St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-24
VERMONT NEWS
MARTIN rroy Mystery Solved.

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D"d revealed that he had been at
Evansville, P. O., November and had
been furnished by friends there with a
t;cket to take him back home. Feb. 13,
some come bows at play found his body hang
:sg bv a rope around the neck from a
.re near the railroad track just north of
tbe station near North Troy. 1t is evil
d t that the corpse had hung there all
winter. Many persons have been past
n tbe snot, wood choppers have worked
r,;thin two or three rods of it but the
necnliar location of the trees concealed
4 the body.
Montpelier Seminary Diamond Jubilee.
Montpelier Seminary's diamond Jubilee
4 will be celebrated June 20-24. By the
nersistent efforts of the committee very
8 fine program has been arranged. Among
The most noted speakers are the follow
mo; Bishop John Hamilton, D. D.,
T0oL. D., of Boston, Rev. T. p. Frost,
8 n D. pastor of the First Methodist
4 cbnrch. Evanston, Illinois, DR.. Frank L.
q 3oodspeed, pastor of the FIRST Congrega-
tional church, Springfield, Mass, Gov.
n G, H. Prouty, Hon. Mason S. Stone, and
& Andrew w. Edison, associate superintend-
& emf of education in New York city. Ev-
erv thing is being done to make this event
the greatest in the history of Montpelier
Seminary, and all alumni, former stud
II ents. and those interested in the institu-
ton are invited to be present.
Lake Memphremagog's New Steamer.
E. Golf Perry of Magog, Que, is behind
q ship building enterprise. A $4,000
d steamer is being built which will be 90
I feet in length, have a capacity of 200
8 passengers, and a speed of 16 miles an
4 hour. The boat will be run on Lake
n Memphremagog. 1t is said that the rea
4 son for building the new boat by the
Canadians is the lack of accommoda-
tons given by the Lady of the Lake to
the people of the north end of the lake.
4 1t is forty-two years since the latter
\ steamer was launched.
From Johnson to Middlebury.
DR.. Edward D. Collins, principal of the
4 State Normal School at Johnson, has
been elected head of the new department
of pedagogy at Middlebury College.
Doctor Collins graduated from Yale
with distinction in 1896, and secured
4 his Phi. D. in history in 1899. He is an
accomplished scholar, and has made a
5 very successful teacher. He is Vermont
boy, having been born in Barton Land
1 ing Mrs. Collins is from Newport.
Essex County Appointments.
Governor Prouty has appointed Elias
A. Bemis of Island Pond commissioner
n and collector of taxes for the county OF
Essex, Herbert w. Blake a Judge of the
q municipal court in Brighton, and E. J.
4 Parsons of Brighton and Asa c. Fuller
4 of Bloomfield as special judges. These
\ special judges are for the purpose of try
u ing cases in the absence of the regular
q Judge.
y Burlington has the first ordained rabbi
n in Vermont called to take charge of the
81 three Hebrew congregations there. Rab-
b Rosenberg is 81 years old yet he has
s. already achieved prominence in the He
brew church. He is first vice president
of the Associated Rabbis of the United
q States and is high in the councils of the
~ church He has wife and four children.
s Among his first duties will be to plan for
the establishment of a Hebrew school in
Burlington.
St. Johns church, Randolph, has voted
3 to extend call to Rev. Aubrey c Gil
more of Hull's Cove, Me-, to become rec
81 tor should the vestry of Grace church,
81 Randolph Center, vote to give him call
likewise. Mr.. Gilmore was pastor of the
81 congregational church at the Center
about ten years ago but has since enter
ed the Episcopal ministry and has been
serving very acceptably for the last two
q years in the diocese of Maine. Grace
s church at Randolph Center is about to
receive legacy of $4,000 from the John
Sabine Smith estate.
+. p, Kelley, 90, and T. J. Leonard,
10, who played with Barton Landing
last summer, cannot play with the col
lege team this year. Under the rules of
the athletic council, no student who has
4 played on mi-professional base ball
: nine or on so-called summer base ball
team, shall be eligible to represent Dart
& mouth on athletic teams until he has
received special permission from the
athletic council. The council has refused
this permission to the debarred players.
OF the several young men who took
the last examinations held by the board
OF pharmacy at the State House, none
passed, while young woman, Miss
Elizabeth Gregg of Bennington, credit
ably passed her examinations.
Pres James B. Angel of the University
OF Michigan has resigned, to take effect
IN June He will be made chancellor of
the University at a salary of $4,000 a
year and the use of the presidents house.
Walter A. Dane of Newport, secretary
10 the secretary Of the navy, has been
appointed a member of the inaugural
committee in charge of the arrangements
Tor the inauguration of President-elect
TAFT.
Roc hester is to have a new 100000
motel erected by Massachusetts corpor-