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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
LUXEMBOURG.

The 200th anniversary of the Declar-
alton of Independence was observed in
both churches last Sunday morning.
The Congregational church was prettily
decorated with flowers and two ever
green crosses. Rev. Mr.. Towards sub
ject was Memory" the honoring of our
ancestors who did so much for their
country. Some very fine singing was
enjoyed by the audience, with DR..
Breitling at the organ. At the Meth
odist church the decorations were flags,
and services were held appropriate for the
day.
The Mite society will have a lawn
party at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. R.
M. Norwood on Wednesday evening
of this week. Ice cream and cake will be
served.
Miss May Dawson returned to her
home in Danville, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Bell celebrated
his 81st birthday at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Charles Thomas, at Elm
croft, Wednesday, June 80.
The picnic, which was to have been
held Saturday, July 8, was postponed to
Monday, July 5, on account OF rain.
Col. F. D. Hale returned to Charlotte
town, Saturday, to close up his business
at that post before going to his new
post.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Frost of Lyn.
donville visited relatives here part of last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Pierce moved to
their home in the Hollow, Saturday.
Arthur White has gone to his work at
Woodstock for the summer.
The closing exercises of the village
school were held in the upper room o.
the schoolhouse Friday afternoon. A
large number of visitors were present
and greatly enjoyed the Rotations and
singing by the pupils; drill by several
boys was very good; and at the close
| Mrs. Newman, superintendent, presented
diplomas to those who will pass on tc
the high school. Those who attended
enjoyed a pleasant afternoon. The
teachers. Miss Carbee and Miss Fielding
return to their homes for the summer
vacation.
A large NUMBER ATTENDED tne Laules
Aid society al the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Silsby last Wednesday afternoon
A dainty supper was served on the
lawn to 40 people.
Walter Morgan and Miss Cora Grace
Coffin were married at the home of the
bride on Tuesday, June 20. They are
enjoying brief wedding trip and will
have reception at the home of their
parents Friday evening. The groom is
a native of this town and has host o.
friends who wish them many happy
years of married life.
Herbert Balch of st. Johnsbury was
a guest of his brother Karl at Elmcrott
last week.
Mrs. Anna Pearl of st. Johnsbury
visited relatives here last week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
LOWER WATERFORD.

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Frye and children
of Danville visited their father, D. {.
Bonnette, the Fourth.
w. G. Morrison of Sherbrooke spent
Sunday and Monday with his mother,
Mrs. Katherine Morrison.
Several from here attended the cele-
bration at Littleton, Monday.
Rev. ]. E. Heath supplied the pulpit
Sunday very acceptably. The church
took vote to give him call.
Mr.. and Mrs A. F. Carpenter, Mrs
Stone and Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards o.
Somerville, Mass, spent several days
last week at the hotel.
The dance at the hotel hall, Friday
evening, was we'll attended.
Miss Agnes Morrison of St. ,Johnsbury
was a recent guest of Mrs. George A
Ballou.
Mrs. Celia Bailey OF st. Johnsbury
spent Sunday at her fathers, F. W.
Brown.
Miss Katherine Joslin closed very
successful term of school last Friday
The graduating exercises were held in
the church and were largely attended
The names on the honor roll are as
follows: Frank Ross, Gladys Freeman
Mryven Morrison, Florence Goss, Clar'
ence Goss, Howard Goss. Merle Goss
Helen Goss, Mary Hale, Frank and
Arthur Bullock, Raymond Morrison
Charlie Bullock was absent one day
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
HARVEY.

Mr.. and Mrs, James J. McGill and
daughter, Elizabeth May, Of St. Johns
bury, visited at James McGill's the first
of the week.
Mrs. Mary Moore closed successful
term of school here last Thursday.
P. T. McGill of Peacham was at home
over Sunday.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Hatch
gathered at their home last Friday even
ing.
Dean Hale of st. Johnsbury recently
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 0. E.
Hale over Sunday.
John Rice has purchased an automo-
bile.
Berton R., George H., Addie and Alice
FRYE, visited Mrs. 0. c. Paddletord at
McIndoe Falls the first of the week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
Rapid Hedge Trimmer.

