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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
The Hotel Primer

Many visitors to Montpelier for the
opening of the legislature last week
had hard time in finding place to
stay. The hotels were filed with reg
ulars and gave little heed to new
corners and transients; the Montpeli-
er board of trade seem to have gone
out of business, and it was cool to
sleep on the band stand. Montpelier
is hospitable town but was appar-
emily not expecting so many people.
Possibly too Montpelier failed to rea-
lie that the concentration of all the
state departments at Montpelier
means quite number of extra people
to be entertained. Barre, Waterbury
and other neighboring towns took
care of part of the overflow while
a few sat up all night and went home
in the morning Several years ago
Montpelier invested a half million
dollars or so in the American Fidelity
company and can only with difficulty
find the hole in which they sank
their money. If they had invested
their wealth in a new hotel they could
now at least see what they had done
with their money. Montpelier is not
the only town that has lesson to
learn in the hotel primer-Benning-
ton Banner.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
BRITONS FEEL LACK OF DOGS
Plague of Rats Has Followed the Re-
duction of the Canine PopuIa-
ton of the Country.

An inquiry has been received from
an American firm as to the possibili,
ties offered in the British market for
the introduction and sale of poison for
the destruction of rats. Just at pres
ent considerable interest is being man.
ifested in this country in the question
of rat destruction, and attention is be-
ing called to the enormous amount Of
damage done by these pests. The min
istry of food has just issued an order
giving power to local authorities to
take such measures as may appear to
them to be necessary to secure the de"
struction Of rats.
Rats are increasing enormously all
over England, both in the cities and
rural districts, and an organized CAM
paign of determination has become nee
.essary. The difficulty is to obtain
a suitable poison. Local authorities
will probably find that if any good is
to- be done they viii have to set up a
rat destruction instruction office and
supply the dose, for the average house
holder possesses little knowledge of
rat killing.
Perhaps one cause of the increase
and the growing audacity of the rodent
is the scarcity of dogs. The dog has
almost disappeared in some cities and
rural districts. The breeding of dogs
has been severely curtailed owing to
the fact that biscuits are expensive and
of bad quality and bones cannot be
bought.
This is an instructive item for those
who preach the uselessness of the dog
and advocate the destruction of our
canine friends.-London Mail.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
Mars and His Powder.

Modern Mars is surely versatile and
sup to snuff
The aviator cadets at Camp Dick,
Dallas, Tex, gave a big dance to the
girls of the town. The dance was a
hummer. Later in the Camp Dick
News, the post paper, appeared an
effusion in svers libre" purporting to
come from young lady resident of
Dallas rejoicing in the name of Mar
guerite.
In it she muses. to this effect:
ST wonder which cadet was respon-
Sible
'For the rose-lighted ladies' dressing
room?
Nothing was omitted, from the violet
''To the corsage pins and powder puffs.
'He'll make some girl a good bus
bandit"
Perhaps he already had made some
girl a good husband and that was why
he knew SO muchl
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
PRESS COMMENT

Hard Shedding for Dope Sellers
Opium smuggling through Yer
mont has been given a severe check
during last weeks session of U. S.
district court at Montpelier. Vermont
does not desire to be highway in
the traffic from Montreal to the large
American cities, not only because it
does not desire to be, even indirectly,
a party to the Generalization of peo-
pie in other states but because it
proposes to keep its own people
free from the faint as far as pos
sible. There is danger that some of
the stuff might be unloaded in Yer
mont if the smugglers should find
themselves too hard pressed by the
agents of the government after once
getting into Vermont. The place to
stop the traffic, therefore, is at the
international line-Barre Times.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
Linking Two Continents

Many-a great many Americans
have been taught to believe that the
United States was politically free of
Europe. The fallacy has been prom
ulgated in schools and colleges and
on the stump for many years. But
every son and daughter of an op-
pressed race who CAME to this coun-
try-and there have been 100000
OF them in so years-knew differently
for attached to each one of these i'm
migrants was an invisible thread of
home sentiment that would not be
broken. There is nothing that
strengthens this thread of sentiment
like oppression, and here in the Unit
ed States threads all met and were
spun into ropes which have helped
more than people realize in pulling
down the oppressive Governments of
Europe and making audible the
cry of Observation-Disclosures
Globe.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
CITY OF NEWPORT
Honor Roll for Our CITY

