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Newspaper
The Evening Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1918
Page
4
The Evening Caledonian published daily except Sundays and holidays by W. D. Pelley Publishing Co. in St. Johnsbury Vermont outlines circulation details and subscription rates. It notes Associated Press rights and entry as second class matter May 1 1916.
A wartime patriotic verse urging humility for the United States after Allied sacrifices. It recalls Belgium France Britain and Britain’s “Old Contemptibles,” praising their bravery and noting America’s late but decisive stance that helped turn the war tide. The poem links liberty with sacrifice and the crimson flood of bloodshed.
The Caledonian endorses Lt. Col. Joseph Fairbanks suggestion to acquire two German cannons for the municipality and notes St. Johnsbury should bid through official channels. It lists three candidates for state Senate chaplain: Rev. Joseph Hamilton, Rev. E. W. Sturtevant, and Rev. F. L. Goodspeed, with Rev. James H. Wills seeking continuation as House chaplain.
The writer argues women now have full citizenship in New York and should be eligible for jury duty. They question why women would seek jury service while many men dodge the obligation, implying some suffragists miscast women as eager for the role. The piece mocks the idea that women possess superior ethics in this civic duty.
The piece argues for stronger action against epidemic disease, noting more U S deaths from influenza than in all wars and urging federal leadership to prevent disease as medical and moral priorities. It contrasts political and medical science roles and cites Canada’s public health needs in Montreal Star.
Three Rutland men visiting Hydeville for minnows for winter fishing earned about 2000 from a stream. Brattleboro reports eight new influenza cases, bringing total to 12 with homes quarantined. Other notes cover an auto wreck in Lowell injuring Clarence Coolbeth, Canoe Brook farm leadership change, and veterans news.
A historical column asserts the United States has 7 percent of the world’s area and 6 percent of its population yet holds large shares of global resources. It cites 75 percent of the corn, 66 percent of cotton and petroleum, 50 percent of copper, 40 percent of iron, coal, and railways, 85 percent of banking power, 30 percent of manufactures, wealth, and other wheat.
London reports two thousand American soldiers sailors and marines will be hosted in 1000 British homes for Christmas dinner as part of the International Hospitality League of the Y M C A. The effort aims to lift spirits in the war zone with turkey plum pudding and cranberry sauce amid cordial Anglo American hospitality.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports experiments on laying hens using vegetable protein feeds to supplement rare beef scrap. A pen with 20 percent beef scrap yielded the most eggs. another with 10 percent peanut meal and 10 percent beef scrap averaged slightly fewer. Soybean, cottonseed, and velvet bean meals with beef scrap also gave satisfactory results.
Government poultrymen urge increased production with nine methods. Keep better poultry through standard breed quality, select healthy breeders, hatch early for fall and winter layers, preserve cheap eggs for home use, produce infertile eggs except for hatching, cull unprofitable producers, maintain a small back-yard flock, and grow as much poultry feed as possible.
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