Among the numerous time and labor
saving devices for gardeners use the
geared hedge trimmer, invented by a
New York man, is one of the most In
teresting With it a hedge that for
merly required FIVE hours to trim can
be clipped in one hour, or one man
can do the work of five. This appara-
tus consists of long rod with Shout
der piece ut one end and a pair of
shears at the other Along this rod is
a drive wheel connecting with rotary
pinion, which operates the crank con-
trolling the shears The device is held
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
MISS KATHERINE 1. HARRISON.

There are men who would pay kings
ransom to know 1.-THE of what she
knows.
This important parsonage in the
Standard Oil is tall and spare-close
to six feet. Her face is stern, but
comedy. Altogether she is an attrac-
tive type of the American business wo-
man. She dresses well, but severely.
Her favorite office dress is a plain but
short skirt Of dullish blue, white
shirt waist, blue four-in-hand tie and
rundown collar. When she goes out
she wears a short, closely cut jacket
of covert cloth and toque trimmed
with feathers. Her shoes are low cut
and have broad soles.
But first Of all the observer notes
Miss Harrison's eyeglasses. They are
set in a golden bow and have great,
thick lenses When you try to look at
her through these fortresses of glass
you see yourself reflected in tiny rep
lica. On the contrary, they magnify
to you Miss Harrison's steady, in
sistent eyes until they wiring from you
your secret.
Miss Harrison wrote most of Mr..
Rogers letters. She signed many Of
his checks. She never committed her
employer to anything.
Miss Harrison lives with her mother
and two sisters In handsome Queen
Anne house at 1854 Dean street, Brook
Ign. She contributes to the welfare of
the family and has pretty fortune.
And how old is Miss Harrison?
Well, she was Mr. Rogers private sec
rotary for eighteen years. She may be
thirty-fve; she may be more.
Next to Mrs. Hetty Green she ranks
today as probably the most important
business woman in all New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
|WOrnan'sWorld
SHE EARNS $4,000 A YEAR.
Miss Katherine |. Harrison, Private
Secretary to the Late n. n. Rogers.

UfISS NdtHSIluO u 'iatiiSSiJ ''NNeS
Secretary to the Late II. H. Rogers.
Katherine l. Harrison, private secre-
tary to the late H. II. Rogers, is harder
to reach than ]. p. Morgan, James
Stillman, John w. Gates or any other
of the kings of finance. She is the
one woman in the world who knows
everything that goes on in Standard
Oil. For doing what she is required
to do-and not the least Of her duties
is to keep her mouth sealed-she re-
ceives $4,000 year. You might count
on your fingers the women in the Unit
ed States who receive this salary.
What made Katherine l. Harrison so
valuable to H. H. Rogers and his part
ners in the Standard Oil? A hundred
answers could be given to this ques
ton. Other women are as bright, and
other women are possessed Of equal
executive ability. But the best answer
of them all may be summed up in two
WORCESTERSHIRE trustworthiness.
Miss Harrison can keep secret. She
can hold information inviolate that
would make poor man millionaire.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07

Before going down into a well test
the purity of the air by lowering a
lighted candle or lantern. If the light
burns dimly or goes out the poisonous
carbonic acid gas "damps" can be
driven out by igniting a quantity OF
turpentine and sawdust or kerosene
and rags in a kettle and lowering 1t to
the surface of the water, and then
later pour several bucketfuls of water
into the we'll from the top. Test again
with the lantern and note the improve
ment. We want our folks to be on the
safe side.-Farm Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
EAST LYNDON.

Mr.. Smelling of Danville has purchased
the Emily Hill residence.
Henry Lee, who has been working at
Corbin Park, N. H., has returned home.
Mrs. F. E. Gorham of South Newbury
is visiting relatives and friends here.
Miss Amelia Lee has finished her school
in Sheffield and returned home.
Mrs. Eggleston and Miss Maud
Ranney of Lyndon Center visited friends
here and in Kirby last week.
Miss Martin of Harrisburg, Pa, has
closed a very successful term of school
here. 1t is not expected that she will
return to teach the fall term of school as
she plans to complete her course in Bos-
ton University the coming year.
Mrs. Sadie Gamble, who was called to
Boston by the sickness and death OF her
sister, has returned home.
Owing to the inclemency of the
weather the Sunday school picnic was
held in Mrs. Mabel Simpsons barn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
FLOOR PLAN.

