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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
A Good Roads Tour.

The ST. Adams board of trade re-
Gently did a commendable thing in
giving the members-elect of the
legislature in Franklin county a free
tour over a portion of the roads in
western Vermont and eastern New
York. Several public spirited own
ers of automobiles went with their
machines and carried as many of
the members as their machines
would accommodate. The object of
the tour. was to give the coming law
makers an opportunity to ride OYER
the different kinds of roads and in
spect the different methods of road
construction adopted by the differ-
ent sections so they might have
practical knowledge of highway
problems when they get to Mont
pelier. The ST. Johnsbury CONNER
cial club, realizing the value of such
q tour, has decided to do the same
y thing.
. The st. Adams Messenger, in
speaking editoriany of the Franklin
county TOUR, says III part
"Thirty-seven men in nine autos
have made a tour of the highways
on both sides of Lake Champlain,
comparing the thoroughfares built
under the New York state system
with those constructed under the
Vermont law. 1t is unnecessary to
explain to the reader familiar with
highway conditions hereabouts that
the party has returned tull of zeal
for the cause of good roads and that
the Franklin county delegation in
the legislature will need no persua-
sion to stand by some we'll con-
sidered and progressive measure
that will take the place of the pre-
sent law. 1t was the very general
sentiment of the company that made
this tour that the road-making
authority should center in the state
and not be divided between the 24f
cities and towns as it is now. The
tourists were also convinced by the
evidence of their own eyes that New
York state is making far better
highways than we are making in
Vermont and that Vermont must ex-
pect to appropriate more money fol
its roads and abandon the present
patchwork policy or be left far be-
hind the other states of the East in
this matter of good roads and the
great economic and social benefits
that result from them"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
PRESS COMMENT.

AA1S0A SCAANJs
What is this we read to-day. An
insurgent carries New Hampshire
for the republican nomination for
governorl 1t is true. Progress has
called halt in party misrule. The
time has come in our sister state
when right triumphs over intrenched
privilege. The people rule under
the direct primary. The political
bosses rule under the caucus and
convention system. The time will
soon come when the people will rule
in Vermont under a direct prim-
airy. They will never rule under the
old system. AS long as we select
our candidates through delegates,
| just so long will we have govern
| ment of politicians. IF Wilmington
Times.
How many readers ever stopped
to consult the possibilities of APP
plying practical mathematics to
practical politics as presented by
Vermont's s, present caucus system.
1t is the eve of the state conven-
ton, for instance. ''How many votes
are we short of the nomination? ?"
inquiries the ambitious candidate of
his lieutenant. Caucus returns
show 364 delegates for you, 343 for
the other fellow, and 73 unpledged. ;"
THAT means, then, that I am 27
votes short of the number necessary
for a choice. All right. Go out and
get 40 for good measure, and make
sure of it, And he does.
When the voters express their
choice at the polls through the direct
primary system and the totals of
towns are added to the totals of
tows, minorities in one town going
to swell collective majorities in
others, and the candidate never
knowing where he stands until the
contest is either lost or won, we
shall have something like a popular
expression of sentiment that the
present caucus system, as we all
know, does not now permit.
st. Adams reader, do you remem-
Der the republican caucus of 1902
that declared SO emphatically for
Mccullough for governor? And do
you remember how Clement carried
the town at the polls in the follow
ing September? Do you remember
how Overwhelmingly the republican
caucus this summer voted for Mead
and how overwhelmingly the votes
at the polls a few days ago showed
the majority for Watson?
How much faith would the average
republican have in the caucus system
to-day, if he wanted to try out some
serious test of public sentiment and
risk his own future upon its verdict
without the misuse of money!
[St. Adams Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
WHEELOCK.
/. *. Gray Met With an Accident
While Returning From the Fair.

