St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-01-27

| WOODSTOCK. Jan. Il. nc OmcerS electeu
were: President. Andrew Harding of
Pomfret; vice. president. G. R. Crosby of
Hartland and F. S. Billings of Wood
stock; treasurer, c. H. English; secre-
tery, c. I. Paul. The treasurer's report
showed a balance in hand of $4,000 and
that the receipts at the last fair slightly
exceeded the expenses.
General T. S. Peck of Burlington and
Col. Myron M. Parker of Washington,
d. c., have received appointments as
members of the staff of Major General o.
o. Howard. commander of the division
of civil war veterans, which will escort
the President and President-elect from
the White House to the Capitol, where
the inaugural exercises will be held on
March 4.
Ex-Gov. Frederick Holbrook, of Brat
tleboro. presided at the annual meeting
of the Vermont Savings Bank this year
as he has done for the past forty years.
Although nearly 96 years old, Mr.. Hol-
brook retains his interest in the institu-
ton as it's president, but the burden of
| the active work has been shifted to other
shoulders. The bank is the oldest in YER
mont and Mr.. Holbrook the oldest presi-
| dent.
After being closed down since October
| on account of low water, the Van
Camp Packing company at St. Adams
resumed work again on Monday morn
ing. The company has an artesian we'll
which furnishes flow of 80 gallons of
water a minute, and the city officials
have decided to let the company have
water from the Lake Champlain system.
While shoveling snow at Chester JAM
20 tor Frank H. Harris in his front yard,
Sylvester M. Blodgett died instantly
from supposed heart failure. He was
about rs years old and was employed in
the soapstone mill. Two children sur
vive, Lena S., who kept house and at
tended high school. and son. staying
in Peru. The mother died II years ago.
An operation has been performed upon
Smith Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will
! lard Warren of Morrisville, who was in
jured 10 days ago by being struck on the
head by a falling tree. 1t was found
that the boys skull was not crushed as
had been feared, but was simply cracked,
and the patient is now doing well.
The 18th annual dinner of the New
York Alumni association of the Univer-
sity of Vermont will be held at Delmon-
ico's, New York, February S, at 7
o'clock President M. Fl. Buckham. Col
George B. Harvey, editor of the North
American Review, and Julius M. Mayer.
ex-attorney general of the state of New
York, have already been secured as
speakers.
On February &c, the Lake Champlain
association of New York will tender a
dinner at which Gov. Prouty OF YER
mont, will be present. Gov. Charles
Hughes of New York and Premier l..
Goun of Quebec have been invited to
speak also.
The marriage engagement is announced
of Miss Adelaide F. True, associate prin-
cipal of Vermont academy, and former
Principal DR.. Edward Ellerv. Miss True
has resigned her position. DR.. Ellery is
now living in Schenectady. N. Y.
The North American Fish and Game
association elected officers last week at
Toronto, as follows: President, A. c.
Meehan. Philadelphia; secretary-treas-
urer, E. T. Chambers, Quebec. The vice
presidents elected include F. 7. Butterheld
of Derby Line.
Bv the invitation OF the United States
Government, thecrew of the Don de Dieu,
which took part in last summers tercen-
tenary festivities at Quebec, will take
part with that vessel IN the tercentary
discovery of Lake Champlain in July
next.
An iron girder weighing more than
three tons fell about three feet while be-
ing moved by some men at Connecticut
river dam, Bellows Falls, Jan. 20 and
struck Reuben Knowlton, one of the
workmen, on his right foot. The foot
was completely crushed and had to be
amputated.
The blue Persian cat, Don o Dreams"
owned by Mrs A. NJ. Scagel, of St.
Adams, won first prize in open and first
in novice classes at the Boston cat show
don O'Dreams" won over Miss Cal
lards famous Scotland Jet" this being
the latter cats first defeat.
Four barns on the S. K. Corliss farm
in 81, Adams were burned last week
Tuesday by lantern exploding. The
barns had recently been repaired and re-
painted and contained about 40 tons of
hay. Loss between $4,000 and $1,000
partially covered by insurance.