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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
LOCAL AND TOWN NEWS
Gettysburg Monuments.

Gettysburg monuments.
Gov. Ormshee in his valedictory says
that the Gettysburg monument COM
mission entered into a contract with
the Carrick Brothers Granite company
of st. Johnsbury, the lowest bidders,
for the construction and erection of the
state monument, according to design,
by Sept. Is, 1888, for $4,000. Owing
to delays in quarrying the stone, for
which the contractors were not at
fault, the monument is not completed
and the present indications are that it
will not be until late this autumn.
This delay was occasioned by the ina
bility of the Dummerston quarrymen
to quarry sufficiently large piece of
granite for the shaft, though they have
been trying for it all summer and have
but just succeeded. The Carricks sent
force of men to Brattleboro Tuesday
to work it. This shaft will finish %
feet long and weighs SO tons in the
rough. The die for this monument
that is over six feet square and weighs
25 tons is now being polished at the
works'here. 1t is very doubtful if the
monument will be done in time for
erection this fall. The Carricks are al
so making Gettysburg monuments for
the Reynolds, N. Y, battery, and for
the 9Th N. Y.
Y. NJ. G. A. Notes.
The workers training class organ
ICES next Monday evening and will be
conducted by Secretary Page.
The vocal music class, j. HI. Hum
phrey director, meets for organization
next Thursday evening at o'clock.
The first hour will be devoted to those
learning to read music, the second to
those who read music little but de-
sire greater proficiency.
The gymnasium classes are exceed
ing the anticipations of all, both as re-
CARDS members and enthusiasm. Mr..
Fitzgerald is an efficient and willing
teacher and is giving satisfaction every
way. Glasses are exercising almost
every week day evening.
A busy seasons work is laid out in
the various departments of the assO
citation. One has little idea of the OPP
portunities offered for study as we'll as
pleasure that this organization affords.
The Scottish entertainment two weeks
ago was the first of a series, others will
soon be announced.
A special library committee has been
appointed who are arranging for book
reception as a means of starting an as
ISOLATION library. A novel and profit
able entertainment is promised, to
which every one who brings a book
will be welcome. The literary feature
of the entertainment will be an ad-
dress by Rev. G. NJ. Lamson.
E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., have Civ
en- to the association a handsome plat
form scale with measuring rod at
tachment for use in the gymnasium.
1t is a very timely and has already
proved very useful gift.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11

Emma Densmore is quite sick with
typhoid fever Mrs. Fletcher is quite
sick with asthma. Sumner Hartwell is
on the sick list with rheumatism.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK

