St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-21

May 90 1Ss5
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BRIEF LOCALS
White frost this morning.
The soda fountain foameth again.
Next Sunday will be Whitsun day
The ice and snow back of TIN
skating rink has not quite disappeared
yet.
Bishop Bissell's annual visitation
of st. Andrews church is appointed TO
Wednesday, June IL.
Mrs. L. w. Knight, dress maker
on the avenue, has removed to the
HOsmer house.
Hugh Moore says he sold more
carriages last week than any other one
week since he has been in the bust
ness.
Beginning June l, the hour of the
Episcopal church Sunday afternoon
service is to be changed from O'Clock
to $50 for the summer.
The graduating exercises at the
academy, which have usually occurred
on Thursday, will this year be held on
Friday, June 10.
The WheelOck quarterly meeting
of Free Baptist churches will be held
with the church in this place Friday,
June >, continuing over the Sabbath.
The ST. Johnsbury Guard give a
promenade concert at the town hall to-
morrow evening. Music by the st.
The band gave the first out -dOor
concert of the season Saturday night.
The music drew out the largest crowd
seen on Main street for several months.
The brick house in Paddock viii
lage west of the bridge, so long owned
by VIM. ID. Robinson, was sold at auc-
ton Saturday to John Emerson for
1868.
F. B. Miles, laundryman, has
bought small lot between Grows and
Warmers, on the avenue, paying DR..
Perkins $500. He intends building a
laundry.
The street sprinkler made it's first
appearance last Saturday, so that every
one expected to see rain before night,
but it didn't come. Truly, call signs
fail in dry time"
The Wayside Cleaners, a society
composed of misses in the Methodist
church, hold their annual meetin q
next Saturday afternoon at go, at the
church.
The Immediate delivery" mail
system will not go into effect before
Oct. |, the law passed by congress
leaving the matter to the discretion of
the pOstmaster-ge general.
Rev. c. w. jenkins, pastor of the
Universalist church, preached at the
Union church, Derby line, last Sunday,
morning and evening. Rev. E. w.
Pierce of Glover supplied Mr.. Jenkins's
pulpit.
"A. r. Lucas has received a pen
sion for the loss of son in the army,
the back pay amounting to over $1,000.
Mr.. Lucas has been very i'll for some
months and many fear his windfall
came too late to be of use to him.
The grass in this immediate vicin-
ity was badly winter-killed and it al
so seems to have been n hard winter
for evergreen trees. A wet spring
would have revived the grass, but il
seems too late for that now.
The drouth continues and the all
yesterday was filed with dust. This
morning the street sprinkler appeared
bright and early, and it has been
"moved and seconded" that it run
every dusty day from u. m. to 5 p. m
james Richie returned from mar
ket last night, and the advertisement
of the Fairbankses in another column
tells the story further.-Geo. Ranney
also returned from Boston this morn
with a fresh stock of fruits and gro
ceries.
The next campfire of Chamberlin
post G.. A. r. will be held next Satur-
day evening. Major Bowman will de
scribe the sinking of the rebel ram
"Albermarle," and G.. r. Crosby viii
give an account of his experience il
Andersonville.
There were fifteen fishermen OF
the West Burke brooks last Sunday
and seven were seen in the east part o
the same town. 1t is said that every
trout brook in the county is tisheC
over each Sunday during the season
| The fact carries its own comment.
The ST. JOhnsbury ONIONS" vii