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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Money for State Highways.

State Treasurer Deavitt has prepared
the apportionment highway money the
towns will receive to build good roads.
This will be sos, 45S. % against $780,
O71.ol last year The total number of
miles according to the statement filed by
the secretary of state in the state is 49,
OPS a gain of 16 miles, and the money
will be distributed at the rate OF STOP a
mile, an increase from Sc 81 a mile last
year. The increase is due to larger
grand list the tax being 5 per cent on
the total grand list, apportioned on the
mileage. Under this rule the big towns
pay in the heaviest share.
Montpelier has 55 miles of road and
pays in $2,934.65 and receives back
$3S5.96; Burlington pays 81, 649.1O and
receives back 1892. SO on Sc miles; Barre
pays in $2,502.92 and receives $2SO.7O
on 40 miles; Rutland, 81, 40O.1S and re-
ceives back $336.S4 on 48 miles.
The town of Danville has the largest
mileage in the state, 1876 miles and paws
in 1882 81 and receives in return $947. :
36. The town of Hartford comes next
with 125 miles, receives $877.1S and
pays $15359S.
The village of Lyndon Center has the
smallest mileage having only one mile OF
road and receives STOP.
According to the statement prepared
by the treasurer the unexpended balance
from last year was $24S.81; state high
way tax SOL ,20621; amount due last
year and paid this year $156.23 auto
mobile ICES, $3,846.98; a total of S1O5.-
45S23
This is the last apportionment to in
clude the automobile fees, since under the
new law they will 60 to the special high.
way fund to be apportioned by counties
and the money so raised expended in the
sections from which they come.
Windsor county has the largest mile.
age, 1908; Windham comes next with
1868; Orange, 1923; Rutland, 1873;
Washington, 1909; Grand Isle has the
smallest ITO.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
PRESS COMMENT.
The Coming Fourth.

1t is a short time to the Fourth oil
July, yet not too short to permit some
consideration as to how the day shall
/ be observed.
There is no question that throughout
the greater part of the country, all day
long, there will be uproar and powder
smoke; nevertheless there will be places
where moderation and sanity will make
a noticeable impression; for the feeling is
growing that the ordinary way of cele-
brating the greatest of our national holt
days is unworthy of the country and the
times.
The amount of money spent for fire.
works every Fourth Of July is from ten
to fifteen million dollars. How many
sick children or suffering mothers would
that send into the country for a week?
How many sick children and suffering
mothers does the din make worse?
The number of deaths in the United
States from the use of fireworks last
year was one hundred and sixtv-three,
and the number of injured more than
FIVE thousand. Ninety three persons lost
the use Of one eye, and eleven were
rendered totally blind. The record was
nothing unusual. Every Fourth of July
exacts similar tribute.
There are one or two other things
worth thinking about. To the cost Of
the fireworks and the deaths and injuries
resulting from their use must be added
the expense of Fourth of July fires. The
national fire loss is about twenty times
that of Great Britain. For the last five
years it was more than billion and |
quarter dollars. 1t is not possible to |
say what part of it is due to the celebra-
ton of the Fourth, but fireworks swell
The total considerably.
The noisy, smoky, dangerous celebra-
ion is, moreover, wholly in the interests
If persons too young to vote. Is it not
lime for second Declaration of Inde-
for the elders?-[Youth's Com
,aniOn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Senator Page for Free Hides.

