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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
The Grange Field Day.
The Patrons of Husbandry Have Good
Time and Hear Excellent Addresses.

Shepherd Pomona Grange, represent
ing the various Oranges in the county OF
the order of Patrons of Husbandry, held
their first field day at the Fair Ground
last Wednesday. Nearly 500 people
gathered from all parts of the county
and the affair was voted a decided sue
cess and will undoubtedly be repeated
each year with increase of numbers and
interest.
In the morning there was a one-sided
ball game between two teams from the
Oranges at Passumpsic and St. Johns
bury Centre which was won by the
Passumpsic boys by the score of9 to |.
The north turned the tables on the
south in the afternoon when a dozen
stalwart Changers from the north part
of the county defeated as many muscu-
lar fellows from the south end in hard
fought tug OF war The St. Johnsbury
Band furnished music during the day
and between the addresses in the after
noon there were vocal duets by two St.
Iohnsbury ladies.
The order was highly favored in hav-
ing addresses in the afternoon by men
high in the order and their speeches
were full of helpful suggestions to the
farmers present E. H. Hallett of st.
Tohnsbury Center presided and introduc-
ed as the first speaker ex.-Gov Charles
J. Bell of Walden, for Il years master Of
the State Grange
Gov. Bell said it was very appropriate
to have the field day in st. Johnsbury as
this was the home of the first Grange in
New England, Green Mountain Grange,
No. /.
THE secret of success in any line is to
know what you are doing and the
Grange brings farmers together and
gets them to comparing notes. While
primarily for agriculture you should
also study good citizenship 1t would be
especially appropriate to discuss in
Grange meetings the taxation question
and the fish and game legislation in Yer
mont. think you will find that we
appropriate as much money to the
interests of fish and game as the damage
amounts to by wild animals to our
crops.
"Our neighboring state of New Hamp-
shire abounds in summer homes. Over
across the river they have learned to
earn their bread in part from the city
boarders while we in Vermont have to
earn our bread by the sweat OF our
brow. The Patrons Of Husbardry is a
national organization for the benefit of
the great farming class. 1t should teach
besides agriculture respect for law.
Whatever the law is it should be respect
ed and observed, and if it is a poor law
it should be repealed. Some say we have
laws enough and some say we have too
much law.
"The great beauty Of living is to enjoy
our surroundings. A Vermonter should
be LOYAL to the state that raises men and
women, the best butter, the best horses
and the best maple sugar in the world"
George w. Pierce of Brattleboro, the
present master of the State Grange,
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WHEELOCK.

Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Williams Of
Turner's Falls. Mass. visited his aunt,
Mrs. E. J. Dana, last week.
Mrs. Thompson and daughter,
Blanche, of Laconia, n H.. visited at F.
|. Sargents last week. Miss Nettie
Lasure of Tunbridge, Mrs. Sargent's
niece, also visited them Sunday.
Gerard Albee of Barton is visiting his
aunt Mrs. |. X. Gray.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Goss were called
to St. Johnsbury last week by the
death of his brothers wife.
Misses Agnes, Daphne, and Nettie
Craig, with their brother, Archie, OF
Cabot. visited their uncle, Arch Craig,
last week.
Mrs. Clark Rowell and daughter
Imogene, of Peacham, are visiting her
uncle, Arch Craig.
Ray Twombley of Melrose, Mass,
visited in town last week.
Frank Goss is spending a few days
in Littleton.
Quite a number from this place at
tended the Parks and Williams reunions
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Drake and Master
Harold, the Misses Florence and julia
Leavett, Mr.. and Mrs. H. J, Mathewson
and sister, Carrie, Mrs. Nancy Mathew
son. Charles Wheeler, wife and two
children. and Mr. and Mrs A. Craig, go
to Willoughby Lake this week for
voca tiOn
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
LUXEMBOURG.

Hon. Frank Plumley of Mortified adj
dressed a large audience here last week,
on Tuesday evening. Rolfe Searles OF
ST Iohnsbury also spoke and the meet
ing was quite an enthusiastic one.
H. NJ. Day and daughters spent last
Sunday with friends in Waterford
Fl. Warren was very i'll the most OF
last week.
Thomas and Balch have sold their
farm known as Sunny Side to Joseph
Mallette of Fitzdale.
Charles Whip and family are soon to
return to Lancaster, their former home
While here they have made many friends
The trees are beginning to take on
their autumn foliage just little
DR.. Palmer has been very Ill since ne
came here. He is now improving and
expects soon to be about.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
EAST BARNET.

