St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-04-26


of Craftsbury; vice president, Car
roll Hitchcock of Albany: and treas
urer, w. H. Aston of Stannard. The
annual outing will be held at Crafts
bury and one of the head officers of
/ the Modern Woodmen of America
| will be the speaker of the day. The
date was left to the officers OF the as
ISOLATION but will be set for a few
days after the closing of the Head
| Camp at Buffalo, N. Y The fnan-
ciaI report of the association shows
| it to be the best in the history of the
| organization.
Hartford's 15Oth Anniversary.
Miss Margaret McLaren Eager, the
director-genera1 of the festivities
planned to celebrate the 150th an
.1iversary of the settling of the town
| of Hartford, addressed meeting
Thursday night. The plans of the
| committee we're explained in detail
and are modelled upon the pageants
of late years. Historical scenes, IL
Illustrative of the aboriginal, colonial
and more modern life of the town,
are to be shown. The fund of his
torical material of personal and
| local nature was pronounced unus-
ual Energetic subcommittee have
been appointed and the prospects of
success are good.
Burlington in Hurry.
Acting on the advice of Chairman
J. w. Redmond of the Public Ser
vice Commission the committee of
| Is has decided to Recommend to the
voters of Burlington that a petition
be sent the Commissioner asking
that they take up the matter of a
union station for Burlington and
hasten the action of the Rutland and
Central Vermont railroads. 1t is de-
sired to get the matter in the hands
of the commission before the Rut-
land road acquires the land on which
it plans to build its station.
Buys Historic House.
The Charles w. Swift house at Old
Bennington has been bought by Hon.
| C. E. Patterson of Troy, n. Y, at a
consideration around $40, 900. The
house was built in 1775 by Col. Ma
thaniel Brush in command of regi-
ment at the battle of Bennington. In
1878 the house came into the posses
sion of Moses Robinson, eldest son
of Gov Moses Robinson. The house
! is located on the west side of the
Parade and is valued old land
mark Mr.. Patterson makes it a per-
manent summer home.
Vail New Haven Director.
The board of directors of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road Company has elected Theodore
N. Vail to succeed the late Nathaniel
| Thayer of Boston. Since 1907 Mr..
Vail has been president of the Ameri-
can Telephone & Telegraph com
pany and president of the New York
Telephone company. He is director
in many other corporations, includ-
ing the Western Union Telegraph
Company, in this country and in
4 London, where he is at the present
time, it is understood, negotiating
the purchase for one of his compani-
es of several cable systems.
Vermont Homeopathics.
The Vermont Homeopathic society
met at Montpelier Friday. Address
es were given by Fremont Hamil-
ton, M. D., and by H. R. Arndt, M
D., of Cleveland, Ohio. AS the meet
ing was not regular one an election
of officers could not be conducted
but it was decided that these officers
shall hold over for another year:
President, Fremont Hamilton, Brat
tleboro; vice president, James Hay
lett, Moretown; secretary, George l
Forbes, Burlington; treasurer, F. e
1 Steele, Montpelier. The same com
mittees and delegates from last yeal
will hold over another year.
Dead in his Meat Cart.
Fred Dunn, who drives the meat
cart of w. H. Pelton of Randolph
vas discovered in dying corditiC1
IN h Toe a tyUn q, az
i afternoon. The horse was stopped
mile from he village, and it wa:
q discovered that Mr.. Dunn's head
was in the wheel. He died two
minutes after being found. He lef
d the market at seven in the morning
as we'll as usual and whether his
q death is due to an accident or sud
! den attack is not known. He is sur
vived by a wife and one son.
To Raise Normal School Standard
The state board of education me-
at Rutland Friday night with al
the members present. cit is the
plan of the board" said one Of the
members, ssto raise the standard O.
] the normal schools in this state
something which is understood b!
7 the board to be required by the re
cent legislation at Montpelier The
4 normal schools OF this state must Dt
placed on an equal plane with those
of other states. When that is done
other states will recognize our nor
NAL graduates. Four years of higf
school will be required for admission
to the normal school and then the
student will be required to devote two
years to strictly professional study
Doubtless the attendance at the nor
NAL schools will fall off, but thu
quality of the teachers graduated
will be Of the highest
Miss Catherine Rivers of Burling
ton met with peculiar acciden
April 10. On opening cellar doc
a cloud of smoke blew in her face
and frightened her so that sh'
tainted and fell down the stairs
The mistress of the house who il
an invalid, managed to reach tn,
i fa1pDhouo and oal tho fro dana rf