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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
South Church Round
Table Elects Officers

The Round Table of the South
church were entertained at the home
of J. H. Brooks Tuesday evening,
about rs men being present. This
was the annual meeting and these of
GERS were elected: President. J. A.
Davis; vice pres, H. A. Power; sec.
and treas, B. A. Johnson; teacher,
Rev DR.. +. A Poole; assistant teach
er, Rev DR.. c. H. Merrill. Various
committees also were chosen.
P. +. HaZen was one of the guests
of the organization and spoke most
informingly on the industrial stu
alton. This was followed by a dis
cussion in which many of the mem
bers participated. Arthur R. Brooks
was also guest of the Round Table
and spoke of the friendly relationship
which existed between the two Goa
2regational church hrotherhoods.
During the evening vocal selections
were given by Harold 0. French and
piano solos by 3. Frank Harris. Re-
freshments were served through the
social hour that closed the evenings
gathering.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29

Barnet, Mrs. Charles Harvey; West
Barnet, Mrs. Henry Roy; Passump
sic,, Mrs. Charles Harvey; Eac,
Burke, Mrs. Ira Hunter; West
Burke, Mrs. Harris Fyler; Danville,
Mrs. G. II. Kimball; West Danville
Mrs. F. B. Milligan; Groton, Mrs
Newton Hall; Hardwick, Mrs. F.. B
Fay; Kirby, Mrs. W. r. Russell
Lyndon, Mrs. A. N. Wetherbee; Pud-
ding Hill, Mrs. j. w. Eastman; Ne
wark, Mrs Porter Wallace; Peach
am, Mrs. f. G. Shaw; Ryegate, Mrs.
A. r. Bone; North Ryegate, Mrs.
= Edwin Renfrew; East Ryegate, MIS-.
A. H. Bedell; Ryegate Corner, Miss
Olive McLam; ST. Johnsbury, Miss
Florence Rouse; East st. Johnsbury,
Mrs. j. w. Winslow; st. Johnsbury
Center, Mrs. Ernest Morrill,; Clay
Hill, Mrs. Guy Clifford; Spaulding
Dist, Mrs. John Montgomery; Shelf
field Mrs. Harry Davis; Stannard,
Mrs. Jason Hutchins; Sutton, Mrs.
Chas. Aldrich; Walden, Mrs. G. II.
Hazelton, Mrs. George Kingsbuly,
Mrs. J. f. Sinott; Wheelock, Mrs.
Will Hutchinson; Wheelock Hollow,
Mrs Warner Wiley; Waterford, Mrs
Roy Hemingway.
The Home Demonstration depart
ment or Women's department of the
Farm Bureau, is doing splendid
work throughout the county.
Miss Mabel Kelly, home demon
stration agent, is capable and efficient
and her work is receiving high COM
mendation. Caledonia county is
awake to the opportunities offered
her by the agricultural department.
Of the government and is fully JUS
tifying tic necessity and need of this
Governments activity.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
WOMEN STUDY
WORKINGS OF
TOWN FINANCE
st. ]. Equal Suffrage League
Meets at Club House
Thursday Night

The Equal Suffrage League will
hold It's regular meeting on Thursday
evening at the Woman's Club house
at s o'clock
A further study of the civic qucs-
tons will be taken up and special at
tcltion given to finances. Town
Treasurer Charles Braley has con-
sented to be present and will Gnswer
questions and give general informa-
ton along these lines.
A few of the important points
which will be brought IN are; The
Annual Town Apportionment as eX-
pended for schools, fire department,
public health, public works, relief of
poor ald police
How is this money raised, What
Is our tax rate and why?
What is the approximate proper
ton of men and women tax payers
(eXclusivc of pole taxi.
What is the "Gland List" and how
calculated?
How are village, school and
Highway taxes computed?
Miss Lola Valney of the Home
Service Dept American Red Cross
win also address the. meeting and
will speak informally on medical in
spection in our schools.
Every woman in st. Johnsbury in
tcrested in hen town and village is
most welcome at these meetings. You
cannot attend without gaining infor-
nation, and if you stay away you are
losing an opportunity to come in
close touch with civic affairs.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
P|MPLY? WELL,DON Be
People Notice 1t. Drive Them
Off with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A pimply face will not embarrass you
much longer if you get a package of
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin
should begin to clear after you have
taken the tablets a few nights.
Cleanse the blood, bowels and liver
with DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the
successful substitute for calomel; there's
no sickness or pain after taking them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do that
which calomel does, and just as effec-
lively, but their action is gentle and
safe instead of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets is
ever cursed with dark brown taste,
bad breath, dull, listless, mo good
feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad
disposition or pimply face.
Olive Tablets are purely vegetable
compound mixed with olive oil; you will
know them by their olive color.
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa
tents afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result. Take one or
two nightly for a week See how much
better you feel and look. l0c and 25c.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
N T. w Pc RI
Local News

