St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-09-30

st. Johnsbury Male Quartette-Concert
Standard Drug StOre-SOap.
T. C. Spencer-Guns, Rifles, etc.
Umbrella Found.
Tenement Wanted.
Lyman P. WoOd-Dog for sale
BRIEF LOCALS.
L. ID. Hazen's now famous oxen
are on exhibition this week at the
Barton fair.
Photographers Clifford has some
fine pictures of the big oxen exhibited
in last weeks fair.
ing reduced tickets along the road this
week to the Morrisville fair.
Rev. Gabriel Campbell, professor
in Dartmouth college, will supply at
the North church next Sabbath.
"A new building has been put over
the flume at the village water works
that will at the same time protect it
and make repairs easier.
of the 459 cOnvicts committed to
the Rutland house of correction for the
two years ending July 81, 1886, Gale
dOnia county furnished but IL.
Post Chamberlin G.. A. R. an
nounces a grand concert by the Madam
Frye troupe in Music hall, Oct. 10.
Particulars later.
"A. L. Bailey makes exhibits of
musical instruments this week at six
fairs, Barton, Bradford, MOrrisville,
Mortified, Woodstock and COlebrook,
N. H.
The postoffice employees are hap
Ply over the receipt of a new set of
dies, ETC., for cancelling stamps. They
are built after new design and are
very neat.
Henry Ross has been seriously i'll
the past week and anxiety for the re-
suit is feared.-GOrdOn Weeks, son of
Hiram Weeks, is severely ill of ty-
phoid fever.
DIR. j. r. Nelson, formerly of
Wells River but recently from SaratO-
ga, has rented the Athen9um house on
Main street and will engage in the
practice of medicine here.
The story from the Congregations
alist on the second page, "Miss Snow
fields Leadin'," was written by Miss
Sarah L. Arnold, formerly principal of
the St. Johnsbury high school.
The strawberry season doesn't
seem to be over yet. DR.. H. S. Brown
has a considerable number of full
formed green berries on his patch and
last week picked a ripe one. Who
wants better climate than this?
The building in which w. j. Bray
has a shop at Barre was burned Tues
day night. Mr.. Bray succeeded in
moving most of his property, what
was lost being covered by an insurance
of about 5000.
e. A. Walker, A. B. Noyes and G..
H. Horton have bought Duck pond in
Waterford and will devote that tract
of water to fishing purposes. They
are already making arrangements fol
the building of a substantial dam.
An advertisement in the Boston
Journal announcing that the st. Johns
bury house is for sale brings up again
rumOrs concerning the future possibil-
tiles and probabilities of its ownership
Meanwhile it is being well kept and
we'll patrOnized.
People in this town who wish tC
keep posted on the acts of the assem-
bled "wisdOm aud virtue" at Mont
pelier this fall will leave their order
for the Daily VermOnter with F. o
Clark, news agent on the avenue, ant
they will keep well posted.
Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace of Indi
ana, Superintendent of franchise de-
partment in w. G.. II. o., has appoint
ments to lecture in Burlington, Oct. 3
Hardwick, Oct. A ; No. Danville, Oct
5; Waterford, Oct. 6; West Concord
Oct. z; Lyndon, Oct. 8 Derby, Oct. 10
The new special delivery arrange
ment begins tomorrow. This admits
of sending all kinds of mailable mer-
chandise through the mails and insur-
ing immediate delivery in any part OF
the country under the same rules and
arrangements governing the special
delivery business.
Rev. E. T. Sanford was very
pleasantly surprised Sunday morning
to find by the pulpit in his church 6
handsome black walnut chair uphol-
stored in plush. Nobody seems to
know just where it came from, but il
is none the less appreciated by the
pastor and adds materially to the ap
pearance of the church interior.
j. L. Peck, the hay man, has fur
nished hay and straw for the CaledO
MIA fair for many years, and they do
say that there isn't good NOW of hay
in Caledonia county that he does no
have his eye on with a view to pur
chase. He furnished 81 tons of hay
and over five tons of straw for the fai