winnie Returning from the Fair.
I. K. Gray met with serious ac-
cident last Thursday returning from
the fair. He was leading pair of
steers behind his wagon. They got
frightened at an auto and tipped the
wagon over and threw Mr. Gray out
and hurt his head and right lung so
he is confined to his bed. Dr. Nc
Dowell of Lyndonville is attending
him.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Goss went to
Kirby last Sunday to visit her sister,
Mrs. Albert Barnett
William Goss, wife and two child
rem visited her sister, Mrs. Rice, at
Burke last. Sunday.
Grace Hoffman returned last week
from her visit to her grandmother
at Craftsbury.
Riverside Grange will meet
Saturday evening at Mechanics Hall.
Quite a number from this place at
tended the fair at ST. Johnsbury last
week.
The guests to register at the Gale
donia Spring House last week were
D. d. Bean, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph B.
Hooker, Mr.. and Mrs. E. e. Evans,
and Earl Evans of ST. Johnsbury, Mr.
and Mrs. M. A. Remele of Waits
field.
Rev. j. c.. Nelson, who has been
visiting his children here and at
Sheffield for the past few weeks, has
gone to Gilmanton, n. H., for a short
visit
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21

trance and apparent firm establish
ment in Vermont politics they re-
pTobated.
If the lowered vote for Governor
elect Mead; If the detection of five
to eight thousand republicans who
voted the rest of the ticket straight;
if the bolt, open or silent, of some
half dozen republican newspapers in
the state; if what has been said and
what done, shall have tended to bring
about the result desired-no fur
Their employment in Vermont of po-
Htical methods alien to our spirit of
government, corrupt in their infiu-
ence and effect, debasing to the body
of the electorate-those who acted
the freeman's part will feel that the
course they took was not in vain.
If candidates in future are made
to understand that nomination
however procured is not equivalent
to a triumphant election wherein all
is forgotten in enjoyment of the full
party vote, the sacrifice made by
those who, many for the first time,
drew upon themselves the censure
that always goes to the bolter, will
not be regretted.
One thing more: The result has
not the slightest national signi-
ficance. The majority. except for
governor, is quite up to the ordinary
off years. The total vote was light,
due largely to the heavy rain, and
the republican margin, figured in
thousands, fell off to correspond. The
per cent is fully up to the mark The
Vermont state election in presiden-
tial years reflects in quite a measure
the trend of national sentiment; in
off years it does not. Herald and
News
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
EAST CABOT.

Several from here attended the
fair at st. Johnsbury.
Clyde Hill, who has been sick for
the past two months, went Saturday
to Mary Fletcher hospital for treat
ment.
Dudley Blain of West Barnet was
at S. e. Houghton's Sunday Charles
Conant of Craftsbury accompanied
him home.
Raymond Peck has been very i'll
the past week, but at this writing is
slowly gaining.
Rev. Mr.. Enright of Danville was
a recent visitor at s. F. Miles
Mr.. and Mrs. e. II. Clark were at
Robert Bars Monday.
Mrs. Orlando Heath of Cabot was
at J. G. Peck's Saturday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Walbridge of
Cabot were at s. E. Houghton's Sum
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver McCosco of
West Danville were at r. S. Bars
Friday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
Use the American Throat Tablets.
SUTTON.

