St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-11

81. cJutmsburp Galedunian.
1t. Johnsbury, VT, Friday. Aug. II, 1852.
Weather Record.
At Bingham's drug store, for the
week ending August 9, loS2.
Highest. Lowest.
Thursday, - -
Friday, - 81
, Saturday, ~ D
Sunday, ~ %
Monday, ~ %
Tuesday, 50 90
Wednesday, 81 10
Ioeal and State Nfms.
The band will not play in public
this week.
The noon-day prayer meetings
were resumed on Tuesday.
-Meteors are promised for this
Thursday and tomorrow evenings.
The band gave an open-air concert
on Railroad street on Thursday even
ing.
Services and Sunday school at the
Church of the Messiah next Sunday as
usual.
The firm of Shaw y Co. is dis
solved, as Judge Bowman announces
elsewhere.
There are 1915 names on the new
check list. Let every legal voter see
that his name is there.
bingham will put i'll telephone
at fair ground for use Saturday, and
will add Cross Il Bradley to regular
line.
1t is proposed to issue a business
directory of st. Johnsbury from the
CdledOnidn office and canvassing is al
ready begun.
One hundred passengers came
down over the Passumpsic road on
Friday tcketed for the mountains, and
l57 more on Monday.
The Muffers of this place and the
Lisbons will play match game of ball
on the fair ground, tomorrow after
noon at three o'clock.
Spencer, Pearl Il Merriam make
the announcement in this paper of
their fourth annual arrival of fruit,
etc, in "Jumbo" quantities.
The CaLedonidn passed its forty
fifth birthday last Tuesday, the first
number having been issued by the late
Albert G. Chadwick Aug :, 1887.
The camp-meeting of the st.
Johnsbury district will be held at Lyn-
donville, commencing Aug. %, under
the direction of Presiding elder Gran
ger.
County convention at this place
to we gave the voters last week: In
the selection of candidates, get the
best
Last Friday the mercury stood at
o. degrees in one of the rooms in Fair
banks scale works where there was no
fire, and in the blacksmith shop it
climbed to 10!
special trains Jumbo day from Pad
dock village to the Fair ground, stop
ping at st. Johnsbury station, leaving
every half hour from 1925 till 200.
Fare 10 cents.
A large crowd assembled in front
of the st. Johnsbury house on Friday
evening to witness panoramic dis
play, mainly representing features i'll
the coming Barnum London show,
with some others of ludicrous nature
thrown in for diversion.
-Humanitarians will rejoice that a
new fashion has been set at that fash
ionable watering place, Newport, X. l.,
in the abolition of the check rein. All
the tony teams have discarded this
barbarous piece of a harness, and it
should become popular in st. Johns
bury as well as elsewhere.
These sultry evenings, men, wo-
men and children, who have IA lawn
and line of hose, have resolved them
selves into IA fire company of one, each
active as a whole board of officers and
hosemen, in the cndeavor to revive the
verdure which has been dropping since
the present hot spell set in.
Work is rushing in the small scale
department this month, and some of
the men work until ten o'clock each
night. 1t is caused by the government
order for six thousand letter balances,
all of which must be shipped by first
of September. This nccessitates the
completion of about two hundred scales
day.
In moving house on Railroad
street Wednesday the alarm wires
were interfered with and the fire-bell
was struck several times; but it caused
less fear in the minds of the hearers
than it would have done had it occur
red day or two earlier, before the
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