St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-01-08

ing. Their Boston agent cannot per
| suade them to fulfil their contracts
and he has begun legal proceedings
against them. This failure places our
lecture committee in an embarrassing
situation, but they are equal to the
emergency and say that if all the eff
forts which are still i'm progress to Sc
cure them fail, their place will be sup
piled by some frst-elass cOneert-the
best attraction which can be secured.
| Annual Church Meetings.
! The annual meeting of the North
Congregational church was held Mon
| day evening when the following off
| GERS were chosen: Clerk, &. NJ. Stone I;
deacon, for four years, Horace Fair
banks; sup't. of Sunday school, Frank
lin Fairbanks asst. sup't,. Perley
pastor and deacons, Franklin Fair
banks, T. NJ. Howard, Geo. May, S. T..
Brooks, VIM. Wilder, c. NJ. Stone,
Geo. H. Cross; business committee,
Edward A. Walker, Franklin Fair
banks, J. l.. Perkins, Robert McKin-
non, Geo. l.. Bradley treasurer, VIM
c. Tyler; registrar, Mrs. c. M. Stone.
From the reports made we learn
that there have been fourteen addi-
tons to the the church-fi by pro
fession and nine by letter. There
l.. f,Nu, l.x
letters to other churches and seven by
death making II net loss of seven.
There are 426 members of the church
enrolled, lis non-residents. The aver
age attendance at the Sunday school
has been 242 Seven of the school
died last year. The funds of the
school have been distributed to the
amount of 1854. The attendance at
the morning service during the year
has averaged 339-the largest atten
dance being 40 and the smallest 225.
The average evening attendance has
been 239. Average attendance at the
weekly social meeting, 76. From the
treasurer's report it appears that the
weekly offerings have amounted to
56993 This has been disb1rsed as
follows: Supply of the pulpit, $l9I5;
Miss Mary Tyler, missionary, $3.50
music, $685. Sunday school, S2l7 gas,
5000; repairs, $249, etc. The balance
of the receipts -$2373 was given to
benevolent objects.
elbow Soft Ger Ceylon's Isle.''
George w. Lcitch of RyeGate gave
ut the North church, Sunday evening,
some account of his missionary work
and that of his two sisters in the island
of Ceylon. This family went out to
that mission some five years ago. A
year or two ago Mr.. Leitch returned
to care for his aged father, who has
since deceased. He still remains in
this country doing what he can To raise
money aud send to his sisters for use
in their mission work. He has sent
them $1,000 the past year, and they
could pro1itabIy use double the amount
OF money if they could get it. In his
address Sunday evening Mr.. Leitch
gave some account of their education
al, Sunday school, and evangelistic
branch, and the account given was ex-
ceedingly interesting and Instructive
all the more so to the audience because
many in it knew these missionaries be
fore they left America.
On Monday evening next, Mr.. Leitch
will give stereOpticOn views of the
country, its people, manner of life,
etc, at Music hall. some half the net
proceeds go to the chldren's mission
AIRY societies Of this place and the 9th
er half Mr.. Leitch takes to help swell
his mission fund. The admission is
% cents for adults and 10 cents for
children and students. Caledonia cOun-
ty may we'll be proud of such earnest
and self-denying workers Tin the for
eign missionary fieId) as this family of
Leitches.
Village Meeting Mostly New Officers
Elected.
The annual village meeting was held
at the Town hall yesterday, Henry c..
for ia the election of most of the Off
GERS and the choice resulted as follows
Clerk-Denns +. May.
Treasurer-E. ID. Blodgett.
Collector-Avery ID. Pike.
Trustees VIM. p. Fairbanks, Asa
s. Livingston, Henry French, o. p.
Bennett, Jovite Pinard.
Fire wardens - James Mcdonald,
Charles CalderwOod, David Silsby, A.
ID. Nelson, ii. S. Goodwin, II. E. Ran
dali, A. ID. Pike.
Auditors-W. p. Smith,. Fl. c. Bates,
ID. +. May.
| The article for raising money for in
| debtedness and expenses was pOstp0n-
ed until the first Monday evening in
May, to which time the meeting ad-
! jOurned.
The board of trustees are all new
men, although both Messrs. Fairbanks
and Livingston have been on the board
in former years. The old board have
all been trustees for two years, and
some of them much longer. Mr.. Nc
Cormick has done efficient and faithful
service for the village for many years,
| and the people of this place may con-
slider themselves fortunate'f the new
board initiate his conservatism and
! saving hahits rEhe tenlenev of the