Our junior Vermont Senator was right
at home when the Solons at Washing
ton reached the hide schedule last week
and the Washington correspondents
highly praise his maiden effort. During
all the tedious debates Senator Page has
been keenly interested, and has several
times enlightened the older Senators
upon some technicalitiesin the schedules.
The Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican pays the Vermont
Senator high complmentin the follow
ing report of his part in Wednesdays
debate:
The best and most Illuminating speech
of the day was that of Senator Page OF
Vermont, who advocated free hides. 1t
was in effect the Senator maiden speech
and was contribution Of real know
ledge and attentively listened to, as Mr..
Page was recognized as a practical bus
mess man who had made fortune in
the raw calfskin business. The Senator
has a simple manner and he talked linn
pidly as stream and, being full of his
subject, was never at hesitation for a
word or hating in the marshaling of his
facts. At times he was so earnest that
he unconsciously contributed humor, as
when in describing the hide business and
how prices were regulated in auction
marts the Senator pictured in detail the
cries of the auctioneer, so that for few
minutes the Senate seemed in an auction
mart itself, and Senators smiled.
The Senator showed how the packing
interests step by step, had gained CON
troll of the hides market in New England.
Give the leather man fair show, give
him free hides, and he will beat the
world, asserted Mr.. Page.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

vision beauties Of landscape that cannot
be surpassed.
Friend, there is more to golf than you
think. More than just yelling tore
and knocking the ball from hole to hole
in the least possible number OF strokes.
1t has in it the possibilities of health and
happiness. To be happy, that's what
you want, it's what we all want, that
and health. Make it point to lay aside
your business cares and petty household
worries for few hours each week this
summer; set a date with a friend for a
game Of golf; lose yourself in the pure en-
joyment Of being out Of doors, not in an
aimless walk up one side Of the street and
down another-the most tiresome thing
IN the world-but following the ball over
the beautiful stretches of the Old Pine
Golf Club links. In the demands of the
game upon your thought and attention
and in the pleasant companionship OF
corgenial opponent the care and worries
will be forgotten, smiles will take pre-
cedence over frowns, sunshine and glad
ness the place of the fog in your brain
and before you realize it you are happy.
Golfitis will have driven out neuritis and
all other things that end in tits" and
you will be stronger for another days
work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Eczema Lodges in the Skin.
Not Blood Disease-Cured by Oil of Winter
green Compound.

For many years eczema was supposed
to be blood disease and was erroneous
ly treated as such, but now the best au-
thorlties agree that eczema is only a skin
disease and must be cured through the
skin. The eminent skin specialist, DR.. D.
D. Dennis, first discovered the eczema
germ and his discovery was quickly
taken up in both Germany and France.
TO kill the eczema germ and at the
same time heal the skin, Dr. Dennis COM
pounded oil Of wintergreen, thymol, gly-
cerlne, etc: The remedy is liquid, not
a mere salve, hence it sinks right into
the pores of the skin. Washing with
this oil of wintergreen compound seems
to take the itch away at once; soon the
scales drop away and the disease dis
appears. {. c. Bingham, St. Johnsbury,
and Q. B. Cutting & Son, Concord, VT,
endorse D, D. D. Prescription. The pre-
scription has now been used so long as
to have proven its absolute merit and
we do not hesitate to express our conf
denee in D. D; D. Prescription as used
with D. D. D. Soap.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Probate of Will.
ESTATE OF MARY II. RANNEY.

Eo1 "A Il Or MANY ii. RANNEY,
STATE OF VERMONT, District of Caledonia SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the dis
trict of Caledonia; To all persons interested
in the estate of Mary H. Ranney, late of
St. Johnsbury, in said district deceased,
greeting:
At Probate Court, holden at St. Johns
bury within and for Said district on the 21st
day of June, A. D. 1909, an instrument
purporting to be the last will and testament of
Mary H. Ranney, late of St. Johnsburv
in said district. deceased, was presented to
the Court aforesaid, for Probate
And it is ordered by said Court that the
10th day fully, A. D. 1909, at the Probate
Office in said St. Johnsbury, be assigned for
proving said instrument; and that notice
thereof be given to all persons concerned, by
publishing this order three weeks successfully
in the Caledonian, newspaper circulating
IN that vicinity, in said District, previous to
the time appointed,
Therefore, you are hereby notified to ap-
pear before said Court at the time and place
aforesaid, and contest the probate of said
will, if you have cause.
Given under my hand at ST. Johnsburv in
sald district, this 21st day OF June, A. d,
1909
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

