St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-31

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burch. Avenue C W. Coy, Leunox-
Vile, p. O.; Jacob Ketchum, New
York p. d. George, Boston. Cottage
e. F. Gage, Manchester, n. H.; j.
W Baker and wife, Boston.
The next lecture in the Young
Mems Christian association course will
be given at Music hall next Thurs
day night by Rev. DIR. j. a. Stevenson
of Montreal on "Tennyson and the
! Brownings.n Another entertainment
will follow Thursday evening, the Tith,
! 10y the Schubert quartet The soloists
will be: soprano, Mrs. Jennie r..
Walker; contralto, Miss Mary How !;
accompanist. Leon Reach.
The numerous stockholders of the
Reece button hole machine company in
this vicinity will he pleased to learn
from DR.. O. f.. Nettlct0n, who has just
returned from Boston, that things are
booming. A dividend is To be declared
May |, and the directors, ono of whom
is George May of this village, have
decided tn sell no stock after April
for less than $3.50, or $3.50 premium.
A fat man unfamiliar with the
village got off mixed train Tuesday,
and seeing no coach walked along to
the end of the new depot and asked II
shivering small boy with holes in his
elbows if he knew the way to the st.
Johnsbury house. ''Jewhillikens,"
promptly responded the youngster
blowing his fingers, "don't wish had
as many dollars as know the way tn
the Johnsb'ry."
-"IIere, Tute, that's our private
secretary, sang out Clerk Weed of the
st. Johnsbury Honss to the Old-time
drummer, who was fooling around the
southeast corner of the office Tuesday
morning "Well,n was grunted back,
'HTm after private envelope. The
time for me to advertise this house by
sending out those pink affairs has
faded away in the dim, distant past
10y George"
Major n. =. Bowman of st. Johns
bury, w. ID. Wilson of st. Adams and
ID. X. Edgerton of Mortified, the com
mitteo appointed by the grand lodge
of Odd Fellows to revise the cOnstitu
tions and bylaws of both the grand
and subordinate lodges, met at Mont
pcler last week, but did not complete
/ their work. Another meeting of the
committee will be held at Rutland
next Monday.
Two old farmers, returning from
an inspection of the Fairbanks barns
last Thursday m 1rning, stopped ut the
corner of Western Avenue and looked
down on Gov. Fairbanks grounds.
"Pretty place. suggested one.
"Y-e-e-s," agreed the other rather
douhtfully, slipping in quid of tObac-
GO, "but why in thunder don't they cut
down them trees. Folks amt nigh as
thrifty here as they he up Walden
way"
Bill Robinson, the Danville man,
who found So much difficulty in get
ting bail and liberty, evidently realizes
that the way of the transgressor is
hard. Having testified in Peacham
lawsuit last Thursday that certain
COW involved didn't give enough
cream to grease the pans, Lawyer
Trusscll asked if it wasn't possible foI
him t" he mistaken. "Yes," was the
prompt reply, everything is possible
i'll this world except getting out of jail
without paying your fine"
Caledonia clubs of Boston, Spring.
field and scores of other places celc-
brated the l25th anniversary of the
birth of Robert Burns last week
There ought to he enough Canny
Scotchmen in this vicinity to form :
club, which shall bear the name o
Ncrmont's best county, and ut thu
same time honor their great poet. For
in the language of Burns himself :
It's guild to be merry and wise,
! It's guild to be honest and true,
It's guild To support Caedonias cause,
And hide by the buff and the blue"
There has been such dearth o
western traffic because of the low pric,
of grain that the Boston Il Albany an'
other well established railroads hav,
been obliged to discharge good man.
employees. But notwithstanding til,
general depression, the St.JOhnsbury y
= Lake Champlain has had to add tiv
= new engines, making fifteen i'll all
. The new ones are named "Col. Jewett,
"Col. Fairbanks" "Gov. Hendee,
- "plattsburg'' and "a. b. Harris Th
70 first two were made by the Roger
70 works at Paterson, y. j., and the res
by the Schenectady IN. " locomotiv
=, works.
notwithstanding Tuesdays stor
a good number of ladies earnest i
' temperance work met at the SOut
church and an interesting meeting wa
Il held. 1t was reported that ut tn
:, meeting of Dec. %, at the North churci
S35 was taken in contributions an
fees for honorary membership. 1t wa
. good news, for the organization Ia
~, been much hindered in the past trol
lack of funds. \ letter was receive