Miss Carrie Louise Bonnette and
Mrs. William Evans from Bradford,
Mass, who nave been stopping at the
Chiswick Inn, Littleton, for two weeks,
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. X. b.
Gammell last Tuesday.
Mrs. Albert Flanders from Greenfield,
n. H., and Gladys Aldrich from Ware,
Mass, were guests at {, Dickinson's,
Wednesday,
At the annual meeting of the W. {. T.
U. Thursday the following officers were
elected for the year: Pres. Mrs. Mary
McGill; vice-pres., Mrs Crissie Nelson;
cor. sec, Mrs. Mary McGill; rec. sec,
Mrs. Ella Gilhllan; treas, Mrs. Lizzie
Kendall.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Morse are visiting
their daughter, Mrs. Thomas Mason, at
Oxford.
Mrs. Keaser and son Hamilton returned
home to Somerville, Mass, Monday,
and her sister Carrie Louise Bonuette,
accompanied them as far as Concord,
where she will stop few days with her
sister, Barbara, who IS in the sanitarium
there.
Miles and Marjorie Nelson visited their
aunts, Mrs. {. O. Gill and Laura Nelson,
at Hartland, last week.
There will be communion services in
the chapel next Sunday afternoon.
Mrs Henry Wilson from st. Johnsbury
visited at B. NJ Browns last Friday.
Eva Batchelder and Mae Gillian 20
to Lancaster, Mass, to teach in the
Industrial school this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Gilhllan visited
friends in Danville last week.
Z. G. Farnsworth went to Rye Beach
last week to a Locke reunion.
School commenced Monday with Miss
Ranney from Kirby teacher.
George Fulford from Minneapolis is
visiting his brother, Edwin Fulford,
Old Home Week Reunion.
The reunion at the Joe's Brook school
house, Aug. 20, was attended by about
300 and all report very fine time. A
quartet from Barnet furnished singing
and Bessie Wright and Sylvia Laird from
Passumpsic sang. The school children
sang one song. There were several
speakers Milo Gibson spoke on his trip
to Switzerland last year, which was
very interesting and Harvey burbank
spoke on the schools, which ought to
interest everyone. Mrs. Lucy Ann
(Carlton) Richardson of Lisbon and
other old school-teachers told of their
experience there in the long ago. A col
lection was taken and enough money
was raised to have another reunion next
year. Martin Gibson was elected pres
ident, George Warden vice president, and
Anna Warden secretary and treasurer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
LYND0NvILLE.
A Brakeman Fatally Hurt.

Byron T. Stearns. brakeman in the
switching gang at the railroad Yards,
was run over by freight car yesterday
morning and is now at Brightlook
Hospital in a critical condition. A car
was switched onto track No. s and
another one upon track No. I. A third
car was snunted into the eighth track
and the engine backed onto the seventh
track to pick up a car which had been
left on that track. The first attempt to
connect the cars was unsuccessful, but
after another trial the connection was
made. Mr.. Stearns, who did the coup
ling, stepped pack upon the eighth
track directly in front of a moving car
and was knocked down and then run
over by one pair of trucks. DR.. J, NJ.
Copeland accompanied the unfortunate
young man to Brightlook Hospital in
St. Iohnsbury, taking him down on the
mail train. Mr.. Stearns is married and
about 40 years old.
Mr.. Stearns died at Brightlook Hos
pital at 7 o'clock last evening.
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SUTTON.

