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Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-12-24
SECOND JURY
TO DISAGREE
=.
THIS TERM
No Verdict in the Guyer
Case and Court Adjourns
for Three Weeks

The jury in the case Of State VS..
Joseph Guyer, charged with adultery
came in again at S o'clock Thursday
night and reported disagreement.
This was the second time during the
day they had reported they could not
agree on verdict and they were
then discharged by the court.
At 8 o'clock Thursday evening the
jury in the case of State VS.. Lear
mont Smith, charged with taking
some 1925 from the Office of the town
vlerk at Lyndon, brought in II verdict
of guilty.
The court transacted no business
Friday morning and in the afternoon
the divorce case of Fred Daniel VS..
Hattie J. Daniel was heard by the
Court. The plaintiff was represent
ed by Guy w. Hill. The parties lived
in West Danville. ,.
Court adjourned Friday afternoon
to Jan. Is, 1920, when it is expect
ed the six cases of the Williams
Manufacturing Co. against the vaii-
GUS insurance companies for losses
by fire at the plaintiffs mill at East
Haven about six years ago will be
tried. One of these cases has been
tried twice and is now in the SD
preme court for the second time. 1t
is possible that some of the other
cases upon which the jury disagreed
will be tried. Ancntire new jury, with
one exception, will be drawn.
Judge Fish left for his home in
Vergennes after the adjournment of
court. i,
Lawyer w. W. Ricrlen of Barton
was a visitor to court Friday,
The jury took the Guyer case at
$40 o'clock Thursday afternoon. q
Judge Fish in his charge to the jury
explained the points of law in regard
to a confession and an alibi. He said
that confession must be made with
out coercion and must be entirely free
upon the part of the respondent. He
said the respondent now claimed upon
the witness stand that he did not give
the confession freely, that it was
wrought from him by the officers.
liz OIlCCIS, SIhtc dttOlICy anu
sheriff., had told different
story of the confession from
that of the respondent. Judge Fish
said the jurymcn had seen the officers
and had heard their testimony and
they had seen the respondent and
had heard his testimony upon the
witness stand. 1t was now their duty
to weight which had told the truth.
Was the situation just as the officers
said it was or was the situation as
the respondent had said?
He said the respondent had set up
an alibi in this case. He said the bur-
den of establishing an alibi was upon
the respondent. Had he proven to the
jury that he was not al the scene Of
the crime at the time twas charged
the crime was committed and there
fore was it impossible for
him to have committed the
crime? Judge Fish referred
to the testimony Of the respondent
that his shoes were missing from
their accustomed place and might
have been used by someone else as
the sheriff said the tracks about the
grounds at the scene of the crime
were made by shoes like those worn
by the respondent.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-12-24
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE RAISED

Notice is hereby given that the yearly subscription to
the Weekly Caedonan will be advanced Jan. l. 1920 to
$3.50 year. All renewals and new subscriptions will be
taken until that time at $100 year. The advance in
price necesstated by the increased cost in white paper
and expense of publication The circulation Of the week.
y Caledonian is steadily increasing and is the time
get your paper for 1920 at the dollar rate After JAM
l. it will cost you SO cents more, or $1.5O year.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-12-24
Team Wins
In Bowling Match

A group of Woodsvillc bowiers
came up to st. Johnsbury Monday
night and won bowling match at the
Barquin alleys by u close margin.
The team is coming up here again
Friday night when it is expected that
the St. Johnsbury boys will turn the
tables. Following is the score:
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-12-24
DaIIy ThouUkt,

To receive honestly Is the best
THINKS for a good thing.-George Mac.
Douald.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-12-24

Optimistic Thought.
A ran nf any honest trade mag
make himself reSnectahla IL he vii
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452 436 424 1872
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
The Last Leg.

