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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
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The March number of The North
American Review presents a title
page of compelling interest, and the
body of this venerable periodical full
fills the promise. The leader, as usu-
al, is by the editor, and is in the form
of "A Letter to The Times, in
which he takes issue with the recent
editorials in The Spectator and Out
look and makes clear Americas po-
sition toward the great conflict. He
further discusses editorially such
and a Century Ago." Making Free
With the Flag" 1.-The Bogy of Alien
IIlliteracy'' and "The War and the
Woman" A notable contribution
will be found in the paper by Lord
Bryce, STRAY Thoughts on American
Literature" in which he takes note
of some recent developments. The
Hon. Joseph H. Choate makes an au-
thoritative statement concerning
''The Right and the Duty of Self-De-
fense," and the Reverend Francis q.
Peabody brings home some searching
truths to Americans Abroad" The
situation of the north countries is
considered by Julius Moritzen in
"The War and a Greater Scandina-
via," and Oswald Garrison Willard
has an informing article on Inc
United States and the Peace Treaty"
A very vivid description of British
officers experiences will be found in
From the Front-Home!" and the
moral aspect of the war is considered
by the Right Reverend Chauncey b..
Brewster in Ethics Made in Ger
many" Abram s. Isaacs points out
1.-The Jews Opportunity in America, I"
and Edgar S. Maclay offers as sug-
gestion that the unknown terrible ma
chine of war, "Dundonald's Destroy
er" may have been Burning
Glasses" The literary portion of the
magazine is exceptionally fine
HaVelock Ellis writes of Henri de
Regnier," w. d. Howells of 1.-THE
Plays of Eugene Brieux," and Louise
Collier Wilcox of a visit to Thomas
Hardy" There is notable verse,
too. The English poet, Alice Mey-
nell, has a poem, Length of Days,
of great beauty, and her fellow-coun-
tryman. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, one
entitled 1.-The Blast-Furnace." The
number concludes with the usual de-
partments.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
WARNING
FOR
Special Town Meeting
Saturday, April 8, 1915

The citizens of st. Johnsbury who are legal
voters in Town Meeting, are hereby notified
hnd warned to meet at the Town Hall, in
the Village ofSt Johnsbury. in said Town OF
Rt. Johnsbury. on Saturday. the third day
bf April, 1918, at two O'Clock in fhe after
hoon, to transact the following business:
ARTICLE 1. To hear the report of the
Selectmen and the Engineer in the matter OF
The proposed elimination OF the Bacon ana
Bowker Crossings and the relocating of the
highway bridge at st. Johnsbury Center, in
accordance with the resolution adopted at
II o15. and to what action, If any, the
Fown will take upon said report.
ARTICLE 2. To see what action the
Town will take relative to the erection of a
lew highwa bridge over the Passumpsic
liver at or above the Bacon crossing. so
hailed and relative to the alteration, reloca-
Hon or extension of the highways north and
west of st. Johnsbury Center. and to see if
the Town will vote to appropriate money
ARTICLE 8. To see what action, if any,
the Town will take with reference to author
zing the selectmen to prefer petition to the
Public Service Commission of the State OF
Vermont, praying for an order for the aboli-
ion Of the bacon ana BowRer CROSSINGS ssdrlss
hnce with Chapter 1914 of the Public
Statutes, as amended.
ARTICLE 4. TO hear and act upon the
report of the committee authorized to inves-
tigate the loss and damage caused at st.
ohnsbury Center by reason OF high water
and ice, in accordance with vote taken at
the Annual Town Meeting held March End
1915.
ARTICLE .. To see II the IoWn VIII vote
to appropriate sum of money to alleviate
and relieve the loss due to high water and
Ice, recently sustained by the people of St
1ohnsbury Center, and if so. how much and
how the same shall be expended and applied
ARTICLE 6. To transact any other bust
hess that may legally come before said meet
ing.
Dated at st. Johnsbury, Vermont, this
22nd day of March, 1915.
W. F. WEIGH.
A. F. LAWRENCE; Selectmen
b. A. PARMA M
st. Johnsbury. VT, Town Clerks Office.
March 22nd, 1918.
Received for record at 1920 O'Clock a.. m.
and recorded in Records of Town Meetings
Attest:
CHAS. G. BRALEY.
Town Clerk.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
LYNDON

