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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
PUBLIC BUILDING HOLD-UP.
Sec. McAdoo Issues Order i'm Def
ance OF Vote OF Congress.

Washington, Aug. 3. Especial
Correspondence. When Is a law
not a law?
When Congress has enacted it and
a Democratic Secretary of the Treas
ury refuses to obey it.
This piece OF political catechism
will be of especial interest to the
500 towns and cities for which Con-
gress has made provision for a fed
eral building, but where Secretary
McAdoo has decided to override
Congress and to decide for himself
what kind of a building the place
is entitled to have and how much it
shall cost.
Mr.. McAdoo has just issued a
formal order to this effect; but 1t
appears that the policy has been in
force for two years without any such
order, and that, no matter what
Congress has said shall be paid for
postof1ice or its site in a given
town, Mr.. McAdoo has done as he
pleased. Where he has thought no
building was needed, no site has
been purchased. AS a result of this
usurpation of power in disregard Of
an act of Congress, Mr.. McAdoo has
purchased only 1876 OF the 303 sites
which Congress authorized to be
bought by it's act of May IA, 1913.
And, when the buildings are con-
structed, Mr.. McAdoo will see to it
that they are built after his manner
of thinking and upon a fixed scale
of expenditure based upon the char
acter of the town Gas Mr.. McAdoo
sizes it up) and upon the receipts
Of the local postofice, rather than
upon the appropriation which Con-
gress has decided the town shall
have.
The present Administration has
done a good many curious things.
Treaties have not been permitted to
stand in the way of some portions of
Its tariff legislation; the President
hisregarded the Constitution when he
seized the Mexican custom house at
Vera Cruz. And now it seems that
Ahe Presidents subordinates are to
adopt a like high-handed course in
Opposition to the will of Congress.
Among the 303 communities af-
Rected by this brushing aside of the
let of Congress in favor of the die
bum of the Presidents son-in-law is
St. Johnsbury. Washington wonders
What your people will think and
bay when they learn that Mr.. Nc
Adoo has set himself up as ga big
ger man" than Congress-and what
your people will do about it when
election day comes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
SUTTON
Roads Damaged by Heavy Rains
EVangeIistic Meetings.

Oh A. Blake, Correspondent
The heavy rains of late, especially
the past week have washed and gull
! lied the roads in many places, more
especially the road from the village
to the railroad station. 1t will cost
the town more than $500 to repair
this road. 1t was so that the mail
team could not go over the road for
one or two days. Two gangs of men
with Road Commissioner .Melcher
are at work repairing.
The Evangelistic meetings spoken
of in the past commenced Sunday,
August 1, and are to continue
through the week and probably will
not close until after Sunday, August
Is. Service every evening at 1880
o'clock.
The regular monthly conference
and covenant meeting of the Free
Baptist church is to be held Thurs
day afternoon at two O'Clock.
There was a bad washout on the
hill from Sutton Hollow to F. o.
Berry's and several men and teams
have been at work repairing the road
for several days.
Mrs. Nellie Frost from Melrose,
Mass, is visiting her cousin, Mrs.
L. OTU0S.
Miss Stella Thompson from Pres
que Isle, Me-, visited at the parson-
age last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Allen from
East Charleston visited at Mr.. and
Mrs. w. G. Stevens the last of last
week
~ Miss Bertha Craig was at her home
from St. Johnsbury over Sunday. She
works for the c. H. Goss Co. at
ST. Johnsbury.
E. w. Brockway and wife from st.
Center, natives and form
er residents of town, visited old
friends and neighbors few days last
week. Mr.. Brockway said there had
been so many changes since he left
town that there were but few whom
he knew.
Mrs. Bertha Card from Haverhill,
Mass, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Reed.
Riley Butterfield and wife, who
have been visiting friends here have
to their home at West
Thornton, N. H.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Eggers from
South Dakota have come from En-
field, N. H, where they have been
he past two weeks with Mrs. Egg
gers mother, Mrs. T. J. Mitchell, for
| visit of some time. Mrs. Eggers
will be remembered as Nina Clark.
Mrs. o. E. Bundy at Sutton sta
ion is very i'll. There was a council
If doctors there on her case Thurs
lay.
The heavy rains washed out the
fridge near G. A. Rennie's on the
Dad from here to Lyndon.
Joel Chesley and wife of Barton
we're visitors at their fathers and
Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Chesley's,
yer Saturday night and Sunday.
Thomas Mitchell has been having
serious time with his foot, but it
) thought to be some better.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles McKown
ave visited Mrs. McKown's son, F.
/. Parker, at Derry, N. H., the past
yeek, returning home Monday night.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
PROBATE or Will
EsTATR on HRLEN p POOL

