St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-01-27
VERMONT news
..Farmers' Week" at U. y.

the University of Vermont, Burling-
ton, Feb. % to 18th. 1t gives prom
Use of being bigger, buster and bet
ter than ever before, for it will be
three-ringed affair and deal with:
"a Agriculture: Cd home econ
mics CD highway work.
Cd The simon-pure Farmers
week. will be given up to addresses,
demonstrations and laboratory work
score lecturers and demonstrators
will take part.
GU The home economics section
will be in session for either two or
three days. Several women lectur-
ers and demonstrators will discuss
various phases of the home makers
problems.
CD The college of engineering
will hold a two days session, deal
ing with road construction and par
ticularly with road materials. Ad-
dresses, demonstrations and labo-
ratory work will be given. The state
highway commissioner will collabo-
rate. A state meeting of the county
highway commissioners will be held
in conjunction with this session.
Programs will be in print by Feb
ruary 1, and may be secured of the
director of the extension service
Morrill, Hall, Burlington.
With a banquet in Armory Hall
Wednesday evening, preceded by the
election of officers, the Sugar Makers
Association closed its annual meet
ing at Montpelier. Governor Gates
was the guest of honor at the ban
quet Lieutenant-Governor H. K.
Darling acted as POSTMASTER. Be-
sides Governor Gates, Dean Joseph
L. Hills of the University of YER
mont, and Commissioner of Agricul
ture Brigham, made brief speeches.
The following officers were elected:
President, A. A. Carton, Newbury;
viee-presidents, William E. York,
West Lincoln, A. M. Jennes Rich
| ford; secretary, H. B. Chaplin, Mid
dlesex; treasurer, H. w. Vail, Ran
dolph; auditor, P. B. Northrup, Shell
don. The executive committee,
which consists of the officers and
James P Taylor Of Burlington, sec
rotary of the Greater Vermont Assoc
citation, will select the date and place
of next meeting.
The special convention at Burling-
ton Wednesday, to choose a success
sor to the late Bishop Coadjutor Will
lam Farrar Weeks, of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Vermont, elect
ed Rev. DR.. George Y. Bliss, rector
of st. Paul's church of Burlington on
the third ballot. The Bishop-elect
Bliss was born in Sherburne, March
IL, 1864; he was graduated from
the University of Vermont with the
degree of bachelor of arts in 1889;
received his divinity degree from the
General Theological Seminary, New
York, in 1892; was in charge of Trim
ity mission, Winooski, 1892-1896;
was curate of st. Paul's, 1892-1899;
rector since 1899; has been presi-
dent of the standing committee of
the diocese since Bishop Weeks re-
signed in 1912; is a trustee of the
General Theological Seminary; sec
rotary of the board of land agents;
trustee of the Vermont Episcopal in
stitute and has been four times a
deputy to the general convention. In
1904 the University of Vermont, at
it's centennial celebration, conferred
upon him the degree of doctor of
divinity. He has wife, one son and
two daughters.
The Plainf1eld school war is still
on the Developments of the week in
Guiding the hanging of an eff1gy on
Thursday morning, from the out
side light in front of E. E. MAXWELL s.
The effigy was soon taken down and
it could not be learned that it bore
any name. The general contour of
the figure was suggestive, however.
Michael Coffey of Rutland, who
| for many years conducted a hotel
at Lake Bomoseen, died Jan. 10, as
the result of fall on an icy road
way, the fall fracturing his spine.
George B. rockingham, IA years
old, an actor, who has played the
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more than 5000 times, died at Bur-
lington Jan. 10. He played the part
the evening before and had been
playing it for 27 years. He was
probably the oldest actor on the
stage today. He had not been as
well as usual so his wife was travel
ing with him. They celebrated their
golden wedding not long ago.
Willard J. Boyce of Waterbury,
who had three times represented his
town, was killed Jan. IS in an au-
tomobile accident at Moretown. He
was general manager of the Mad
River Valley Lumber Co., and one
of the most prominent men in Wa
terbury. In passing pair of horses
drawing a wagon, he turned out too
far and plunged over a low embank-
ment. Mr. Boyce was found pinned
under the car, unconscious, and he
died soon after, being taken to a
house near by. He was SO years
old
At the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Life Insurance Co. at Mont
pelier last week, Henry Russell
Plat of Chicago was elected direc-
tor for four years to succeed the late
Judge James l.. Martin of Brattle-
boro. The same officers were elect
ed President, Joseph A. DeBoer;
vice-president and counsel, Fred A.
Rowland; second vice-president and
treasurer, Harry M. Cutler; secre-
tary, Osman D. Clark; medical di-
rector, Arthur B. Bisbee, M. D.; &C
tuary, Clarence E. Moulton; super
intendent of agencies, Edward d.
| Field.
Mrs. Richards Bradley of Brattle-
boro, just deceased, left $4,000 to the
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