St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-03-25


Speaking of spring trade, Harve!
81 Brown sold % dresses Tuesday o
this week.
Rev. w. r. Laird preached at Rye
gate Sunday, the Presbyterian churcl
here being closed.
ton for John B. Coughs book "Plat-
form Echoes"
| -Denman Thomson is down for an
evening at the skating rink some time
next month.
Another especial low rate excur-
sion" to California is announced to
leave st. Johnsbury April 6.
If Waterford correspondent will
please forward his name The CaledO-
nian will gladly publish the items sent.
Among the new telephone takers
are A. H. Mcleod at both his house
and mill, II. E. Fletcher and others.
The subject of Rev. E. A. HOyt's
lecture at the church of the Messiah
next Sunday evening will be "The
Ideal Congregation"
Miss Laura Nelson has resigned
her position as teacher in this village
and Miss Kinney of Craftsbury will
probably take her place.
Another interesting exercise was
given at the convent Sunday evening,
which many of the people of the viii
lage attended.
The Stafford Foster company gave
Frou- FrOu at the rink last evening
and will present Romeo and Juliet
this evening.
Charles S. Hastings has closed a
contract with Edward Matthews of
Miles Pond to build new barn on his
North Concord farm, to be 60 40.
"A department devoted to amateur
journalism in the LIE Roy, N. Y,
"Gleaner," is in charge of j. E. Jones,
st. Johnsbury, and is very fresh and
readable.
The Vermont Chronicle publishes
the paper on Cuisines men and the
Sunday school," recently read by Col.
Franklin Fairbanks at the New Eng
land Sunday school convention.
The city market reports say that
"dealers have liberal supply of ma
pie sugar on hand" in spite of the fact
that very little has thus far been made.
Sugar is bringing good prices now.
The various schools in the village
closed Friday. In some of the prima-
ry schools there were general exercises
but for the most part they were closed
without special exercises.
Pilgrim church, st. Louis, has
raised $25, 900 for the GOOdell Profess
sorship in Drury college, with two or
three thousand more pledged in order
to make good a possible deficiency.
The Free Will Baptist church peO-
pie are very glad to welcome back to
their church choir Miss Hattie BlOd-
gett, who has been singing in the
South church.
The young ladies missionary So
ciety will hold a sOciable and sale of
fancy articles in north basement room
of Music hall, on Friday evening April
,. Ice cream and cake will be served.
Owing to the fact that the quarries
areclOsed by snow the Lairds have been
unable to get granite with which to
fill orders and a considerable part OF
their force is enjoying an enforced va
cation.
e. E. Sargent is making extensive
improvements in his house on Railroad
street. A Mansard roof is to be put on
and "A number of rooms enlarged and
the entire establishment greatly i'm
proved.
The "variety supper" at the Meth
Odist church Friday was a great sue
cess. The variety included about ev-
erything in the eating line from pea
soup and bean pOrridge to fried CLAIMS
| The remains of Mrs. Clara put
nam) Hines of New CLEANS, La, who
died at st. JOhnsbury, Feb. Is, were
taken to Albany, March IL, and buried
| by the side of her father and mother.
Rev. j. ID. Beeman of Montpelier
preached at the Methodist church las
Sunday when five new members were
accepted on probation. The singing
by the new double quartette was par
ticularly good.
Frank Libby who was recently
tried for attempting to get a pension
fraudulently returned tn town Monday
The jury are understood to have stood
eight to four. His bail was fixed a
$3.50.