St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-07-22
VERMONT news

Is estimated at $4,000. The IA in
mates were rescued with consider
able dificulty, as several are bed
ridden.
The semi-annuaI report of the Yer
mont free library commission has
been made by Miss Rebecca Wright,
secretary, which shows the work be-
ing done by the commission and the
increase made. The fiscal year of
the commission has been changed, so
the report is for seven months end
ing July l. In that time, LOAF
books have come into the hands of
the commission and the sum of
$11.66 has been expended in aiding
the following towns; West Burke,
Dummerston, Halifax, Hancock,
Dover and North Hero. The value
Of the property belonging to the
commission at the present time is
$7,S47.6S. During the past seven
months applications for assistance
were received from 79 towns and 40
were supplied with $25 worth of
books out of that number.
The body of an unknown man was
found on the tracks of the Central
Vermont railway between Montpelier
and Montpelier Junction July IA. The
by the wheels of a train.
d. P. Wright is the first in YER
mont to take up overhead irrigation
which he is trying out at his farm
in Westminster, on two acres of
onions. The water is in a ravine be-
low, where a dam has been built and
a five horse power gasoline engine
installed. The water is forced into
the pipes on the hill at the rate of
AT gallons an acre a minute, equal
in six hours to a rainfall of one-half
inch. The pipes are run across the
top of seven-foot posts set at regu-
lar intervals and those on each acre
have 200 nozzles, which have to be
turned to different angles by hand.
1t requires six positions of the noz-
zles to cover all the ground. The
water will be used mostly during
July when the onions are bottoming.
Overhead Irrigation is practiced a
little in Massach usetts, but Mr.
Wright is the pioneer in Vermont.
His experiment is being watched by
his neighbors with keen interest. The
cost of installing the system is
about $3.50.
About 40 members of the Vermont
Rural Letter Carriers association at
tended the 10th annual convention
which opened at Knights of Column
bus hall in St. Adams, July Is at
1870 o'clock The afternoon pro-
gram was concluded with reports
from J. Nj. Carpenter of st. Johns
bury and A. A. Webster of West
Glover, national delegates.
Plans are being completed for the
entertainment of the Vermont State
Sunday School association at Barre,
October 81, %, %. A very interest
ing program is being arranged.
The Central Vermont railroad was
blocked for II hours July A by a
big freight wreck. No lives were
lost, but the loss was considerable.
H. w. Vail, chairman of the COM
mittee chosen by the town to erect
a suitable marker at the site of the
Caghnawaka Indian camp ground
used in the east part of the town of
Randolp in 1850, is arranging a pro-
gram of dedication at that place
August Is.
The proposed permanent memorial
to Commodore Thomas Macdonough
is doubtless assured by the action of
the United States Senate which has
passed the bill making a federal ap-
for the observance of the |
Tooth anniversary of the battle of
Plattsburg next September and
which was recently amended !
to give $4,000 towards the
erection of monument to
Macdonough. The |
memorial will be unveiled during |
the celebration to be held in Yer
gennes September 6, and 8, in con-
junction with the observance of the |
s,1
burg, which will take place at Platts-
burg the same month.
Jerome F. Hale has rounded out |
10 years of service as the popular |
landlord of Hale's Tavern, Wells /
River, and during that time 163,095 |
guests have been entertained at his |
hostelry. This is an average of s.
5S3 every year. In 1913 he enter7d
tanned 1888 guests and the pros
poets are that this years travel will
exceed the average.
Hardwick had an Industrial Day
last Wednesday. An excursion was
given to the famous Woodbury. gran
lite quarries.
The cupola of the marble Catho-
lie church in Middlebury was struck
by lightning Saturday evening, July
Is, about eight O'Clock during the
severest storm experienced there in
several years. A quantity of marble
came crashing to the street, but no
one was injured. 1t is estimated that
damage to the amount of $1,000
was done to the. church.
The Modern Woodmen of America
in Bennington are looking for Jacob
Sperber, one of the members of the
society at Bennington, who was re-
Gently chosen chairman of the COM
mittee to make arrangements for the
picnic and field day held July in
the upper grove on the Vermont sol
diers' home property. Nearly all of
the receipts from the entrance adj
the steam clam dinner, the
sales at the ice cream booth. and
soft drinks counter were turned
over, it is claimed, to Sperber, who
was to pay the bills and turn the
balance into the treasury. The re-
ceipts were over $500 and the ex-
penses came to within $50 to SIS
of this sum.