St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-07-24
Vermont News.
e,+rrdav,s Storm Damage.

# . wash0ut loul iiHeS :,
aa.v MGS the engine, mail car and combi-
ue e+ % baggage car and smoker OF the
nation nation train from New York, due in
e e VIin%Sd at sos. The fireman was the
Ku IT. nerson injured. The storm was the
on ntsF experienced there in years.
W Tt" oldest inhabitant of Enosburg
rIrS has no recollection of anything to
fans oo re- with the terrific hurricane that
connnatp1naned the electrical storm there
a Io lame afternoon. The damage was
~ ~ growing crops, shade trees, barns,
ttoJsSSraph telephone, and electric light
L.s twenty shade trees were up
voted voted and one barn was unroofed for
n III. +Se second or third time.
' house in process of construction at
ca'orton was demolished; in Sheldon
SO0 sugar naples were blown down on
4Se farm of Allen Draper; in South
pt D., Arthur Hoadley lost so trees,
e which were uprooted in his sugar or
II rbard. But most of all the damage
N +brouphout Franklin county was to the
n colds of growing corn which Sunday
morning looked as though a roller had
been run over them.
4 large section of the roof of the power
bouse and car barn of the St. Adams
Il Street railway was torn off and the back
x wall was badly twisted and strained.
u Large limbs were torn from trees all
81 over town.
In Alburgh, lightning struck tree un-
der which Is sheep had run for shelter
81 and all the sheep were killed and the tree
Il blasted
A barn belonging to F. L. Fish of
NJ Vergennes was struck by lightning and
Il his driving horse, Aberdeen" was
Il killed.
The large COW barn on the St. Adams
hospital farm, about half way between
H Jacksonville and Cambridge, and carried
II on by Mr. Lapan, was struck by light
ii ming, burning it to the ground. There
n were about 10 tons of old hay and about
81 five tons of new burned.
The Methodist church at Elmore was
III struck by lightning and badly damaged.
Charles Fuller Of West Newport was
struck and instantly killed while shing-
Il ling his barn, during the shower.
vermont's First Census.
". T. Dewey has on file at the Yer
& mont Mutual Office, at Montpelier, the
following data interesting to YER
monters regarding the standing of Yer
IA mont in the first census Of the United
n States.
In the year 1890, the first census was
81 taken in the United States and although
81 Vermont had not yet been admitted to
e the Union, yet she was one of the settle
ments to be included in the census that
year. Vermont in 1890 had more in
habitants than either Rhode Island,
Delaware, Kentucky or Georgia and in
those states were quite large percent
p age Of slaves Vermont had no slaves
and only 16 free colored persons. Her
IS total population was S5,425 of which
81 l7,572 resided in Windham. The largest
population of any town was in Guilford
which had 2 ,422, Marshheld and Wood
bury were not inhabited, Duxburv had
Nj SO, Middlesex 60, Moretown "a, Waits
field, 81, Waterbury SO, Berlin 1874,
& Cabot 122, Calais As, Mortified 40,
Roxbury IA, Montpelier 11S, Wilders-
B burgh NOW Barrel rs, Burlington $50,
Rutland 1,417, while Hardwick was
happy and contented with three persons.
Insane Asylum Report.
Dr. D. D. Grout of the State Insane
81 Asylum in his annual report gives the
number of patients in the hospital July
r. 1907, as SO; the number of private
and part pay patients July 16, 1907, as
Fl g.
Other figures from the report follow :
h The total weekly per capita cost for the
maintenance of patients, as shown in
the biennial report made by Doctor
Hutchinson for the term ending June 80,
II 1904, $4.07.
81 The total weekly per capita cost for
the maintenance of patients, as shown
in the biennial report for the term ending
June 80, 1906, IA months under DR..
E hutchinson, ten months under DR..
81 Grout, 1888.
The total weekly per capita cost to
the state, as in both of the above, for
maintenance, for the fiscal year ending
June &c. 1907, will be practically 1925.
81 The state is hiring about $50 patients
Kept at the retreat at Brattleboro at an
expense of 1915 per week.
Kurn Hattin Homes Annual Meeting.
The adjourned annual meeting of Ike
association was held July 6, at the
administration building. Some facts
taken from the report will give an idea
OF the work of the past year. There are
53 boys in the homes at the present time
81 at Westminster and 16 at Saxton' S
River, Twenty.four were admitted, IL
being from this state. Fourteen have
lett during the year, FIVE returning to the
care OF their mothers, FIVE to positions
TWO into private families, and two WERE
returned after months trial. Eighty
nine applications for admissions WERE
received nearly four times as many az
could be admitted. The farms have beer
improved, and additions have been made
10 iruit and poultry, $1441.51 has beer
received in cash from the farm, from thu
sale OF products beyond those required
# III the homes. The superintendent rec
Gommends an enlarged poultry plant a
ooth homes, in an endeavor to solve tn
NJ problem of self support. Nothing viii
encourage liberal help from the outsid
4 a as much as determined effort to hell
themselves from the inside.
KEY. Benjamin Smith was elected {
trustee in place of DR.. c. A. Dickinson
deceased. 1t is hoped that the corne
stone OF the new school, can be laid OF
Tie next field day, early in September
The Battleship Vermont.
n Under orders issued from the Nav.
# apartment, almost the entire enlisted
t toTce OF the battleship Iowa, at the Nor
ioiK Navy Yard has been transferred to tn