St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-05-08


B. F. Millington of South Londonderry
and escaped from South Londonderry.
The owners had about 1, 100000 feet OF
peeled hemlock logs held by boom, but
the boom broke on account of high
water and part of the logs got away.
Fortunately the main jam did not start.
The logs now coming down the river
will be stopped at West Dummerston
and probably will be bought by John
Taft, who has mill in that village.
woman's Home Missionary Union.
The 10Th annual meeting of the Wo.
mans Home Missionary Union of YER
mont will be held in the Congregational
church in Bellows Falls, May % and
20, Mrs. Rebecca P. Fairbanks of St.
Johnsbury as president presiding. The
usual business of this organization will
be conducted during the two days and
the speakers from abroad include Mrs.
c. M. Stevens, wife of the principal of
the school at Mcintosh, Ca; graduate
of the Schauffler training school at Cleve-
land; DR.. Hubert c. Herring. the new
secretary of the Congregational Home
Missionary society, and the Rev. Frank
K. Sanders, secretary of the Sunday
School and Publishing society.
Ten Year Contest Ends.
The Montpelier city council, on recon-
mendation of the city hall building COM
mittee, has purchased the Golden Fleece
building for $22,500 and the Greene
Syrup of Tar company's lot for $4,000.
On this site the new city hall will be
erected. The action ends a fight of 10
years duration by the city against the
purchase of the Golden Fleece building.
Gov. Hughes May Come.
1t is announced that Maxwell Evarts,
president of the Vermont Fish and Game
League, has received letter from the
secretary announcing that Gov. Hughes
OF New York, expects now that he will
be able to attend the midsummer meet
ing of the league
Fifty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Wescome, of
North Hyde Park, celebrated the fifty
fifth anniversary of their marriage
Wednesday.
Rev. S. Halstead Watkins of St, Adams
has been made editor of the Mountain
Echo, diocesan paper of the Episcopal
church. Spencer W. Hindes of Burling-
ton is business manager The paper will
be published every three months. The
first issue will appear in August instead
OF July as formerly, and each issue is to
be a month later than before
In Island Pond first class liquor
license has been granted to H. L. Doyle
of the Stewart house, and a fifth class
license to John W. Thurston, druggist
The fee of the first class was fixed at
5000; of the fifth class at $50
According to a New York dispatch
Mrs. Hettie Green, (who for many years
made Bellows Falls her summer home) is
without office room or even a peg or
which to hang her bonnet in the new
building of the Chemical National Bank
which was opened for business recently
at 270 Broadway. Mrs. Green, who is
a director of the bank, always had a
private office in the old building which
has become lost in the new, but the
architects in their plans made no provi
sion for her.
Rev. c. w. Jackson, for FIVE years pas
tor of the Baptist church at BELOW:
Falls, has resigned, having accepted {
call to the pastorate of the Baptist
church at Brandon, Manitoba, a towr
of about II, 900 inhabitants, and will be
gin his duties there the second Sunday il
June.
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. T. G. Thompson o
Plattsburgh, former residents of Burling
ton, Mr.. Thompson having served as pas
tor of the Burlington Methodist Church
observed the 25th anniversary of theil
marriage by entertaining the members o
the official board of the First Methodist
Church, the Sunday school board ant
the parsonage committee at Plattsburgf
last week Tuesday evening.
The annual outing of the Wells Rive
Fish and Game Club to its preserves il
the southern part of the town of New
bury, May /, was the most successful il
the history of the club, the party of eigh
arriving at the pond at daylight and re
turning to Hale's Tavern before moor
with forty pounds of trout. The clul
owns three connecting ponds which i
believes are the best trout preserves il
the state.
William O'Neil, aged 10 years, son O
Mrs. !. B. Freeman, of Barton, fell into
Barton river directly back of the Barton
steam laundry last week Monday after
noon and was drowned