Last Sunday leg of our hike leaving the ooys at Annon while home Saturday ought to bring them back Birrnin
 rejoned them morning back following the general route of the Southern railway touching PeH City, Cook Springs out in the hills from Prescott Birmingham It mountain people do not know better seen finer natural swimming pool
 We Friday Mrs there for the whole summer Dr. Ballard running for performing gracious service for the mountain people, all D t through dozen devices they showing decs ethr simply living Mrs Ballard sionarng He outofdoo type hepuness ana loving the mountain people and their Thursday had dinner With woods and half afterwards She sat there the wonders round about hmof snakes butterflies, birds of
 The circle by the plains back by the hills building good through hill country and part o the world It is already, astounded at the beauty of h winding climbing cgng turns around the shoulders of the
 
 When rp of the delicious butter and buemk that perfectly vegetables thrill of satisfaction bound for the difference between doctored sparkling These with the and the hard physical welbeng But more naturally blessed and the of where of kindly people,
 
 pe the bone and of group of boys whose hearts looked body fresh courtesy and of justice and fair play deep
 Then all these somehow mix and minge m "0 anu 0u e ages a0ns HNRY he M m EpMoHs n afTad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
A "Near-southerner,

During the visit here the past two days of Harry Taylor of Kansas City and John Morrow of Pittsburg-two of the most able coal men in this coun try great many people were inn pressed with how much Harry Taylor talked and acted like a southerner," said Lowell Yerkers whose guests these distinguished gentlemen were during their visit. At a little gathering on Friday evening in honor of Harry and John, Harry Taylor recited dia- lect poem-negro dialect-that would have done credit to any natural born southerner. He was asked repeatedly if he was southern born, and he declared that he just missed it by the fraction Of an inch. His mother was a Missis- sippian, born in Raymond, near Jack son, the capital His father settled in the south and they lived here for some ume It was just about the time the ku-k1ux Klan got busy, and during those stormy days Harrys parents moved to Ohio-just a short time be- Tore his birth. So he first saw the light of day up in little Ohio village instead of in Mississippi, so he de- clares sthat it was this mere chance that kept him from being full fledged southerner instead of a 'near-south- erner.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

would have risen up to man and saved the life of the bird, even though they had. to sacrifice tEe sermon.
 It appears his crowd was too loyal to embarrass him in any such manner. and. to let him tell his own story, hs says: q went to the little room brought out the gun, and killed the bird. and deason carried it out. and then I preached, and at the close took up a collection for Mercer university" Now this shows that he acted with decency and propriety, and at no time was he excited, for had he been so, he might have forgotten the collection at the end. I am glad he told about it, for it gives to the whole narrative an added touch of truthfulness.
 Now, I am happy to give the true facts in the case of Rev. w. A. Wray vs. MT. Blue Jay, disturber of public worship. and I hope the unhappy epi- sode may be dropped, for he auaint~ complains that q am getting mail from New York to New Orleans about the natter He does not mind, but wants the facts to be known of all,. for many unauthorized versions are being scat tered far and wide and in a manner to make 1t seem that he joyed in the kill ing of an innocent bird
 Here is the garbled story to which he objects. The article stated that I lefS the church and went home after the gun. and returned and shot while the bird was flying around singing. And in some Chicago papers, that I went out side and shot it in a tree. I get credit for having killed it bysHl manner of Ire arms from pop to a9shotgun. The story does not hurt me in Sandersville where 1 am known, but I hate to be misunderstood because misrepresented abroad"
 Now. hope having given a straight forward account of the sudden taking off of MT. Blue Jay. who was guilty of misbehaving in a house of worship, at the hands of the pastor. that all who read this veracious tale will acquit my friend Wray of having acted with un- due haste or needless severity. He owns up to doing 1t. It was carried out by decon What more could you ask? Certainly a funeral sermon over it's body would have been but mockery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