H. A. Quimby from Springfield,
Mass, visited his cousins, Mrs. M. A.
Taft and Mrs. Mary Morgan, the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin SHETLAND from
Portland, Ore, visited Mrs. SWEET
lands cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. M. A.
Taft and Mrs. Mary Morgan, the past
week
The next Grange meeting is to be
held Saturday evening the oath.
Mr.. Chandler was called to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Sarah Doyle at
West Burke Sunday afternoon. She
was the wife of the late Selim N.
Doyle and daughter of Asa Ladd, late
of Lyndon.
The Grange are to hold their regu-
lar social at their hall Thursday even
ing, the 22nd.
E. M. Phifield met with a serious
accident recently. He jumped from
his farm wagon and his foot caught
and he fell, striking his face on the
hub of the wheel and broke his jaw
bone badly.
H. A. Blake attended the funeral
of Mrs. Doyle at West Burke Sunday
afternoon, Mrs. Doyle being rela-
tive.
w. B. Melcher, road commissioner,
is doing a good job blasting out the
ledge in the road near Sutton depot
and widening it above o. E. Bundy's.
store.
Arthur Curtiss has sold the place
at Sutton Hollow, known as the
Charles Hastings place, to George
Sealey, who is to move there in the
near future.
Misses Rosa Page and Orpha
Farmer from Lyndon Center visited
at Henrietta Easterbrook's last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pike from Woods
vile, N. H., visited at c. A. Aldrich's
some days recently.
The large farm and personal prop
erty of Stephen G. Otis estate is to
be sold at auction September Goth.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
NORTH MONROE.

Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Carter and
Miss Lottie Hill attended the st.
Johnsbury fair Thursday.
Mrs. w. e. Emery was in McIndoes
calling on old friends last week.
Dudley Hall got first premium on
his sucking colt at ST. Johnsbury
fair
Mrs. Angie MerrifeId and daugh-
ter, Louise, who were in Boston for
a number of weeks, have returned
home, and visited Mrs. C. P. Pratt
at the Plain Saturday. Mrs. Merri-
field was called to Boston by the
death of her aged aunt and was
obliged to stay and settle up bust
ness.
Hall Merrifield was in st. Johns
bury Saturday night
Mrs. Henry Jellison was one who
attended ST. Johnsbury fair Thurs
day.
Pomona Grange met with North
Monroe Grange Friday. About 20
members of Sugar Hill Grange came
on the morning train and were con-
veyed from Barnet depot to. the hall
by George Bort in his hayrack. A
good time was enjoyed by all, dinner
and supper served and the day was
perfect
Nathan Bolton was in McIndoes
Friday on business.
Clinton Nelson visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Nelson, over Sun
day.
Warren Blair and son, Ellsworth,
are around cutting corn this fall
Mrs. Ellsworth Blair is stopping with
Mrs. w. Blair until they are through,
then they will return to their home
in East Barnet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
McINDOE FALLS.

Mrs. Humphrey is in Worcester.
Mass, visiting her son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Chase have
been visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hammond, at Barton.
Eleanor Boswell returned to
Charlestown, Mass, Thursday, hav-
ing spent a couple of weeks with her
cousin, Julia Smith.
The Ladies society meet with
Mrs. John Martin for work this after
noon from until O'clock
Malcolm Sillars of Danvers, Mass,
was a guest of A. L. Guthrie part OF
last week.
William Barrie was in Whitefield
last Wednesday evening to attend
the anniversary of the /. o. o. F.
Miss Ida Bell Larrow of Wells
Chase's the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Edgerton and
Mrs. Darwin Nichols were in Boston
last week Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jameson were
home from Woodsville over Sunday.
Mr. Jameson has bought farm in
Bath, N. H. where he expects to move
soon.
Floyd Hartwell and Miss Broad
belt of Lyndonville were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Guthrie Sum
day.
Rev. H. T. Barnard was in Massa-
chusetts the first of last week to Of
ficiate at a church wedding.
H. C. Kent was in Boston on
business trip last week.
Arch Miller of Lunenburg was a
guest of his sister, Mrs. Martha Gill
fillan, last week
Mr.. and Mrs Darwin Nichols and
Dorothy, were visitors in Bradford
Sunday.
Mrs. Ira Colby entertained her
sisters, Mrs. George Colby and Miss
Hartwell of Lunenburg last week.
Mrs. Taylor of West Peabody,
Mass, has been visiting Mrs. Lizzie
White.
Miss Flora Winch returned Mon
day from Booth Bay, Me-, where she
has spent a week at the home of her
uncle, Abram Mann.
Miss Alice Moore has been visit
ing friends at Danville.
Miss Nellie Manchester and Miss
Anna Aiken attended teachers meet
ling at Barnet Saturday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
Domestic Service.