The Elks have taken possession of
their new home on Railroad street.
Mr.. and Mrs Marshall M Stocker
of Danville were here Tuesday on
business.
Mrs. Addie Page left Wednesday
for North Charleston to spend some
time with her children. ~
Nj. and Mrs. Frank E. Harris and
James Speare leave Wednesday for
Boston by automobile.
Mrs. w. G. Hunter went to South
Fairlee Wednesday to visit for the
day.
Miss Mary II. Grint went to New
bury Wednesday where she has two
dancing classes.
Mrs. John Farnham went to East
Barnet Wednesday to visit Mrs. Geo.
c. Nelson.
DR.. f. Willard Magoon is home
from Berlin where he was called pro-
fessionally.
Carl II. Turner of Winthrop,
Mass, called on some Of his 81.
Johnsbury friends Wednesday.
Oscar Lavigne has returned from
Bellows Falls and is working at the
scale factory.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. r. Smith Of Pas
sumpsic were here "Wednesday on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Bowen Of
Newbury are moving from there to
the farm Of Wilbur Ii Woithen ut st.
Johnsbury Center.
Nj. and Mrs. Warren l.. Esta
brooks spent a day recently with Mr..
and Mrs Robert Richie at Green's
boro.
Mrs. Charles II. Hall left for
Washington Saturday to spend the
winter with her son, who is in the
government employ.
Mrs. ]. B. Perham of Brook(ield
and Mrs. Samuel Wells of South Rye
gate have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
J. M. Perham.
Mrs, John l.. McLam is spending
a few weeks with her sister, Mrs.
James A. Hamilton, in Dorehe-
Mass.
Mrs. Walter Allard Of Dover, N.
H., who has been visiting Mrs. Rob
ert p. Trefren few days, returned
to her home Wednesday.
The Chemical from fire headquar
ters was called to Lafayette street
his forenoon to a chimney fire. No
damage was done.
Charles Harvey has purchased of
.he C. H. Goss Co., a new Packard
Twin Six car. The sale was made by
Will C. Kimball
Arthur L. Graves and j. Rolf |
Searles are in Guildhall this week at
tending the October to- Essex
county court, Judge S. r. Moulton is
presiding.
The Ladies Circle of the Univer
alst church will meet Thursday, Oct
30, for an extra meeting at the home
If Mrs. Edwin Spencer at Cherry
street. Every member is requested
o be present at two o'clock.
A. B. Noyes and Gilbert e Woods
we're in Burlington Tuesday attend
ng a special meeting of the Yer
mont Bankers association called for
he purpose Of discussing matters Of
interest arising from the post war
conditions
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
Farm Bureau Women
Meet Saturday
Continued from Page ~

and plans for the winters program,
will be carefully outlined and discus
sed. New and important committees
are to be appointed to assist in the
organization which is growing fast,
and becoming one of the states most
important activities.
The following towns are to be rep
resented by. women whose names ap-
pear below:
Barnet, Mrs. 3. L. Galley; East
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
This "Ad"
Is Not
Intended
To Sell
Anything