making a trip to town. During cold
and rainy weather the time may be
spent in repairing the tools and in
doing the many odd jobs always at
hand on the farm, and the pleasure Of
working wis bright and sharp tools
must not be overlooked.
A structure such as shown should
have doors sixteen feet wide and not
less than ten feet in height. 1t should
be weather proof and have at least
two coats of paint. A good founda-
ton should support the same and a
good floor Of wood or pounded clay be
provided. The building should be put
up In almost any section for So per
running foot and in many sections for
less
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07

Now Is a good time to trim the rasp-
berry and blackberry fields. Not much
fruit can be expected from feeble
canes, and even the best canes will not
give much fruit if they are too close
together. Manure or fertilizer is also
required. Blackberry fields have been
known to give good service for years
without fertilizers, but If the field is
given good cultivation and well sup
piled with plant food the increased
yield and better quality of the fruit
will make some Improbable fields pay
well.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
At DanVilIe.

Fred Morse of Boston is visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Morse.
Mrs. Ellsworth Woodward is quite i'll.
Mrs. Horace Kidder of St. Johnsbury
visited relatives in town recently.
DR.. and Mrs. c. E. Libbey visited
friends in Hardwick last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cass spent several
days in Craftsbury last week with rela-
tives.
The Ladies Aid society of the Congre-
gational church will hold a social at the
church parlors Wednesday afternoon
and evening, July IA.
Mrs. Elizabeth Steele and son Albert
are camping at Joe's Pond.
The last of the schools of Central
Caledonia Supervision Union closed
Friday with the graduation exercises at
Walden. The superintendent attended
a directors meeting at Peacham, Satur-
day. Mr.. Burbank is spending the week
at Coles Pond in Walden and next
Monday he goes to Westmore to attend
the summer school for superintendent.
After that school closes he will be at
Coles Pond until August Is, except
when called away by school work. The
Peacham schools will open the fall term
August %, Barnet, Danville and Water
ford August 80. and Walden September
6. Harold E. VIM of the Pumpkin Hill
school attended the whole year without
an absent mark.
Mrs. ]. F. Schneider and son John and
her mother, Mrs. Kimball, have gone to
South West..Harbor, Mt. Desert Island,
for several weeks and will also visit in
Bangor, Maine, before their return.
The superintendent of the home de.
partment are asked to send in their re-
ports this month to Mrs. Robert Vance
instead of to Mrs. Schneider.
Rev. J. F. Schneider and several men,
bers of the Victor" class are enjoying
an outing this week at Burlington where
they will camp on the grounds of the
First Congregational church and take in
the celebration of Champlain Week.
Mr.. Waterbury of Boston and Mr.. Pit
kin of Hartford, Conn, were guests at
Capt. Stephen Waterman's over the
Fourth
Diamond Chapter, o. E. S., will have a
meeting for practice Monday evening,
July ~, and on Wednesday evening, July
IA, there will be a called meeting for
| work
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
EAST RYEGATE.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Devins and Mr..
|nd Mrs. Bowen and family have gone
? Plattsburg, N. Y, and Mr.: and MIS-
George Shortsleeves and family and Mr..
nd Mrs Brown and Harry have gone TO
burlington to attend the Tercentenary
FEDERATION and to visit relatives.
Mrs. Ramsey is visiting her BROTHER
pm Smith, for few days.
Bertha Crawford of Piermont is visit
|g her uncle, Charles Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlie Hayes went TO
|ulldhall to stay over the Fourth.
Ray Hayes went to Groveton to pitch
pr the North Stratford nine against the
|rovetons.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
Fertilizers For Peaches.

