St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-07-21
NEWS ABOUT HOME.

The band will play on Railroad
street Saturday evening. weather
permitting.
Carl Gray has put neat little
j steamer on Joe's Pond, for pleasure
q purposes.
&C. E. Winter has sold to Edwin
H Plunley two building lots on the
Shorey place, in Summerville, ior
500; he has six more left.
The ST. Johnsbury Boating Club
are in camp now on Lake Memphre-
magog, and enjoying life to the
fullest extent.
"A telephone has been placed in
the HASTE house at Harvey's Pond,
so that pleasure seekers can make
arrangements for an outing by wire.
The electrical storm of last Fri
day night seems to have played con-
siderable mischief in some parts of
the state. St. Johnsburv got off easi-
1y, as usual.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Switser
have given up the Academy Club
House, which they have had charge
of for the past six years, and moved
to No. 1S Main street.
If the trout in the lake at H Holeb,
Me-, are not completely demoralized
this week, it will not be the fault Of
the party which left here for that
region on M onday night.
The annual camp-meeting of the
St. Johnsbury district will open at
the camp grounds at Lyndonville,
4 Monday, Aug. %. There will not
q be Sunday session this year.
The concert at Music Hall last
Friday evening by pupils from the
Perkins Institute for the Blind was
not largely attended, but the pro-
gramme was an entertaining one.
Maple street has recently received
considerable attention from the vii
lage fathers, and is very much i'm
proved, special pains being taken to
prevent the outlying out of the road
way.
Strawberries have stood by the
local market in good shape this sea-
son, and some excellent fruit of that
kind was to be had the fore part of
the week at two baskets for 25
cents.
The entries for the August meet
ing of the Vermont Association of
Road and Trotting Horse Breeders
closed July Goth, and do not run till
the Goth, as the types made us say
last week.
The much-needed repairs on the
telegraph line between St. Johnsbury
and Hyde Park are now in progress,
and the linemen have an all sum-
mer's job on hand to put the wires
in the best condition for business.
Only beginning has been made.
The smoke-stack of the new pump
house was raised on Monday. It
was no small job to do this, as the
stack is 65 feet long, three feet in
diameter and weighs over two tons.
The repairs at the waterworks are
progressing, and things there will be
in excellent shape ere long
The local chapter of the New
England Order of Protection, and
invited friends, go to Lake Park,
Joe's Pond, next Saturday on a
picnic. The St. Johnsbury orchestra
] will accompany them. Train will
q stop at Fairbanks village; leave 7.35
a. M, and returns at and S.3Op. m.
"A fishing party of fifteen St.
Johnsbury gentlemen left on the
Quebec express Monday evening for
2 the town of Holeb, in the wilds of
Maine, where they were to spend a
d few days Turing the speckled beauties.
They had a special car, and were
well equipped for good time"
I'm its horse talk the Newport
Express says that when the Sher-
brooke three-year-olds meet the
Utton colts at the Breeders meeting
there will be some good trotting, sure