Mrs. E. F. Young, Correspondent
The ladies of the NJ. E. church
will serve food sale by proxy Thurs-
day afternoon, March 25.
Mrs. Lizzie Davis is quite i'll with
the prevailing distemper. Mrs. Mel
vim Davis is caring for her.
S. L. Park and family are spend
ing a few days at E. F. Young's.
George Nelson moved from Lyndon
Center into E. Holloway's tenement
last week.
Leon Pierce has finished work for
the o. H. Co. and has gone to WORK
for L. D. Hall.
Mrs. Ida Hannett Duprey passed
away Tuesday, March Is, at her pa
rents home on the South Wheelock
road. Mrs. Duprey was the Oldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Han
nett. She was married to Edward
Duprey some over a year ago. Mrs
Duprey gave birth to baby daugn-
ter, March 5. The daughter was
cared for during the illness and death
of the mother by a neighbor, Mrs:
George Brill. She was 10 years OF
age. Funeral services were held at
the home Thursday, March Is, at
1870 P. M.
Mrs. E. H. Gray spent the past week
with her sister at Littleton, N. H.
Miss Dorothy Walter is at home
from Orleans, where she teaches in
the high school for two weeks va
cation.
Cleighton Chester of Angus, P. g.,
is visiting his brother, Clifford Ches-
ter.
The ladies of the Village Improve
ment Society will meet with Mrs. j.
B. Chase, Friday afternoon, March
&c. All ladies of the village invited.
Mrs. Heath of Warren spent the
past week at the Congregational par
sonage.
The Ladies Aid of the M. E. church
will meet of Mrs. William Arkleyi
Wednesday afternoon.
The girls industrial class met with
the Misses Ella and Clara Wilmarth
last Saturday evening.
Don't forget the social at the
homes of Mrs. NJ. E. SWEET and Mrs.
Earl Bradshaw, Friday evening,
March &c. Every one is cordially
invited.
Enterprise Grange worked the
third and fourth degrees on IL new
members last Friday evening.
There will be dance in Grange
Hall Saturday evening, March 27.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
MONROE

mabel Frazer, Correspondent
Rev. w. G. Clark of Barnet will
give an illustrated lecture on 1.-The
Philippine Islands in the M. e.
church Thursday evening.
Mrs. Jennei Meader of Whitinsville
Mass, and Arthur Bodwell of Lyn-
don were at Fred Gibson's over Sun
day.
Vonie Smith of Lisbon has been Wis
iting friends in town.
Miss Mary Fisher has returned
from Easton, N. H., where she has
been visiting for several weeks.
George Blodgett spent few days
last week at Barnet with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Bert Kimball.
Alberta Nelson has returned home
from st. Johnsbury where she has
been working for several months.
Frank Root of Portland, Me-, has
been visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. G. Root.
road was destroyed by fire early Fri
John Dixon's house on the back
day morning.
Mrs. Bert Kimball and Mrs
Charles Kimball of Barnet visited al
P. E. Blancher's Friday.
Many in town are sick with colds
and the grip.
Mrs. Martha Higgins of Barnet
called on friends in town Friday.
Timothy Dixon of ST. Johnsbury
visited his sister, Mrs. Alvah Dickin
son, Saturday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24