A party from the west that recently
registered at the Avenue House at go
p. M, were delighted at the hospitality
of the host who willingly gave them
hot dinner an hour after the dining room
had been closed. This is in refreshing
contrast to the lack of hospitality at the
Pavilion in Montpelier a short time ago
when the night clerk refused to get any
thing for an automobile party that left
the hotel at O'Clock Sunday morning
and did not get their breakfast until they
reached St. Johnsbury nearly four hours
later. And the party included two OF
Vermonts most distinguished citizens
and they only asked for fruit or crackers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
In Return for Faithfulness,

The attitude of the Episcopal clergy
men in Vermont on the woman question
is little puzzling. At the diocesan con-
vention in St. Adams last week the
rector in Woodstock offered a resolution
to the effect that a committee of FIVE
two priests and three laymen, be appoint.
ed to consider the matter of permitting
women to vote at parish meetings, and
report at the nextconvention. The reso-
luton was voted down 81 to 10. 1t is
presumed that lay delegates also voted,
but it is quite probable that it was the
votes Of the clergymen which defeated
the resolution. The consideration of a
subject like this might prove education
al. 1t would certainly be harmless as
the main question would be passed on at
the next convention. Why the conven-
ton was unwilling to have the question
discussed even by a committee is beyond
the lay conception. Women furnish a
liberal share in the financial support OF
Episcopal churches in Vermont. and in
most places constitute about nine tenths
OF the attendants at services. In return
for their faithfulness they are denied any
voice in church management Bellows
Falls Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
W. T. Grenfell, Doctor of Laws.

In granting the Ii. D. degree to Dr.
Grenfell at the Williams College com.
nencement Wednesday a notable and
deserved tribute was paid him when
Prot. Rice presented him to President
Garfield in the following words:
Doctor Of laws, Wilfred Thomson
Grenfell. Student at Oxford university,
qualified as a surgeon in the Royal col
lege Of physicians and surgeons, London,
1889; honorary doctor of medicine,
Oxford 1907 the only instance of the
granting of this degree by Oxford. Why
this honor, this singular exception? Is
he so great surgeon? The answer is a
matter of vision-not for hearing. We're
there any need to recount the story of
his career since the moment of his con-
nection with the royal national mission
to deep-sea fishermen, it were better
done by living witnesses in this house,
young Williams men, who can testify to
what their eyes have seen. That career
which we trust has not yet reached its
climax is not a sacrifice of self on the
altar of duty; it is not unique in the en-
durance Of hardship as we in the midst
Of comfort may court hardship. If sue
cess be the end of human endeavor he has |
reached it. Whatever there may be to |
furnish standard for our estimate Of |
MS achievement, it lies with none of these
things. Not his alone the glory of ser
vice; not his alone the satisfaction of |
such ministry as on sea and shore visibly |
'epeats that of the Master of Life-His |
he supreme glory of creation; the crea-
ion of society, a civilization, a citizen
hip whose test is the manhood revealed
n Jesus Christ our Lord.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
"FOre."

The membership committee OF the Old
Pine Golf Club have issued a circular
which for originality and breeziness can
not be excelled. All enthusiasts OF the
game will endorse its sentiments and the
following extracts will show genera
character and are, at the same time, a
splendid reason for the popularity of the
game:
Golf! It's the thing to do this year.
It's the administration game" From
President Taft down, through the
various grade of official life. all are golf
ing. Our national capital is golf mad
and the fever is spreading. And think of
the heat and the long ride to the links
and the sameness Of the level courses
down there! And in our village from
two to FIVE minutes walk will take you
up to the Old Pine Golf Club. Here, on
your way around the most picturesque
golf links in New England, you can rest
under shade trees at any one of half
dozen points that will bring to your
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Tercentenary Notes.