Progressive peach growers in west
ern Michigan find it profitable to use
carload of stockyard manure an acre,
costing about 81 ton, and about 1920
pounds of bone an acre. They also
make use Of clover and other forage
crops to gather nitrogen and increase
the store of humus. Having made
their soil very rich and given it inten-
sive culture, their trees make very
vigorous growth. The bark of trunk
and branches carries that dark. rich col.
or denoting unusual health and vigor.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
KIRBY.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Leach spent sew
eral DAYS in Littleton last week. Miss
Elizabeth Barnett kept house for Mrs
Leach while they were away.
Miss Marguerite and Walker Hovey
from New Haven, Conn, are stopping at
L. ]. Nickerson's.
Mrs. Hannah Houghton and son Roy
visited friends at st. Johnsbury last Sat
urday.
Mrs. G. S. Williams fromSt. Johnsbury
and Miss Helen Williams from Mechan-
icsville, N. Y, are visiting at w. P. Rus
sells.
Schools in town closed Friday for the
summer vacation.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
Tillaoe of thu Peach,

No tree is more sensitive to tillage
than is the peach. Probably more fail
ures in peach growing are due to neg
lect Of tillage than to any other one
cause. The most diverse views are
held by different growers. One good
grower will declare that the orchard
should be titled early in the season, and
his neighbor will maintain that early
tillage will endanger the crop.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
NORTH WALDEN.

School closed Friday with Miss Alice
N. Page as teacher. Those without alb
sent marks were: Edith NJ. Patterson,
Merle NJ. Parker and Wallace j. Allen.
Dorothy A. Domey missed but one-halt
day.
Rev. Mr.. Douglas will exchange next
Sunday with the Methodist minister
from Walden.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
Z arm cr0
Garden
SHELTER FOR MACHINERY.
A Structure Within the Meohanioa

A Structure Within the Mechanical
Possibilities of Any Farmer.
One of the heaviest items of expense
on the modern farm is the cost of ma
chinery. and, strange as it may seem,
this is frequently the most neglected.
In many parts of the country, especial
~ on the poorer farms, one will see all
kinds of farm implements exposed to
the weather. A writer declares that
the farmer now pays the little sum Of
$120,0OO,0OO per year for farm ma
chinery, or about 10 cents per acre.
OF this vast sum 1t has been estimated
at least one-third could be saved If the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
Sea kale.

Sea kale should be in every garden
and would be good money maker for
our commercial growers. Seed sown
in the spring makes plants that will
yield the next year, and a patch han
died like asparagus Is good for many
years to come. 1t actually pushes up
the ground in slabs after the last
freeze in spring. The bleached stalks
are prepared and eaten like asparagus.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
NORTH MONROE.

Mrs. Emily Cross is visiting her sister
in Lyman.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bort, entertained
Mr.. Green and Miss Mae Bort of Rye
gate, and Mr.. Richards of Lyman, last
week.
Nellie Emery is visiting at Ralph Astle's
in Littleton.
There was a good attendance at the
sociable at the vestry Thursday.
Harris Emery has been visiting old
neighbors in town.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07

against the shoulder by means Of a
handle in the middle. Then the drive
wheel is turned, and by means Of the
multiple gearing 1t opens and closes
the shears five times with each revo-
luton, thus making the apparatus a
saver of 80 per cent in either time or
labor. All the operator has to do is to
keep turning the wheel and moving
the shears along the hedgerow where
1t needs clipping.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
WEST BARNET.

Miss Christina Hall of Barnet, a gradu-
ate of Emerson College of Oratory, will
give reading in the village hall, Thurs
day evening of this week, assisted by
Miss Margaret Thornton of Boston,
pianist, under the auspices of the Pris-
ella Club. Admission 10 cents. Cake
and ice cream for sale after the enter
tainment.
Eight members of the Priscilla Club
met with Mrs. D. F. McPhee, Thursday.
The Club will hold the next meeting as
a picnic at Lakeside, Thursday, July Is,
Mrs. Horace Moore of Lisbon was the
guest of Miss Stella Gil6llan for a few
days last week.
Mrs. Sarah Mcmillan and Mrs. Clara
Cannon were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Harvey of Groton, Thursday.
Albert Garter of Tilton, N. H., has been
spending few days with his mother,
Mrs. Julia Carter.
Oscar Field of North Thetford, and
Archie Field of Hartford, Conn, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Choate
last week.
David Choate. who has been visiting
his brother, Charles Choate, is in very
poor health and has been in Brightlool
Hospital at St. Johnsbury, for the past
week.
Miss Josie Brock spent Friday in st.
Johnsbury.
The Misses Margaret and Mabel Blair
and Miss Phoebe Harvey are spending
this week in Burlington
Miss Margaret Thornton of Boston is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Thorn
ton, 10 ana
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
fFrom an occasional correspondent.