They do not give the Morrisville
rate for the very good reason that IL
is only a trifle over one-half the Bur-
lington rate, or only cents per
k. w.
We copy the balance of the advt.
and ask all patrons of our mun1c1paI
light and power plant to read it and
then forever stop kicking, if any
have done so in the past, about the
cost of lights here, etc.
elm the face of competition, the
burlington Lighting department the
past year earned $7,6O5.26 net, over
all expenses of operation and mainte-
nance, interest on all bonds and
floating debt. We sincerely ask
patronage from all our citizens who
have interest in the welfare of Bur
lington, that this department may
in the near future, further reduce its
rates for electric lighting and
power, always bearing in mind that
THE rate for electricity before the
granting of the charter for our
municipal lighting plant was IA
cents per kilowatt hour. Where
There is no competition, the rates re-
main the same. Burlington mas
saved more money during the past
ten years than the entire cost OF its
lighting plant, in the reduction OF
rates" auV.
If our power and light plant was
owned by a private company we
would now be paying 10 cents per K
w. instead of only cents.
At the last village meeting Hard
wick raised the price of electric
lights from 6 rs per k. W. to &c.
Morrisville has the lowest rate in
Vermont because she has and always
has had the best managed plant in
the state The secret of success IN
municipal ownership of public ut1h-
ties is in absolutely divorcing their
management from politics and put
ting only the best men in charge
thereof -Morrisville Messenger.
Hardwick Protests.
In Senator Simonds' sensational
testimony on the workings OF the
present local option law in the Sen
ate last week Wednesday, he might
we'll have been somewhat more ex-
plicit and less boastful. OF course
the Gazette admits he might have
told that body a great deal more
than he did of a sensational nature,
but some of the things he did tell
were not altogether confined to facts.
and were more for effect. He SAID
| he came here in January one year
during his encumbency as states at
torney with % deputies and went
back to the county seat with % rum
sellers and 5000 gallons of rum, and
lin February he came back and got
IS rumsellers and 5000 gallons. Our
files show he came here the first time
in January as above stated with IL
deputies and made II arrests instead
of %, and the second time in July
instead of February and made 16 ar
rests, and he says IS. These facts
are bad enough. And again, the
senator did not state how many con
victions were made in the lot. he
classed them all as rumsellers, but
did the convictions prove them al
as such? In this connection 1t may
be said to the senator's credit thai
he voted in favor of submitting tbs
license referendum to the people al
the next March meeting.-Hardwlc
Gazette.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
100000
Contingent Eund 80. 100000
$1,172,OOO
Not used
Not used
s1.172.OOO

$1,172,0 900
Not used
t Not used
Additional as audited.
Additional as audited.
Unless a decided cut is made,
therefore, the present legislature is
faced by the probable certainty of
appropriations totalling over 1891
600, in addition to school and high
way costs, representing perhaps an
other million.
Vermont seems to have dropped
comfortably and finally into the $4,-
600, 900 class, with a state tax lmm1-
nent of 10 per cent if not more The
foregoing, by the way, is roughly
drawn from the table of appropria-
lions in 1912, many of which, like
bounties, teacher training courses,
Transportation, ETC., were limited to
expenses audited or allowed by the
governor and not set forth in fig
ures.
1t was after studying these figures
in connection with the bills pending
in his committee that Mr.. Proctor
sounded the note of warning and
foretold a deficit of $85, 900, ON TOP
of a state tax, unless these special
appropriations are held down and
increases refused.
Vermont has a right to ask her
legislators to prevent this deficit and
to hold expenditures within the
states normally anticipated income.
Rutland Herald.
Low Cost Electric Lights.
Probably very few in Morrisville
realize when they pay their electric
LIGHT hill once in six months. that
| in many towns and cities these bills
are not only rendered monthly but
the cost is about as much per month
as it is here for six months.
The Burlington City Electrical de-
partment is running a paid advertise
ment in the papers of that city show
ing how much the people pay there
in comparison with other places as
] follows:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
WHEELOCK

(Mrs. G. L. Gerry, Correspondent
The sick ones in the place are all
on the gain.
J. p. Shorey has two sisters from
Plainfield visiting him.
Remember the grange meeting Sat
urday evening.
The Charles Leavitt place has been
sold to a Mr.. Porter from Newport,
who takes immediate possession.
John Buckley was a business Wis
itor in Sutton last Monday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24

The striking phase of the license
vote at Tuesdays elections is not
found in the fact that only 10 of
the 246 towns and cities in Vermont
voted wet" for the past few years
have demonstrated that only a few
places will vote for the sale of liquor
(and the number seems to be dimin-
fishing slowly, but it is to be found
in the very slight majority for yes"
in many of the places that voted that
way. Unofficial returns show the
N, a iorifiac aS follows:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24

ments which come out of the state
treasury, and which should be rigidly
examined before being annexed to
the state budget.
Neither does this regular budget
include the costs of highways and
schools, the former representing an
expense of about 100000 during the
past biennium and the latter aggre-
eating about the same. Certainly
these costs come ultimately if not
primarily from the people, but are
seldom included in finance figures.
The appropriations of 1912 for the
same purposes were substantially as
fnllnWc.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
Cling to the old Methods.