The programs for the Champaign Sun
day service have all been sent out from
the CALIFORNIAN Office and over 10000
have been printed for the various church
es in the state. In ST. Johnsbury, Mid
dlebury, Springfield and many smaller
towns they will be used at union SER
vices. The First Regiment will use the
services in camp next Sunday and one
Chicago party has sent for half a dozen
copies to use in his summer camp as the
family are coming all the way to Yer
mont for the week.
The Navy department will be repre-
sented on the lake through the week by
the torpedo boat Manley and the revenue
cutters, Plattsburg and Burlington.
The boats are trim little craft and
were given royal welcome when they
passed Whitehall. Monday.
The Tercentenary Commission are ex-
pending nearly $4,000; $4,000 to pro-
duce the Indian pageants on the lake and
they will be one of the greatieatures OF
great week. These can be best seen from
the big grand stand which has just been
erected at Burlington, though it will
also be reproduced at Isle La Motto.
Besides the battle of the Indians and the
reproduction OF the drama of "Hiawa-
tina" there will beexciting aquatic sports
consisting of motor boat races, ETC., and
on several evenings OF the week grand
display of fireworks.
Burlington expects that all corners can
be housed and fed and great preparations
have been made along this line. Exper- |
fenced caterers from big beach resorts
will have large tents where as many as
500 people may eat at one sitting. The
price for meals under this sort OF conces-
sion is fixed by the city committee, and
prices will not be tolerated.
A large number of cots will be used in
all public buildings, suitable for the pur.
pose OF such dodgers as desire them.
they may be reserved in advance by adj
lressing c. E. Allen, Burlington, Vt,
The price for cot sleeping accommoda-
ion is fixed at S1.00 per night.
<AAiObSs LIZ oIIl c(llODs SCNulCQ " Su-
ertain visitors at the Tercentenary cele-
'ration at Burlington, July to 10, and
me that has been the feature wherever
is Colonel Francis Feraris
rained wild animal arena and exposi-
ion shows consisting OF Feraris trained
Wild animals and 16 other shows and
ttractions. The trained animal shows
onsist of eight different groups of train
d wild animals, bears, lions leopards,
lguars, byhy brids, hyenas, tigers, mon
eys, etc. This is the animal show that
'as the talk of the last four large expos
ions, Jamestown, St. Louis, Buffalo :
nd Omaha.
The large single passenger airship that
to be great feature of Tercentenary
eek in Burlington, has arrived and the
oerator, NJ. Nassr, has been in town
nee Saturday. The airship is cigar
laped, 76 feet long, and is propelled by
powerful motor. Weather conditions
ing favorable. NJ. Nassr directs its
ovements as easily as if it were an
ltomobile on the city steets. 1t is his
tentjon to make its movements a
allure of the events to take place at the
alter front, and the ship will be shown
all of its evolutions directly over the
Ike front, and will even make descent
the water to rest on pontoons.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

Walter H. Crockett of the St. Adams
Messenger staff will be the new editor of
the Montpelier Journal and Frank T.
Parsons, the present business manager
of the Rutland Herald, takes a similar
position on the Journal. Mr.. Crockett
brings to his new post ripe newspaper
experience and will have fine chance to
develop his talents at the Capital city.
With Mr.. Parsons in the business office,
great things may be expected of the
Journal and it is already intimated that
the paper will be changed to morning
daily.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Greetings from Former vermonters