ESTATE OF HELEN p. POOLE.
STATE OF VERMONT, District Of Caledonia, S.
The Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Caledonia: To all persons interested
in the estate Of Helen p. Poole, late of st.
Johnsbury, in said District deceased, Greet
ing:
At Probate Court. holden at st. Johns
bury within and for said District ON the 4 5th
day of July A. ID. 1918, an instrument
purporting to be the last VIII and Testa-
ment of Helen r. Poole, late OF st. Johns
bury, in said District deceased was present.
ed to the Court aforesaid, for Probate.
And 1t 10 ordered by said Court that the
7th day of August A. ID. 1918, at the
Probate Office in said St. Johnsbury, be as
signed for proving said instrument; and that
notice thereof be given TO all persons con-
cerned, by publishing this order three weeks
successfully in the Caledonian, a newspaper
circulating in that vicinity, in said District,
previous to the time appointed.
Therefore, you are hereby notified to APP
pear before said Court, at the time and place
aforesaid, and contest the probate of said
will, if you have cause.
Given under my hand at st. Johnsbury, I'm
said District, this 18th day OF July, A. ID.
1915.
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
LOWER WATERFORD
(Mrs. G. A. Ballou, correspond,

(Mrs. G. A. Ballou, correspondent.
Mr.. and Mrs. John brennan and
son, Of Cookshire, P. O., visited his
aunt, Mrs. Henry Morrison, recent
1y.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Morrison of
Barre are visiting at their mothers,
Mrs. Katherine Morrison's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Hemingway
and daughter spent Sunday at her
fathers, Ellie Miles, at Passumpsic.
Rev. F. B. Richards of the North
church, st. Johnsbury, and his sing
ers had services in the church Sun
day which were much enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Josiln Of
Concord were guests at E. E. Hale's
Sunday.
An artist from Chicago is in town
sketching pictures for Carl Ross,
of South Bend, Ind.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
NORTH DANVILLE

(A1ice P. Massey, Correspondent .
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac F1emings of St.
Johnsbury spent Sunday with her
sister, Mrs. William Gadapee.
Eva Emmons went Saturday to st.
Johnsbury to care for a case of ty-
phoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Bedor, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Drew went on an auto
trip thorugh the White mountains
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Sanborn, Mrs.
Fred Gadapee and daughter, Jen-
ME, went Thursday to Old Orchard.
Mrs. Elvira Badger, Mrs. Gadapee's
mother, is keeping house for her.
Guests at H. M. Goodwin's Satur-
day were Mrs. Kenneth Butler of st.
Johnsbury, Misses George and John
son of East Corinth; SUNDAY Mr.. and
Mrs. J. M. Goodwin and son, Ray
mond, of Woodsville
Miss Laura George of Boston
spent the weekend with Mrs. H. M.
Goodwin.
Mrs. William Shattuck and Mrs.
ferers from their burns from light
ming, although they are doing as well
as can be expected
Friday night is ladies' night at the
Grange. The ladies are to do all the
work.
Mrs. Albert Juneau and children of
st. Johnsbury are spending their va
cation at Lawrence Plants.
Dorothy Mears of Johnson is at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. Frank
SWEET, spending her vacation.
Mrs. John Landry of ST. Johns
bury is visiting at the home of her
sister, Mrs. James Johnson.
Miss Drake and Miss Holmes of
are at George Stan
toms spending their vacation. Sun
day they with Mrs. Stanton were at
Leslie Hardy's at Danville.
George Drew and Charles Drew
have finished haying.
Mrs H. P. Anderson and daughter
of New Jersey are guests of Mrs. o.
H. Stevens.
Mrs George Massey and son,
Drum, who have been visiting at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. H. Stevens, returned to her
home at st. Johnsbury Saturday.
H. F. Clifford and family of st.
were in the place Sunday. |
Lois Clifford will spend the week
with relatives.
A. c. Chickering will have his new
barn ready for hay within a day or
two.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
WALTER P. SMITH. Judge.
Connecticut and PassumpSic Rivers Rail
road Company.
Stockholders Annual Meeting.