Newport City is to have an honor
roll to contain the name of every per-
son who entered the service of the
country during the great war, from
this city; also the preparation and
presentation of a certificate of SER
vice to all who have served. The
Mayor, at the regular meeting of the
city council, appointed committee to
collect funds and prepare this honor
roll. This committee have designat-
ed the week of January 10Th to 25th
for voluntary contributions for this
purpose. Make checks and payments
to George F. Root, secretary and
treasurer of the Mayors committee.
Sunday will be the most important
Sunday in all the year for the First
Congregational church. During the
afternoon workers will call upon
every member and adherent of the
church to secure their pledge fol
current expenses and church bene-
volences. It is hoped that every at
tendant of the church will think the
matter over and be prepared to re-
ceive the committee with generous
pledge.
"Salome" with Theda Bata will be
the big attraction at the Premier
Theatre, two days next week, Monday
and Tuesday, Jan. Fl and %. This
picture was six months in the making
more than million dollars spent or
it with 5000 performers, and an ark
full of animals.
H. H. Bryant is visiting friends
at North Troy.
Sunday at the Methodist church
Rev. H. T. Coontz will preach il
the morning. Bible school at noon
Junior League at 400 p. m. Epwortf
League Bible Study class at $50
Lesson, first chapter of Daniel. Ser
mon at 7.30 by the pastor. Praye
meeting Thursday evening at 7.30.
"Hearts of the World" will appea
at Lanes Opera House two days, Fri
day and Saturday, JAM "a and 25th
This is romance of the great wal
the sweetest love story ever tolo
Hearts of the World" surpasses eve,
"The Birth of AVIATION"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
Muskrat Stons Train.

The marshes around the Boston &
Maine railroad yards in Boston are
full of muskrats. Charley Brown, a
yard brakeman, has been realizing over
500 a season since the war by shoot
ing rats on his spare time and selling
the fur, which now commands a high
price.
Brown has been known to shoot a
muskrat from the top Of a moving
freight car with a rife.
A short time ago a muskrat tied up
the interlocking switch system at sig
nal tower c. The big rat crawled into
the switchpoints to eat out the grease
used to Intricate the switches just as
the lever man in the tower tried to
close the switch for fast express pas
senger train.
The rat had wedged in so close the
switch wouldn't close and the plant
was tied up. The mechanic found the
rat wedged into the points and crushed
into mass of fur and flesh.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1919
"WASTED!"

A letter found on a dead German,
describing the killing of French
Boy scout, was read by Gen. Baden
Powell at a meeting of Boy Scouts
at Guild hall, London. The letter was
as follows -
A traitor has been shot-a little
French lad belonging to one OF those
gymnastic societies which wear the
tri-color button. The poor little fell
low in his infatuation wanted to be a
hero. A German column was passing
along wooded defile, and the boy
was caught and asked whether the
French were about. He refused to
give information. Fifty yards fur
Their on fire was opened from the
cover of the wood. The boy was
asked in French if he had known
that the enemy was in the forest, and
he did not deny it. He went with
firm step to a telegraph post and
stood up against it, with green
vineyard behind him, and received the
volley of the firing party with a
proud smile on his face. infatuated
boy! It was a pity to see such vast
ed courage.
Whereupon the author of america
the Beautiful" Prof. Katherine Lee
Bates, wrote this poem:-
"Wasted?" o blind of heart, you
wrote it, "wasted!"
The loyalty, the courage, and the
pride!
Nay, you, who could but pity and
deride
That pearl of boyhood, smiling as he
tasted
The sacrament of death; you, who
had hasted
By steep descent from where the
stars abide
To heavy darkness; you, who had de-
MED
The CLEAN of God in your own clay
are wasted!
Will not all lovers of the fair and
true
Forever see that little figure stand
Erect against the post, to die fol
France?
Her leafng April vineyard better
knew
The beauty of that deed than you1
dull hand,
Wondering at honor, counting faitl
mischance.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
TOUCHED MEN In RIGHT SPOT
Y. M. C, A. Camp Secretary Knew the
Feeling of Soldiers Gathered to
Subdue BIoodthirsty Hun.

