St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-02-09

saturday, Is
Sunday, "a 90
Monday, II
Tuesday, I3 5
Wednesday, Is 10
IoraI Urws.
Lent commenced on Wednesday.
The Athenaum will be closed uuti
Monday.
A sociable will be held at the South
church this Friday evening.
E. & +. Fairbanks & Co.'S store
has heen added to the telephone ex-
change.
f. d. Blodgett has been appointed
town treasurer in place of w. 5. Boyn-
ton, resigned.
The Passumpsic Railroad company
has declared a semi-annual dividend of
three per cent.
There will be no preaching at the
Church of the Messiah next Sunday.
Sunday school as usual.
The spring term of the Academy
opens with 300 students-the largest
number in the history of the school.
Next Wednesday will be st. Valen-
tines day, and the windows are
embellished by the fanciful missives.
}. w. Gorham of Kirby has a pair
of well-matched grade Durhams, TWEEN
ty-two months old, that weigh 200
pounds.
N. p. Bowman and G.. X. Crosby
attended the annual session of the
grand encampment at Bennington
this week.
Albert Brock, residing on Railroad
street, lost Il team-hOrse on Wednes-
day night Of last week by death caused
by "A stoppage.
H. X. Pettee has stepped out. He
started towards West Concord Look
out for him in Danville and St.
Johnsbury he proved dead beat.
We learned on Tuesday of this
week that Rev. +. 5. Locke of Barton
Landing was mortally i'll of pneumo-
MIA, but later reports say he is better.
The village directories will be on
sale at Howard y Rowell's, f. n. Ran
dall's and F. o. Clark's. They will be
delivered to subscribers at their resi- |
dences.
Rev. Robert Collyer lectures here
on the 26th. The lecture bureau prom !
Use John b. Cough for his advertised
lecture in the course. and will send his |
date soon.
A correspondent of the st. Adams
Messenger says that l.. II. Smith of
Richford removes his family to St. !
Johnsbury for the purpose of educating
his children.
The Free Baptist church will be
dedicated Tuesday of next week. Ex |
ercises ut two o'clock. Sermon by Rev.
c. :. Frost. There will also be servi- |
ces in the evening.
A song service will be held in the |
Y. NJ. c. a. hall, in Browns block, on
Saturday evening, at 7.30 o'clock, to
which the public is invited The or
chestra will he present
The promenade concert by the
band was not given on Friday evening
by no fault of the band but owing to IA
lack of gas. 1t will take place this
friday evening at Town hall.
Among the noticeable absences at |
the banquet of the Massachusetts Press |
association at the Quincy house last
week was that of every kind of intoxi-
cant. The fact is worthy of note.
The next regular meeting of Olive
Branch lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, !
will he held Thursday evening, Feb.
10, the meeting being changed on ac-
count of the course entertainment.
Frank Perrigo was struck severe
blow in the abdomen by piece of
board from the scale works on Tues
day, but the physician thinks no seri-
Gus consequences will result from it.
Jerry Drew has bought the Belle |
vue house at Newport; price some
$4,000 or 5000. If he sells the st. |
Johnsbury house, of which there is
some prospect, he thinks of removing
to Newport.
AT meeting of the new Interna-
tiOnal company of Newport. held in |
Boston, l.. c. Grandy, II. Z. Folsom, |
j. l.. Edwards, l.. p. Poland, f. Ray
mond and two Boston gentlemen were
elected directors.
Whitmore Il Clark's minstrels |
played in the Town hall on Saturday
evening to a crowded house, seemingly |
every available place of standing room
being occupied. The entertainment
closed at quarter past eleven.
There was a slight thaw Sunday
and heavy snow storm Tuesday
night. The snow is very deep all over
this part of Vermont. Pennsylvania
and Ohio have been visited with severe