Rather tart reply General Irwin made that American army officers regarded him as regular fellow"
 !, # # So far as the yellow peril' is con. cerned, California sees with the naked eye what the rest of the country can't see with a microscope
 # * x Many Germans regard Noske as a bloodhound and oppressor," which al- pliment.
 Hon. Willard again feels called upon to explain his war record Still, a large crowd is going to witness the scrap. Women are going after the ballot in Alabama with fine disregard for the jeers of hidebound reactionaries.
 # # # If MT. Ford cared to he might point with pride to the fact that his cars arc seldom used by motor bandits. .e- x E f President Wilson and King Albert swapped compliments freely during the Presidents visit to Belgium.
 4 $ < Birmingham, conscious of a large pop- Llation, waits serenely to be vindicated by the census report.
 x # # Neither Walt Whitman nor Villa took good photograph in early life.
 < x # The German cabinet is experiencing both shake-up and a. shake-down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
Wife's Beauty Causes
 Domestic Infelicity

|MNTILLIAM EDDIE of New York w seeks separation from his wife because she is so beautiful as to be the constant recipient of attention from other men. In his complaint filed in court Mr. Bode says his wife's admirers have driven him to distraction; have caused Ihim many sleepless nights, and that he is now victim of insomnia. An other case of jealousy!
 The plaintiff alleges nothing in the way of improper conduct, other than her liking for the men enchanted by her beauty. Most right-minded hus- bands are proud of the beauty of their wives. Mrs. Bode could not help being pretty and she doubtless saw no harm in showing her appreciation of the attention of other men, especially those who sent her flowers. The plaintiff, however, did not look at it in that fight.
 Had he married homely woman he might have escaped insomnia and re- mained happy. As it is one of those  distressing episodes will be aired in court.
 Wales may be spoiled by the attention to be shown him at Newport. We've always tened to move in the upper crcles at home
 A. Mitchell Palmer rejoices in the fact out of plants seized by him as custodian of alien property. That would certainly get him votes if he were running for of flee.
 * * x
 American soldiers are reported to be eager to resume the invasion of Ger many. It's really too bad. but they are going to be disappointed
 x E E
 The British chief of staff says there are 2s wars now in progress. which would seem to indicate that the world is no, yet safe for democracy.
 < s x
 Professor Garner denies that he lured a man ape to his death by initiating the cry of female Seems a hard mattef to. get the record straight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

Now. brother preacher, before you sit in judgment on my friend Wray, what would you have done in the circum things which, according to his own statement he tried: "We threw hymn books, poles, sticks and all kinds of things at the jay" Evidently the spir- # of the devil had entered the bird, or it had made up it's mind to fill up on Baptist doctrine. for it refused to leave
 To show the activity of the local pastor and his flock he sets down over his own hand that: "Between Sunday school and church I had one of my children to bring over little .44-gun which shoots pistol cartridge with mustard shot in it, and placed it in the side room of the building. I placed it dare say that every one had pie tured him using doublebarrelled, hammerless filled with duck shot and making an explosion like the bursting of a bomb.
 Time for service came" he con- tinues- T tried to read the scripture, but the bird would yell scream and fly around over the congregations" Everybody knows that a jay bird is just full of original sin and sass I have had a bunch of blue jays sit high up in a tree and make personal com ment on me as I passed beneath and then nearly kill themselves with mock ing laughter. Havn't you observed just how shameless their conduct is on oc- casions. No wonder they are out of the pale of decent bird society.
 Dr. Wray was very eau aus, for he tells me, Before taking cfy text told my people that I we pia 0e eesp-. pelled to let them go or shlsc sbe Bird He certainly was taking a l3ns sssns ,. with his congregation. for an afsati If hS had been speaking t. Bigniae-' ham audience some listiess listener whose mind was on golf. would have risen and asked that he pui the qaeS- ton to vote. and then the andohAnists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT OLDEN DAYS IN BIRMINGHAM COMPARED WITH PRESENT DAY