Wars changes are being shown in
greater degree in the z. M. G. A. &C
tivity, remarks the New York Sun.
The psalm-singing official has passed.
In his place is the athletic director
and entertainer, of red blood. No bet
ter example of the metamorphOsis
could have been had than in an Incl
dent not long ago at Camp Mills, the
great Long Island concentration camp
where the men were equipped just be-
fore sailing.
One of the old-style officials was
holding meeting and was expatiating
at length on the care the men should
take Of their souls. His audience, al
ready partly homesick after months
Of training, was restless and grew
GUNNER and GUNNER.
The camp secretary watched with
dismay the effect the speaker was
having on the soldiers about to sail.
The climax came when the parson,
after final appeal to the men to face
death bravely, said:
1--WE will now sing Ring the Bells
of Heaven"
That was too much for the local
camp man and he jumped to his feet,
holding up his hand to the man at the
piano to stop. Then he shouted:
"Boys, before we sing this Ring the
Bells Of Heaven don't let us forget
that first we must Wiring the kaiser's
damned neck"
The shout that went up broke up
the abashed parsons meeting and
ring the Bells of Heaven" was in
definitely postponed.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

like elevations. Laborers then pass
along the rows and with long knives
make Sits in the sheets, permitting
the shoots to come through. The lib
Grated shoots at first are blanched
white, but quickly turn green and
lusty. Wedding thereafter is almost
wholly needless. because there are
very few weeds. There is an increase
Of ten tons (about % per cent? Id the
yield of cane per acre. Half the labor
is saved and the production of actual
sugar per acre is augmented by more
than a ton. The paper used is made
out of "bagasse," which is the residue
of the cane after the sugary sap has
been squeezed out Of it.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell
and Albert Gallatin.
The United States senate ratified
the treaty on February Is, 1915, and
President Madison proclaimed it on
the following day.
The signing Of the treaty Of Client
did not prevent the battle of New Or
leans on January 8, 1915, nor did the
presidents peace proclamation of Feb
ruary g. interfere with several naval
battles, one of them-the engagement
between the United States cruiser
Peacock and the British ship Nautilus
taking place as late as June 80.
News Travelled slowly century ago.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
Growing Sugar Cane Under Paper.

A new and very odd method OF
growing sugar cane is proving highly
successful in the Hawaiian islands.
When the cane is beginning to sprout,
yard-wide strips are laid lengthwise
over the rows. of little plants and held
in place with cane-feld trash. The pa
per is strong enough to keep down and
smother the starting weeds, but not to
kill the stout and hardy young cane.
In five or six weeks the weed seeds
beneath the paper have all germirat-
ed and been smothered to death, but
the cane shoots have either forced
their way through or erected them.
selves sufficiently to make little tent
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

