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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15
Vermont Primaries.

1t is evident from the editorial
remarks of Vermont newspapers
that the cause of direct primaries in
the state of Vermont got a severe
check in the practical test given
Massachusetts presidential prefer
ence. Serious objections to a
primary law have recently
been made by the Herald
and News and the Montpelier
Journal on the ground that it has
proven expensive, fails to give any
nearer correct expression of the peo-
pies will on account of the small
proportion of voters going to the
polls and allows too great opportuni-
ty for cross party voting.
This paper has been advocating
the adoption of aprimary law in YER
mont in order to give the people as
full opportunity as possible to ex-
press their choice of candidates for
public Office 1t still believes such
an opportunity should be given and
NunnOl NnAnh VI any pan OCNNCA Se@A
culated to give it than ballots prop
erly prepared at the states expense
at every polling place for the voter
to use and mark in the same secrecy
The greatest difficulty presented is
to get ballots simple enough so the
average voter can express his choice
while alone in the booth. To pres
ent just one list of delegates for
each candidate with square in
which one mark would elect the
whole list would be the simplest way
but the voter might not like the
delegates and~in his effort to choose
his favorite delegates defeat his ia
vorite candidate for the Office as was
evidently done in Massachusetts.
People would hardly stand for so
much primary as a preferential vote
between the various candidates for
Office and then hold party
caucuses to select delegates
to vote N accordance with
the preference instructions, although
that would seem a surer way than
present primary laws. Again the
majority of the party and majority
of the towns might not be in accord.
At present a majority of the towns
in Vermont decides who the party
candidates shall be and it seems as
he fof fn Lot q
majority of the party rule. This
cannot be done without a radical
change in our caucus system, pos
sibly not without a complete primary
system. But in the last legislature
the towns would not give the party
majorities the right to control.
With the strong opposition there
is to different features of a primary
law the suggestion of improvements
to our present laws seems practical.
First it might be wise to require by
law the use of ballots at every par
ty caucus in each town and the re-
turns to the secretary of the party
show the list of delegates elected
and the number of votes cast for the
different candidates and make the
total votes for each candidate pub
lie, the appointment of a committee
of three, or more in the larger towns
and cities, to challenge a mans
right to vote in the party caucus and
fixed hours, (say from three to
eight p. n.y. that the ballot boxes
shall be open in every town. These
regulations would give every voter
time to vote. would show to what ex-
tent the majority of the party differs
from the majority Of the towns and
prevent as effectively as possible
members of one party from voting in
a caucus OF another party.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15
why Savings Banks are Essential


Because people have money to in
vest they are often tempted by de-
signing persons to go into schemes
which, while promising large re-
turns, usually bring disaster.
Probably there are no more
shrewd, far-sighted conservative
investors of money than successful
life insurance companies.
They employ expert men-men
who make the study of investments
their life work; who pass upon all
applications for loans and invest
ments; and it is a fact which any
one, can verify by getting the insur-
ance companies reports, that four to
five per cent interest is all these
companies are able to make their
loans average.
Those schemers who would go to
unsophisticated women or inexperi-
.enced men and tell them that they
could just as well get six per cent,
as four, we'll know that if their
schemes were solid, substantial and
safe, they could borrow money by
the million from these life insur
ance companies.
The LamoiIle County Savings
Bank and Trust Company of Hyde
Park never takes a note paying over
six per cent.
The following practical sugges-
lions under the heading Keep the
Streams Clean and Pure!" are sent
out by the Conservation Department
of the Vermont State Federation of
Women's clubs, which asks for pub
licity of the same through the news
papers, that they may have wider
reading than would otherwise be
possible.
Streams: Are beautiful and
should not sbe made otherwise by
throwing rubbish into them or upon
their banks.
Pure Water: Is necessary to all
human and animal life.
Rivers and Brooks: Are the nat
ural purveyors of water. Respect
them. Throw nothing into them.
Prevent all foul waters from reach
ing them.
Running Waters: Are life CIV
ers. Make them not life takers by
allowing foreign matter to render
them poisonous to man, beast, bird,
and fish.
Picnickers: Leave no refuse in
or near the springs, brooks, rivers,
ponds, or lakes which have contri-
buted to your days pleasure. The
baskets which brought all are large
enough to carry away the frag-
ments.
Fishermen: Do not put fish clean
ings back into the water.
Housewives: Empty no dish
water or other Stops where it can
find it's way into a stream.
IT, IA II
or barn-yard' drainage seep away
to the nearby streams.
Campers: Bury or burn all rub
bish. Select carefully and judicious-
ly the spot on which to build a fire.
Watch constantly the fire while
burning. Extinguish every spark
before leaving the site of the fire. Do
not contamfnate the streams by
washing soiled clothes in them. Car
ry the water for this purpose in pail
or tub to a place at some distance
from the shore.
Manufacturers: Poison not the
stream with chemicals, refuse, or
dross of any kind.
Cities and Towns: Send your
Sewerage Commissioners to Croy-
don, England, (ten miles from Lon
DOM, to study the oldest and most
successful sewage filtration plant
and sewage farm If this is impos-
sible, at least write for information.
Pollute not the streams with your
sewage.
Let the purity of streams be
jealousy and sacredly guarded from
their sources to their mouths by
young and old that they may be the
blessings which God intended.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15
Commissioners Notice.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM s. BoYNroN

