St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-30
Change of time along the B. & L.
Road Ian. 2.

Change of time along the B. &
Road Ian. 2.
BRIEF LOCALS.
Village meeting next Wednesda
afternoon at one o'clock.
Yearly advertisers will please re
member and hand in their change
Friday.
The Merchants National bank ha
declared semi-annual dividend of
per cent. payable Jan. I.
The schools of Summerville vii
commence next Monday, Jan. 3, wit
the same board of teachers.
State Auditor Powell will he a
the County Clerks office Saturda
morning for allowance of accounts.
The Beethoven society have de
cided to give their first concert Tues
day evening, Jan. IL. in Music hall.
The members of the p. G.. societ,
have a sleigh ride to Danville to-mOr
row evening and supper when the,
get there.
Miss Ina Howe has resigned he
position as Organist of the Universe
list church and her place is filled b,
Miss Clara Wheeler.
The electric lights were put int
operation in the machine shop at the
scale works, Monday for the first time
and gave satisfaction.
The Athen8um will be open Sat.
urday evening for the exchange o
New Years greetings, as usual. The
citizens generally are invited.
Besides the gifts received from hi
people here, Rev. E. A. HOyt got ;
handsome fur Overcoat, Christmas
from Lyndonville friends.
Benjamin H. Foster, George D
Bailey and E. N. Harris have rented &
granite quarry in Hardwick, and ex
pect to work it in the spring.
Philadelphia headquarters were locat.
ed in the Temple Theatre building il
that city that was badly burned Mon
day.
The first meeting of the CREDITOR
of Joseph c. Whitcher of Peacham
was held at the probate Office Monday
and George P. Blair of Barnet wa.
elected assignee.
The days have begun to lengther
and the weather has begun to strength
en-, and real strengthening weather il
is with the mercury % degrees or more
below zero. How we do pity those
poor fellows in Southern California.
The week of prayer begins with
the Sunday services and will be OBJ
served by special meetings through
the week. Each church will observe
the season in its own way, and notices
will be given from the various pulpits
Sunday morning.
Rev. A. B. Blake of Craftsbury has
been appointed missionary secretary
for the st. Johnsbury district, to carry
out, as far as practicable, Chaplain
McCabe's idea of furnishing all tn,
secular papers of the territory inclnd
ed missionary items every week.
John G.. Kebabian of CONSTANT
nople and late of the academy has
fine exhibition of oriental rugs, and 1
great variety of curiosities at the Fair
banks store. Large numbers are avail
ing themselves of this opportunity t,
see an interesting exhibit.
1t is the Danville North Star tina
rises right up in meeting and asks tn,
Montpelier folks to compare the tive
st. JOhnsbury papers of to-day, which
it says, care among the cleanest ant
best managed newspapers of the state,
with the "squalid sheet of the Montpe
lier Argus"
-Diphtheria is doing it's dreadful
work in the towns about st. Johns
bury. Hardly an Issue of this paper
but what records several deaths. For.
tunately our own town has thus fan
escaped, but several towns i'm the vi
cinity are scOurged with a disease
which seems to battle all medical sci
ence and skill.
The librarians at the Athenaun
were rather surprised one day las
week when a teamster entered the Ii
brary and announced that "that cham,
Der set had arrived" and wanted {,
know where they would have it use
up" The teamster had already IN
loaded the furniture into the vestibule
and he used some very bad languag,
when he learned that it was intended
for the Athenaum honse instead of tn,
Athen8um.