than four years, has been
called the most Flemish of all the
cities of Flanders, both in it's appear
ance and it's people. It is the capital
Of East Flanders, located at the con-
fiuence of the Lys and the Scheldt, 81
miles northwest of Brussels. 1t has
been called by travellers the Flemish
Venice, being intersected by num-
Der of streams and canals with more
than $50 bridges.
The town should have close to 20Q,-
600 people, but the German occupation
checked it's growth and scattered its
people.
The city is interesting as an archi-
tectural study, it's leading buildings
representing many periods and
schools.
Among the churches, the cathedral
of st. Bavon ranks first. It is the rich
est in objects of art in all Belgium, its
principal decoration being the altar
piece by Jan Van Eyck, ''The Adora-
ton of the Lamb" Only the central
panel is there now, the side panels
having been removed to Brussels and
Berlin. Perhaps the eternal law of
compensation may bring back the
panel now held by the Prussians.
BeIfry From the Twelfth Century.
The cathedral crypt dates back to
941, but the structure was not COM
pleted until 1854.
Close to the church is the belfry, a
square tower 375 feet high, containing
a chime of A bells. AS the story goes,
the belfry, which dates back to the
twelfth century, contained the great
bell Roland, which summoned the
burghers on momentous occasions.
When Charles V. disciplined the city
in 1889 he is said to have taken away
the bell as a special mark Of disappro-
baton.
Charles V was Clients one great
son, his birth occurring there in 1900
but the relationship brought the
burghers no imperial favors.
The city was the birthplace of the
Van Arteveids, Jacob and Philip, who
struggled manfully to preserve theil
fellow townsmen's independence.
Early Burghers Were Fighters.
The early burghers were peppery
lot, quick to anger and tenacious OF
their rights. They warred with the
dukes of Burgundy, they dared dis
pute the supremacy Of Charles V. The
city was captured a number of times
and each time contrived to free itself
In the fourteenth century the tOwr
! was so rich and populous that it wa:
able to place an army Of $4,000 men il
| the field.
In the fifteenth century the city be
! came one of the chief markets of thu
\ textile industries of Europe. In tina
century it reached the apex Of it
prosperity. 1t still has linen, woolel
and cotton mills and lace factories
but its early glory has departed.
The city has been called the Flowe
| City Of Europe, the cultivation of flow
ers being one Of it's chief industries.
What the booted Huns have done t
| those gardens and greenhouses cal
only be imagined.
Client stands out in American his
tory as the place where a treaty be
tween Great Britain and the Unite
States was formulated and signed o
December a, 1S14-the treaty whic
ended the war Of 1872. The America
representatives at the conference tabl
were John Quincy Adams, James 4
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
Overcoming Obstacles.

Sir George Reds golden rule fos the
attainment of old age: II have aimed
at health and happiness, and when con-
fronted by formidable obstacle have
first tried to knock it over: failing this,
to get around it if not, then under it !;
and If all these maneuvers failed I have
been content to lie down in its CRATE
full shade, lauding it as beautiful
blessing in disguise"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
His Summer Name.

One day William, while visiting his
grandmother, met the woman across
the hall with her little dog. William
inquired what she called the dog an
she replied: eve call him Zero be-
cause we got him in the winter" VIII
liam then asked: "Well, if you call
him Zero in the winter what do you
call him in the SUMMER"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

Governor Calvin Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts was born and reared in
Plymouth, the son of John Coolidge,
who has held nearly all of the town
offices and some county and state,
likewise He attended his sons inaug-
uration.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

Entered as second-class matter
May 1, 1916, at the post Office at st.
Johnsbury, Vermont, under the act
of March 1879.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

Official notice has just been receiv-
ed by Mr.. and Mrs. LaFrancois of
West Rutland of the death of their
son, Pvt. Rowell ]. LaFrancois, in ac-
tion in France. He was % years old
and went overseas in September,
1917.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

Mrs. w. H. Blaisdell of Orleans,
who, with her husband, left that
town Dec. Fl for Miami, Fla,
where they intended to pass thu win
ter, died Jan. II at the home of her
sister in Southern Pines, N. c., Of
pneumonia.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
VERMONT NEWS

