall eyed pike and with the propaga.
ton of the same now in progress at
Swanton and in st. Johnsbury. About.10O-
100000 eggs have been collected at
Swanton and sent on to this station.
The commission is rearing 100000 trout
fingerlings in Vermont this summer.
Twenty-Five thousand brook trout were
distributed in brooks at Stowe last week
from the state hatchery at Roxbury.
Thursday $4,000 fry from the national
hatchery were put into Lake Mansfield
and Saturday $4,000 more from the
same place were put into the same water.
The Manchester Journal, owned and
published for many years by D. K. ST.
monds, has been sold to Otto R. Bennett,
of Brooklyn, N, Y. Mr.. Bennett is ma
tive Of Manchester and has had much
practical experience as printer, and will
personally conduct the business.
A historic building in Rutland, erected
in 1902, and which was the first bank in
Vermont, was sold recently by John c.
Temple to Samuel Bowles, wealthy
London banker, who was attracted to
Vermont by the facilities for a school of
modelling for which he proposes to utilize
the old edifce. He will set aside several
thousand dollars to educate American
children in sculpturing to do away with
the hiring of foreigners entirely in this
branch of Vermonts marble industry.
Charles Walker of Swanton, prisoner
in the House of Correction serving for
tramping, was killed by falling down
stairs last week Tuesday. He was SO
years old and unmarried. He had been
judged insane and was to have been ia.
ken to Waterbury.
The amount of the Easter offering at
st. Paul's church, Burlington, has been
announced. The rector had asked for
$1,000, and the offering was ST, 225.
The Kellogg. Hubbard library was burg
larized last week Monday night. Only
81 in money, 81 in stamps, and
fifty cents in change, the receipts
from fines, were taken. The outer door
of the safe was not locked, but small
drawer was forced. The librarians desk
was ransacked and the janitors over
coat was stolen. 1t is thought probable
that the thief entered the building before
it was closed Monday evening and con.
cealed himself in the basement.
Charles F. w. Cunningham, of Hart
ford, Conn, has accepted the call to be
secretary of the Brattleboro Young Mems
Christian Association. Mr.. Cunningham
is young man and unmarried. He has
been one OF the assistant secretaries in
the Hartford association.
W. H. Wakefield, veteran Of the Civil
War, died at Burlington Wednesday,
after a long illness of rheumatism
and Bright's disease. He enlisted in
1862 as a musician in Co. E, 18th VT,
Vols, and re.enlisted as private in Co..
E, 18th Vt. Vols, serving until the end
of the war.
Rev. William Benjamin Reynolds, an
Episcopal clergyman formerly of Sodus,
Wayne county, N. Y, has formally
accepted the call to the pastorate of
Christ church at Bethel, and st. Paul's
church at Royalton.
A new woman's club has been organic
ed in St. Adams, which will be known
as the Autonie club, the object of which
is social intercourse, and the study OF
literature, art, and civic progress. The
officers of the club are: President, Mrs.
Edward c. Smith; vice president, Mrs.
George M. Hogan: recording secretary,
Mrs. Frank Walworth Smith; cores
ponding secretary, Miss Alice B.
Chandler; treasurer, Mrs. John Gibson.
Henry Swan Dana, town historian,
and one of the best known men of letters
in Vermont, died at his home at Wood.
stock early Thursday morning in his
SD year. He was born in Woodstock
in 1928, and with exception of eight
years, following his graduation from
Dartmouth in 1849, passed in teaching
in the South, has always resided there. His
history of Woodstock was the result OF
many years of the most painstaking
labor, and during his life he had been a
close student of classical literature and
languages. He was not married.
That Vermont may lose Walter E.
Ranger, state superintendent ofeducation
who has been elected state commissioner
of public schools by the Rhode Island
board of education, seems probable.
Mr.. Ranger will have no state
ment to make until he has been
officially notified of his election. He was
tentatively offered the position last fall
during the session of the Legislature,
when several fruitless attempts were
made to increase his salary. His election
now is surprise to him, as the position
was filled short time ago. The salary
is $4,000 year, with abundance OF
clerical help.