FIRST NA1tONA Al BANK
of st. Johnsbury. VT,
At St. Johnsbury, in the State of Vermont, at the
close of business,
October 4th, 1888.
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts $50, 1913 "A
Overdrafts 1883 -
o. S. Bonds to secure circulation, $4,000 90
o. S. Bonds to secure deposits. a00,0O0 90
other stocks, bonds, and mortgages, 29,9OS rs
Due from approved reserve agents, 10, FOG 81
Due from other National Banks, 1857 as
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures, 3D. 43 IS
Current expenses and taxes paid, 1,S02 II
Premiums paid, d, 9O6 p
Checks and other Cash Items, 1928 4s
Bills of other Banks, us 90
Nickels and pennies, % 81
Specie, 13 1853 so
Legal tender notes. 1s 143 90
Five per cent Redemption Fund 2250 90
TOTAL sl,O6s, a4O so
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock paid in, 100000 90
Surplus Fund, 5000 90
Undivided Profits, IL, 647 90
National Bank Notes outstanding, Il 9Hl 90
Individual Deposits subject to check, lS2,USI Sc
Demand Certificates of deposit, 1898 so
Cashiers checks outstanding 472 Is
United States deposits, 100000 90
TOTAL s1,O6s, gao so
STATE OF VERMONT 2
Caledonia County IS
I, John c. Clark Cashier of the above-named
Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JNO. G. CLARK, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this sth day
of Oct. 1888 W. S. BOYNTON,
Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS.
= E Hfks0 Ross. Directors,
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Clean Newspapers
For sale at F. o. CLARKs. Every family need
them. Only IS cents per 100.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1t is estimated that there will be DO
per cent. decrease this year in the
wheat crop of Minnesota and Dakota.
During Roman chariot races at Kutz-
town, Pa, last week, a team of mus
tangs sprang from the track into the
crowd ofspectators, injuring number
of people seriously, some of whom have
died.
The mistake of a train man caused
the collision of an express and freight
train on the Baltimore and Ohio road
Sunday, killing three men and injuring
others. The trainmen were overwOrk-
ed and one of them had fallen asleep.
The whole of the new embankment
of the Yellow River at Chang Chou,
China, began last autumn and carried
on at a cost equal to over $4,000, 900,
has been completely swept away by
the recent flood. From 800 to 1000 Ia
bOrers, who were on the bank, were
swept away and drowned.
Over 100 people we're injured by the
giving way of the walls of new Cath
Ollie church at Reading, Penn, Sunday.
The corner stone had just been laid
when the newly-cOnstructed walls gave
way and one-fourth of the floor fell
with an awful crash, precipitating 200
people to the ground, distance of
from Is to Is feet. Men, women and
children were thrown into a confused
mass, with joists, brick, stone and
mortar on top of them. The accident
was caused by the spreading of the
walls, which had only been completed
on Saturday.
B. P. Hutchinson, known in the
Chicago wheat pit as cold Hutch"
comes by his shrewdness naturally.
He is an original Yankee, having been
born in Danvers, Massachusetts, sixty
years ago. He began life on a farm ill
that town, aud subsequently went to
Lynn, where he started shoe factory.
He failed in this business, and then
went West and grew up with the
country. He has managed to lay by
$IO,OO0,OOO by his frugal habits and
squeezing the shorts.
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ents. Much is hoped for in this direc-
ton by the legislature of 1888.
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EAST BURKE.

Rev. III. p. Cushing is able to take
short drives, but is still quite feeble.
Mary, only daughter of Artemus Egg
gleston, is sick with the typhoid fever.
Miss Belle Gleason has gone to Hol-
yoke, Mass, to work in thread facto-
ry.
A Mr.. Tute of Lyndon is about NOV
ing into the tenement over d. B. Cush-
ing's store.
Mrs. Walter Counter, who has been
visiting for several weeks in Massachu-
sets, came home Tuesday.
Burke Mountain lodge I. o. o. F. is
in fourishing condition and will soon
give public entertainment.
Miss Jennie Amidon has been sick a
week with typhoid fever. Her sister
Belle was taken with it Sunday.
The friends of Amos Bell will be
glad to know that he is to receive a
pension with several hundred dollars
back pay.
Rev. j. E. Farrow goes to Holland
this week and will be absent over Sun
day. Rev. Mr.. Howard of Derby will
preach in the Methodist church.
The Methodist society have a chick
en- pie supper at Burke Mountain house
on Wednesday, the Oath, to be followed
by an entertainment at the church.
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LYNDON.

LfNDON.
w. H. Richardson is in Boston this
week buying goods.
F. E. Winslow started Monday for
Boston to resume the study of music.
VIM. Bowditch former resident OF
this town is quite low with the dropsy.
He is at Chas. Colley's.
The Frankfort Mich, } Express gives
a report of the Benzie county republi
can convention in which we notice the
name of Frank w. Palmer of Crystal
Lake, one of our former Lyndon boys.
Mr.. Palmer has been nominated as
treasurer on the county ticket, con-
corning whom the Frankfort Express
gives the following paragraph: "Mr.
Palmer is a young man of ability, hon
est in all his dealings, and will make a
first class treasurer. He has been
treasurer of the Crystal Lake township
for the past two years and has served
the people in highly creditable man
ner. This fall when you let 'er go let
'er go for Palmer"
PEACHAM.
Miss May Sanborn is visiting friends
in Windsor.
Mrs. John M. Martin has gone to
visit her daughter in Hardwick.
G. G.. Young proposes to try for a
situation as reporter on a city paper.
Prof. Milton Blanchard, a grandson
of Asa Sergeant, is visiting relatives
in town.
Abe Mcdonald and family will move
to Barnet soon, he having rented his
place to Mr.. Taylor.
Mrs. Wheeler, of Portville, N. Y, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. T. Sanborn.
She adds $50 to her former gift of 5000
to Peacham academy. This last gift is
to aid in fitting up the hall.
The Peacham cornet band is in a
prosperous condition. They have late
ly received lot of new music and en-
gagged F. X. Kittredge of Danville for
their leader Following is the instru-
mentation:
F. K. Kittredge, Director.
E. L. Rowe, Ed cornet.
w. A. Hopkins, solo BIB cornet.
G. L. Brown, 1st BIB cornet.
G. d. Harvey, End BIB cornet.
III. E. Rowe, solo Ed alto.
G. G.. Young, Eb alto.
A. T. Woodcock, BIB tenor trombone.
L. G. Dana, BIB tenor.
F. j. Stoddard, baritone.
G. A. Hutchinson, BIB bass.
F. S. Hartman, Eb bass.
S. B. Livingston, Jr., snare drum.
E. M. Wheeler, bass drum.
S. B. Graham. cymbalS
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
WEST RURKE.