ESTATE OF WILLIAM s. BOYNTON
The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District
of Caledonia, Commissioners to receive, ex-
anime and adjust the claims and demands Of
all persons against the estate of William s.
Boynton, late of St. Johnsbury, in said Dis
trict, deceased, and all claims exhibited in
Offset thereto, hereby give notice that we viii
meet for the purpose aforesaid, at the Pas
sumpsic Savings Bank in the village of st.
Johnsbury, in said district. the 18th
day of May and 18th day of Octo-
Der next, from 10 O'Clock A. M. until 2
O'Clock p. M, on cache said days and that
six months from the 18th day of April
A. ID. 1912 is the time limited by said Court
for said creditors to present their claims to
us for examination and allowance.
Dated at St. Johnsbury this 25th day OF
April A. D. 1912.
A. B. MOVES,
r. c. BAKER.
Commissioners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15
LEAVING LANCAsTER.
THROUGH TRAINS

Train arrives at St. Johnsbury from Bos-
ton, Portland, Lewiston. Augusta, North.
Conway and White Mountain resorts 2.15
p. m, and has through Buffet Parlor car to-
Montreal.
stops on signal or on notice to condue-
tor.
H. d. WALDRON,
General Passenger Agent.
MORRIS MCDONALD,
Vice President e. General Manager
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ApvERTIsING RATEs.

Local notices. wants, for sale, ETC.,
cents per word first Insertion. Legal
notices 10 cents line, three insertions.
Probate notices $500 each for three
insertions. Dissolution. liberation and
similar notices $1.5O each for three
insertions. Card of thanks, rs cents.
Obituary poetry. 10 cents line.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15

This paper is entitled to a place on
the Printers Ink Roll of Honor.
THE CALIFORNIAN co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15

Through the White Mountains
TO Lancaster, Colebrook, North Con-
way, Boston, Portland, Lewiston. Ban
gor. Bar Harbor and st. John.
LEAVING ST. JoBNsBuRY.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15

BOatOn-Eagle News Co, 597 Wash
ington and IS Summer Streets.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Blodgett.
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TERMS OF THE cALEDoNIAN.

One year to any address. $3.50
Six months, rs
Three months, 80
Clergymen in Caledonia County. s1.00
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Entered at the St Johnsbury post
efBce as second class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15
N lew
M eat
N arket

I have added a good supply
of Meat to my grocery and
bakery business and solicit
your patronage.
Thanking my customers for
past favors, l hope to serve
them with Groceries, Meats
and Baked Goods in thefuture.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BIZ

FUbLIsHElD WEEKLY 81
THE CALIFORNIAN COMPANY.
w. ,. BIGELOW,
Editor and Publisher.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28
Continued from last week
Dancing and Shower Baths.