NOTICE.
The Stockholders of the CONNECTICUT
AND PASSUMPSIC RIVERS RAILROAD
COMPANY, are hereby warned and notified
to meet in their Annual Meeting, to be held
at the NEWPORT HOUSE, in NEWPORT,
in the County of Orleans and State of Yer
mont on Wednesday, the first day of Sept
ember, A. ID. 1915, at nine O'Clock In the
forenoon for the following named purposes:
FIRST. To hear the reports of the officers
of the Company and take action thereon.
SECOND. To elect Board Of Nine Direct
ors for the corporation for the year then
next ensuing
THIRD. To transact any other business
action.
Dated at ST. Johnsbury, in the County of
Caledonia, and State OF Vermont, this
second day of August, A. ID. 1918.
By order of the Board of Directors.
HARRY BLODGBTT,
Secretary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04

Miss Maude Myra of Boston is the
guest of Miss Ethel Ramage.
Dr. and Mrs. S. H. Aver of Boston
are visiting at the home of DR.. How
ard Lee and Rev. and Mrs. E. P.
Lee.
Mrs. Riley Switser of Washing
ton d. c., is the guest of Mrs. w.
S. Russell.
Miss Ruth McGinness of West
Rumney is the guest of Mrs. George
McGinniss.
Miss Helen Fisher is home from
Passumpsic where she has been work
ing as nurse for several months.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
MUSEUM NOTES.

The flower calendar for the week
is as follows: Purple-fringed orchis,
Virginia virgins bower, wild parsnip,
ambiguous clammy ground cherry,
July &c; from Eden, VT, bladderwort
and small green wood orchis, July
20; trailing Christmas green, red top,
blue joint, couch and downy bronze
grass, sweet flag, fruit of hazelnut,
purple-leaVed willoWherb, spurred
gentian, pipsissewa, Indian tobacco,
corn cookie, scarlet lychnis, bouncing
bet, buck wheat, false climbing buck
wheat, bugleweed, small bedstraw,
hop rich-weed, bur-weed, spiderwort,
corn SOW thistle, spiny-leaved SOW
thistle, low or marsh cudweed, joe
Pye weed, thoroughwort, Canada
goldenrod, low hairy goldenrod, tall
blue lettuce, July 2S; wild carrot,
wild balsam apple, zigzag goldenrod,
large leaved aster, fruit of clasping
leaved twisted-stalk, fruit of iris
spotted st. John's-wort, marsh and
Canadian st. John's-wort, checker
berry, Virginia wild rye, green fox
tail grass, July 81. A collection of
Towering plants from Ocean Park,
Maine, were on display the past week,
including the following: Bladder
wort, ragged fringed orchis, calopo-
gon, arethusa, checkerberry, high
bush BURBERRY and common blue
berry, cranberry, bunchberry or
dwarf cornell, male berry or privet
andromeda, sweet gale, buIb-bearing
loOsestrife, whorled loosestrife,
meadowsweet, beach pea, dusty mil
Ter, Indian pipe, running swamp
blackberry, and smooth or meadow
rose.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04

Hay fever is attributed to pollen
floating in the air, while asthma is
caused by dust and certain atmospheric
conditions common in summer. Suf-
ferers who can, seek the mountains or
the sea- Hay fever and asthma victims
compelled to remain at home will find
relief in Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound which allays the Inflammation,
soothes and heals raw and raspfng
bronchial tubes and helps to overcome
difficulty in breathing, and makes sound
refreshing sleep possible. c. c. Bing-
ham.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
Montpelier Seminary

A boarding school of 81 years standing
Delightfully."- located and under Christian
auspices.
A wide range of College Preparatory and
Life courses, including Teacher Training
and Domestic Science.
Certificate to college.
Unsurpassed Business courses, with type
writing and stenography.
Conservatory advantages in vocal, pipe or
gan, piano and violin.
Art and Public Speaking.
A large, sympathetic, able faculty.
Athletics. Good school spirit.
Terms moderate. Write for information.
J. W. HATCH, M. S., Principal, Montpelier, VI.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
EAST ST. JOHNsBURY

(Mrs. G. w. Dodge, Correspondent
Miss Jennie Ramage, who has been
quite i'll with fever, is slowly recov-
ering.
Raymond Gray has moved to St.
Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
Teachers Examinations.

