St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-05

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to California.
25. Exhibition of intermediate
schools, Misses Wrinkle and Woodruff
teachers.
%. Deaths: At Danville, Mr. Car
rick, father of the Carrick brothers a.
East Burke, Maria Clark, 60; at Low
ell, Minerva Chase of Kirby, IL.
30. School meeting tax of As cents
voted Collector Pixies salary advanc-
ed to 5000 w Nelson and Virgins
j Henderson married at Ryegate.
General Notes: During March an I'm.
precedented amount of snow fell fol
the season. On the Sd the highways
were blocked, on the 5th and 9th trains
were showed in for nearly week in
the White Mountain notch from the
10th to the 18th there was more snow
and trains were blockaded in all di-
rections, and in the closing week of the
month tine same scenes were repeated
In the farming districts the snow banks
were tunnelled in many places. Forty
men were 26 hours in getting train
through to Greensboro on the Lake
road on the 22d. The weather con-
tinued cold. Seven days the mercury
was below zero, getting down to 220
| below on the ISt.
April.
L. The penny savings bank system
inaugurated by w S Boynton in pub
lie schOOls-The Passumpsic road leas-
ed to the Boston & Lowell, prelimina-
ry to its lease to Boston s. Maine.
2. Death at WheelOck of Mrs. Sally
Carr, 80.
3. Death of Mrs Betsey Bates, 81.
4. Death of William McPhee, III
at st. Johnsbury Centre, jeremiah
Vaughan, 70-Rev l. F Shephardson
resigned pastOrate Baptist church at
Passumpsic to take effect June L.
Golden wedding at Lyndon Centre OF
Mr.. and Mrs Luke Farley.
5. Annual meeting of town school
superin tendents.
6. ON Waterman retired from the
firm of G FL Cross & Co.
I. Annual meeting of Adelphian
and Athenian societies at academy
Death at South Ryegate of Isabella
Carr Cross.
8. Fast day, sermon by Rev F E
Dawson on BattIements.
10. Easter: Special services at the
North, South, Free Baptist, Universal
list and Catholic churches by their
pastors and at st Andrews by Prof.
Sear-Rev w III Ii Clark closed his la
bors with Methodist society.
III. Death at Barnet of John FL
Moore, 30.
IL. Slight fire at the gas house
Frank Hubbard, McIndOes, seriously
injured while in the woods.
ID. Post Office inspectors, Messrs
Boynton and DonOhue, appeared and
stirred up the post office removal
question that agitated the people more
or less for three months thereafter.
ID. w j Sanborn bought of N M
johnson the Railroad street dry goods
store and the Avenue store in the M
G A block.
Ia. Rev John Ward of Danville, P
@, called to the Advent church.
Is. Death at st JOhnsbury East, of
Asa Hurlbutt, 50.
I9. Sudden death of Mrs Orange
Harvey, 20.
20. Forty third annual session Yer
mont conference held with Methodist
church, Bishop Walden presiding; on
Sunday Bishop Walden preached in
Music hall Revs' Drs Thoburn; Rust
and others were present during the
sessions which continued until mid
night of the 25th-Death at Lyndon Of
Mira Moses Miles, so; at Denver, Col,
by accident, o r Buskett formerly of
st Johnsbury.
81. Slight fire at Laird's granite
works--Death at Waterford of Elipha-
let Fulford, 90, who fell from team
and was found dead in the road.
3D. Death at st Johnsbury Centre
of Ansel Huntley, "a.
26. Caledonia lodge, o o F cele
brated the 60th anniversary of the or
der-Death of Harvey G Babcock, So
Death at East Burke of Mrs Gage, 90.
%. Death at Lyndon of M p Ever
EFT, "a.
30. Arthur Hall of Haverhill, N HI,
was thrown under IL train at the sta
ton and had his right arm cut off and
left hand mutilated-Death at Wells
River of Francis Bingham, 80, formerly
of st Johnsbury.
General Notes: The cold weather
held pretty well into April striking 40
and 60 below zero on two days of the
month. The second week of the month
ice was cut in the Passumpsic % inches
thick, and there was snow enough to
go round.
l. Rev Il p Frost began his pasto
rate at the Methodist church.
2. Reformed Presbyterian church at
Ryegate called Rev Mr. Temple-Rev
j Mulligan spoke on National Chris
tianity at the Presby terian church, st.
Johnsbury.
B. Mr. and Mrs b G Howe's Both
marriage anniversary celebrated.
4. l. B Atwood's store burglarized
of $50 worth of clOthing-Plans of new
Catholic church accepted and work be-
gun-Mr and Mrs A c Babbitt's 5Oth
anniversary celebrated.
5. Rev E A Hoyt treated to sur
prise party and silver and other gifts.
6. "Ahem" sociable, st. Andrews
society in Music lall-Arbutus festival,
North church Mission Helpers-The |
Conn River Lumber Company's boom
of logs carried out of the Connecticut
river at Misunderstanding exercises
at Peacham academy-Death at Mar
Iowa, of Mrs Caroline |
(BrOck) Stevens, 63, formerly of Bar
net.
7. ArbOr day not Observed-W E
Dian, under indictment for murder,
from the county Jail, letting
himself down from window with "a
bed cord has not yet returned-Death
Of George E Howe, 81 at Barnet, Rob
ert Brock, AZ.
10. May term supreme court con-
vened, Judges Royce, Taft, Rowell and
Walker. Court adjourned 18th.
IL. Asa Livingston, while driving
Dn wheels in Greensboro, got stuck in
snow.
ID. Sudden death of Mrs. Charles
E Morrill,, SO.
Ia. B. G.. Howe bought the Mary S