St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-18

The Methodist society holds anOth-
or sOciable in the vestries of the church
tomorrow evening. Among the at
fractions will be variety" supper.
The usual meeting of the listers of
Caledonia county preparatory to TAX
ing the spring list will be at the st.
JOhnsbury house next Tuesday, March
%, at 10 o'clock.
The village schools, which close
tomorrow, begin again the first Mon
day in April, allowing "a vacation of
trifie over two weeks. All the old
teachers have been re-engaged.
The farmers and butter makers
will find something of interest in the
bogus butter discussion and the action
taken by the Ryegate farmers as re-
ported on the third page.
Prof. Churchill's reading this even
ing will consist of selections from Bret
Harte, Victor Hugo, Francois COppee,
Mrs. H. B. Stowe, Mark Twain and
others. A rich treat is assured
The first volume of Col. Benedict's
"Vermont in the Civil War" is in the
hands of the distributors. Among the
six steel portraits that are given in the
work is one of Gov. Erastus Fairbanks.
Manager Bingham has become so
enthusiastic over his telephone bust
ness that he has gone to McIndOes
this morning with the CaledOnian
weather record in his pocket.
"A number of the young men of the
place are making arrangements for
concert by the Dartmouth quartette
about the middle of next month in Mu
sic hall. Some of the local sOlOists will
assist.
The Baptist Sunday school cele-
brate the anniversary of the organiza-
ton of the school next Sunday. even
ing in their church on Railroad street.
There will be Sunday school concert
and other interesting exercises.
-Sias Randall has sold to Peter
Johnson, house and land on Portland
street for $550.-J. r. Stevens, admin
istratOr, has sold a portion of the Hollis
Stiles farm, IL acres, to L. w. Haskell
of Woodbury. for $1,000.
Moses Huntly has already made
$50 pounds new maple sugar. This is
the biggest thing in the sugar line yet
reported. We are not going to believe
any "granulated" stories this year, for
We have sampled the honey and pro-
nOunce it the "pure quill"
A call for the weather record of a
particular day in last weeks CaledO-
MAN brought a number of responses,
which go to show that an unexpected
ly large number keep records of the
weather and also that either the wealth
er or the thermometers vary decidedly
in various localities.
The members of the Baptist con-
gregation had jolly time Thursday
evening at Foster Stevens on Summer
street. The MethOdists had their So
ciable at the parsonage with good
number present and n good time and
the SOnth church folks served an ex-
cellent supper and social gathering
in their church vestries, both on Fri
day evening.
The st. JOhnsbury band will give
another concert in Music hall next
week Thursday evening. Mrs. Wallace
will sing and it is hoped that this eff
fort to put another dollar into the banG
treasury will be successful. The casl
that an appreciative public has cOntri
buted during the past season is gone
and the band must raise the wind o.
step blowing.
Rev. E. A. Hoyt delivered the frs
of a series of lectures in the Universe
list church Sunday evening. Their
was a good attendance. The address
was argumentative in it's character
the speaker giving some of the reasons
why he was Universalist. Mr. Hoy
is an easy speaker and was listened t.
E with close attention.
Quite a delegation from st. Johns
bury went down to Bradford yesterda.
to attend the cantata of Esther whicI
t was given under the direction of C. S
COnant. There were % voices in TIA
chorus and a double chorus of chiIdre
and the entertainment was decide
success.