Mrs. Herbert GoOdell has returned
from Boston.
A. L. Aldrich, jeweler, has moved
into Fred Davis barber shop.
Willie Marshall intends to put a
grocery store into the Allard block.
Mrs. Sanborn, who has been spend
ing the summer with her parents, has
returned to her home in Massachusetts
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
Caledonia Senators and Representa-
tives on Committees.


Caledonia Senators and Representa-
tives on Committees.
Caledonia county figures on the
standing committees of the state senate
thus: Senator Bates is chairman on
rules and is also on the judiciary and
general committees. Senator Bunker
is chairman on education and mem
Der of the committee on land taxes and
is also member of the special joint
committee on temperance.
In the house Representative Hazen
of st. Johnsbury is chairman of the
committee on insane, an important po-
sition as during this session is to be
decided the question whether or not
the state will build a new hospital or
care for it's insane in some other way.
Mr.. Hazen is also on the committee on
banks, of which Mr.. Field of Rutland
is chairman. Various other represent
atives of this and neighboring counties
are on committees as follows: Parker
of Peacham on ways aad means and on
Kenerson of Barnet on military af-
fairs; George of Hardwick and Wal
bridge of Concord on education !;
Campbell of Sutton and Parker of VOL
colt on claims; Rogers of Wheelock
on railroads and also chairman on
highways.and bridges; harrington of
Cabot on banks; Silsby of Burke on
manufactures Dexter of Sheffield on
land taxes; Lincoln of Lyndon on gen.
eral committee and also on joint special
committee on temperance; Campbell
of Walden on distributing committee !;
johnson of Ryegate on town lines
Moulton of Newark on mileage and de-
bentures; Ford of Kirby on game and
fisheries; Tolman of Greensboro,
chairman of joint standing committee
on house of correction Stevens of
Danville on highways and bridges.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11

Dates of other California Excursions January I
and 10; February Z, IL, and IS and March and
IL.
Dates of Mexico Excursions January II Feb
ruary IL and March IL.
W. RAYMOND, l. A. WHITCOMB
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-01-26
A Sign OF Insanity.

An Irishman over the age of fOurscore
and ten, who by strict economy had &C.
cumulated modest fortune, and was
about to die. called in the parish priest
and the family lawyer to make his last
will and testament. The wife, grasp
ing, covetous old party, was also in the
room. The preliminaries Of the will
having been concluded, it became nee
ossary to inquire about the debts owing
to the estate. Among those were sew
eral OF importance of which the old lady
had been in ignorance, but was never.
theless pleased to find that so much
ready money would be forthcoming at.
ter the funeral.
Now, then, said the lawyer, state ex
plicitly the amount owed you by your
friends.
Timothy Brown, replied the old man,
owes me fifty pounds; John Casey owes
me thirty pounds; and
Good! good! ei culated the prospec
tive widow; rational to the last!
Luke Bowen owes me forty pounds,
resumed the old man.
Rational to the las put in the eager
old lady again.
To Michael Lily owe two hundred
pounds.
All! exclaimed the old woman, hear
him rave!-[Editor's Drawer in HGr-
per's Magazine for January.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-01-26
Christmas Cigars.