Let us, Mr.. Chairman, that our
earthly fame may be more lasting,
and that our glorious hereafter may
be rewarded with halo as big as a
horse collar, go back to those school
items, deprive the common herd OF
taxpayers. with Bonded backs. crook
ed fingers, and bleeding palms, from
participation i'm the erection of this
dancing tabernacle, and give all the
glory to the men of God in Tennessee,
and let them pay for it. CLaughter.)
Mr.. Chairman, in another of the
school board reports | find that one
of the colored school teachers de-
scribes the splendid shower baths
which have been erected in his
school; asks now, in simple Justice
to the District of Columbia, that a
swimming pool be put i'm at public ex.
pense. But that is of no moment to
either Kentucky or Tennessee or the
other states; all they have to do with
1t Is to pay for it.
Then another colored teacher so
the report says, wants a greenhouse
erected and maintained at public ex-
pense, in connection with his school.
Mr.. Chairman, why should he not
have It? In this climate the flowers
bloom only in the spring, and that is
entirely too seldom for this gentle.
man of ginger-cake hue. Where you
and | reside the chrysanthemum has
hardly faded until the lilac blooms,
and almost Immediately after that the
Mareschal Mel, which has remained
green from fall to spring, blossoms
into beauty and fragrance, puts out
its tiny arms, and renews It's kindly
and annual embrace of our humble
cottages which stand upon the sites
where so years ago spacious colonial
homes were the pride of Dixie land.
Mr.. Chairman, this school teacher
and the children in his school are re-
serred to in the report of the board
of education as yet bearing inherited
marks from ucl burdens placed
upon their parents by heartless Ia k
masters Of the south.
Mr.. Chairman. it costs the tax:ay-
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28

ers Of the Union only few milnon
dollars year 70 keep up this teach
ing of race hatred In the district pub.
lie schools. Now, why not, In the
name OF all that is good for the Union.
should he who is intoxicating these
Ideas into the youth Of his color not
have n greenhouse at public expense?
U-aughter.)
Under the precedent which you, Mr..
Chairman, have Just established, play
grounds may be equipped wherever
the district officials may, IN the exer-
else of their Official functions. deem
best; and as these equipments are
within the scope OF their selection,
would It not be well to increase the
appropriation and erect an Uncle
Toms Cabin?"
Not only is music taught In the
Washington schools, but these self
playing pianos-pianolas l believe
they call them--are put in and paid
for by your and my accordian con-
stituents. Those instruments are not
there for instruction, because 1t re-
uuires no more teaching TO play one
Of those mechanical instruments than
II does to turn a grinding organ. I'M
der this new precedent that district
officials can equip anybody's play
grounds, and can equip them with
such games and amusements as they
choose. why not send these pianolas
from the schoolhouses to the school
Fairgrounds?
Mr.. Chairman, I am not afraid to
make small wager that Bob Taylor
paid for the instrument upon which
lie learned to charm and thrill the
souls of the music-loving men and
women of this country; but IL he
wishes to hang his fiddle and bow
upon the wall, never to take them
down again, and take lessons upon
the pianola or the grinding organ, he
Is still within the school age Of the
District of Columbia. (Laughter.)
Grind Organs and UndesirabIes.
However, | am not quite sure that
] will not make point Of order
against Senator Taylor taking lessons
on the grinding organ at the expense
of the American citizen. II that con-
cession is made to him he may next
demand to take lessons in the public
school with the bear and the drum.
The grinding organ and the bear and
the drum must, by all means be re-
served for the many foreign born who
are I'm Washington, declining our cit.
izenship, refusing TO pay taxes, hoard
ing our money to be sent back to
foreign land, while all the time their
children are receiving the advantages
Of free tuition, free books, free scien-
tifc instruments, and hot lunches In
the schoolhouse. When the desir-
able ones of these become citi-
Zens with US, take upon them
selves the oath to support the
constitution and "Old Glory" help
support the government. then. Mr..
Chairman, I am willing for them to
go into our unsupported Fairgrounds
and receive the long, tedious and diff
cult instructions from our accomplish
ed teachers upon the grinding organ:
then they should be permitted to play
with our Teddy bear and beat our
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28

