St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-08

Montpelier and Wells River railroad,
S. S. Thompson of Lyndonville was
elected ce-president and one of the
directors. The gross earnings of the
road for the year ending March 81 were
sos, 2S6.27. Over $4,000 worth of
steel rails were laid the past year.
! The total debt of the road is $50, 1904.
| Forbes" says State Auditor Pow
ell has started with span of horses
and carriage to make a tour of the state
on business connected with his office.
He is accompanied by his wife, and will
visit Chittenden, Addison, Rutland,
Windham, Windsor, Orange, CaledO
mia, LamOille and Franklin counties on
the trip, which will occupy several
weeks.
The appointments have been made
for the graduating exercises at the
Academy, which were to be determined
contestants are Misses Kate ID. Ide of
st. Johnsbury and Mary II. Gage of
North Craftsbury, Stephen g. Elmer
son of UnderhilI, Frank p. Bracket of
ST. Johnsbury and Edwin Fish of West
Derby.
The work on the chapel of the NJ.
f. church is being pushed forward, and
it is expected that the chapel will be
ready to occupy in about two weeks,
in which regular church services will
be held while the work is going for
ward on the church building. The
opinion has been expressed that the
remodeled church will not be ready to
occupy before February.
The MONDAY prayermeetings
have been resumed at Browns hail.
The young mems meeting on Saturday
evening has been discontinued, and i'll
its place will be held the Bible service
that has been held on Tuesday even
ing.-On Saturday evening c. H. Sage
made an extended and interesting re-
port of the late Y. NJ. G.. A. conventions
at Racine and Milwaukee.
At IA hearing before the Probate
court this week, on the estate of the
late Jesse Cheney, the heirs contested
the admission of the will to probate on
the ground of its being illegally wit
messed. Bates & May appeared for the
contestants and Belden g. Ide for the
legatees. The decision of the court
was in favor of the legatees. The con-
testants have taken an appeal.
Considerable is being done about
town in the matter of repairing and i'm
proving buildings. p. ID. Blodgett has
extended the ell to his residence, and
improved his grounds in various ways.
H. c. Belden has improved the APP
pearance of the house on Summer street
recently purchased, and +. w. Har
rington has made a marked improve
ment in his house and grounds.
Such was the success and harmony
which characterized the Esther" chO-
rus, that there is considerable talk of IA
permanent chorus. A town of the size
of st. JOhnsbury, possessing the mu-
steal talent which it unquestionably
does, should have an organization of
this character, and now that the matter
is being considered, it is to be hoped
that the talk will crystalline into ac-
ton.
Wednesdays shower caused four
wash-outs between the East Village
and this place, one extending the
length of rail and about two feet in
depth, and a telegraph pole being up
rooted i'll another place. The section
hands built up under the rails in the
damaged places so that the mixed
train from the east this Thursday
morning was enabled to pass safely
over them.
Several of those who participated
, in the cantata of Esther" have been
. photographed, in costume, by {. F.
f shepherd. As photographed they rep
, resent some attitude appropriate tC
their respective characters, which will
make these representations pleasant
souvenirs of the cantata. The work i.
well done, and its excellence indicates
that Mr.. Shepherd proposes to sustain
the reputation for good work of hi
: predecessor, Mr.. Mems.
+ F. o. Clark has made quite a bust
ness of the sale of daily papers. Dur
=. ing the month of May his sales aggre
gated 1856 copies, the papers bein:
: classified as follows: Boston Journal
. $3.50 copies; Herald, I,583; Tran
script, 100; Star, 362. The sale of tn
: Journal in this town exceeds the mum
Der sold i'll any other town in the state
the number being $50 copies per day
! the sale of the Journal was tifty-ti
e copies per day.
. A new method of collecting tn
- highway tax goes into operation i
this town this year. At the Marc
meeting the town voted that the high
'e way tax shall be paid in money, fiftee
Is cents on the grand list, instead {
> twenty cents in labor as heretOfOr
y The tax is now ready for collection
Il Ia. ,t-ill of on.a
Is make his rounds, and those who hay