Mr. and Mrs. o. w. Taylor, who have
Deen at H. A. Blake's, returned to their
nome at Peacham last Saturday.
Miss Sadie E. Blake went to her school
at Lyndon Academy. Monday. She
boards at Dr. w. c. Blake's
Miss Fanny D. Hastings went to her
school at Barre, Tuesday. the school com.
mencing Wednesday,.
The ordinance of baptism is to he
administered next Sunday morning at
ten oclock at the same place where it
was the last time, after which the usual
services are to be held at the church.
The regular monthly conference of the
Free baptist church is to be next Thurs.
day. Sept. 3, at two O'Clock. As it is the
annual meeting and officers to be chosen
ior the next year full attendance of the
church is requested
Mrs. Van Clief and her daughter and
her daughters husband, who have been
at J ames Hotham's for some weeks,
have returned to their home in New
York city.
The new bridge at the Hollow is COM
pleted and now ready for and open to
travel. 1t is a very substantial bridge.
two good stone abutments and entire
new wood work for the bridge.
The road commissioner has completed
MS work constructing permanent or
state road and it has been inspected and
accepted by the state officers as a good
piece of state road.
Ernest Miles lost a horse by its leo
being broken in the road near the tool,
house recently.
Only little more than thirty DAYS left
tor taxpayers to pay taxes to the town
treasurer and secure a discount of +
per cent
Miss Kate Beckwith is in poor health
and her recovery is not looked for.
Miss Nina Clark is more comfortable
than she was last week.
Rev. J. 7. Glow held services at the
Curtis schoolhouse on the North Ridge
last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Ellen Garfield is on the sick list.
Riley H. Butterheld is entertaining
friends from Boston.
Mrs. Hiram Nichols from Lyndon Cen
ter visited her cousins, Mrs NJ. A. Taft
and Mrs. Mary Morgan, the past week.
Mrs. William F. Rugges Polly HalD,
who went TO North Topeka, Kansas,
more than 80 years ago, has returned
to Vermont to live. All are pleased to
see and greet her again. She has many
friends that remember her at her home
on the South Ridge in town.
H. A. Burnham and Miss Madgc E.
Burnham very pleasantly entertained
several of their friends last SATURDAY.
evening at their home. Games were
played after which dainty refreshments
of cake, ice cream and waters were served
Mrs. Ida Barr, Miss Mary Patch and
Miss Florence Houghton who have beer
visiting at O. E. Bundy's and G. r
Clark's, have returned to their home il
| Cabot.
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followed with an interesting address
along the same lines as Gov. Bell. He
spoke first OF the remarkable growth of
the order and then touched upon the
social features. He said the Grange had
introduced manual training and element
airy agriculture into the curriculum of
the Vermont schools. As a member of
the special tax commission which has
Just made its report to Gov. Proctor, he
spoke somewhat at length upon the sub
iect of taxation, urging every Granger to
study and discuss this important subject.
He said he was proud to be member of
the minority upon that commission and
continually repeated, for emphasis, the
statement in that report that 90 per
cent of the intangible property of the
state money, bonds, etc, was escaping
taxation. He said that meant that the
farmers are paying more than their share
of the taxes.
The Grange has done great things
along educational lines, but ms work is
just commenced. You are part of the
one million members in the United States
of this great order. Through the in
iuence OF this order you are now enjoy
ing rural free delivery. BY and by you
will have a parcels post and the postal
savings system AS a fraternal order
the Patrons Of Husbandry stand in the
front ranks of progression"
Hon. \. J. Batchelder OF Concord, n.
H., National Master Of the Patrons of
Husbandry and ex-governor of New
Hampshire, was the last speaker and
was Enthusiastically received. He inter
spersed his address with several good
stories and gave an excellent resume of
what the order has accomplished and
whatit proposes to do in the near future.
Agriculture, he said. was the greatest
industry in the country and employs the
most people. 1T is the greatest because
it is solely a productive interest, and it
is the basis of all prosperity. This is
an age of organization; capital is organ
lied; labor is organized, and it is highly
proper that the farmer should organize.
Our order is now organized in 80 states,
has held 10O0 900 meetings through the
year and in its million members has over
40, 900 young men"
Gov. Batchelder then took up the legis-
lative work of the order "a committee
VI luICS Has III It's Sudl SC TIC WI N Vi
urging upon Congress the measures
which we believe will prove of the great
est benefit to the order As you have al
ready been told the Grange secured rural
free delivery all over the United States.
1t also secured the removal of the tax
upon denatured alcohol which will great
" benefit the farmers The order has
great influence in the halls of Congress
and there are four great measures which
we are now urging before Congress, the
parcels post system, the postal savings
bank, federal appropriations for high
ways, the election of senator's by the
people The speaker then spoke briefly
upon these four topics, urging those pres
ent to keep fully informed upon these
and all other public questions. Inclosing
Coy. Batchelder said that no agency ex-
cept the church and the school was doing
more for the country than the Grange.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
EAST HARDWICK.

