St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-06


Friday, 81
Saturday, p 4
Sunday, 20 %
Monday, b -
Tuesday, "a
Wednesday, 10
IoraI ,Qrws.
Promenade concert this Friday
evening.
The schools closed last week for
a vacation of two weeks.
The NJ. f. church will have a sug
ar party on Saturday evening.
Rev. H. Lockhart is expected to
occupy his pulpit next Sunday.
Robins, the harbingers of spring,
were seen hereabouts on Saturday.
Prof. II. Fairbanks supplied the
pulpit of the Free Baptist church
on Sunday.
The young people of st. Johns
bury Centre have organized dramatic
association.
The fourth instalment of the
Florida correspondence appears on
the first page.
Mrs. w. A. Little has opened a
dress making shop in Union block, on
Central street.
The grand lodge of the Knights of
Honor convenes here next Wednesday,
in odd Fellows hall.
The spring term of Miss Wrinkles
school on Maple street will commence
next Monday, April 9.
Jerry Drew has bought the Tres
colt place formerly occupied by livery
stable on Central street.
There was fine display of the
aurora borealis on Wednesday evening,
also on Tuesday evening.
A union Fast-d day service will he
held at the Free Baptist church this
Friday morning, at 1919 o'clock.
Sunday morning, the first day of
April, the thermometer was ) below
zero, and the following morning
two below.
The half-term at the Academy
IL, M
will not reopen until Tuesday morn
ing following.
The St John~bury house coach
made its appearance on wheels on
Tuesday for the first time since
Thanksgiving.
There were two halos to be seen
on Friday, very marked and handsome
in appearance. a colored refraction
was also seen in the northern sky.
The thaw has made slow yet etfec
tive progress during the past week, and
the sleighing has been seriously i'm
paired in some places. This Thursday
morning there was a light snowfall.
The post-otfice deliveries will be
open Fast-day from nine to ten Il. m,
and six to seven p. IN. The evening
mail will close at seven p. III. Mail ar
irving through the day will be distrib-
uted into the boxes as usual.
Rev. II. Garfield, pastor of the
Greenwich street providence, r. ~
Free Baptist church, has gotten out IA
paper called The Church Helper. He
is also an NJ. ID. He was foreman OF
this office about twenty years ago.
5. w. Parkhurst, conductor on
the Lake road, recently caught fine
specimen of bald eagle in Il trap on
Lake Champlain, which measures
seven feet from tip to tip of its wings.
He has it at his residence here, where
it may be seen.
Gen. II. X. Idle, assisted by sew
en- members of Chamherlin post of thi.
place, instituted "A G.. A. X. post AT
Lunenburg, with twenty three charter
members, on Monday evening. NJ. V
b. Vance was chosen post commander
and the number Of the post is 80.
-Carrick y Harris, the new grant,
firm, have contracted to put in new
gate at the cemetery this spring. The
posts will he of Victory Hill granite
and the gate of iron. The quarry pro
duces some fine granite, susceptible
of fine polish, and the firm have ;
large number of orders ahead.
A party of about twenty couples
of students and ladies, took a sleigh
ride ON Saturday afternoon to ST
Johnsbury Centre and Passumpsic
fashioned sleighs as possible, and judg
ing from some of the antiquated turn
outs, they were eminently successful.
George ). Shaw has had his dutie
so far modified 10y the Continental In
surance company that he attends t
their business as general claim agen
only in Vermont and in cases outsid
when he is called specially, instead G
most of New England as heretofore
This was at Mr.. Shaw's request on &C
count of failing health.
A small party took advantage {
the exceptionally fine weather of Fri
day and INDUCED in a sleigh-ride
Ivndonville taking dinner at til