Commissioner Lyons of the Maine
bureau of industrial and labor
statistics has determined to enter
upon a thorough investigation of
the domestic help problem-a new
departure which is expected to
have practical results. It seems
that Maine is "shy'' ten thousand
girls for domestic service. The con-
ditions which surround girls do
ing homework in Maine homes will
be set forth in the report which will
follow this investigation, together
with the wages that are paid, the
girls who accept such employment,
their nationality, hours of labor and
privileges. An enort will also be
made to ascertain why young wo-
men engaged in factories and stores
at small wages, prefer their employ
ment to domestic work in view of
the fact that the wages paid are
nearly the same, while the girl who
does homework also receives board
and room, while the factory worker
and clerk are compelled to expend
the greater part of their earnings
for the bare necessities of life.
The opinion of women who hire
girls to aid them in their domestic
duties will be sought in order that
the views of all concerned may be
placed at the disposal of the bureau
Girls now engaged in doing house
work will also be given an oppor-
tunity to say why they are so en-
gagged, what conditions surround
them, and what to their minds is
necessary to so improve the calling
that others will seek it. Both sides
of the question will thus have an
opportunity to state their views and
the result ought to be interesting il
not enlightening. burlington
News
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21

work for the legislature to act upon
them in a way that will bring it
credit. So the session of 1910 prom
ises to be one of the most important
in recent years and it probably will
have more influence on the course
of the republican party in Vermont
than any other law making body in
the last half century.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, H.
LUCAS COUNTY So

Frank ], Cheney makes oath that he is SEN
Tor partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo. County
and State aforesaid. and that said firm will
for each and every case of Catarrh that can
lot be cured by the of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before and subscribed in my
presence this 9th day ofDecember. A. D. 1886.
A. w. GLEASON,
(SEAL.) NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system Send for testin onia1s
free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constfpati on
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YOUNG MEN WANTED.
Government Pays Railway Mail
Clerks $500 to $1,4OO Year.
Free Scholarships Are offered.

Uncle Sam holds examinations for
railway mail clerk, postofice clerk or
carrier, custom house and depart
mental clerks. Prepare at once for
the coming examinations.
The job is for life; hours are short,
salary twice monthly and vacation.
To any young man who has energy
enough to answer, this is the oppor-
tunity of lifetime.
Thousands of appointments are to
be made Common school education
is all that you need; city and coun-
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to prepare now-free information.
Free scholarships this month.
Write Immediately to Central
Schools, Dept. 253, Rochester, N. Y.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
The New idea in Politics.

The election of J. Gilbert Stafford
as representative from Brattleboro
was secured under conditions which,
according to the Brattleboro Re-
former, were very far above board
which makes the victory all the more
commendable. One of the features
of the campaign was the refusal of
Mr.. Stafford to permit the use of
teams to carry voters to the polls,
even though defeat was facing him.
1t is likely that his determination
cost him many votes, for many men
will not vote until they are trans
ported to the polls, and they care
little which side carries them, either.
The usual roundup having been dis
pensed with in Brattleboro by Mr..
Stafford, he met with much opposi-
ton from a disgruntled class of
voters, but he overcame that, in adj
dition to the usual opposition, and
won by narrow margin. For thus
showing the courage of his convic-
tions, although running the chances
of defeat, Mr.. Stafford is to be con-
graduated; also for paving the way
for more timorous candidates. 1t
will be better for the state If the
Stafford idea spreads, thus eliminat-
ing an election feature which, while
legitimate, perhaps, is nevertheless
far from the ideal of American poll
tics. Moreover, it is an easy step
from free conveyance to something
worse.-l Barre Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
STANDARD.