LxtlE4AyANA
Governor Calvin Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts was born and reared in
Plymouth, the son of John Coolidge,
who has held nearly all of the town
offices and some county and state,
likewise He attended his sons inaug-
uration.
Official notice has just been receiv-
ed by Mr. and Mrs. LaFrancois of
West Rutland of the death of their
son, Pvt. Rowell ]. LaFrancois, in ac-
ton in France. He was % years old
and went overseas in September,
1917.
Mrs. w. H. Blaisdell of Orleans,
who, with her husband, left that
town Dec. Fl for Miami, Fla,
where they intended to pass thu win
ter, died Jan. II at the home of her
sister in Southern Pines, N. c., of
pneumonia.
John L. Roe.;5 Of Rr.,t:icboro Ray
lose the sight of ore eye as a result
of an accident that happened at his
home Monday Mr.. Ross was carry
ing wood into the celia: when h.
slipped and fell and :. part Of a set
of scales came II contact with his
face near one eye.
numbering business was never bet
ter in Brattleboro than at the pres
ent time. The mills are running az
full capacity and at the Holden Il
Martin yard 50 loads of logs were de-
livered in one day, II loads within
Is minutes. At other yards there are
big consignments.
According to a late bulletin of the
Vermont state board of health, dur
ing the October epidemic of the in
fuenza Montpelier had 5000 cases,
st. Johnsbury, 1884, Barre, 2,e45, st.
Adams, $3.50. The only other town
in Vermont reporting over 1000 cases
was Burlington, which had 1924.
The Congregational church of Yer
gennes has extended a call to Rev.
MI. Fraser of Little Ferry, N. j., to
become Its pastor.
William Depriest fell down through
a scuttle hole in his barn in Warren
recently, tearing several ribs from his
backbone and dislocating his collar
bone.
Reginald Hoskins, Jericho youth
broke an arm last week by taking
headlong tumble while coasting
down a bank on his skis. About four
years ago he, broke the same arm
while at play.
A call for navy beans has come to
Vermont from Michigan, a Port HUI
ron company writing to the Vermont
state department of agriculture that
the Vermont seed has been found
particularly good.
Mrs. Matte Ward Wiley of Barre
was married to Postmaster George
W. German of Barre, Thursday, By
Rev. ]. D. Reardon, pastor of the
Universalist church Mr.. and Mrs
German started on trip to New
York and Boston. The bride is treas.
urer and manager of a candy kitchen
The Vermont Social Workers Con
ference, in session at Montpelier, vot
ed to urge the Legislature to enact {
law for compulsory medical examina
ton of children in schools. The state
already has law providing for sucl
an examination if parents do not OBJ
ject.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING

During tnIs MISUNDERSTANDING peTIOd OF WaT, BUS
mess apt to be less dslocated in spots and
it behooves every live merchant and dealer to get his
house in order
"DeadwOod" has no place in business in these
stirring times. The mark of the live merchant
the live dealer is ndelbly expressed in his adver
vertising. Thrift and economy is the order of the
day. but thrift and economy that curtails efficiency
will not help business To cut advertising space is
to curtai efficiency, which MEANS or later,
the falling into the "deadwood" class of the mer-
chant or dealer who follows such false economy.
The effectiveness of liberal advertising is not
doubted; The effectiveness of liberal advertising in
The CALIFORNIAN is proven by direct and indirect
suits coming each day to the live merchants and
dealers who are using liberal space.
JOIN THE LIVE ONES
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

AS members of the Associated
Press that organization is entitled
exclusively to the use for republica-
ton of all news dispatches credited
to it or not otherwise credited IN this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein. All rights of republi-
cation of special dispatches herein
are also reserved.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

John L. Roes5 Of Bf..t:icboro nay
lose the sight of ore eye as result
of an accident that happened at his
home Monday. Mr.. Ross was carry
ing wood into the celia: when h,
slipped and fell and :. part Of a set
of scales came Il contact with his
face near enc eye.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

A call for navy beans has come to
Vermont from Michigan, Port HUI
ron company writing to the Vermont
state department of agriculture that
the Vermont seed has been found
particularly good.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

TERMS-By mail, 81 year; six
months 81; three months, ST.. Deliv-
cred by carrier in st. Johnsbury at
SO cents a month. All subscriptions
by order of the government are
payable in advance.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

Reginald Hoskins, Jericho youth
broke an arm last week by taking
a headlong tumble while coasting
down a bank on his skis. About four
years ago he, broke the same arm
while at play.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

numbering business was never bet
ter in Brattleboro than at the pres
ent time. The mills are running az
full capacity and at the Holden Il
Martin yard 50 loads of logs were de-
livered in one day, II loads within
Is minutes. At other yards there are
big consignments.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

William Depriest fell down through
a scuttle hole in his barn in Warren
recently, tearing several ribs from his
backbone and dislocating his collar
bone.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18

The Congregational church of Yer
gennes has extended a call to Rev.
Mr.. Fraser of Little Ferry, N. j., to
become It's pastor.