St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-01

of the latest styles and patterns.
Pensions have been granted the
past week to Fred E. Clark of ST.
JOhnsbury, Henry w. Warner of East
Hardwick, James G. Nelson of Shelf
field, Sophia, widow of Dave S. Smith
of Greensboro bend.
AT a meeting of the commissioned
officers of the different cantons, patri-
archs militant, 1. o. o. F., held at Rut-
land last week, Maj. N. NJ. Puffer of
Bennington was elected lieutenant
colonel and Capt. A. L. Bragg of the
second battalion of st. Johnsbury, was
elected major to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the promotion of Maj. Puffer.
The state now has six cantons, making
two battalions and with four more can
tons regiment can be formed and a
colonel elected. Efforts are now being
made to organize cantons at Bradford,
Montpelier and Bellows Falls.
Miss Mary Howe of Brattleboro,
the already famous soprano, will sing
at concert in Montpelier on the 9Th
and in Burlington on the 9th. A num-
Der are planning to go to Montpelier
from here on the 9Th. By the way,
the question has been frequently asked
why the lecture committee did not Sc
cure Miss Howe for the local course.
Every effort was made by them to do
so. The terms were agreed upon, but
Miss Howe intended at that time to re-
turn to Europe in September and no
date could be given st. Johnsbury.
When her plans for departure were
changed the arrangements for the
course here had been completed.
DIR. Buckley's Lecture.
Rev. James NJ. Buckley delivered his
lecture on "The fatal box and other
superstitions" before a fine audience in
Music hall Friday evening, the first
lecture of the Y. NJ. c.. A. course. Dr..
Buckley is an excellent extemporane-
Gus speaker and demolished the thou
sand and one superstitiOns of the day
without mercy, not excepting recent
superstitions in the shape of spiritual
ism, and the so called Christian science
and faith cures. The lecture was re-
plete with anecdotes and the audience
was kept in great good humOr from
1. IL
who introduced the lecturer, referred
to recent articles from DR.. Buckley's
pen and also to the coincidence that
this lecture was delivered on a Friday
evening.
The Sunday School.
William Reynolds of Illinois, well
known throughout the country as a
successful Sunday School worker, de-
livered an address Tuesday evening at
the Free Baptist church on the subject
of Sunday Schools and their work, hav
ing special reference to the Vermont
state convention. In the audience
were representatives from all the
churches and schools in the village
The address was we'll calculated to
help and encourage those engaged in
this work. Among the many bits of
personal experience were some citing
remarkable results from Sunday School
work on the frontier, among the poor
whites of the South and the negroes
The number of schools in the country
now exceed I40, 900, with teachers num-
bering over 1,25O,OOO, the cheapest
and most effective power for good in
operation in this country.
Look out for Them.
The Rutland Herald says a gang ol
sharpers are travelling through the
state working the soap racket. The
plan is this A man leaves box Of
soap at your house, and also an extra
cake which the housewife is requested
to use as a sample or return with the
box without cost if so disposed. The
next day the soap man returns, calls
for his wares, and, on examination o
the box, discovers two or more cakes
missing. Taking no notice of the
housewives protest that she had no
examined the contents of the box, ant
knew nothing about the missing cakes
he demands their value and generally
frightens his victims into paying wha
he demands.
Republican Committee Loses 100000
The republican national committee
had narrow escape this week. On
of Chairman Quay's circulars, stating
that "the republican national commit
tee is in need of money, and needs i
now," fell into the hands of w. E
Peck, president of the Merchants ma
tional bank and democratic candidate
for state treasurer in this state. MI
Peck has a way of generously respond
ing to calls for help from the need.
and brought the matter before the di