St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-03

1.-The School and the Child" The
speakers will include David Snedden,
Phi. D., commissioner of education
for Massachusetts,; Edward d. Col
Inns of Middlebury College, Frederick
Upper, Jr., of the University of Yer
mont, and Walter ]. Rideout of Dan
Vile On Thursday noon the Uni
Versity invites nonresident teachers
to a luncheon in the gymnasium and
in the afternoon President and Mrs.
Benton give an informal reception
at their home at the close of the
session In the evening the School
masters Club hold banquet at hotel
Vermont and others listen to a lee
ture on Japan by Dean Perkins. Sat
urday morning Mrs. John B. Chase
will speak on Boys and Girls Work
in the Elementary Schools" and A. G.
Fletcher of Orleans and Miss Bessie
Thayer of Morrisville on such work
in the high school.
The Sons of the American Revo-
luton at their annual meeting at
Montpelier Wednesday, elected the
following officers: President, Red
field Proctor, Proctor; vice-president,
w. H. Jeffrey, East Burke; secretary
and historian, Walter H. Crockett,
Montpelier; treasurer, Clarence L.
Smith, Burlington; registrar, Dor
man B. E. Kent, Montpelier; chap
lain, Rev. Homer A. Flint, Montpe-
lier; board of managers, DR.. Henry
D. Holton, Brattleboro, Harry S.
Howard, Burlington; Morris w.
Dewey, Montpelier, Lyman P. Wood,
Burlington; Charles A. Stevens, ST.
Adams; Sherman Everts, Windsor;
H. B. Fillmore, Bennington.
The Waterbury high and graded
schools have purchased victrola
and will buy records suitable for the
use of the children.
Fire at Barre, Feb. 16, destroyed
two large barns on the A. Martinetti
farm at a loss of $4,000. The own
er also lost IL head of cattle and
two heifers, so tons of hay and all
his farming tools.
Frank Francis, a Hungarian at
Proctor, committed suicide Feb. Is,
by shooting himself He was fore
man at the loading docks of the Yer
mont Marble Co. and had no rela-
tives in this country.
The annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Poultry Association was
held in ST. Adams, Feb. IT and the
following officers elected: Presi-
dent, A. B. Wheeler; secretary, M.
D., Jarvis; assistant secretaries, G. E.
Wilson and F. w. Sault; treasurer,
G. L. Curtis; directors, A. B. Wheel
er, M. d. Jarvis, G. l.. Curtis, F. w.
Sault, G. A. Revoir, B. P. Greene,
Jr, H l. Burbank of St. Adams, S.
o. Brush of Burlington. G. A. Re-
voir was appointed auditor. The re-
ports of the officers showed that the
recent show was a financial success.
d. P. Shove of Fall River, Mass, who
has acted as a judge at this show
for the past eight years, will be en-
gagged for next years show. 1t was
voted to build coops to enable the
association to take care of at least
400 more birds at it's exhibits.
Burlington and Winooski bakers
have advanced the price of bread and
now sell the small loaf for six cents
and the large for IL cents.
The 4Sth annual encampment of
the department of Vermont, G. A. R.,
will be held in st. Adams Tuesday
and Wednesday, April 13 and IA,
convening in the Grand Army hall.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the event by the st. Adams
post and Professional Mems Asso-
citation. The W. R. c., Ladies of
the G. A. r., Sons of Veterans and
other kindred organizations will
meet in St. Adams at the same time.
Department officers of the relief
corps and G. A. R. will give a recep-
ton Monday evening, April IL, and
Tuesday evening will be given over
to a public camp fire in the city hall.
The officers are requested to prepare
and send their reports to headquar-
tiers at Montpelier not later than
March 20, 1915, so they may be
printed, ready to distribute at the
annual encampment.
Feb. 16 a stranger came to the
home of Dennis Finnessey of Win
ooski and asked for a nights lodg-
ing. When the family tried to call
him next morning he was found to
be in a stupor and died before the
doctor arrived. A card in his pock-
ct gave the name of Arthur Renox of
Salem Falls, N H.
The noted portrait painter, Alban
]. Conant, a native of Chelsea, died
in New York, Feb. 3. He was born
in 1921 and his chief work was the
Smiling Lincoln"
DR.. Charles N. Barber, a lifelong
resident of Barre, and a well-known
veterinary, died Feb. Is, aged g.
He had held many town offices, rep
resented the town in the legisla-
ture and was vice-president of the
Granite Mutual Insurance Company.
H NJ. Farnham of Montpelier has
sold his farm in East Montpelier,
known as the Stevens farm, to Ju-
Illus Ruiter of Burlington for $685.
600.
Fire involving a loss of nearly
$4,000 partly destroyed the gran
lite plant of George Stratton at Barre
Friday and threw so men out of
work.