St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16

tuition and bylaws for the society.
Considerable interest was manifest
ed and the success Of the organiza-
tion is already assured. The next
meeting will be held Thursday even
ing, Feb. %.
Michael Hynes has bought the
Paddock iron foundry and machine
shop, together with four shares i'll
the water power, for $1,000. Mr..
Hynes has offered the village his
shares in the water power for $1,000
a share.
The passenger train from the
East was derailed near West Con-
cord Monday, broken wheel
throwing the passenger cars off the
track. The engine came to St, Johns
bury with the baggage car, leaving
the other cars by the side of the
track.
"A musical convention is to be
held at Barton Landing on Wednes-
day and Thursday, March 1st and
I'd, to be conducted by ]. H. Hum
phrey Of this place. Mrs, J. W..
Sault will be the pianist. Word
comes from Barton that the pros
poets OF a successful convention are
very bright.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Harvey have
assumed the management OF the
Madison Avenue Hotel in Chicago
and will entertain their Vermont
friends during the Worlds Fair at
$3.50 Madison avenue. Mr.. Harvey
has resided both at St. Johnsbury anc
Danville and is well remembered il
this vicinity,
The New York Journal ofFinanc
contained a complimentary notice O
st. Johnsbury Illustrated in 1t
issue of the 9th inst, and closed it
comment by referring to the wor
as a truly artistic and beautiful ad
dition" to any library, and as giN
ing zone of the handsomest glimpse
of New England imaginable. -
Manager Bingham has recent
put a second long distance trans
5 mitter into the central office OF ii
y telephone exchange here, and OF
{ also at Newport They work we'll
r so well, in fact, that yesterday
d listener in the telephone office
North Danville could hear over Il
t wire the ticking of a small clock
r the St. Johnsbury central othc
= There is nothing "hShy' about tn
t. yarn, either.
/ On Tuesday, while Mrs. [
Warner was driving from Summt
ID Vile she stopped at the crossing
lie wait for a train to pass. H.
It Carr drove up behind her with
III sulky rig, and not discovering t
a team ahead of him a collision resu
ed bv which Mrs. Warner w
~ thrown out and quite severely hu
r. She clung to the horse, however, a
)e a runaway was thus averted.
re On the inside pages of the Cal
ly DOMAIN this week will be found tN
RS interesting communications. Que
them relates to "ramie fibre, " n
10 terial that has demanded some
IS ton from the industrial world, a
at which is described by promlnt
to Rhode Island manufacturer the otl
lis touches on "Mont Valerien,
vn around which cluster many events
historic interest. An entertalnl
st. story and other matter OF more
,o less interest will also be found
a this issue.
ar Rev. c. w. Gushing, d.
his lectured on Monday evening la
IRE before the Epworth League,
Rome" He was pleasantly int
,ek duccd by H. N. Turner, and spoke
rse a familiar way concerning Rome
iill he had seen it, reviewing the hist'
sell of the city and describing BRIT
in some of it's greatest attractions,
me some of the wonderful facts brou.
to light by the recent eXcavatic
nd Prior to the lecture an enjoya
all organ recital was given by NJ
lev Eddy.
on The 10th of February being
md anniversary of the founding of
5 OF order of Knights of Pythias of
I'm. World, Apollo Lodge, No. 2, of
ter Iohnsbury have accepted the inv
at ton of Rev. Mr.. Douglas of the r
%. road street Baptist church, to
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