St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-18

sick is getting about, C. B. Hubbard is
suffering, however, from hemor1hage of
the stomach.
E. Way and Son and J. F. Ruggles
have each put up fine street lamp.
East Hardwick.
Prentice & Hill obtained the pre-
MUM at the Orleans county fair on
their deep setting milk apparatus. In
these cams the sediment of the milk is
drawn off in the skim milk and is not
mingled with the cream.
AS the cars were passing through
Dea. Stevens woods during the gale last
Thursday morning tree was blown on
to telegraph pole, throwing it against
a car breaking one of the windows.
VIM. Forte who has been at work in
Charlestown the past two years has re-
turned and is to run the blacksmith
shop.
Mr.. Smalley has bought the old depot
building and has moved it to Green's
borO. He intends to convert it into
shop.
At the sheriff sale of Mr.. Campbell's
property last week COWS sold from
twelve to twenty dollars each, and good
early cut hay from six to seven dollars
per ton.
We should judge that the interest in
Sabbath Schools was on the increase in
this vicinity from the number of tickets
sold to the convention last week. The
average attendance during the summer
has been about 90. But that morning
it came up to $50. This increase is ac-
counted for by discovering a large num-
Der of assistant superintendent not on
duty.
Hardwick street was noted in the
early settlement of the county as the
headquarters of U. S. troops on their
way to Canada and later as the bust
ness centre of the town. Although it
has lost its prestige as such, it has not
lost its highly cultivated farms nor large
crops. H. A. Smith reports 81 bushels
of wheat from two acres of land L. D.
Hyde 60 bushels from the same amount
of land.
Daniel Low has rented his house and
land to VIM. Forte, ST., and he goes to
Danville to spend the winter with his
daughter Mrs. Harvey Kingsbury.
Mr.. Parsons the miller has rented the
house formerly occupied by VIM. Forte
Mr.. Alfred of Walden has rented the
James Page house and moves in this
week.
Mr.. Leander Cole and family who
have spent the summer with H. A.
Smith took their departure last week
for Oakland, Cal.
Walter Smith better known in this
vicinity as ''Bob Diamond" went to St.
bloomsbury one day last week to inspect
the interior arrangements of Preston's
boarding house. And while in one of
the cells the door closed and he has
been unable to get out so as to return
to his family as soon as he intended.
He is quite reconciled to his confine-
ment as he ent his vacation with Mr..
Preston two years ago, and was very
much pleased with his hospitality and
| kind attention.
Charley Kellogg's boy Freddy, while
fooling with the machinery in E. C..
Cummings sash and blind shop one day
this week got the end of his thumb cut
off.
Lyndon.
r. H. Rice and George Cahoon start
ed for the West Tuesday with the party
from st. Johnsbury. Rice goes to Den
yer, Colorado.
G.. H. Quimby has purchased build
ing lot, south of Thomas Quimby's, of
Stephen McGaffey.
Mrs. L. M. M. Gray has moved into
David Willey's house at the Centre.
Miss Chapman, of st. JOhnsbury, who
taught at the Centre last term, has been
re-engaged for the winter term.
| Thomas Moreau will move into Bine
Deans house this week.
The family of Charles Sanborn have
erected an $500 monument in the GENE
terry at the Centre. 1t was made III
Scotland and was put up by A. S. Jones
Murray, formerly tailor at Lyndon
vile, has returned and intends to &c
into business again.
1t was decidedly amusing to see those
two ST. Johnsbury lawyers in Webb's
hotel the other day, trying to light theil