Here is message Of hope and good
cheer from Mrs. c. j. Martin, Boone
Mill, Va, who is the mother of eight
cen children. Mrs. Martin was cured
of stomach trouble and constipation by
Chamberlain's Tablets after five years
of suffering, and now recommends these
tablets to the public. Sold by all deal
ers.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28

| 10 do dental work for nearly 60.000
school children in Washington, these
children ranging In age from years
TO 66 years--some of them unnatural
lied foreigners.
But the people back in Kentucky
and Tennessee have nothing to DO
with this but pay one-half Of the bills.
The school children-these children
ranging in age from 6 years to SO
ycars--have physicians. paid out OF
the public funds, to treat them. But
the people of the United States have
nothing to do with this matter but to
pay one-half OF the bills.
These same school children have
trained nurses to walt upon them
when i'll. But that is Of no concern
to the people in the different states;
all they have to do with Il is to pay
dentists. physicians, nurses and en-
ploy teachers for their own children,
and then pay one-half of that cost for
nearly 10000 enrolled children-chil-
dren black, children white, children OF
the American citizen, children Of the
foreigner who disdains our flag, chill
dren years old, children Sc years
old. But the merchant, the farmer,
the laborer, the school child, the
school teacher back in the States, has
nothing to do with this except pay
one-half Of the bills.
The poor man in the different states
Of the Union buys school books for
his own children, and then contributes
toward the purchase Of the school
books for the children OF the million
aire in Washington.
A great howl goes up in Washing
ton against the committee which
would not this year build two new
school houses at cost of $3.50. 900.
And | am an incompetent in their
eyes because stand between the
people in an effort to stop raids upon
the public treasury. Because object
to giving away real estate owned by
the United States, I am narrow. Be
cause ] object to having the govern
ment go into the construction bust.
ness for the street car companies, in
stead of sticking to governmental
functions, I am wrong. Because I OBJ
Iect to seeing one gang Of men laying
streets, followed in short time by
another gang tearing them up, I am
not progressive. Because I object to
seeing men here take advantage Of
the necessities of those who are in
distress and compel the unfortunate to
pay from &c to $50 per cent. interest
on borrowed money. then I am inter
fering with contracts. Because
wish the homeless renter should be
permitted to pay as small rate of
taxation upon his little effects in the
rented house as his landlord pays
upon the house in which the tenant
lives, then | am an anarchist. rhe
owner of the house pays dollar and
a half rate on two-thirds valuation.
This makes his rate a dollar a hun
dred on real valuation. The tenant
pays dollar and half hundred on
full valuation upon his personal
property
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28
BEN JOHNSON
FOR The PEOPLE
He Sheds Light on Washington
Municipal Appropriations,
OPPOSED TO TREASURY RAIDS

Kentucky Congressman Discusses at
Length the District Of Columbia
Bills, Sections Of Which He De-
nounces as Being "Loaded"-says
He Is a Target for Abuse Because
He Stands Against Loot.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28
Would Do Justice to All.

In order to do Justice to all, one
should be lowered or the other should
be raised. | care not which 1t is, so
that the city will have sufficient reve-
nue.. intangible personal property is
not taxed at all.
did not raise point Of order in
the bill against the one, single, soli-
tary item for which it was provided
that the district should pay wholly
out of her own revenues, and l shall
not.
The district should be permitted to
spend her own money as she pleases,
but it is the duty of every member in
this body to see to it that the money
given by the federal government to
the district is not thrown away.
would not object to see the dis
trict have her own lawmaking body,
elected by the people Of the district,
and / would be glad to see the dis
trict have the privilege to expend her
own money just as the people of the
district wish to spend 1t. l, above
all others whom | have heard express
themselves upon the subject, am in
favor of a democratic local self-gov-
eminent in the district.
When the district comes to levy
her own taxes, marshal her own as
sets, expend. untrammeled by con-
gress. her own taxes, then she will
appreciate responsibility which will
encourage congress to help her with
generous hand
A spirit of wastefulness will stop
congress quicker than anything else
in desire to aid the district
Now, Mr.. Chairman, We have heard
all these years that whatever the Dis
trict Of Columbia wanted of the United
States 1t got. The language just used
by me. l believe, shows that to be
conclusive. l never quite understood
how 1t all came about. but the Wash
ington Post of Aug. 2S, 1911. had
this to say:
THE drift of the well-to-do and In
fiuential element toward this city
could take no better turn than we
see in the increased number of con-
gressional homes. Once they become
interested 1t is noticeable that mem
bers undergo change of heart that
BODIES no Ill for the municipality.
Evidently they come to see what
Washington really needs"
Mr.. Chairman, saw in the Wash
ington Evening Star OF Friday, Jan
~, 1912, an article which, in speaking
OF the governments contribution to-
ward the District of Columbia. says:
'In it's restrictive treatment by the
Continued on Page
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28

