St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-07-17
VERMONT NEWS

are as follows:
State Fair, White River Junction
September 1920; Addison count
fair, Middlebury, August 1880; Cal
edonia Grange fair, East Hardwick,
September 81; Caledonia fair, St.
Johnsbury, September 1913; Frank
lin county fair, Sheldon Junction,
September SIS; Lamoille county fair,
Morrisville, Aug. 27-29; Dog River,
Valley fair, Northfeld, date to be
announced; Valley fair, Brattleboro,
September 1926; Springfield fair,
Springfield, date to be announced;
Rutland county fair, Rutland, Sep
TENDER rs; Orleans county fair,
Barton, August 20-22; Bradford fair,
Bradford, August 1929; Tunbridge
fair, September 1926; Windsor
county, Woodstock, September 10
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Marker on Historic Spot.
The marble tablet marking the
site Of the Cephas Kent inn, in
which were held the first three con-
ventions Of the New Hampshire
Grants, was dedicated Wednesday
afternoon by the Vermont Society
of COLONEL Danes with simple ex-
ercises. The marker, a five by three
AdUACN u OOIbGL u4dIDACs SLdAlu6 III
close proximity to the old-fashiored
residence of Miss Zephine Hum
phrey, the writer, which is located
on the site of the original inn and
which comprises in its structure a
portion of the ancient hostelry. The
exercises consisted of a poem by
Prof. George Gilbert of Chicago, an
address by Judge Charles B. Kent
OF Dorset, singing OF the poem Yer
mont by Miss Helen Winslow of
Boston to the air Of America,
prayer and the dedicatory and his
torical address by Miss Jennie Val
entine of Bennington. president of
the society. The society, when it ar
ranged for the erection of the mark
er, was DESTROYS of inscribing on it
the warning for the first convention
held at the inn on January 6, 1875,
but the call was too long This first
convention was convened more for
the purpose of protesting against
the claims of the New York state
government, which had been con-
tinually endeavoring to overthrow
the New Hampshire titles under
which the settlers held their farms
At this convention a petition was
drawn up and Captain Heman Allen
presented the document to Congress
on the Sth of the following May
Upon return from Philadelphia, the
second convention was held at Dor
set on July "a. Thirty-one towns
on the western slope of the Green
Mountains were represented at the
convention, which, after receiving
the report of the agent who took
the petition to Congress-, allied it
self with the cause of the colonists
against Great Britain. The conVen-
tion adjourned to meet at the same
place on September Is. At the last
gathering it was unanimously rel
solved Ito take suitable measures,
as soon as may be, to declare the
New HAMPSHIRE Grants a separate
district THIS conve ton adjourn
ed to January Is. 1777, at West
minister, where the original consti-
tuition was adopted.
Stopped by Dead Fish
The Vermont Marble company
works were partly shut down Thurs
day by reason of thousands of dead
fish shutting off their water supply.
The fish began to come down
stream about 10 o'clock the night
before and have caused lots Of trou-
BILE at the dam. Thousands of the
fish have been taken out and put
in dumpcarts and buried. The fish
are all sizes and varieties, from an
inch long to two feet. Nobody
seems to know just how the fish
were killed. The best theory seems
to be that of poisonous gases gem
Grated in the river through the me-
dunn of the sewer and warm water.
Wireless on Vermont Mountains.
State Forester A. f. Halves has
delegated Charles and Palmer Pow
ers of Proctor to build wireless tel
egraphy stations in several places in
Vermont for use in transmitting
messages to rangers when forest
fires are discovered. The first sta
ton is to be on Mount Pico at an
altitude of $500 feet, and there will
be other. stations on the higher
pected that this system will save
hundreds of acres of timherland
from destruction by fire annually.
Man Fell on Axe.
Henry Riley OF Granville met with
an accident Wednesday while des-
cending a steep hill, where he had
been repairing a fence. He lost
his balance and fell downward.
SLFlkl0R MS IdC6 on the axe ne was
carrying and cutting a cash across
his forehead. He was in company
with d. N. Rice, for whom he was
working Mr.. Rice helped him to
his home after he had tainted
Churches Struck by Lightning.
During storms last week Tuesday,
lightning struck the Unitarian
church in Middlesex, and the struc-
ture was destroyed by fire, only the
walls being left standing. The loss
Is placed at $4,000. third covered
by insurance. The church was used
by the Unitarian and Methodist so
cieties. st. Bridget's Catholic
church in West Rutland was damag-
ed to the extent of about $4,000 by
a bolt of lightning which struck the
tall steeple about six feet below the
cross. ripped off the shingles for
some distance, shattered the inter
for tfmhers and then found its way