Mrs, Minks-Why, dow-de.do, Mrs,
Winks, buying Christmas presents,
suppose 2
Mrs. Winks-Yes, am trying to find
something for my husband.
How fortunate you met me. just
made such discovery. suppose Mr.
Winks smokesl
Yes, like locomotive.
So does Mr.. Minks, and | thought al
long as he would be sure to spend money
for cigars anyhow, i might as well spend
it for him and get cigars for his Christ
mas present.
How wise you arel Why, it won't cost
a cent extra, will ii?
That's just what was going to ex
plain. Mr.. Minks pays 10 cents apiece
for his cigars, and that means $40 for 6
hundred you know?
Yes, suppose 80.
Well, | went to a store and what dc
you think: the man offered me some CT
CARS in box just covered with beauti
full pictures at S % box, and there's 1
hundred in box.
What bargain!
Yes; bought the whole stock, Ism
it spIendid.-TOmaha World.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-01-26
Enterprise at Vassar.

A Vassar girl tells in the New York
Morning Journal OF the curious ways in
which some Of the poor students at that
institution earn pocket money. Some OF
the girls who come to Vassar, she says,
are as helpless as babes They are the
daughters OF millionaires, and never
brushed their own hair or sewed on a
button in their lives They are only too
glad TO have some one do those things
for them, and that is how the poorer
girls make their pocket money. Last
year pretty blue eyed girl came to co..
lege, and stated during the first week
that her tuition and board was paid by
kind relative, but every penny fol
dress or car fare, and the thousand and
one little incidentals she must earn her.
self.
Soon after her arrival The following
announcement appeared on her door:
Gloves aud shoes neatly mended fol
10 cents each.
breakfast brought up for 10 cents.
Hair brushed each night for % cts. g
week.
Beds made up at 10 cents a week"
That little freshman made just $l5C
the first year, continues the account. and
that paid all Of her expenses and good
part of her tuition fees.
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A Heroic Remedy.

Mrs, Archer is a very good woman
and one who believes in keeping the
household as free from the contamina
ton of the world as possible. But she
has husband and three growing boys,
and they are. to use their own words,
up to snuff
do wish you wouldn't use so much
slang, the good woman would say in a
tone Of remonstrance.
Why, mother we keep up with the
times. the boys would answer, you are
away back.
Don't swear John, she said to her hus.
band one day.
That isn't swearing. he said, everyone
talks that way, Susan.
No more was said just then, but a few
days later Mrs Archer suddenly remark
ed at the supper tablet
Great Scott Kitty must have lot of
cheek to think we can eat butter as salt
as that stuff !
Mr.. Archer looked in a startled man
ner, but before he could speak his wife
resumed
Holy Moses! il makes me tired to drink
tea as cold as ice water.
The boys kept an uncomfortable 81
lence. Presently Mrs. Archer said:
That COMPOUNDED old crank Of Jones
was here to see you again today, John
l told the old chrome you had no use for
him. though,
One Of the boys swallowed a biscuit
the wrong way at that moment, and al
most choked to death.
Great Caesar! observed Mrs. Archer in
a placid voice. totally opposed to the
wild variety of her language, nearly
forgot that I've got to see a Teller down
town this eve, Going out on a little
racket OF my own. Ia, ia, love: you see
I'm not as fresh as | used 10 be. No
flies on me-so long and with an air that
was the counterpart of John Archer's
own, the good woman swaggered from
the table.
The English angu ige, pure and unde-
filed, is spoken in that family now, and
the vocabulary of slang has fallen into
welcome desuetude.
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Want of Sleep