Examinations for State Teachers Certif
Gates and for Advanced Free instruction
will be held in the Summer Street building
Thursday and Friday, August 2 and 13.
Pupils who were conditioned in thefr May
examinations and who wish to have their
tuition paid at the Academy, must pass in
the subjects in which they are conditioned.
Supt. Young has been advised by the Com
missioner of Education that the usual policy
with regard to free tuition will continue for
this year at least.
WALTER H. YOUNG,
Superintendent.
St. Johnsbury, VT,
July 80, 1915.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04

Excursion to Burlington via st.
Adams Bay, Aug. 10. See ad. on
page 3.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04
Teachers, examinations.

Public examinations for candidates 70
Teachers Certificates Will be held in tn
gram mar school room at Barnet on Thurs
day and Friday, August IL and ID, 1918
beginning at O'clock
HARVEY BURBANK.
Supt- of Schools.
Walden, vt.
July 20, 1919.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-04

famous by the American Liver
Tablets, the perfect laxative.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-18
FAILURE OF LEGISLATURES.

In the current number of a popular
magazine ex-Gov. Hodges, of Kansas,
contributes an article entitled Com
nonsense in Commonwealths that de-.
serves the attention and serious con-
sideration of every American voter.
The writer points out the miserable
failure of our state legislatures, how
they all disappoint the hopes Of the
/ people, how inefficiency, waste, ex-
travagance and neglect of duty are
the general characteristics of our
lawmakers. We know that this is
true of Tennessee, but our legislators
are about of an average, no better
nor worse than those of other states.
Our system is more at fault than
the men whom we select to make
the laws. In this state 1872 members
are selected to meet for seventy-five
days every two years. They receive
only 81 per day. The Office is not an
attractive one. There is no honor in
serving in the legislature and the pay
is too small and the sacrifice too
great to attract really able and cap
able men, In the very nature of
things man who studies the init
mate needs and interests of his state
government for only seventy-five
days probably in a life time cannot
have a very thorough knowledge or
appreciation of the needs of the state.
During the early part of our legis-
lative sessions members spend most
of the time in playing politics. They
are playing for place and power. 1t
is during the closing hours of tho ses-
sion that the great bulk of the legisla-
ton Is rushed through. 1t is but
poorly considered and lily digested.
Errors are made in nearly every act
that require lawsuits to adjust them.
To expect anything else would be to
expect something utterly impossible.
Gov Hedges suggests the remedy.
It is a plain and simple one. 1t would
simply apply the principles of organ
ization that govern our private and
quasi public corporations to the man
agement Of state affairs. A select
body Of really capable men, chosen
for their ability and special knowl-
edge Of governmental affairs, always
on the job, would give US reasonably
efficient government.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-18
TWO slpEs

The Nashville Banner, discussing
the sinking Of the Lusitania, opines
that it is question about which there
are two sides. Upon that we will
agree. There is the right side and
the wrong side. There are two sides
to piracy and murder, upon the high
seas as well as under cover of the
night. One side, Christian civiliza-
ton and American humanity, de-
clares these crimes wrong and hor-
rible. The other side, German "kul.
tur" and military despotism, declares
them justified. We prefer the VIII
son-American side. If there is any
justification for the wilful, deliberate
and premeditated murder of the wo-
men, children and non-combatants of
the Lusitania, then the crime Of muir
der should be stricken from the
decalogue.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-18
OUT,
SIX MILES AWAY
SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES
OF THE HOG CHOLERA
ERADICATORS.