1t is a little talk about
a new device which you
will find installed in our
Silk Dress Goods and
Lining Section on the
Main Floor.
On the counter you'll
find a little black enam-
eled iron stand, with
two spaces on top. One
of these spaces looks
like a clock face and
the other like a null
tiplication table.
This device is called a
"Measuregraph"
and its purpose is to
assist us in giving pur-
chasers of yard goods
the exact measurement
and charging them the
correct price ON EV-
cry PURCHASE.
With the aid of the
"Measuregraph," our
people can measure any
number of yards or any
fraction, exactly to the
eighth of an inch. They
can tell you the exact
cost of, say, II 3-8 yards
of silk at $2.65 a yard in
an instant and with alb
solute accuracy.
This means that you
can be waited on more
quickly than heretofore
"a vital consideration
in these busy times.
First in the installa-
!. ton of many conven-
fences for the shop
:. ping public, this store
I is also first to install
i, the "Measuregraph."
eve couldn't improve
the fabrics, so we i'm
proved the selling me-
. thod."
Leach & Waterman
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-29
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-We have a Ford coupe
that we have no further use for to
be sold at reasonablep rice. French &
Bean CO., st. Johnsbury. 105 If
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

And now for another phase of the case
The aunt made peculiar provision in her
will. AT the conclusion of the trust pro-
vision the instrument provided:
"And upon the decease of the said Hetty
Fl. Robinson, I direct and order the said
trustees and their successors in said Office
to pay over, distribute and divide the whole
of said residuary estate to and among
all the lineal descendants then living of
my grandfather, Gideon Howland and if all
the lineal descendants aforesaid then living
are in the same degree of kindred to the
said Gideon Howland, they shall share the
said estate equally and shall be paid in
cordng to the right of representation, and
the said trustees shall pay them respective
~ such portions shall according to the
right of representation belong to them"
1t is quite apparent from the reading of
this clause of the will that all of the de-
scendant. of Gideon Rowland would share
in the estate, but in what proportion be-
came the question. On this would depend
the method of distribution, at the time of
Hetty Green's death, of the 81 800 900 in
the hands of the trustees, who had several
times changed by death and who are now
Coionel Edward H. R. Green, the son of the
life tenant; Henry B. Day, of Boston. and
Oliver Prescott, of New Bedford
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
The New Measure Providing Sick
and Maternity Benefits---
How 1t Would Work

assigned to it and has taken upon itself
a wide range of economic and social func-
tions. The people have got used to seeing
the state do many things which individuals
used to be expected to do for themselves.
The spectacle of government concerning it
self intimately with the industries and the
welfare of the people has become familiar.
All this tends to make supporters for prof.
ects of social insurance.
A concrete illustration is furnished by the
government plan of war risk insurance.
Under this Elan the government has pro-
vded for enlisted men separation allow
ances for their families, disability and
death benefits, and life insurance at net
cost.
The state has recognized and discharged
the obligation to protect men in the mill
tary and naval service against the peculiar
hazards of that service The example Of
government war risk insurance will surely
prove contagious Men who have enjoyed
the benefits Of state insurance scheme in
time Of war are pretty sure to ask for its
continuance and extension in time of peace.
They will reason that industrial service
is, after all, wcllnigh as important as
military service and ought to- be rewarded
not less generously.
Indeed, the catchword Soldiers of In
dustry," was used effectively in the cam
paign for old age pensions in England
and TIE British Colonies more than ten
years ago. The analogy between military
and industrial service is not entirely cx-
act, but it is close enough TO make a
strong popular appeal
Another force that will accelerate the
movement for health and other forms of
social insurance is the pressure CT So
cialsm. The enactment Of the British
old age pension law in 1908 admitted
ly concession to socialism. Many CON
servative statesmen who disapproved this
measure in principle nevertheless sup
ported it because they believed that it
would help to check the spread Of social
ism. The menace Of possible Bolshevst
movement in this country to-day will help
to incline thoughtful conservative opinion
favorabiy toward proposals of social IN
surance. Revolutionary social movements
in general cannot be checked by coercive
and repressive measures alone. A positive
and constructive programme of social re-
form is essential. The most effective line
Of defence against revolutionary move
ments directed against the very founda-
tions of the present social system is the
enactment of carefully considered measures
that will help to remedy the evils and cor
rect the abuses which have grown up
around this system and. to improve indus
trial and social conditions for the working
masses.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
New Ideal
Of Service

