St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-03-07
THE TOWNS AROUND.
BARNET.

The Ladies society met at the
house of S. kenerson on Thursday
evening and had very merry time
The household goods and farming
tools belonging to the Nancy Gilfillan
estate were sold at auction last
Thursday.
Eugene Shaw has rented the hotel
for one year Chas. Greenbank has
moved into his tenement which is
under the same roof.
A man who remembers back SO
years says this is the first winter in
that time that there has been no
crossing on the ice between Barnet
and Monroe.
A party of about 20 gentlemen Gel
ebrated the 4th of March, meeting at
w. S. Brock hotel and eating Oys-
tiers together and talking over the
signs of the times. Cheering music
and rousing speeches kept them Jolly
until midnight.
The Congregational church, at a
meeting last Saturday, voted to be-
come corporate body and will here
after own its church building and
parsonage. This was done under
the act of the last Legislature in ref
erence to Incorporating churches.
On Sunday last a new member was
annexed to the family of Alfred Stan
ley to be hailed and reckoned as part
and parcel thereof. Said member is
an infant endowed with all the graces
OF the masculine persuasion and of
the weight OF nine pounds or there
abouts. He bears the name of a good
man, and it is hoped he may emulate
the example of Robert Remington.
Stevens post, G. A. r., and the
Woman's relief corps, will give an
entertainment at the village hall in
West Barnet, Thursday evening of
next week W. w. Sprague of ST.
Johnsbury will give his thrilling sto-
nv of life at Belle Isle prison and
Capt. p. D. Blodgett of st. Johnsbu-
~ will also address the audience. A
st. Johnsbury male quartet will fur
nish music and a supper and prone
made will follow the speaking.
The school in district number 10,
taught by Miss Cora Sargent, closed
last Friday with appropriate eXer-
ing the term are Willie McLaren,
Charlie Randall, Glennie Adams and
Carrie Gilfillan. May Somers, Gates
Somers and Jessie Kingsbnry were
absent only three days. Florence
Goss missed only one word i'll spell
ing during the term.
A young man took two young la
dies, dressed in their Sunday best, to
the station that they might attend
the concert at st. ,Johnsbury Friday
evening, The train being late they
INDUCED in a short ride to while
away the time. On returning they
outrun it. A sharp turn a few rods
from the depot proved disastrous to
their hopes and fine clothing. AS the
train passed out, it left three people
foundering in the middle of a sloppy
road, and the young man quite crest
fallen. However he was equalt to the
emergency and got a fresh horse and
carried the young ladies to St. J him
self to make amends for their miShap.
EAST BURKE.
Luther Morrill, is boarding at Har-
vey Freeto's.
Archie Wilkie and family have re-
turned here to stay.
w. S. Streeter has been visiting his
father the past week.
George Hubbard has gone to Vic
tory to work driving a lumber team.
There was a surprise party at My
ron Eggleston's the 22nd in honor OF
Mr. Eggleston's fiftieth birthday.
One day last week Joseph Doyle
drew with one span of horses at one
load to the mill here TAI feet of
logs.
William Godding is having seri-
Gus time with his eyes, and it is fear
ed that he will lose the sight of both
of them.
Everybody is invited to the Good
Templar's oyster supper at their hall
Friday evening.-There were quite a
number from Burke Mt lodge at the
union at Lyndonville last Friday.
Mrs Amy Harvey Garter of Chic
opee, Mass, has been making a short
visit this way.-Mrs. PAMELA Har-
vey, who has been spending the past
few months here and at Lvndonville,
returns to her home in Chicopee this
week.
Mrs. Ella (Cushing) Finney, who
has been visiting at her fathers last
week, was obliged to return home
with her little daughter who had a
ulcer on one of her eyes and at last
accounts it was feared she would lose
the sight.
WEST BURKE.
A. A. Drury has been giving lectures
on phrenology.
Jason Allard is seriously i'll with
inflammation of the bowels
A juvenile Temple has been organ
lied in this village and has 81 mem
berS.
Frank Hull has returned from Len
Oxville and moved into T. Marshal's
house.-Eugene Hammond from Fair