English manufacturers agents" are
ready to present American goods to
the trades in South America, but they
are extremely conservative and dis.
like to promote fresh kinds of goods.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
VaTuanIa Hint

When gasoline is used to remove
spot from clothing a ring is often left
around where the spot has been. A lit
tie salt in the gasoline win overcome
this, leaving no trace of the soiled
spot.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24

actually spent more than $4,000.
1t is evident, therefore, that MI
Proctor's committee (appropriations)
is endeavoring to hold the ''over-
head" cost of state government If
possible within the general figures
of the past two years. 1t is when
the special appropriations are ap-
preached that the taxpayer quakes.
In addition to the foregoing, APP
propriations in 1912 included the fol-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
KIRBY

Mrs. w. P. Russell, Correspondent
The Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs
Mary Davis Thursday, March 20, for
dinner.
H. P. Graves and R. R. Leach at
tended the road meeting at st.
Johnsbury last Thursday.
Mrs. Frank McGill and Mr. Math-
ews are both sick with the grip.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Barnett are
sick
Paul Hovey is working for Fred
Houghton and Omer Denville from
East Burke for John Lang.
Don't be a live man in a dead
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
MORTON Id. LISTER
St. JOhnSbury, vi.
Summer
Homes
Wanted

NEW ENGLAND'S summer visi-
v tors from all over the country
are again seeking the pleasant spots.
They are looking for the well man
aged hotels and the pleasantly locat-
ed boarding places and farms where
paying guests are received.
Every spring these people turn to
the advertising columns of the Bos-
ton Evening Transcript. where an
nouncemeDts of the best summer
places are published.
Though many families prefer to
lease farms, houses, or cottages in
the country, large number of pro-
perties are sold every year to West
ern people attracted to the New
England States by advertisements IN
the Boston Transcript.
If you desire to reach the well-to-
do people and attract them to your
town insert well-worded advertise
ruent IN the Boston Transcript.
Full information, rates. copies or
advice cheerfully given on request.
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT co.
324 Washington St. Boston, Mass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24
PRESS COMMENT


The bill for the support Of the state
bvernment, introduced into the gem
fal assembly Tuesday by Redheld
rector, should give immediate pause
legislators inclined to heed the APP
haIs of special interests for in
+eased and special appropriations.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24

Total ~ I4VtVVV
This by no means includes all anti
Bpated state expenses, but merely
be regular departments, which must
b provided for before special appro-
ariations are made for any purpose.
makes no account of 101 special
nils and resolutions and reimburse
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-03-24

Don't be a live man in a dead
business. Advertise.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-06-25
BOTH BAR AND LOCK
Invention Designed to FoIl Bur.
glars Activities.
From Description II Would Seem -
Be Admirably Adapted for the
Purpose-operates From
the Outside.

A lock that is virtually unpickable
and proof against burglars jimmy.
besides being simple in construction
and inexpensive to make, has just been
patented by julius Grossmann OF New
York
The inventor got his idea when drop
ping bar over store door on clos.
ing one night. II occurred to him that
If such a bar could be dropped inside
the door by the mere turning of key
outside, 1t would furnish greater Sc
curity than any other method of lock-
ing. This is just what his lock does.
The diagram that accompanies this
is of the lock as seen from the inside
OF the door On the outside 1t Is the
ordinary Yale lock. In this / Is the
bolt that drops into the slots 6 and 7.
II is pivoted at and raised or lowered
by the tumblers and 5. which re-
volve on the bolt 3. This bolt is the
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-06-25
THAT REPAST
Federals' Disturbance OF Confed-
crate Breakfast.
Virginia Man Now Recollects With
Amusement Some Humorous Incl
dents That Were Connected
With the Occurrence.