.a.. e-aa Tuesday with the same
a, ~.>> Susie Currier went to Barre,
~.a.. teach the coming year.
w., ...'- rg Dlds, who has been visiting
..,' -urrier returned to her home
~'..".. Friday.
Mrs .9a stevens, who has been Wis
Ia~ f.. Walden for several weeks, has
'wu. me.
Miss ae Albee, who has been visit
"- B" .1sviIle, has returned home.
Mrs t Dexter spent Sunday at her
1'' lynn returned home from
''e,', Bend last week.
1'.,' Day who has been spending
~. with her parents, has re-
'''4. Ir Weeks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
NEWARK.

DR.. G. T. Johnson of Concord visited his
uncle, D. F. Johnson, Tuesday.
Mrs. E. c. Saunders, who has been
visiting friends in town, returned to
Roxbury, Mass. Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. O. Cheney of West
Burke have been camping in their sugar
place on Kenney Hill, and putting in
their sugar wood, preparing to sugar
the coming spring.
Mrs. Y. E. Bruce and children, who
have been stopping with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. D. Fairbanks, return to
their home in Lowell, Mass, this week
Leonard Burns has bought the farm
known as the Joe Cole place and will
move there soon.
Mrs. NJ. W. Ball began her second
term of school in the Marshall district
in Burke, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. c. H. Newman and two
daughters visited at G. E. Moultons,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Newman move
from the George Graves farm this week.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles w. Ball of
Lyndon visited relatives in town, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Davis Of Burke
visited in town, Sunday.
NJ. w. Ball has been doing mason
work in E. E. CIRCUITS cottage at the
lake.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
NOW at all druggists In three Sizes,
Csc. soc and $1.OO per hottie

dri was bound over to the county court
under S+00 bail, bonds being furnished
by ]. Zambelli.
Mrs. James Beaton went to Hanover,
\. H., Wednesday for medical treatment.
She was accompanied by her husband
and Mrs. A. T. Gay. Her daughters
Margaret and Annie spent Sunday with
her. Her condition has been reported
very serious, but is somewhat improved
at this writing.
Mrs. W. ). Wallace and her niece, Miss
Dorothy Dortch went Wednesday to
New York, called there by the illness OF
Mrs. II. ]. Dean, who is rapidly recover
ing from an operation for appendicitis.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
Passed Examination SUCCESSFULLY.

James Donahue. New Britain Conn,
writes; Il tried several kidney remedies,
and was treated by our best physicians
for diabetes, but did not improve until |
took Foley's Kidney Remedy After the
second bottle | showed improvement,
and FIVE bottles cured me completely. |
have since passed a rigid examination
for life insurance Foley's Kidney Rem
edy cures backache and all forms of kid
ney aud bladder trouble. w. B. Eastman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
NORTH DANVILLE.

The Misses Nellie and Sadie Colby of
Danville were at L. {. Stantons over
Sunday.
Eben Hill of Iowa is visiting at L. c.
and !. 3 Stantons and other relatives
about here. He was formerly OF this
place.
A Stanton-Hill reunion was held at the
home of L. {. Stanton, Thursday, Aug.
81, when over 80 relatives gathered and
had a good social time. Refreshments
were served.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
Will Interest MANY.

Every person should know that good
health is impossible if the kidneys are de
ranged Foley's Kidney Remedy will
cure kidney and bladder disease in every
form, and will build up and strengthen
these organs so they will perform their
functions properly No danger of
Brights disease or diabetes if Foley's
Kidney Remedy is taken in time. w. B.
Eastman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
when rrifles become troubles.

If any person suspects that their kid
neys are deranged they should take
Foley's Kidney Remedy at once and not
risk having Brights disease or diabetes.
Delay gives the disease a stronger foot
hold and you should not delay taking
Folev's Kidney Remedy. w. B. Eastman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
The Republican Rally.
ouick Rellef for Asthma sufferers.

Foley's Honey and Tar affords i'm
mediate relief to asthma sufferers in the
worst stages and if taken in time will
effect a cure. W. B. Eastman
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
PEACHAM.

