St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-06-05

The noon prayer meeting at l. NJ.
c. A. rooms will be discontinued after
Saturday.
The Grand Army will net about
$50 from their concert Memorial day
evening.
Albert Lawrence sold to butcher
Kirk spring lambs last week which
averaged - pounds each.
-Bingham's soda fountain is thawed
out and in full blast which is sure
sign that summer has come.
Capt. Bray of the missionary ship
Morning Star is expected to speak IN
the South church next Sunday even
ing at half-past six.
There are a band of gypsies camped
on the North Danville road. They
spend their days begging from door to
door with the same old story.
1t will interest some readers to
learn that the officers intend to enforce
the law in this place against beer sell
ing and billiard tables, notwithstand-
ing present appearances.
Don't forget to remember the con-
cert at Academy hall to morrow even
ing. Besides the band, the male chorus
and the ladies' club will appear--all
superior musical attractions.
-Alice,a seventeen years-old daugh-
ter of l.. II. Jones, has been very i'll of
typhoid fever ut their home in this
place for some time, and her friends
fear she will not recover.
Miss Mabel Sylvester of Boston,
gave an exhibition of trick and fancy
skating at the rink Monday evening.
Miss Sylvester seems to have thorough
" mastered roller skating.
DR.. Aldrich is happy man now
he is out of the liquor agency. The
county commissioner has appointed
Quinton Cook as agent, who supplies
customers at the old place.
w. II. Smith has sold his house on
Cliff street.-the Jos. Nugent place-to
DIR. Charles Newell of the Centre.
Price about $500 1t is understood
that DR.. Newell is to rent the place.
B. G. Howe's young son Fred, was
quite severely hurt at the fair grounds,
during the ball game on Saturday, a
bat thrown by one of the Peacham
nine accidentally striking him on the
chin.
The last private dispatch from
New Hampshire is to the effect that
Baird has not procured bail though he
will probably be able to now rs the
Judge has unaccountably cut it down
to $1,000.
Rev. VIM. Parsons in his letter to
the Troy Times implies that st. Johns
bury is the banner town of the fresh
air fund, more children having been
cared for at that point last year than
at any other, viz 200.
The graduating class of the Acad
envy have secured an orchestra from
Burlington for their graduating exer-
cises and they will give the customary
concert Wednesday evening, the 18th
Tickets at Bingham's and Spencer's
after Saturday.
The general secretaries of the Y,
NJ. c. A. for the United Stats and
Canada hold their annual meeting at
Montreal, June ll-I6. This assOcia-
ton will he represented by Gen-Secre-
tary Sage, and delegates John Bars
tow, j. p. Hayes, and n. X. Otis will
also attend.
They say there is kettle of tai
warming for married man in the west
4 part of the village and he hasn't been
married so very long either. Perhap,
a better way to seal him would b'
for an officer to collar and march hin
4 off to Jail the next time he is found en-
ticing away silly girls on the street.
One of the finest appearing organ
izations in the Memorial day process
sion was the academy students wh
willingly acceded to the wishes of tn
faculty in thus paying respect to tn
honored dead. Students can not he'll
catching some of the patriotism from
principal who shouldered his muske
and fought his way into the city {
Richmond during the Rebellion.
Quite a number of people wi
want To see how the California coo
book compares with its Vermont neigh
Dor. The ladies of Rev. Charles
Savage's church have issued a yer
neat edition which can be found 4
Howard Il ROwell's. The proceeds e
towards furnishing the new church 4
Berkeley which Mr.. Savage's peopl
have been building the past year.
The game of base bali on the fa
grounds Memorial day, between tn
Dartmouths nine, and Academy boy
was rather a one-sided game, the scor
standing 26 to u in favor of the Oar
mOuth.-About 100 persons witnesse
the base ball game Saturday afternoo
between the Peacham democrats al
the st. Johnsbury creepers. Score
to II in favor of the creepers.
There was an immense freeze q