Il think the funniest sight I ever
saw" said Doctor Clagett of Leesburg.
Va. as he squared himself into his
armchair and lit his pipe. though 1t
didn't seem funny then. was the sud
den transformation scene that took
place at my breakfast table early one
morning In the fall OF SO.
Along about day one morning three
or four of Mosby's men. under COM
mand Of young George Slater. the dare
devil Irish cavalryman of the Balti-
more Slater family. who had joined
Mosby at the beginning OF his career.
because there didn't seem TO be enough
danger and fighting for him In the reg
ular cavalry under Stuart. dropped In
on me at my home at the end OF a
long suburban street They were on
one of their daring scouting adven-
lures and, being hungry as wolves.
stopped by to have bite with me.
"Of course. anything | had was at
their service. and so out of bed we all
hoped. routed out the cook and along
about sunrise sat down 10 a comfort
able breakfast.
In Leesburg we usually felt happy
at seeing the Confederate uniform. so
we fingered over our meal. swapping
stories OF every kind. George Slater,
who was full OF all kinds OF plausible
and entertaining yarns. had just told
some Irish tale. for whose truth he
pledged his patrimony. and ! had just
started in to tell one that taxed the
hearers credulity even more. when the
door from the kitchen opened and In
stole little julius Caesar. a small negro
boy OF about eight years. who was as
sistant 10 the cook.
Doct'r Clagett, thar's a." com
menced Julius Caesar.
Don't bother mel bawled at him.
irritated at being interrupted In the
story that. ] fattered myself. would
top that OF young Skaters. Shut upi'
And then continued with my tale.
But hardly had ] progressed half a
dozen sentences when julius Caesar
broke in again.
sDoct'r Ciagett. thar's a.
II you say another word IN chop
your head of, | roared al the little
pickaninny and then proceeded with
my story But young Slater. who was
fun OF Irish acumen and who. being
in command. fully realized the danger
OF his position. interrupted me him
self.
Look here. doctor. he said. we're
in the very paws OF the enemy here:
hadn't you better hear what this an
cient Roman ruler has to say before
you trump my last storyY We soldiers
don't want TO get gohbled mp.
AT this Strengthened up. IL hadn't
occurred 10 me before OF the hazardous
position my guests were in.
Here. julius Caesar, ] said. what
is II you want TO tell me- Out with
it,
Julius Caesar scrubbed one dirty
bare foot against the shank OF his
other leg and shyly stuck dirty fin
ger into dirty mouth.
"''Taint nuthin' tall. doct'r. 'eept
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-06-25
He's Champion Mean Thief.

Babies in the vicinity of the Violet
street playground were not weighed
recently.
The new champion "meanest man"
crept into the welfare station conduct
ed by the city health department at
the Fairgrounds and stole the scales.
To the welfare station came 20
mothers with their babies. but they
could not get any orders for milk at
the supply station because no one
could tell how much the babies
weighed. Twenty mothers we're dis.
appointed and 20 babies hungry, but
those who came later in the day we're
accommodated upon borrowed set Of
scales.
The welfare station is maintained
in the interest of underfed and scan.
tily nourished babies. - Los Angeles
Times.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-06-25

Quite recently Anastasio Chelotti, a
newsvender of Savona. In Italy, cele.
brated the birth of his thirty-hrst
child, on whom he bestowed the name
of Candida. Chelotti, who Is just
turned sixty, remarked at the christen-
ing. "At twenty-one years of age !
married a girl of nineteen, who made
me an annual parent Of male child
for nineteen years running. Then she
died. Before | was out OF my fortieth
year married again, and my second
wife added another dozen TO the fam
fly. l have nineteen sons living, all
healthy and strong. The twentieth
fell fighting In the Libyan desert with
the words Viva Savoial' on his lips.
Eight of my boys are married and
have married children OF their own"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-06-25

thar's a whole passed. o. Yankees up
town lookin' fur desc hyah sogers.
he murmured In apologize tones. an
right now dey's a-comin' a-bustin' an
a-bilin' down de street right ter dis
hyah place. OATS all wanted ter tell
yer
THAT ended that breakfast Come.
men, cried George Slater. and was
through the door In wink. Puryear.
who sat on the side of the table oppo-
site the door, instantly resolved him.
self into human snowplow. He dived
across the table. heading straight for
that door and shoveled aside on either
hand venerable aunt and dignified
cousin who was visiting me. He didn't
stop TO apologize, but with the others
bolted for the rack where their horses
were tied
I'VE fastened to the window Sure
enough the Union cavalry we're com
ing at a hot gallop-and hardly fifty
yards away. Luckily the horses OF
George Slater's men were but loosely
tied. II took but moment for those
veterans young in years. old in serv-
ice-to vault in their saddles and
away. Down the road they sped. the
Yankees. outnumbering them a hun
dredfold. vainly popping at them. |
am glad to say that no one was either
killed or wounded In this incident. and
that the boys got on safely.
But have always thought the tab
leau Of that little black boy. standing
obedient. waiting for me to tell q
trihing yarn while the enemy was
sweeping down upon my guests. and
their utter establishment at his news.
when finally he did speak-the com.
plete Transformation OF that breakfast
table and puryear's dive between my
two sedate female relatives without a
word OF apology have always
thought II the most ridiculous spec
tacle in fact or picture"