St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-07-17
Vermont News.
Johnson Summer School.

Stale session. Fifty-four teachers have
sciooJi W, enrolled in the courses, and adj
5d;i+tional members are reporting daily
q qta most heavily elected courses are
l ,ns;c arithmetic, drawing, manual
L UNI pedagogy, and elementary
tla :aloe A model class ofabout 20 child
sCi i' Of urinary grades is enrolled in music
1el 1 - n,r;thmetic, and will receive instruc-
anu S.p. =; n language, reading, and hygiene
!O 4he succeeding weeks of session, while
IL . ins in manual training and drawing
aat e,td of all primary and interme-
u }!1 1H'' trades has been formed. These
uia aJoI Classes receive only the skilled in
n lC,o+;on of the critic teachers. The in
sLl Lactors are DR.. Collins. Principal of the
sSt1 lpol school. I. H. Fuller Of the science
H 9onart,nent. Miss Lena Lord, Normal
ScPool instructor in music, Miss Bertha
NJ 4rey of Chatham Mass, principal OF
,be Johnson training school, and Miss
a Nav Pierce of the Castleton Normal
H..inerIv instructor in drawing at John-
W., Among the additional lecturers
ond teachers who will give instruction
o the school are State Supt. Mason S.
Some Prof. L. r. Jones of T.. V. NJ,
Tngo Winkenwerder of the U. S. forest
serTce Prot. Lyman Allen of the No.
Adams Normal school, Mr.. Aitken of
+be State Board of Agriculture. and Mr..
uol+on of the State Board of Health.
Inspecting Vermont Granite.
T Nelson Dale of Pittsfeld Mass,
government geologist, representing the
frnited States Geological Survey, is in
Barre where he will spend the next few
weeks inspecting the granite quarries TO
Gather data for volume on Vermont
GRANTEES" which will be published by
the Geological Survey. He is spending
the entire summer in Vermont, having
come to Barre from Bethel, where he
soent the frst'p part of the month looking
over the stone. He has prepared a
volume on "Granites of Maine" which
will be out about the middle of August,
and which can be secured without charge
nv writing to the L. S. Geological Sur
yey, requesting bulletin No 10.
The book of Vermont granite, will, of
course. be of great value, as it is the
first effort of the kind by the Geological
Survey. The most space will be given to
Barre granite because of its larger i'm
During his stay Mr.. Dale will visit
every quarry there and gather informa-
3 ton as to each kind of stone, putting
the specimens under the microscope and
i discovering the coloring and texture OF
each also giving the location of each
. quarry
Sunday School Convention.
The state Sunday school convention
q will be held in Manchester, October s, 8
and 10. The following out-of the-statt
& speakers have already been secured
Il Alfred Day, general secretary of the New
q York State Sunday School Association
4 f. C. Knapp, of the Hartford, Conn
81 School of Religious Pedagogy W. X
& Anderson, superintendent Ruggles Stree
& Baptist Sunday School, Boston; Mrs
n Mary Foster Bryner, Peoria, ILL.,, inter
national field worker. The devotional
n periods will be in the charge of the Rev
a DR.. Milford H. Smith, of Rutland, anC
q the music will be in the charge of F. O
Ii Merriheld, of Grafton, who has for thre
q years been the popular music leader
d the conventions.
Muster Notes.
Lieut.. Leslie A l. Chapman, FRS
81 Cavalry. is the officer detailed by tn
government to observe and report o.
the muster of the First National Guard
TO be held at the State grounds at For
Ethan Allen beginning August s.
The general order for the annus
muster contains some new features thl
& year. The regiment will rendezvous a
the camp grounds at six O'Clock in tn
morning, instead of arriving at all hour
of the dav as heretofore. Instead of
detail being sent ahead by each compan
to prepare camp small reglmental d
tail will be sent on August to issr
canvass, poles and tent pins when tn
men arrive.
The new light blue chambray shirt
are to be issued to the men on arrival
camp.
Remodeled BrattlebOro Hospital.
The E. R. Lynch hospital in We
Brattleboro was thrown open to II
public Friday afternoon and lar!
number of people made an inspectio
The old Melrose hotel has been T
modelled until it is one of the be
equipped hospitals in the state. A lar:
wing has been built on the north sit
and a dormitory added to the four
floor for the nurses. DR.. E. K. Lynch
head physician and Dr. Fremont Ham
ton, etherist. DR.. Maurice Richards
and Dr. Frank Harris of Boston are
the consulting staff as is Professor BIZ
rell professor of gynecology at Harva
University Since the hospital start
in May 1905, it has the remarkat
record of having treated $50 surgio
cases and having lost but one patient
81 woman, sc years old, with compou
fracture of the hip.
Railroad Loses Case.
The case of Mrs. Annie M. Hopkins
Brattleboro against the Boston a
Maine railroad, which has been on tr
81 IN the United States circuit court
three days, was finished Friday, the ju
bringing in a verdict for the plaintiff
S1650. The case arose from the allee
neglect of the defendant company to p
vide sufficient cars for the crowd to r
IN November 80, 1904, so that PLAIN
as she claimed was compelled to ride
the platforms of a passenger coach a
Pullman from Gardner to Athol, Mas
some II miles whereby she took c.
and suffered from rheumatism E
asthma for several months atterwa
and still suffers from these ailments.
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