Alvin Cargill returned to his home
Saturday after spending a few days
with relatives here.
Mrs. A. S. Batten is visiting in
Lynn, Mass.
Miss Ella Spencer returned to Bos-
ton, last week
Miss Esther Magoon was at home
from school at Hardwick Saturday
and Sunday.
Several from this place attended
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Patchel1 of
Beverly, Mass, were recent visitors
at M. F. Ayers.
Arthur Cunningham was at his
home in Danville Saturday and Sum
day.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-09-21
The Result in Vermont.

Inc Result IN vermont.
DIR. John A. Mead was elected
governor of Vermont at the Septem-
Der election last week, as everybody
expected he would be- His majority,
about 1880, is the smallest with
one exception, given republican
candidate for governor in Vermont
since 1856 whenever there has been
a square standup fight between the
two parties. That exception was in
1890, when there was a com bination
of defections on both state and ma
tional issues, among the former be-
ing the same one that has counted
SO largely in the recent canvass
the use of money and methods
repellant to the feelings of many re-
publicans.
The small majority given DR.. Mead
is no surprise. 1t represents the pro-
test of several thousand republicans
of unquestioned standing against the
methods employed by and in be-
half of the candidate to secure the
nomination; methods not original
with him, or for which he was wholly
to blame, but against which it seemed
necessary in behalf of good citizen
ship and clean politics to cast oppos-
ing votes. Nor does the detection to
be counted in the absolute loss of
votes Tor the mead OF the TICKET cover
it all. Where one republican voted
for the democrat, or failed to vote,
at least another voted with an in
ward protest, regretting that the call
to party duty seemed for the moment
stronger than the inclination to adj
minister party rebuke by SO radical
a step as cutting the chief candidate
on the ticket. 1t takes a good
deal to shake the average Vermont
| republican from his party, even tenn
porarily. and only a strong convic-
ton of ones personal obligation
| under the freeman's oath would
| prompt it.
The detection from Mead was not
personal, nor was it due to disap-
pointment among his opponents over
| his success in the convention. The
boilers, so-called, are republicans
who have supported candidates many
times who were not their first
choice. They have been beaten be-
fore in conventions and turned in
solidly for the regular nominee. They
acted upon principle this year in de-
Gliding not to vote for the candidate
| who, in their opinion, held his place
on the ticket through the employment
of means and methods whose en-
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Endorsement of Howe.

The Morrisville Messenger strong
ly supports F. e. Howe of Benning-
ton for speaker of the house of rep
resentatives in the following
"While many strong and able
men have been elected members of
the legislature, no man, in point of
experience and knowledge of parlia-
mentary law, house rules, etc., is so
well qualified, we believe, for the
speakership as Frank E. Howe of
Bennington.
HE has served, in one capacity
or another, a most thorough ap-
premiership in the house and, as
representative from his town last
session, made a most enviable record.
"He is in every way we'll quail
fed to fill this important position
with credit to himself and honor to
Vermont
ssWith Howe as speaker, we be-
lieve, the work of the session will
start promptly and be kept moving
expeditiously until all the important
business of the session is completed,
and that too, before Thanksgiving.
That is what the people want"
The people do not want the ses-
sion to close at Thanksgiving, how
ever, if there is a mass of important
-1CSISldL1OA " OS OhaObC0s
important measures will come be-
fore the legislature this fall than in
a decade. The voters wish these
measures to be given adequate con-
sideration and not hastily adopted
or dismissed and under the circum-
stances, if the session this fall lasts
for a few weeks over Thanksgiving
as it probably will, no Dissatisfied
ton will be expressed. A speaker
who would keep business moving,
would greatly expedite matters, how
ever, and Mr.. Howe would undoubt-
eddy do SOL Montpelier Argus.
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for even those towns which have
habitually enjoyed the benefit Of
smooth, substantial highways are
almost sure to strive for still further
Improvements when they find other
towns pushing them Exchange.
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j. G.. Mccormack is in the Bullfrog
district inspecting his mining interests
at that point.