St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-01-20
VERMONT NEWS
Presidential Electors Meet.

Presidential Electors Meet.
The presidential electors met in Mont
heller Ian. ii organized and cast four
votes for William H. Taft for president
and four votes for James S. Sherman,
vice president. The electors were Frank
E. Howe of Bennington, Willard B.
Howe of Burlington, Herbert d. Ryder
of Rockingham and Frank 6. Butterneld
of Derby. Mr.. Butter6eld was elected
president of the college and W. B. Howe
secretary. Frank E. Howe was designat-
ed messenger to carry the vote to Wash
ington, where he will meet with the
electoral college on January 25. Herbert
D. Ryder was designated messenger to
carry the vote to Judge James l.. Martin,
United States district judge, at Brattle-
boro. Mr.. Butterfeld was elected to
carry to the postmaster at Montpelier
the vote which will be sent by mail to
Washington. 1t is expected that other
electors besides Mr.. Howe will go to
Washington to attend the meeting of the
electoral college. The vote for presi-
Dental electors stood as follows: Re-
publican, 1852; Democratic. 11,496;
Prohibition, 799; Independent, 804. A
copy of the Vermont vote Was lodged
with the electors by the secretary of
state.
Tunbridge Town Hall.
Four hundred people, nearly half the
population of the town of Tunbridge,
gathered Ian. IA to assist in dedicating
its new $4,000 town building, in which
all are taking great pride. Tunbridge is
located in Orange county, FIVE miles from
the railroad, and is principally known
from the fact that for the past rs years
or more an old fashioned county fair,
known as the Worlds fair" is held
there annually.
The new modern town building is the
result of vote of the town at the last
March meeting, when the selectmen
were named as committee to remodel
the town building. The structure occu-
pies land that for the past half century
has been used for town purposes. The
building is 40 by 80 feet. one story and
basement. The building stands in the
center of the town, near the church. 1t
is 6nishedin hard pine, has modern seats,
a stage and balcony. Later the stage
will be set with scenery. Rooms are
provided for the selectmen, clerk and all
town officers. The hall will accommo-
date 600 persons. 1t will be rented for
general purposes. The basement can be
used for suppers.
Presented to Y. M. C. A. Secretary.
A candlestick, the antiquity of which
is apparent, was fished up from the bot
tom of Lake Champlain at Burlington
recently by two young men. They had
dropped their lines off the dock and were
expecting good catch. The water at
this point is about 40 feet deep and
while there appeared to be plenty OF tish,
they wouldn't bite. Finally one OF the
fishermen hauled up something on the
end of his line that proved to be candle
stick. 1t was heavily encrusted with
rust and until this was removed it was
hard to tell what the article was. The
candlestck, which is of silver, was pre-
sented to Byron N. Clark, secretary OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. who probably has the
best collection of them in the city. Ihis
particular one is thought to be fully $50
years old. 1t is about foot high and
bears all the marks of an early period.
YIN. C. A. Statistics.
Vermont has associations in four OF its
eight cities; one industrial point. one
railway association, six student asso-
Citations, two organized counties doing
business, with third county marking
time" hit by hard times and no secre-
tary available. There are 100 live cor
respondents in small country towns, 10
employed officers and 2.400 members.
Advances are found in the complete or
ganization of Addison county; the open
ing up for splendid business in fine re-
modelled building at St. Johnsbury after
two-years' shut down. Windsor county
conducted the largest up-to-date county
athletic meet and did a great stunt in
having three public service tents at the
state fair. Vermont is raising $500 to-
ward the three buildings in Ceylon.
Attempted Suicide at Mortified.
Charles Nd. Buzzell of Mortified at
tempted suicide Jan. 13. He told his
wife that he was going to go down and
fix the fires, and few moments later
two shots were heard. Buzzell had hired
two shots from a shotgun into his
breast. But little hope of his recovery Is