cNN@sSiSAAee'
OsmanP. Hatch of Harvey finished
most successful term of school in the
Mountain District, June 20. Number of
scholars enrolled, %; average daily at
tendance, 10. Those having neither abb
sent or tardy marks were Joseph S.
Armstrong and Augusta Fellows. Great
interest has been taken in the flower cal
endar this term and $50 different varie-
ties were brought in. Joseph Armstrong
aged 10, led off by bringing in Al, and
Christina Jensen had the next largest
variety. In the moss collection for schol-
ars of the fourth grade Raymond En-
mons led off with Is varieties and Jo-
seph Armstrong had IL. MIR. Hatch
and his scholars attended graduation
exercises at North Danville, June &c. 1t
was a day of pleasure and profit for all.
Great credit is due him for the honest,
quiet, gentlemanly manner in which he
has conducted the school, winning for
himself the respect of the scholars and
friendship of the parents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-07-07
New View of Education of Women.

Dr. Charles W. Eliot has been eX-
ceedingly gracious to college women's
clubs since he laid down the burden Of
Harvard direction. and only spiteful
women recall what strenuous opposi-
ton he made to certain innovations in
Radcliffe. He has been addressing the
intellectual women in and out of sea-
son, and he has urged them not to hen
peck the men because of those intel
lectual attachments. In a recent ad-
dress before a college club of Baltl-
more he praised higher education for
women enthusiastically, but he depre-
rated the limited view generally as
signed to It, He thinks that in the
home education is of more genuine
benefit to society and for the future of
the race than In the professions and
that in the last analysis knowledge
benefits women only in so far as 1t
trains them for their natural duties
Instead Of seeing the menace other
great educators see in the desire which
the modern woman has for obtaining
the best educational advantages, DR..
Eliot takes vast comfort in the idea
The next generation, he thinks, being
trained by intelligent and intellectual
mothers, will swing the pendulum the
other way for the men Of the Amer
ican race Instead Of being consumed
with business ambitions to the exclu-
sion Of mental culture, he holds, they
will be trained from their cradle up
ward to estimate properly the neces-
sity Of college training.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-09-29

see this matter to a finish. A warrant
will be issued for that mans arrest
(pointing to the colored mani on the
charge of Offering to bride an official
on his own confession, and II it is prov
en- that any man employed by the city
took the money we will have them
both sent TO the penitentiary."
To this the colored man only smiled
and said: All right, sir, my name is
L Caldwell. and I am ready to pro-
duce the proof at any time that you
want it. The two men who took the
bride money are within seventy five
feet of me and are employees of the city.
I laid the money in their hands per-
sonaIly for the privilege of running a
crap game.
Sergeant Catey sprang to his feet
Immediately and assaulted the accuser.
I'm the only employe of the city in
this hall tonight" said Catey. and
want this man to prove what he is
saying. as he must mean me-"
There Was another.
Catey however, did not see officer
Juris. who was seated on the other
side of the hall, and who was another
of the city employees in the place
Caldwell was perfectly willing to ex-
plain the whole matter then and there
and make his charges specific, but the
republicans leaders who saw that the
meeting was being disturbed stopped
further controversy and went on with
the meeting.
Later in the evening when Caldwell
started to go home Catey grabbed him
and brought him back to the meeting,
where he started to force him to make
explanations" Caldwell was perfect
ly willing, but for the sake of avoid
ing a disturbance was told to go home
and that the matter would be taken up
later.
Has the Goods.
When asked later who the persons
referred to as bride takers were Cald-
well only said: Just wait and see; I
can produce the evidence"
If both Trustee Sears and L. Caldwell
moke good ON their promises the IA
nous Mccain bribery case may be
nothing to the revelations in Gary
The Frank brothers of Halsted street
fame will have nothing on Mr. Ca1d-
well in the way of sensationalism.
| This morning the people of Gary
were looking for Mr.. Sears, to make
| good on his part of the program and
have the warrant issued for Ca1dwell's
arrest. and the other developments
would probably follow quickly. 1t is
| felt that the charge against employees
| of the city was so open, direct anC
bold faced that the matter should be