St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-01

torlcal Gazetteer contains a history Oh
the town of Groton.
About two carloads of people
went from st. John-hury on the eXcur-
sion to Burlington on Wednesday.
- The Methodist camp-meeting is in
session at the Lyndonville grove. Rev.
Hamilton of Boston preached Tuesday
afternoon.
The ding-dong of the academy
bell is once more heard, and the young
men and maidens give the streets a
lively appearance.
There was food for the credulous
in the fact of the temperance conven-
ton being Immediately succeeded by
drenchng shower.
-Nennor SAYS: There's another
scorcher coming. The fore part of
September is almost certain to he sui
try, stormy and hot
John Robinson, Il prominent citizen
of Calais, died suddenly in his chair
while visiting his daughter i'll Boston
last week. He was about 81 years old.
!. w SanbOrn of Lyndon has his
annual story on the first page concern
ing farm stock and produce, which will
he generally read by the CdledOnidns
firmer-readers
The old Vermont Mutual Fire In
surance Company pays all its losses
this year with an assessment of three
and one-half per cent. w. c. Lewis of
this place is agent.
Among the entries for the Frank
lin county fair II. Peek of st. Johns
bury enters his black gelding, ''Black
Johnnie,n in the frec-tO-all race, for
which 5000 are offered in premiums.
Persons who paid for membership
tickets ut the annual agricultural meet
ing last winter can have the same by
calling at this Office or sending for
same and enclosing IA three-cent stamp.
The Universalist Sunday school
will picnic mt Lunenburg on Saturday,
going on the 1870 train. Tickets will
he twenty i've and fifty cents, to be
had of the superintendent of the school,
A. w. Roberts.
Joseph Burnett has left Gauthier's
shop on the avenue and opened little
shoe shop under the old Grimnell house,
next to Spencer, Pearl 4 Merriam's.
Solomon Grigware takes Brunett's
place ut Gauthier's.
The religious reading appears on
the third instead of on the first column
of the last page this week, the merits
of which are none the less because the
gifted writer has not a ministerial title
prefxed to his name.
The census of the voting popula-
ton of Vermont shows the number Oi
native voting population of Caledonia
county to be $3.50. foreign 1914, colOred
!. The state has a, IA natives, H..
:533 foreign, 3ll colored.
The liquor sales at town agencie,
for July were lOl gallons, ut n cost o.
S429. st. Johnsbury leads with TWEEN,
ty-ninc gallons, Burke twenty ant
DanVille seventeen. This is a sGgh
increase over the sales in June.
Saturday is the last opportunity t.
place names on the check list to b,
used at the coming election. The Sc
lectmen will be at the town clerk
office that day. Any member of tn,
board of civil authority can ente
names.
At session of the Free VIII Bap
fist quarterly meeting, convened Il
West Charleston Aug. 26, the follow
ing resolution was adopted
Resolved, That in the opinion q
this conference temperance Is the grea
issue now before the people of this ma
ton, and should he carried, as such, t.
the ballot-boN by all Christian men.
The Van Ness house at Burlington
is one of the best kept and furnishe,
houses i'll Vermont. Messrs. Bowman
& Woodbury. have made valuabl
changes and improvements i'll tn
house since it came into their hands
and any of our readers visiting Bur
lington cannot make mistake il
stopping at the Van Ness.
An excursion party of about fou
hundred from Newport passed over III
Passumpsic road on Thursday, and on
hundred took stop-over checks to visi
st. Johnsbury and stay over night, TIA
number being distributed among tn
hotels and the boarding houses. Som
of them took the opportunity i'll tn
morning of making visit to the scale
works.
The taking of books from the 1
brary furnishes some singular fact
The first book registered on Saturda
was issued at half-past five in the a
ternoon. Notwithstanding the oppo
tunitv afforded in the earlier part
Saturday the library is crowded in IL
evening when the borrowers knO
they must wait some time for the
turn to Toe served.
The Baptist Sunday school wei
TO Greensboro on Thursday over Il