I eral others to lunch. He promised them food fit for the gods.
 All manner of dainty dishes of meat and vegetables were set before them and several bottles of good old Chianti were served. The luncheon probably lasted two hours. General Fucker, pr. Fitzsim- mons and the others were enthusiastic. They told Paul that it was the best lunch they had ever eaten and asked what the dainty meats were that he had served with such delicious sauces. Paul called his head waiter, who immediately entered with a tray bearing the head of the old meats they had tasted at the luncheon were parts of the old goat
 $50 bet.
 In those days everyone was in good nature and good humor in Birmingham,  prosperity here.
 There have been many dull periods be- tween then and now-times when people left Birmingham and sought other places of business. But practically all of them have returned and thousands upon thou sands of others have come, and are Iv- ing here now. There are more than 200,0 900 people in Birmingham today, and the most contented crowd in any city in the world. Even the agitators can't stir up discomfort. The walking delegates are not makig progress because the laboring people of this district are content and prosperous
 I hear talk of meetings to organize and put in effect six-hour day, and for five days to constitute weeks work. And there is talk of demanding an increase of 40 per cent in all wages, at the same time cutting down the hours of the day and the days Of the week in which work should be done. But as a matter of fact don't know anyone who wants six hour day nor who wants to work only five days in the week.
 As Paul Cook so well put it i'll an edl-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

T has been nearly 9 years since the
 writer first sat at the editorial desk
 in the old Age-Herald building down on Second avenue.
 In those days Birmingham was strug- gling. Grass was growing between the cobble stones on First avenue
 There were no office buildings and no steel plants. Solomon & Lewis saloon on First avenue and Twentieth street was the center of the town, and the most pop ular place hereabouts. Paul Gilardonf s restaurant on Nineteenth street, in part of the present Pizitz building, was the second most popular place in town
 Webb Crawford and Henry Badham were young proteges of General Fucker vho presided over the Alabama National Bank at that time They all ate at Paufs restaurant. and there were times when they stopped to exchange the com PiiiilcHIo ol lne udyt en route 10 luncn, with the manager of Solomon & Lewis
 Usually Dr. Fftzsmmons, who then presided over St. Mary s-on-the- High lands church, joined them for lunch at Paul's Paul was jolly, fat Italian-a wonderful cook, noted everywhere for the excellence of the food served in his res ta urant
 One day General Rucker was attempt ing to tease Paul about his beef being tough. Paul responded that the General didn't know good things to eat when they were served him and made a bet that he couldn't tell the difference be- tween billy goat and real food.
 There happened to be little negro boy driving billy goat to an mprovised two- wheel cart, passing the place at that tine
 T bet you $5o," said Paul to General Rucker, that I can serve you goat some day and you won't know what it is.' The General laughingly took the bet and ap- parently forgot all about it.
 About three weeks thereafter Paul, having purchased the goat. invited Gen eral Fucker, Dr. Fitzsimmons and sev-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

Did you read the "Jay Bird" story sent out by the Associated Press and published in a box on the front page of The Age Herald short while ago? | If so I want to give you some in- side dope. on it, for Rev. w. A. Wray, the leading character in the gun play is a warm friend of mine. and l knew that sooner or later he would write me about it.
 Now, get this at the start the Rev w Wray is a highly cultured and consecrated gentleman, and since his graduation. has occupied some promi- nent pulpits ill the south, and is now pastor of a widely useful congregation at Sandersville, Ga. saw him a number of times at the session of the Southern Baptist con yention at Atlanta, but little did dream that he was so soon to occupy the front page of the dailies through out the land, and on account of such an incident as the slaughter of a jay bird
 twill" writes me that he fears he has been the victim of an unfriendly news paper man who sensing the mind of the American newspaper reading public saw his chance to take a rather in- nocuous and natural affair and exploit him in the dalies.
 