For 30 years Lydia t. PinlSham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for fe-
male ills. No one sick with wOman's ailments
does Justice to herself who will not try this fa-
NOUS medicine, made from roots and herbs it
has restored so many suffering women to health.
m>Write to LYDIA L. PINkHAM MEDlCINECO.
E CONFIDENTIAL LYNN, MASS, for advice.
Your letter will be opened, read and answered
by a woman and held in strict confidence.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-01

ing six months: Councillor. ". Garrett
Ammonds: Past Councillor, william
Dudley; Vice Counolor II. S. Owens:
Conductor. Z. w. BROMLEY; Recording
Secretary, L. NJ. Gidd'ngs: Financial
Secretary. Read s. Black: Treasurer. 1.
~. Smith,. Assistant Secretary, Jacob
Ferguson; Warden, ]. F. Dudley: In
Elmo Rountrce; Chaplain. C. ". Wood.
Secretary and Mrs. W. c. AIcCarty
and tho following boys OF the Hamp-
ton Y. NJ. C. A. attended the Older
Boys Conference In Richmond this
week: Albert wyatt. Chaligle Francis,
Goodlet Gilmore. Roy Phillips. Alvin
Birmingham. Fletcher Woodward. Tay-
lor Holtzciaw aud Sclater Montague.
Mr.. and Mrs. William House. who
were married in Washington Thurs
day, returned to the city yesterday.
Mrs House wac NIias Maudo Malone,
and the announcement of her marriage
to Mr.. House came as a surprise to
their friends here
Isaac Kirsner ono OF the largest
clothing merchants In the city. has
filed petition In voluntary bank
ruptcy. asking for relief Of debts ag-
gresatins $4,000. He gives his as
sets at $4,000.
Kccoughtan Lodge. No. 20, Knights
Of Pythias. at It's meeting this week
elected the following officers: Chan
ccllor Commander, Stuart r. Beerye;
Fice-Chancellor Commander. Clarence
Condor: Prelatc. Jesse Cunningham;
Master of Works. Il. l. Howard; Mas
ter of EHchcquer. V p. holt; Master
OF Finance, J. ii. Mitchell: Keeper OF
Records and Seal. Coleman Wcies
Master IT Arms. l. L. Spencer. Inner
Guard. q W. stultz; Outer Guard, NJ.
J. Suares: Representative to Grand
Lodge, h l. Tennis: Alternate. j.
Archer Vaughan; District Deputy
Grand Chancellor. Robert L. Tennis
Trustee, V. y. Holt.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-01
.OLOFR|ENDS MEET
TOGREET new YEAR
Especial to The rlmes-plspatch.]

kopeCldi 10 ne
I.ynchburg, Va, December 3l.-At
midnight tonight on the canal bridge
leading to the old city pump station,
John Shine. aged eighty Years, and
Geo. Johnson. aged seventy-lve years
met for the thirty.third consecutive
year to watch the coming of the New
Year. With them was Policeman D.
a. Driskill. who met with the vete-
rams for his nineteenth time.
More than three decades ago John
Shine was an engineer at night ut the
pump station. and George Johnson was
the night Waterman at nearby plant.
and they met OH the bridge ono night
to see the old year die 40 the city
clock chimed the midnight hour they
shook hands and expressed the wish
that they might meet again year
hence under similar conu'tions, They
did SO for fourteen years, and on the
fourteenth Mr. Driskill, then also an
engineer at tho pump house, Joined
them and has since met with them
annually.
Tonight Policeman Driskill got
leave OF absence from his beat Ions
enough to keep the appointment, anu
at IL o'clock Mr.. Shine went back TO
the pump house and the policeman 10
his beat, leaving Mr.. Johnson, although
seventy-hve years old, to walk TO his
home more than two miles distant, for
he was too late to catch the last street
COR Of tho night.