Is sending thousands annually to the
insane asylum and the doctors say this
trouble is alarmingly on the increase.
The usual remedies, while they may
give temporary relief, are likely to do
more harm than good. What is needed
is an Alternative and Blood-purifer.
Ayers Sarsaparilla is incomparably
the best. 1t corrects those disturbances
in the circulation which cause sleepless-
ness, gives increased vitality, and re-
stores the nervous system to healthful
condition.
Rev. T. G. A. Cote, agent Of the Mass.
Home Missionary Society. writes that
his stomach was out OF order, his sleep
very often disturbed. and some i'm
purity Of the blood manifest but that
n perfect cure was obtained by the use
Of Ayers Sarsaparilla
Frederick W. Pratt, 424 Washington
street, Boston, writes: "My daughter
was Frustrated with nervous debility.
Ayers Sarsaparilla restored her to
health"
William F. Bowker, Erie, Pa, was
cured OF nervousness and sleeplessness
by taking Ayers Sarsaparilla for about
two months, during which time his
weight increased over twenty pounds.
Ayers SarsapariIIa,
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Or. J. G. Aver & Co., Lowell, Ma
Sold By all Druggists. Price 81; six ho'''
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everything gOes atraight, eIse he must

everything goes straight, else he must
fall.
Well.
To be master Of yourself, you have
your conscience to keep clear, your
heart to cultivate. your temper to gov
ern, your will to direct and your judg
ment to instruct. You are master over a
hard lot, and il you don't master them
they will master you.
That is so, said the young man.
Now i could undertake no such thing,
said his friend. l should fail il | lid.
Saul wanted to be his own master and
failed, Herod did Judas did. No man
If fit for it. One is my master, even
Christ. l work under his direction. He
is regulator, and where he is master all
goes right.
One is my master, even Christ, re-
peated the young man slowly and SER
iously; everybody who puts himself sim
cerely under his leadership wins at last.
.-[Exchangs.
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THE sUnUuL QUESTION.

II the farmers OF Vermont had ever
generally discussed it, we should have
had some change for the better before
this time, For several years past a
change has been proposed. In favor of
it has been the large majority OF the
state and town superintendents, the
leading teachers, the professional men
of New England, and also, it is said,
majority Of the members of our last two
legislatures. But it has not been ap
proved by the majority of the voters of
Vermont. This is very peculiar, for it
generally expected that the majority of
VJrmonters will vote for a measure
which is approved by so large a number
OF those who are recognized as the best
and fairest judges of its advlsability.-
Our history shows no other instance of
a measure advocated by nearly every
newspaper, by every teachers institute,
by every New England state superin.
tendent for ten years, by college presi-
dents and professors, by all the minis
ters, as the Argus contesses. by 70 out
of "a town superintendent and by near
y every normal school, acadamy and
high school teacher IN Vermont, but still
twice voted down at town meeting. II
the farmers had given it fair thought it
would have been otherwise. Some
change is to be proposed at the next leg.
islature.
Two reasons are offered in favor of a
change from district to a town system,
in which the town itself supports and
controls its schools by board of three
directors, chosen for three years. BY
most of those who have considered these
reasons fairly they have been called suf
ficient and unanswerable arguments
The first is; Such plan will secure bet
ter management Of the schools and
therefore better schools: and the second
is: With no greater cost it will secure a
iairer division Of the support Of the
schools.
The proof OF the first rests upon such
facts as these: First, the few are likely
to do better than the many: and second,
the few will be responsible for the
schools, and 80 will be likely to be inter-
ested in the schools. Town superintend.
ents are, as rule, interested in the
schools, but they have no control of
them, and in many cases, but little in
fuence over them. Under certain con-
ditions, which very rarely are found to
exist, they can revoke certificates
But for years, it has been true in many
towns in Vermont that, If a district com
mittee wished to hire certain teacher
the teacher was hired and paid, have
known this TO be the case, when the GER
tificate had been revoked, and have
known at least one case when the dis
trict demanded the teachers dismissiop
on the ground Of utter incompetence
In some towns the teachers care but IL.
tie for the superintendent criticisms
and persistently neglect his advice be
cause they know he has no control over
them. Some Of the best mes refuse to
tAsOsPt the biics simply becatss they
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Whereas, A movement whose impulse
sprang from all creeds and parties alike,
ought not in justice, and cannot with
policy, be confined to any particular
sect or party; therefore,
Resolved, That said resolutions, adopt.
ed at the last annual meeting, be con-
demned as unjust and inpolitic.
Resolved, That, provided the Vermont
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
does not, at ITS next annual meeting, re,
solve to be and remain hereafter non
partisan and non sectarian, this Union
will withdraw from the State Union and
pursue an independent line of action.