St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-08-09
NEWS ABOUT HOME.

The Womans club meets next Mon
day afternoon.
The Ladies Whist club met with
Mrs. Silas Mastin on Wednesday after
noon.
Edward Mongeon has come here
from Coventry and opened a blacksmith
shop on Pearl street.
The Citizen. the organ of the Ameri-
can Society Of University Extension, is
now on file at the Athaneum.
The party that went to st. Johns
bury Park on Lake Memphremagog
have returned, and report pleasant
time.
Next Friday is legal state holiday,
a law having been passed to that effect
by the legislature last session. 1t is to
beknown as the Bennington Battle Day.
N. NJ. Johnson is canvassing the
town for subscribers to Gail Hamiltons S
biography of James G. Blaine. The we'll
known ability of the author is guaran-
tee OF the worth of the book.
Fired lvers, a young man II years
old, was fined So and costs for distribu.
ting liquor around town. This is the
same fellow that was fined last winter
for disturbing the Salvation army meet
ing.
The attractive advertisement of the
Eastern Townships fair at Sherbrooke
will be eagerly read by our readers
This fair is the largest ever given in this
section and always gets good many
visitors from st. Johnsbury and vicinity
Alexander Dunnett has purchased
the Lake House at Ricker's Mills in Gro
ton and is spending the summer there
with his family. The house is beauti-
fully situated on the shores OF Groton
pond and ought to be desirable sum-
mer resort.
The attractions for the Howe Opera
House now arranged for, are Tangled
Up" sometime this month: Special
Delivery" September 18th, Hoyt's "Trip
to Chinatown" September 30th; "Old
Rube Tanner" October 5th; Cotton
King" December -.
C. c, Bonette, the wel-knowu St
Johnsbury aeronaut, makes an ascension
at HAYDEN Lake, Me-, tomorrow On
September hip he performs the same
feat at Bethel, VT. His time is all en-
gagged until October 10 except the third
week in September.
The summer school for teachers will
open i'll this town on Monday next, and
a successful term is anticipated. 1t will
be under the direction OF State Superin
tendent Stone, and the instruction to be
given is up to date and OF most usefu
nature to all teachers.
Sergeant H. W. Ellis, Corporal L. J
Allen and Private Bonette leave thi.
morning to prepare camp for Company
D at Camp Woodbury., Fairlee. The
camp is situated on the shores of Lake
Morey and St. Johnsbury Guards leave
for the camp Monday.
This evening there will be two exh
bitions OF the efficiency OF a fire extin
guisher manufactured in Manchester
One will be given on Railroad street
Square at o'clock sharp and the Other
on the Plain at $50. This will be very
interesting, and no doubt large crowC
will turn out
1t is quite certain that every Sunday
School and young peoples society along
the Connecticut river will be represented
in the excursion to Lake Memphremagoa
next Wednesday, The train will be
drawn by two OF the largest engines or
the Passumpsic division and will not b,
run in two sections.
MIR. and Mrs. Wilson, two coloreC
people, OF Claremont, n. H., gave con
cert in the Union House yard Thursday
and Friday evenings and sold medicine
They sang songs, played duets on guitar
and banjo, whistled, told stories and il
other ways entertained the large crowds
that gathered
The Ola Podrda Club had most
enjoyable clambake on the lawn o
Charles H. Horton Tuesday evening
The yard was prettily decorated Will
lanterns. After dark the Club were in
vited INTO the house and entertained by
some of Frank French's monologues anc
solos by Frank II. Brooks and w. p
Kelly.
The Boston Globe of Monday con
tanned a picture of c. a. Calderwood
Eminent Commander of Palestine Com
mandery, Knights Templar, and pic
ture of the design which w. H. Sargent
has prepared for the outside of the spec
ial car which takes the commandery tC
Boston. The design is sc feet long ant
seven feet high at either end.
The excursion to Lake Memphrema
- ,Io,n the line of the paSSl1nDSiC SiC