St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-05-10
NEWS ABOUT HOME.


Thursday forenoon.
The CALIFORNIAN is on sale every week
at the stores OLA. D. Rowell Co., F. O.
Clark and II. G. Lapier.
"A little 3-year-old grandson of Oscar
Burdick fell off the veranda Tuesday and
fractured and djslocated his elbow Joint
The following attractions are booked
for Howe's Opera House: Trilby, May
20, and Hoyt's Temperance Town
June 1.
The school directors have decided to
continue the teaching Of music in the
public schools and have engaged Harry
H. May as instructor
The concert given by the U. Y. NJ.
Glee Club in Music Hall last Friday
night was much enjoyed by the small
audience present. 1t is to be regretted
that the affair was not a success 6nan-
cially.
The enlargement of the CALEDoNIAN
necessitates some changes in the make
up. Local matter will be found on the
second page as we'll as on the first and
eighth and town correspondence on
pages five and six.
The summer time of running the
trains will go into effect June 80. The
New York express starts then. This
train leaves here going south at 8 45 a.
m., and reaches here from the south at s
p. M.
Joseph Ivers, who nearly year ago
hurt his foot so badly that part of it
h'd to be amputated, died at his home
on Wednesday afternoon, aged about 60
years. His illness had lasted from the
time of his accident
&C. E. Dean, the hackman, has bought
anew outfit. including handsome black
horse, a new harness and two. seated
single hack. Mr. Dean will use this
team for driving around town and the
double closed hack for meeting trains.
Many OF our citizens have always
manifested an interest in literary affairs
and have literally patronized public
readers of merit. We have reason to ex-
pcct treat in this line in the appearance
OF Mrs. Martin next Thursday night.
1t will not surprise anyone to be told
that the weather this week has
been hot, but for those who did not look
at their thermometers we will say that
on Tuesday afternoon it was so degrees
in the CALIFORNIAN office, and 90 degrees
in the shade just outside the portal. We
tried to keep cool.
The Ely Hoe and Fork Company
have elected William S. Boynton on the
board of directors to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Col. Fairbanks.
The latter was president OF the corpora
ton and the board have elected Henry
G. Ely president aud A. II. Mcleod vice
president,
F. o. Clark has brought the house
at the head of Summer street owned by
Mrs. Charles T. Walter and will take
possession early in June. Fred E. Potts
has bought the Dckerman house on
Paddock street which he has been oc-
cupying for some time. The price paid
for each OF these houses was $4,000.
Frederick Bryton and company ap-
peared in the Howe Opera House on
Wednesday evening before small
audience. The play was mixture OF
intense love-making, villany, misery and
laughable scenes. In the end all turns
out WELL and the villains are satistac-
torily disposed of. The acting was some.
what overdonc
-Arbor day was observed by the
scholars at the union schools i'll the
rooms taught by Miss Matte Jennes:
and Miss Sinclair. Appropriate exer
cises were held in the school room anc
also on the girls common, where the
tree was planted. The two rooms unit
ed in both exercises, which were held Fri
day afternoon.
On Saturday evening a concert ano
ball was given in the Stanley Opera
House by Eastman and Moreys full or
chestra of Manchester, N. H. The music
was delightful, but the evening being
very warm was probably the reason
why not more than thirty couples un
dertook to dance. The orchestra is {
good one and the music was much EN-
joyed.
The street committee of our villag
changed their mind on the street sprink
ling question, and started up the stree
sprinkler Wednesday morning. Had tn
sprinkler been started a week earlier
would have saved agreat deal of trouble
The public want the sprinkler just a
much as they do good roads, concret
walks and watering troughs, and it wa
too bad to endure the dust of the pas
10 DAYS in connection with the extrem
heat.
The death of horse does not alway
4 4 a. 4