St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-11
VERMONT NEWS

Ddf1u Mduu, WAL veteran, D
years of age, has recently made a
trip from st. Cloud, Fla, alone to
the home of his brother, Isaac Mann,
in Walden. He has been living
alone in Florida for two years past
and now returns to Vermont in the
hope that he may restore his pen
sion from a cut recently made by
the department.
Federal inspectors located at New
port have found that much of the
milk and cream imported from Can
ada is dirty and otherwise undesir-
able. Unless the quality of the milk
is improved an embargo on further
shipments may be made. These Of
hcers are acting under the food and
dairy act which standardizes milk.
Governor Charles w. Gates has
appointed R. K. Thayer of Bellows
Falls a delegate to attend the Uni
versal Corn convention of the Top
Notch Farmers Club to be held at
San Francisco, Cal, August and
6. Mr.. Thayer has been a student at
the LyndonvilIe Agricultural Insti-
tute, completing the two year course
in one year, something seldom &C
complished by the students.
The report of the thirty eighth
week ending July 25 of the fourth
annual international egg laying con-
test at the Storrs Comm agricul-
tura1 experiment station shows that
the Hillview poultry farm, c. A.
Champion of st. Adams, proprietor,
has the leading pen. The birds,
which are Rhode Island Reds, laid
Rhode Island Reds from st. Adams
leading pen, but managed to in
crease it's lead over the English birds
from one egg last week to Is this
week. These Reds are furthermore
the first pen to pass the 1900 egg
mark. They not only enjoy the dis
tinctiOn of being at this time the
best pen of the entire competition,
but one of their number holds also
the best individual record to date
Hen No. 261 is now within 10 eggs
of having produced 200 since the
competition opened last November.
Writings have been drawn for the
sale of CIoverdale farm on West
Branch in Stowe, the property of Mr..
and Mrs. George S. McAllister, to
Charles T. Wheeler of Ticonderoga,
N. Y. The price paid for the farm,
which contains 235 acres and will
hSSp ~ COWS, Is pO,OVO. IOSS0SSlOn
will be given September 1. The
Adrm is one of the best in Stowe and
has been in the McAllister family
since 1904, with the exception of five
years about fifty years ago. John
McAllister settled on the place in
1904 and it passed from him to his
son, Daniel McAllister, and from him
to his son, George S.
The cost to the State of Vermont
of the annual health officers school
held in Burlington was between
$4,000 and $4,000. Each health Of
f1cer attending the school received |
his mileage from his home town to
Burlington and return, his hotel bills |
and 81 per day. Some checks were
for the four days meeting. Of the
246 health officers in Vermont, about !
one-half are practicing physicians, |
the remainder being selected from
citizens whom the State board deem
qualified to serve in the capacity of
health officer.
At the annual meeting of the ex-
ecutive board of the Universalist
convention of Vermont and the Prov
ince of Quebec, held with the secre-
tary, Rev. George F. -Fortier, in st.
Adams last Wednesday, the reports
of the secretary and treasury, S. S. |
Watson of st. Adams, were consid-
cred. They showed that aid had been
given for the support of preaching
in seven parishes during the year.
superintendent Fortier's report
showed that 40 Universalist minist-
ers were at work in the state, the
largest number on record. Aid was
voted to several new parishes for
the support of preaching and several
withdrew applications as now being
self-supporting. The executive |
board feels that one of the most sue
cessful years in the history of the
convention has just closed. This |
meeting was held anticipatory to
the annual convention to be held in
Chester, August 20 to September 2.
Plans are under way to make Sat |
urday, August IA, Band Day at the
Casino, Lake Morey. Invitations
have been extended to the members
of the bands of Bradford, Wells |
River, Lyme, West Fairlee, STRAIT
ford and Wil1iamstown, VT, and Ha-
verhill, Woodsville and Monroe, n. |
H, to compete for prizes. If five
or more bands accept, c. G. Coon
will present as first prize, one of the |
celebrated Conn comets, and Harry
Meehan of the Casino will give an
other Conn cornet as second prize.
This is the centennial year of the !