DR.. O"Connor and his assistants,
in charge Of hog cholera eradication
in this county, often have some very
interesting and not altogether plea.
SAINT experiences. A day or t&o ago
while in the Rally Hill section they
went over a cross roads to see a
herd of hogs that was almost impass-
able. 1t was a road that no wagon
or buggy had been over in sometime,
but going in they managed 10 navi.
gate it with their car. However, on
the return trip they ran out o. easo.
line six miles from Il source of sup
ply. There was nothing to do but
walk. They reached Columbia and
had supper at IL o"clDcx that night.
In some places 1t is necessary to get
out of the car and do a biz OF road
patching before they can navigate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-18
RAINEY WILL GIVE
AWAY CABBAGES
FIVE THOUSAND HEAD TO BE
PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE
OF THIS SECTION.

Five thousand cabbage heads will
be given away by Horace Rainey on
Saturday afternoon. Mr. Rainey has
an announcement of that fact in The
Herald today. This a pretty liberal
gift but those who know Mr.. Rainey
know that he means what he says
and when the people of this section
who want free head of cabbage pre-.
sent themselves at the gate of Mr..
Rainey's residence on Saturday after
noon they will get them. Mr.. Rainey
has an immense crop Of cabbage,
more than can readily be disposed Of
and has decided that they ought not
to be allowed TO waste, but the peo-
pie who need them should get the
benefit of the surplus.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-18
TRUSTWORTHY HELP.

Business men, farmers, members Of
the professions and housekepers are
constantly complaining Of their ina
bility to find trustworthy and wholly
dependable assistants. Everywheer
there is a demand, growing all the
time, for laborers who can be depend
ed upon, who will work with some
love of work, whose interest in the
business or occupation of their en-
ployer will come not alone from the
sum that they are to receive at the
and of the day or week or month.
There is an insistent demand for men
who will work because they take
sheer delight in accomplishing some
thing, because they will have a pride
in their own achievements.
Too often the clerk or the stenog-
rapher or the reporter or the farm la
borer simply does just what he is told
to do and when he is told to do it,. He
cares not a rap for the results of his
effort. His eyes are consistently on
the clock, less by some mischance, he
might give few minutes more to the
task in hand than he had contracted
to give. He does not do his work be-
cause, in this world it is not only a
duty but a privilege to do ones best
at all times and under all circum.
stances. He is simply, in his own es-
teen, hired man at so much for so
many hours work day or week. His
sole desire apparently is to "kill time"
and draw his stipulated pay. 1t never
seemingly enters his brain that the
success Of his employer is in the end
his own success.
The world wants laborers who will
assume responsibility, who will work
as faithfully and as earnestly for their
employer as they would Tor them
selves who are at all times dependa-
bic, who will not fear lest they do a
few hours more work than they con.
tract to do. In other words there is
always room for the man or boy who
assumes toward his duties the proper
attitude. He will not have any troub
lie to get job The man who is al
ways complaining that he is earning
more than he is getting, seldom ad-
vances in the world. Very, very few
of US get less in life than we deserve
Man generally receives just about
what he is worth, sometimes more but
not very often less.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-06-18
WOOL CROP Of THE
COUNTY PROFITABLE
DURING PAST SEASON
BETTER PRICES REALIZED THAN
HAVE BEEN OBTAINED IN
RECENT YEARS.
AVERAGE TWENTY five CENTS
Not Less Than 10000 Pounds, Prob
ably Much More Has Gone to Mar
ket from Maury, the Best Grades
Bringing az High IS Thirty Cents.

This week will about wind up the
wool season in Maury county with
the exception of a few sheep that
have not been clipped and possibly
few scattering holdings that are
still out, but the greater part, and no
doubt SO per cent of the wool has
been clipped and delivered.
While the yield shows q falling of
OF about forty per cent over that OF
last year, still there has been ship.
ped from this county 10000 pounds
OF wool, and the quality has been
much better and the price paid the
farmer has been much better than
that of 1914, averaging rs cents per
pound against Is cents per pound
last year, which after all makes the
net earnings to the producer about
the same. The fall off of the supply
can be attributed to two causes.
First, there we're not the sheep in
the county this year as there were
last year and second there was a
much heavier shipment Of old sheep
at the beginning of spring, owing to
the scarcity Of pasture. 1t is estim-
ated that not less than 10000 pounds
of wool was shipped out on the old
sheep that under ordinary circum.