St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-08-02

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short time
Brown Brothers will sell at auction
next Friday the John Belknap shop and
property on South Main street.
Two Barrett boys of Concord Mass.
nephews Of E. E, Barrett, have pitched a
tent in Summerville and are camping
there for while.
B. ]. Chapman has bought out the
wood and trucking business of George
w. Young of Summerville and will con-
duct the business at the old stand.
Mrs. DR.. W. L. Hall entertained the
Ladies Sewing Society of the Railroad
street church yesterday afternoon Tea
was served and all had a most enjoyable
time.
During the heavy thunder shower
Monday night an unlighted kerosene
lamp, in a Main street residence burst,
scattering glass and kerosene all over
| the room.
The town school directors have APP
pointed Daniel Woodside janitor at the
Union School buildings They first ap-
pointed Chief of Police Miller but he de-
cined to serve.
F. o. Clark denies the rumor that he
is going to locate permanently on the
southern side of Eastern avenue and is
looking for a desirable site on the other
side OF the street
Maj. Gen. w. F. (Baldy) Smith, first
Colonel of the old Sd Vt. Vols, has sig
nifed his intention of attending their
10th annual reunion which is to be held
at Barton Landing, Aug. 21.
The two new engines for the air line
trains went on duty this week and they
have attracted much attention. The
driving wheels are feet inches in d-
ameter and the engines are thclargest on
the division.
The $4,000 prize detective story writ
ten by Mary E. Wilkins will appear
entire in next weeks CALIFORNIAN. 1t is
entitled THE Long Arm" and is said to
be the best story that Miss Wilkins ever
wrote.
The story of Lake mphremagog
to be found on another page of this issue
will be found interesting from the fact
that so many readers in this place are
familiar with the locality, The conclu-
sion will be given next week.
The Helping Hand Circle Of the Rail
road street Baptist church were to have
a lawn party on the lawn of O. H, Hen
derson Tuesday evening but owing to
the rain, ice cream and cake were served
indoors. All report a pleasant time.
-Littleton is to have some rare horse
racing at the Lttleton driving park
grounds Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug.
9th and 7th One hundred and twenty
eight entries have been made, which
shows that there will be fast competit
ors.
The long dry spell has been broken
the past week by treqnent showers and
the farmers are much pleased over crop
prospects. In many places the wells and
smaller streams had dried up and the
rivers in this vicinity were getting very
low.
Charles F. Eastman of Eastman &
Moreys orchestra of Manchester N. H.,
is stopping in town in the interests of
the Emergency Fire Extinguisher Co. of
Manchester. He expects to give an ex.
hibition of the efficiency of the eXtin-
guisher before long.
The Sheeney Automatic signal was
exhibited at the Avenue house the latter
half of last week to railroad men and all
others interested by Geo. M. Carpenter
and Chas. Z. Mildrane OF Boston. Mr..
Carpenter was formerly of this place,
and his friends were glad to see him.
Printers Ink, the little schoolmaster
n the art of advertising, prints each
week sample advertisements from the
weekly and daily papers. Several of the
attractive and original advertisements
of I. S. Meigs that have first appeared in
the CALIFORNIAN have been reprinted in
Printers Ink.
F. N. Carrs two horses, Mamie o.
and A. S. L., both won money at the
Whitetield races Wednesday. Mamie o.
got fourth place in the 2.25 class and
A. S. L. got first place in the $50 class.
This was A. S. LIS first race and he got
a mark of 2 80 in this race.
The Electric Light Co. located two
800 light transformers Monday-one on
Railroad street for all lights on that
street north OF Eastern avenue, and one
in front of Swift Bros. building for the
Citizens Bank block and all south of
Eastern avenue. They weigh nearly 900
pounds, and it was quite job to place
them in position.
The Wild West show exhibited in six
towns in Vermont last week, and their
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