The war has also brought profound
changes in American conceptions Of the
reciprocal relation of the individual and
the state, which cannot fail to add impetus
to the movement for social insurance in
general.
A new ideat~ of service has grown up
during the war Altruistic motives have
come into play as never before Men and
women have heard the call to give unre-
servedly their resources and their energies,
not for self and family alone, but for the
state and humanity. With the duty of ser
vice on the part of the individual goes hand
in hand the duty Of the state to render
fair reward for loyal service. This must
include provision for protecting the indi-
vdual against the hazards and hardships
imposed by service.
Closely connected with this new concep-
tion of service there has developed new
conception of the state. The activities of
the state have been enormously extended in
consequence of the war. Government has
transcended the narrow sphere formerly
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
-Four Hundred
HOvVIandS

Gideon Rowland, the ancestor, was born
at Round Hills, South Dartmouth, Mass, in
1874 and had died in 1923. He was a de-
scendant of Henry Howund, who was
brother of John Rowland, the Pilgrim For
more than 200 years the family home at
Round Hills, and located not far from Salt
ers Point, has been in the Rowland family
and was owned by Mrs. Green at the time
of her death. Gideon Howland had large
family. No less than eleven sons and
daughters grew to manhood and woman
hood and in turn left children Not less
than 430 persons now trace their ancestry
to ann, Hetty Green's son and daughter be-
ing among the number. The case is inter
esting from its very complexity, and af-
fords evidence that the law is abundantly
able to effect equitable division of estates.
even in the absence Of explicit tcstamen-
tary instructions; in the present case, since
the estate has been in the hands Of trus-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

VEN since 1860, or Tor more IMAM
III half a century, one phase or an
u other of the famous Sylvia Ann
Rowland will has been in the Fed
eral and Massachusetts courts. Hetty
Green's name has ever and always been
associated with the matter, ever and al
WAYS in a prominent way, and some OF the
interest in it was due to that fact But
taken all in all, first and last, the case IS
about as long drawn out interesting and
as complicated one as has ever been
before our American courts.
Its beginnings take US back to the time
when Miss Howland died at New Bedford
in the year noted. The woman known
to the world as Hetty Green was then about
twenty-nine years of age and was not
married The will of Miss Rowland did
not suit her neice, then Hetty Robinson,
and the latter apparently set on foot ways
and means Of contesting it, Her method
was by bill in the Federal courts. 1t was
contended by her that she and her aunt had
agreed to make mutual wills; in case of
the death Of one, the survivor was to take
the estate of the other. An attempt was
also made to show that the will of Miss
Rowland a forgery.
Miss Robinson's suit directed against
Edward ID. Mandell, George Rowland, jr.,
and William A. Gordon, they being the
trustees of the estate. The bill set up
specific contract for an exchange of wills,
so Miss Robinson contended, and that
neither should make any other will without
notice to the other and the return in both
cases Of the others will Hctty was the
niece and sole heir t-law OF Miss Rowland
and had previously inherited considerable
estate from her mother, Abby Robinson. An
attempt was made in the trial which fol-
lowed to show that Miss Rowland at
variance with Mr.. Robinson, the father OF
Hetty, and that the case was one where she
had tried to exclude him from any interest
or share in her property and also to secure
the property of his only child, Hetty, If she
died before Miss Howland. 1t was shown in
the case that Hetty had made will in
pursuance Of this agreement and had dis
inherited her father. Also it shown
that upon the making Of Wills they had
been exchanged. But this was not all.
Hetty's viii vent 80 far as to give her
estate, in case of her aunt's death before
hers 10 charitable uscsl 1t must be kept
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

"i'h one additional director to be chosen
ny majority vote. The administration of
the entire plan, including the insurance
1unds' is placed in the hands of the State
Industrial Commission.
The need Of a comprehensive scheme of
health insurance must be admitted bv anv
one who has given thoughtful attention to
the problem Of sickness among WORKING
people Official estimates of the extent
OF the annual loss on account of sickness
IN TINS country place the wage loss at
approximately five hundred million dollars
and the expenses of medical treatment and
supplies at approximately one hundred and
eiGhty million dollars. 1t is estimated that
the amount of dependency due to sickness
is seven times as great as that due to ac
cldents. At present this burden of loss
tails in each case upon the individual
worker 1t is now proposed that the prin
clple Of insurance shall be applied here
wlth the twofold object of distributing tho
burden of loss equitably and Of reducing
the amount of the loss itself
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