 He also fears that he is being pun ished for having gone after some evils without gloves and that having scored victory those who had to pay bided their time to try and get him before the world as something of crank and a curiosity, much to his annoyance and | chagrin.
 He writes: '"The killing of the jay bird in my church on the Sunday named was o. K. and all present realized the necessity. Here are the facts. Before Sunday school we worked every way to get the bird out of the building, and also during and after the Sunday school hour. The ceiling of the church being high we were unsuccessful"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

torial the other day, about the loneliness of newspaper men when not at work, the average industrious fellow wouldn't know what to do on the sixth and seventh days. He would rather be at work than hang ing about the street corners and whit fling sticks or playing pool or billiards If he were inclined to get on a spree and think he was having good time he couldn't get the necessary fuel; and if he got it, I am told it would cost him didates for the penitentiary in the torTn of blind tiger operators.
 Birmingham is indeed going ahead and the people are spending their money diff ferently from the old days.
 I was looking over the cash payments for subscriptions during this month of June in The Age-Herald business office yesterday. This newspaper has collected this month more cash money from sub scribers than it collected in the whole year of 1887; and it added more new sub scribers to it's list in the H days of this month than it had total subscribers on August 1 1897. The money value of white paper consumed in the 9 days of this month. including todays issue is in ex- cess of the cost of it's total consumption of white paper in the year lSs7
 The Age -Heralds record is one to be proud of, but it is no more than the rec ord of many other business concerns in this prosperous Birmingham It is true it has cost more money to print and circulate the Age-Herald in the last S6 days than it cost for the entire 565 days of 1887. But the business it has done in and advertisements is far in excess of the increased cost of print ing.
 It's staff takes pride in the fact that the newspapers of the country generally concede it to be second to none in all the south.
 Naturally, it is a source of pride to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
ANOTHER PERIL.

Alas, when my lady starts smoking a
 pipe In a masculine manner, the time will be
 ripe To launch a crusade gainst the use
 of the weed, For the nation will surely be going to
 seed The hand that's accustomed the cradle to
 rock, Can you think of it clasping the nico-
 tined block Of a brier or meerschaum from morning
 to night? That surely would be deplorable sight The boudoir, but lately so sweet and so
 fair, What fumes will be lading the ambient
 air! Oh. lady. oh. lady, ere that comes to pass, Stick a pipe in your mouth and then
 look in your glass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
Ready for Work

Home again after nearly years over seas service is enough to make one re- joice," said William Foreman, who was discharged June 19 He was a second lieutenant in the 54th infantry, 9th ~s- vision. T am ready to go to work after going through as much of the war game as I wanted and just little more than I really expected. but I am glad it IS over and now I have no further warlKe ambitions" he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded June 22, 1899.

The race for the democratic nomina- tion for governor of Kentucky lies be- tween Captain Stone and William Goe- bel. The campaign is one of the most stirring in the states history
 At an important meeting held last Tuesady in Tuscaloosa the Alab anna delegation in Congress decided unani- mously to support Representative John H. Bankhead for speaker of the House of Representatives. Representative Oscar w. Underwood was elected chair man of the delegation which will pre- sent MT. Bankhead's name to the dem ocratic members from various states.
 The Venezuelan boundary commits sion reassembled at Il o'clock yester- day morning in Paris, when Sir Richard Webster, the British attorney general, resumed his speech in behalf of Great Britain.
 disastrous fire visited the thriving little suburb of East Birmingham early this morning ana almost totally de- stroyed the plant of the Birmingham Machinery and Foundry company. To- cated at the crossing of the Louisville and Nashville railroad and the Gate City line of the Birmingham Traction company The loss was estimated at $5o.oQo.
 The regular emi-monthly meeting of the Birmingham Board of Trade was held last night in the Elks' hall. Will lam Ryan was elected temporary sec retary and headquarters were estab- lished in the Chalifoux building. The board plans to have big inaugural day celebration.
 Allan Burrows, aged father of Rube Burrows, the noted Alabama outlaw, died at >his home near Vernon, Sun day
 The board of trustees of the Univer- sity of Alabama have elected pr. Charles Haywood Barnwell to fill the chair of English left vacant by the death of Dr. Meek. Dr. Barnwell is a native of South Carolina and holds the degree of Ph. D. from Harvard. He taught at Auburn from 1889 to 1S92.