St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-07-31

Medical College U. VIM.
The following changes in faculty have
been made in the medical department of
the U. V. M, Burlington: DR.. Thomas S.
Brown of Mt Holly has been named in
structor in anatomy in place of DR.. John
M. Wheeler. The professorship of derma-
tology, filled by DR.. G. G. Campbell of
Montreal. is yet vacant for this term.
DR.. John H. Dodds has been appointed
instructor in anaesthetization, and DR..
Daniel A. Shea, who has been intern at
Fanny Allen hospital for the past year,
has been added to the list of assistant
demonstrators of anatomy.
This year the board of trustees have
appropriated $4,000 for additional
equipment for the laboratories, and with
new apparatus the laboratory facilities
there will be second to none in the state.
Corner Stone Laid.
The corner stone of the new St. lanes
Church at Woodstock was laid Thurs
day afternoon, by Bishop A. c. A. Hall
in the presence of a large assemblage.
There was a celebration of the holy COM
munion at ten o'clock. The afternoon
exercises began with procession of
choir boys, officers of the church. and
visiting clergy from the town hall, where
services are now held, to the site of the
new church. Following the ceremony of
laying the corner stone, Bishop Hall de-
livered an address. In the evening
prayer was said in the town hall, follow
ed by confirmation and sermon by the
bishop.
Bulletins of Information.
The Vermont Experiment Station has
issued in the last month three bulletins.
aggregating 244 pages, being Nos. 1913,
129 and 100. These discuss the testing
ofcows, commercial fertilizers, soil bio
logy in its relation to fertilizers, plant
diseases, alfalfa culture, feeding trials
with COWS, and sundry matters in con-
nection with horticulture and dairying.
These bulletins will be sent to any adj
dress upon application. Parties wishing
their names put upon the mailing list
should make that request. A postal
card addressed to the Experiment
Station, Burlington, VT, stating desires,
is sufficient.
Hay1ng On Large scale.
Having is in full blast at Shelburne
farms, the estate of DR.. w. Seward Webb
at Shelburne, near Burlington, and
while the crop is not so heavy as in re-
cent years, and it is also two weeks late
in being harvested, the aggregate will
reach something like 1000 tons. This
will be cut from about 500 acres, much
smaller acreage than has been cut over
for some years. The decrease is due in
part to the large number of spruce and
| pine trees and shrubs that have been set
out along the hillsides and tops of many
of the large knobs producing a pictur-
esque effect desired by the owner, and
also contributing to the future require
ments for wood and lumber.
New Teachers.
The new principal and three assistants
have been secured for Black River
Academy at Ludlow. John B. Pugsley,
of Somersworth, N. H., who for two
years has been sub-master of large
boys school at Dudley, Mass, will be
principal, and the assistants are Miss
Sarah Cummings of Woburn, Mass, a
graduate of Colby; Miss Alice A. Puffer
of Roxbury, Mass, graduate OF the
Boston Latin school and Radcliff; and
Miss Florence McAllister of Somerville,
Mass, who taught there part of last
year.
| American Bar Association.
The 3Oth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Bar Association will be held at Port
land, Me-, Aug. 26-29. The 18th con-
ference of commissioners on Uniform
State Laws will begin on Aug. %.
Alton B. Parker of New York will give
the presidents address on Monday, the
Goth. Monday morning among other
papers will be one by Charles A. Prouty
of Vermont on "a Department of Rail
ways the Nation Legal Necessity" The
International Law association will hold
its oath conference at Portland
Aug. 29-31.
Lightning's Franks.
Lightning played a strange prank at
Brattleboro, last Wednesday night,
when bolt entered the house occupied
by Maurice Doyle and family. The bolt
entered the gable end and ripped OFT
nearly all the clapboards. Then it
entered a room where Patrick
DOYLE and Francis Landerfen were
sleeping and tore the side and foot OF the
bed completely off, dumping the two
BOYS out on the floor. Neither one
awakened until they struck the floor;
They were sleeping on feather bed
and therefore insulated.
Fatal Gun Shot.
Walter Magoon, aged 10, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leslie Magoon, OF Boston,
died Thursday from the effects of gun
shot wound received on Tuesday night.
The dead boy and his brother Leslie aged
seven were examining their fathers rifle
when the weapon was discharged. The
two boys in company with their parents
were at Newport for the summer. Their
cottage is on the shores of Lake Mem
phremagog.
Narrow Escape.
William Richardson, farmer living
near St. Adams had a narrow escape
from death last week while in the hay
J field. He was sharpening his scyth'
with a milestone, when the scyth'
slipped and plunged into his side, strik
} ing the rib lust above his heart and cut
ting bad cash requiring several stitches
: to close. Had the blade struck him
quarter of an inch lower down, hi