challenge. The increase Of the average
number of days lost through sickness can
not be regarded as necessarily indicating
the loss OF industrial efficiency and produc-
tive power for the working population as
a whole. Indeed, the fact that more time
on the average has been lost, ostensibly on
account OF sickness may indicate that the
workers have been enabled through the
1aclNtles for insurance to take the time
from work really needed in order to effect
thorough cure of occasional ailments and
thus to enhance their working power in the
long run. 1t may be contendcd in short,
that while health insurance may result in
a slight increase of the amount of time
lost through illness, it raises the level of
health and efficiency for the workers as
whole In this connection it may be pointed
out that the tendency 20 prolongation of
sickness periods is not peculiar to state
health insurance; precisely the same ten
dency is observable under private health
insurance. This tendency. in general, must
be regarded as natural and beneficial.
Furthermore, any unwholesome tendency
In this direction is undoubtedly offset and
ontweighed greatly by the powerful stimu-
lus to sickness prevention and health con-
servation which a we'll organized plan of in
surance brings to bear both upon the en-
ployer and upon the employe. The oppo-
nents of health insurance emphasize the
importance of prevention as an alternative
to indemnifcation in dealing with the prob
lem Of industrial Sickness But these
two are not alternative; they are corrclative
That Is, indemnifcation provided through
health insurance leads to prevention. This
relation of cause and effect has been demon
strated clearly in the case of workmen's
compensation insurance. The enactment OF
workmen's compensation laws by bringing
nome to the employer the magnitude of the
loss through industrial accidents furnished
an effective incentive to prevent accidents
by adopting all practicable measures for
the protection of life and limb of the work
ers. 1t gave tremendous impetus to the
safety First" movement Similarly. the in
stitution of health insurance would unoues-
tlonably promote widespread movement
among employers to prevent sickness and
to conserve health among the workers. 1t
would popularize new slogan, Health
First" This stimulus to prevention and
conservation would be felt by the employe,
as we'll as by the employer Just as the
latter would be stimulated to provide bet
ter sanitary conditions in his plant, so the
former would be melted to give more atten-
tiQn to personal hygiene and domestic sani-
tation. 1t cannot be doubted that the per
manent effect of health insurance would
thus be to reduce the volume of industrial
sickness loss and to heightcn the efficiency
of the national labor force.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Problems in
Long Division

In the preparation Of their data and re-
ports the trustees proceeded on the the
or. that the first initial division of the
trust property should be on the basis Of
torty-hfths, there having been forty-five
grandchildren of Gideon Rowland. Three
were alive at the time Mrs Green died
The reason for the course of the trustees
was due to two Massachusetts, decisions
which are to the effect that when there are
no living members of any generation in de-
scent from a grandchild, that generation
should be passed over and the division
made in equal shares among the next gen.
GRAFTON in which there are still living mem
bers.
Judge Hopkins in the Probate Court so
decided, and while he did not write an
opinion it was pointed out that the con-
clusion of Miss Howland's trust clause was
not unlike the Massachusetts statute. which
determines who shall take the personal
property left by persons who do not leave
wills. This provision is in eoual
shares to children and the issue of any de-
ceased child by right Of representation; and
II there IS no child of the intestate living
at death, then to all other lineal descen-
dants; If all descendants are in the same
degree Of kindred to the intestate, they
shall share the estate equally; otherwise
they shah take according to the right Of
esentation." The Supreme Judicial
Court OF Massachusetts has decided with
the Probate Court on the division of FORTY
iIiths, and the estate is now in process ~
distribution The shares in money range
from about $4,000 in an individual case
down to only about s63.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
E1etty Green's Famous Fight for the Howland Will

fcient to warrant giving decree in favor
of Miss Robinson.
1t was brought out in the case that the
aunt had talked to the trustee, Gordon,
along the same line as claimed by Miss
Robinson in her bill and had said she would
make another will but for the pledge to
her niece. But she also said, in referring
to her niece " she dinned me and
teased me and gave me peace till did"
Hetty's testimony was to the effect that she
had made will dated September 10, 1862
and gave the instrument to her aunt in
yellow envelope and never saw it again
until day or two after the death Of the
aunt. Edward II. Green, who became her
husband, confirmed this.