St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26
VERMONT NEWS
Anricnltural Reports.

-,,erally speaking, Vermont farmers are
glauare Of the value of their standing
Nv Isber White pine is the most valuable
W. General planting on account of its
Ul Ia as lumber and its rapidity of
',.+b Few farms do not have some
s. o.tr land in shape of gulleys, banks,
va "" This land, now useless, should be
soisnted with white pine, Norway spruce,
Eiack locust or other quick growers and
o 'ads IN Weld revenue. The state should
.l'olor an expert forester and purchase
.PPii blocks OF timber and waste land in
,1,'' state to teach farmers by practical
.rample what to do.
A. Ell report of the dairy associations
.,.stinq is given compiled by F. l.. Davis,
.o,rctary. The Grange says President
n n. Morse is exerting d powerful effort
,brongh the country. When the $4,000
-ranoers in Vermont are reinforced with
IN The farmers within her boundaries,
,rbo now withhold their support from it,
.bs Grange can carry forth any question,
accomplish any work.
Prof Hills OF Burlington has interest
mo data on COW testing associations,
w6icb are. in reality, voluntary organ
,,s+ions among neighbors to secure CO.
lucrative effort to detect Improbable
c6ws in the herds, These unions either
hire one man to do the work or each
does it himself and are of individual as
sjstance to the farmers.
The present status of San Jose scale
ofestatlon in Vermont is somewhat
better than a year ago. Professional
snrayers have thoroughly sprayed many
treesin the fall after theleaves had fallen.
In this way it is thought that practical
" all old scales would be eradicated from
young trees.
A Strange Coincidence.
One Of the many odd circumstances
that are revealed from time to time oc-
cured at the camp ground in New Haven
a few DAYS ago. Seven years ago Miss
Edith NJ Balch of Burlington, superin-
tendent of the home department of the
Vermont Sunday school Association,
lost A small gold cross on the camp
grounds when she was attending the
meeting. She was present again last
week for the first time since, and was
very much surprised at one OF the
sessions when the presiding officer an
nounced that a gold cross had been
found that morning on the. grounds.
The cross was pinned against the black
coat of the chairman and from her seat
in the audience, Miss Balch recognized it
as hers. The cross was picked up in the
bath leading to the chapel, and had been
passed and repassed by hundreds of peo-
pie each year since it was lost.
StOrk and Burglar.
By an odd coincidence the stork and a
burglar paid visits at the home of p. J..
Keane in Bellows Falls, August 10,
and now gossips are asking ii
the burglar trust is using the
stork for decoy to cover the acts OF
the members Mr.. Keane is a local
grocer. and in his stock keeps a line of
cigars pipes and tobacco, and it was
this part the burglar found most interest
in after he had appropriated between Sc
and ST in change. The stork brought a
Big, hue bouncing boy, and its visit
was so eminently satisfactory to all
members of the keane family that Mr..
heane hunted out some of the best
cigars the burglar left, passed them
around to his friends, lighted up good
one himself and smiling through the
rings of smoke at his friends who
wanted to console him on the loss by the
burglar he declared he was winner in
the net result
Kfdnapping at ST Adams
The sheriff department at St. Adams
isWorkug ON one of the most mystty
ing cases it has ever handled and up tC
this hour no clue has been obtained OF
possible theory advanced.
Wednesday evening, Aaron Britch, IA
years old, was sitting on the steps OF the
home of B. H. Shangraw, with whom he
resided when man walking by asked
him to come for a walk The man Their
seized the boy, took him into a buggy
nearby and drove rapidly to Green:
corners. Here the boy was tied hanc
and foot and left on the railroad station
PLATFORM Early next morning he at
tracted the attention of X. A. Regain
who released him. 1t was at first
thought that the story was made up by
the boy to account for his absence over
night, but Regain asserts that he tounC
the boy tied The boys father is living
but the lad had not seen him for eigh
years and would not know him.
Bsy Drowned while wading in River.
Walter, the eight-year- son OF Mr.
and Mrs Edward Hanlon, of Winooski
lr,t 81 t,1t 10
ooSAl river near the Burlington woolei
mills. August IS. Young Hanlon ant
several other boys thought they coult
Cross the river to the Burlington side
the water being so low. Hanlon hat
gained the island in the center OF tn
river but a short distance beyond dis
appeared, His companions becam
alarmed and Immediately started to
heIp and after a search of nearly thre
hours recovered the body in eight feet o
water, the boy evidently having stepped
INTO deep hole, The boy is sur
Nyed by his parents and two sisters.
Canaan Boy Shot.
Carroll Bliss, a Canaan boy abou
l9ycus old, is in a critical condition a
ms home, suffering from bullet woun'
Just below the heart. The wounded bo'
was 3ken to Colebrook, N. H., wher
al ANIMATION with the X-ray wa
made IN order to find where the bulle
was lodged. 1t was discovered in tn
PACK and an operation to remove 1T wa
performed. Carroll Bliss is the son @
David Bliss who lives on the road be
tween Canaan and Colebrook.
According to current reports tn
shooting occurred in a curious manner
Young Bliss last week Tuesday evenlnl