There will be reception in Academy
Hall Friday evening, Sept. r, for Mrs.
Miriam E. Varnuum, to which all who
have ever been her pupils are cordially
invited.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02

Millions of bottles Of Foley's Honey
and Tar have been sold without any per
son ever having experienced any other
than beneficial results from its use for
coughs, colds and lung trouble. This is
because the genuine Foley's Honey and
Tar in the yellow package contains no
opiates or other harmful drugs Guard
your health by refusing any but the
genuine. W. b. Eastman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02

Foley's Orino Laxative is new rem
edy, an improvement on the laXatives o
former years, as it does not grippe or
nauseate and is pleasant to take. 1t is
guaranteed. w. b. Eastman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02

To sell out to their trade for Can
ming and eating. These peaches
are from their own orchards in
Cheshire. Conn.,. two days from
trees in orchard, which assures
the freshest and incest peaches
ever offered in st. JOhnSbury. Car
will be In town Monday only.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
EAST CONCORD.

NS%NS~AeOs
Mrs. Flossie Lyon Piper and two
children of Natick, Mass, were guests of
Mrs. Frank Fisher, Saturday and Sun
day
Mrs. Myra Smith of Franklin, N. H.,
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver
Bean, Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Savers have return
ed to their home after spending the past
two weeks with their sister, Mrs. D. c.
Isham
The eighth annual Grant reunion will
| be held at Mrs. Helen Folsom's.
Mrs. Hazel Jones has returned to her
home in Windsor
Mrs. Marian Higgins was called to
| Groveton last week by the critical illness
of her son, Frank Higgins.
Madison Nichols has been making
quite extensive repairs on his house.
Benjamin Briggs is building an addi-
ton to his house and making many other
repairs.
Ira Grant would like to have the
thieves who stole a wagon load of vege-
tables from his garden last week return
them or settle to save further trouble.
Hollis Morrill, is entertaining a young
lady friend from Boston.
Miss Edna Briggs is working for Mrs.
Dick Dodge.
| Mrs. H. E. Smith will entertain the
Ladies Aid society at the church dining
rooms this evening
Mr. and Mrs. Green of St. Johnsbury
were guests of Clarence McKelvey last
week
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rogers took an
automobile ride to the Franconia
Mountains, Sunday.
Miss Pearl Grant returned to her
school in Mystic, Conn. September /.
Her mother, Mrs. Ira Grant. accom-
panied her as far as St. Johnsbury.
Miss Nellie Sayers died at her home
August 30, aged p years.
Mrs. Irwin Smith recently entertained
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Fellows, Of Lunenburg
Mrs. Henry Graham is in very poor
health
/ Miss Isabel and Raymond Briggs
visited their mother in St. Johnsbury
/ last week.
Charley Damon recently spent several
days with his family.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bean took a
carriage drive to Stark, ~ H., last week
and visited Mrs. Beams sister, Mrs.
Frank Smith.
Schools commenced last Monday with
Mrs Alice Smith as teacher in the
grammar room and Miss Rosella
Thomas in the primary. Miss Myrtle
Spaulding will teach in the Kellogg
district; Miss Mabel Wilson at Fitzdale,
and Miss Katie Fisher at the -Four
Corners.
The Republican Rally.
A large and enthusiastic audience filled
Music hall to overlooking Saturday
evening to participate in the republican
rally On the platform were seated the
speakers of the evening; Role Searles OF
St. Iohnsbury and X. 7. Brown OF
Lunenburg; four veterans ofthe Civil war,
Ira Grant, D. NJ. Smith, S. H. Kellogg
II. H. Cutting, and the excellent drum
corps, which is known to be one of the
best in Vermont. The speakers were
introduced by D. NJ Smith and both did
much credit to themselves as we'll as to
the republican party and held the
audience with unusual interest by their
witty and well-timed addresses.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-02
Peaches

The BOyntOn Fruit Co.. will have
a Car of the incest peaches ever
to St. JOhnSbury.
The Newtown bee., 1908-04-24
Woodbury.

NEWS SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
 Mir and Mrs Jesse Judson spent Fast Day with Mrs c. J. Minor.
 Miss Edith Allen spent few days at A. w. Mitchell's, last week.
 George Swan and his sister of Flor ida will arrive soon and occupy the rent next to J. D. Kimball's furniture store.
 Work is being rapidly pushed on j.. D. Kimball's furniture store, recently destroyed by fire. and it will be a much improved and modern store.
 All our college boys were home for Easter.
 A large display of beautiful plants in each church on Easter morning.
 Fast Day was obsrved by a union meeting in the Methodist church, the pastor of that church preaching the sermon.
 Miss Eva Allen, Hotehkissville's teacher, is spending her vacation Tn Washington, D. C.