St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-15
EAST BURKE.

EAST BURKE.
Mrs. VIM. Belden has two sister
visiting her.
Mrs. Abner Rowland is visiting a
Newport.
DIR. H. j. Lanes father and brothe,
are visiting him.
Ezra Eggleston has let his farm t,
John Dashney.
Reports from Mrs. Jonathan Hunter
are still encouraging.
Willard Brockway is sick at hi
daughters, Mrs. E. A. Harris.
Miss Rena Goodrich, Mrs. G. w
MOrse's sister, returns to her home thiI
week.
Hubbard Smith and family are spend
ing a few weeks at Mrs. Smiths faith
er's in Kirby.
Mrs. Gray of Lyndon Centre is stop
ping with Geo. Smell while his grand
parents are away.
Rev. G. H. Merrill of St. JOhnsbury
spoke in the Congregational church
Sabbath afternoon.
Lemuel Walter has bought the AL.
den Wetherbee place and is repairing
the buildings.
The mother of Henry Kilby was ly-
ing apparently at the point of death
Monday morning.
Isaac Gage had IL slight paralytic
shock last Thursday, but is cOmforta-
BILE at present writing.
A Mr.. Phillips and wife from Con
cord have moved into the boarding
house OF L.. A. Darling's farm.
E.. A. Harris's little boy, three years
of age, was in the barn yard Sunday
when an old COW took him on heI
horns and threw him over the fence
into IL snow drift. He was not hurt
excepting II little skin scraped from one
side.
WEST CONCORD.
There will be an entertainment and
sugar party at G.. A. r. hall Saturday
evening, under the auspices of the w.
r. G..
NORTH DANVILLE.
YOur correspondent was mistaken
in the purchaser of the j. D. Harris
house. 1t is Mrs. Diantha Massey who
has bought the mouse.
LYNDoNvILLE.
District union of Good Templars to-
morrow.
Sugar party at Masonic hall this
Thursday evening.
Alfred Finney has moved from East
Burke and occupies a tenement in
TwOmbly's block. He has this week
beer installed into the Office of bag
gage master and ~janitOr at the passen-
ger depot.
S. G.. Mason has been appointed to a
clerkship under the Interstate COM
MERGE commission ana goes to Wash
ington this week to begin work. S.
yard master here.
The musical convention was IA sue
cess financially and otherwise. The
chorus numbered nearly 100 and was a
good one. The concerts were well at
tended, the solo singing being very
satisfactory.
At the town meeting to be held next
Tuesday would it not be we'll to on
slider whether it is not best to rescind
the vote of March 6, establishing a
town liquor agency? The vote on
this question vas first taken by a di-
vision which resulted in about 25 ma
jOrity against the agency, but on Il bal
lot the rum side had 10 majority. Ev-
identity about twenty-five voters were
ashamed to have their neighbors know
that they favored the sale of liquor.
PAssUMPsIC.
Gilmore Louie has left the employ of
the r. r. Co. and gone to work for F.
c.. McGill.
A. p. Hawley is to move into the
tenement lately occupied by VIM.
Bancroft.
Nelson Rash wins the prize, he hav-
ing gripped two hundred pounds with
one hand.
PEACHAM.
Temperance sociable at the town
hall Thursday evening.
Peacham academy continues its pros
porous career, having nearly 80 stu
dents for the spring term.
The Norfolk Jubilee singers gave an
entertainment at the town hall last
Wednesday evening.
Three children at one birth was one
of the events in town last week.. None
of the children lived more than a few
hours.
Our roads have been pretty good for
the past few days but the blizzard of
Monday again makes locomotion a
terror.
Your correspondent recently received
fine addition to his herbarium i'm the
shape of a bundle of plants sem by
G.. G.. Pringle, of Charlotte. There
were about I25 species, collected by
Mr.. Pringle in the mountains of north
ern Mexico.
Complaint was entered last week
that a certain party living near South
Peacham was selling liquor. On trial,
was convicted of two first
O~ffenses for selling liquor, and fined
accordingly. On the same day another
resident of South Peacham was arrested
for drunkenness, and disclosed that he
obtained his liquor of the dealer afore-
mentioned. This was construed as a
second offense in selling and the seller
sentenced to 80 days 1T Rutland.
SOUTH RYEGATE.
At the town meeting an unexpected
developed to the article to
-e-seat the town hall with settees. The
fact is that the petition for this
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