In acknowledging the receipt of invi-
tations to the Tercentenarv celebration
the writer has received many warm
greetings from Vermonters now far from
the Green Mountain state. They all
express their great devotion for the
state and its traditions and the two
replies which follow are especially loyal
though of course the writers did not
send them with any intention of having
them printed.
A Vermonter now residing in Berkeley,
Cal, writes: My heart has kept loyal
to old Vermont during all these forty
years since began my residence in Cal
ifornia, and | am thankful that Vermont
owns half of Lake Champlain and has
right to share with New York the priv
ilege of honoring the great name of
Champlain. the discoverer. Here's to
Vermont, Lake Champlain and its dis
coverer."
A prominent resident of California,
now temporarily residing in Honolulu,
writes: Nothing but the great distance,
combined with certain drawbacks which
come to chap who is playing at the
game of old age, prevent my being
present to assist the other children Of
the Green Mountains and those Free
men of Vermont, the ancestors of whom
were ready in its name to defy all the
world in this anniversary function. l
observe with pleasure that even the New
Workers, our hereditary foes, are to Join
in the festivities so the Ratchet has
evidently been buried. Still it NAV not
be amiss to keep an eve on those fellows
from across the lake lest by restricting
some ancient royal grant, they snatch
a county or two Should such be at
tempted it will be only necessary to
summon anew the freemen with the
slogan:
From Contocooke river to Lutterlock
Ho All to the rescue, vermonters, come
| down.
That old bugle.song, reminding one so
forcibly of the war ditties of Scotland,
still echoes in my ears"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

The largest statue in the world has
just been cast in Italy. 1t represents
Victor Emmanuel, first king of Italy,
mounted on horse. An idea of the size
may be gained from the fact that the
head is seven feet long and weighs 49,
$50 pounds. There is room for 80 men
inside the hollow body of the horse,
This size is without parallel in history.
unless it be that of a wooden horse that
is said to have been used in the siege of
Troy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Honor Is Where Honor Is Due,

Norwich University bestowed honor
where honor is due when it made Gov.
George H. Prouty, ex.Gov. John L. Bar
stow, and State Superintendent of Edu-
cation Mason S. Stone, LII. D., and
Editor Luther B. Johnson, of The Ran
dolph Herald and News, and H. !. Stan
nard, of Barton,'A. Ms. These men are
useful citizens whose Industrious lives
and high purposes are a credit to this
generation of Vermonters.-[St. Adams
Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

The alarming reports sent from
Europe Of the condition of E. H. Harri-
mans health may have some foundation
after all as he is TO consult a great
specialist in Vienna this week. And
what shall it profit man if he gain all
the railroads in the United States and
lose his health.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

The graduating exercises of the ninth
grade of the Bellows Falls schools on
June Is were all appropriate to the ter
centenary of Lake Champlain. All the
speakers had themes relating to the
great discoverer and the history of the
lake, while the official song of the week.
"Champlain. appeared on the program
and was sung during the exercises.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Senator Page on His own Ground,

Senator Carroll S. Page of Vermont
made his maiden speech in the Senate
yesterday. 1t consisted of about two
dozen questions addressed to Senator
Warren of Wyoming on the hide bust
ness. That is where the former Vermont
governor is at home-especially the calf
skin side of it. Springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

And still the Senate, under the leader.
ship of the Rhode Island spokesman Of
the trusts, is revising the tariff upwards
and the public are wondering what party
pledges amount to after election. The
Vermont senators voted for free hides,
but we regret to state they were on the
losing side.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
The Manchester Daily TInion

The Manchester Union goes to press
two hours later than any Boston paper
and therefore gives later news than anv
other morning paper arriving at ST.
Johnsbury. ~
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

These advertising rates have been adopted
by the CALEDoSIAS and will be used until
further notice.
Per inch per week 81. Per month $50.
For three months, 50. For SIX months, So.
One year s..
This paper is entitled 20 place on the
Printers Ink Roll Of Honor.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post Office as
second-class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
TERMS OF TIE cALEpoNIAN.

TERMS OF THE CALIFORNIAN.
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In reading matter type and given the best
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-30
Ut. 9uhn5hurg CALIFORNIAN

WEDNESDAY. JUEE 30. 1909.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
The CALIFORNIAN COMPANY.
ARTHUR F. STONE,
Editor and Publisher.
Pythian Building, St. Johnsbury, Vermont.