St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-17

&'open" to objections.
The postmaster says some people
still address their drop letters to 'city.
The Presby terians now omit thci
. afternoon service.
4 There will be genuine farmer
3supper at the Methodist chapel OF
4 Friday evening of this week.
Promenade concert 10y st. Johns
bury band at town hall Tuesday even
ing, Jan. %.
See if the date following yom
name on this paper is correct; if not
. why not
Secretary Sage goes to Norwich
4 To-day to assist at some gospel meet
. ings being held there.
A. T.. Rankin, Esq, aud daughter,
are visiting Rev. DIR. Rankin and Judge
Poland and wife at Washington.
Prominent members of the order
of Good Templars address Il public
meeting at Music hall tonight. All
.citizens are invited.
Remember the war drama the
.IInion Sergcant-at Newport, Jan. IL.
i : aud 49, Fare to Newport and re-
burn, 81. Tickets for sale at r. C..
sSpencer's.
Miss Mary Haynes of Boston is ad-
Nertised to give recitations at the Free
baptist church Tuesday evening, Jan.
'p2. Miss Rayncs comes with good tes-
'tmonials.
The sclectmen have shut up Robert
.Doneghy's billiard saloon on Railroad
Street. There are other places that
'ieed looking after, if common report
Is true
john Butler, the man struck by
brain at Highgate, of which mention
|syas made last week. died on Thursday,
|after extreme suffering. lie was a
.sngle man and leaves an aged mother
Bud invalid sister.
E. +. Mcfarland, who has worked
Dor the Messrs. Fairbanks for some
Dime past, left on Monday, with II
brother, for PoughkePsie, y. Y, where
Die will enter Eastman's business
college.
Just a bakers dozen of ladies from
.this place went to Boston Monday
afternoon to attend the annual meeting
+ pf the Woman's Board of Missions.
IFrhe most of the party stop at the new
adams House, on Washington street.
1t will he noticed that Bingham's
standard thermometer does not run
lown to the figures usually quoted 10y
outside parties for st. .Johnsbury.
'For instance, the cold Sunday it only
'reached 81 below; but then. that's
cold enough.
A six-horse sleigh load of young
people from this place went to the
.closing concert at Littleton last Fri,
|lay evening They are quite enthusi-
'astic over most of the concert, especi-
|hlly admiring the conductor DR..
Palmer of New York the Schu-
'bcrt quartette.
Notwithstanding all predictions to
'thc contrary, this has thus far been
lbout the hardest winter endured in
this country for years. Mercury has
been all the way from ten below to
|thirty below zero again almost all this
.sveek, and no signs of thaw as we go
BE- press.
In the appropriate place will be
Found notice of the marriage of Mr.
DANES Richie, Jr., the manager of the
'Mcssrs. Fairbanks mercantile house in
'this place, and Miss Alice NJ. Higgins,
Daughter of the late Samuel Higgins.
Dir. Richie and bride go to Washing
ION for a short visit.
The annual agricultural meetings
ON Tuesday passed off quietly, the re
suit being fully given elsewhere. Most
of the officers were reelected. The
Ponly important vote passed was the
raisiug of the price of membership
tickets to one dollar. These tickets
admit the bearer and his team both
days of the fair.
The past two OF three weeks Of
fine sleighing have been fully occupied
by the wood men. Wood seems more
plenty this year than usual, yet the
price Keeps up aud the best dry
IG-inch wood brings about - cord.
The general use of coal for fuel has
greatly reduced the consumption of
stove wood in this village. Probably
a thousand tons of coal are now burned
here annually.
Close OF the Academy Term.
The term of the Academy closed
with public examinations last week.
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