St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-09-27
NEWS ABOUT HOME.


on Sept 22d. t{ n -
The Lady ofthe Lake made it's last
trip for the season on Lake Mem ohrema-
gog last Saturday. ~ ,4
A large number ofyoune people en-
joyed dance at the Stanley Opera
House last Friday evening.
Miss Kate Kidder picked from her
garden Tuesday ripe raspberries and also
a number RASPBERRY blossoms.
j. E. Woodruff will sell at public auc-
tion, Thursday, Oct. 8, at 10 a. m, his
farm and personal property at Passump.
sic.
Aunt Sally" the play booked at the
Opera House for last Monday evening,
was cancelled and the company did not
come here.
The new fire alarm system was tested
yesterday afternoon and every box
worked properly. The bell has a very
sweet tone.
&C. E. Dean has purchased another
hack and now has four hacks in the SER
vice. S. L. Moore, the livery man, has
added to his plant fine three seated
carriage.
"A number of the ladies OF the two
Lyndonville Ladies Clubs accepted the
invitation Of the St. Johnsbury Woman's
Club to attend Mrs. Woods lecture last
Friday.
On aud after Monday, Sept. 80, the
New York express train and the White
Mountain Express train will be cancelled
between Wells River and White River
Junction.
Prof. Barbour has changed the nights
of his night school to Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday evenings. The school is
a department of the Business College
that is rapidly growing in popularity.
Mrs. A. A. Annis has taken the first
premium for white bread at our county
fair for the past three years. The bread
was made from the Duluth Imperial -four
and bought at E. T. & H. K. Ide's store.
-Zion's Herald for Sept. % is full OF
st. Johrsbury, writtenup and illustrated.
This is preliminary to the great first gen
eral district conference of the Epworth
League, to be held here next Wednesday
and Thursday.
Howard W. Spur & Co. Of Boston
gave everybody chance to try their
Revere brand of coffee this week. A rep
resentative Of the firm served coffee free
at the store of J. S. Weeks & Co., Tues
day and at F. N. Browns store Wednes-
day.
w. w. Sprague, general agent of the
National Life Insurance company, has
appointed Crawford Ranney agent for
the company in this town and vicinity.
Ernest Blodgett, who is in Mr.. Ranney's S
office, will also act as agent for the
National Life.
The board of trustees of the Y. M. c.
A., created by the legislative act Of 1884,
organized last week by electing Prof.
Henry Fairbanks president and w. S.
Boynton clerk. The board appointed
w. S. Boynton and David E. Puffer
agents of the Music Hall property.
Don c. Stiles, the manager of the
Union Advertising Agency, is thorough
believer in judicious advertising. He has
exhibited at the fairs at st, Johnsbury,
Lyndonville, South Ryegate and Barton,
taking orders for his pepsin gum and ad-
vertising Barbour's Business College.
There will be a reception at Sunset
Home next Saturday afternoon from
two to six o'clock, to which all ladies
are very cordially invited. There will
also be on sale that afternoon many
fancy and useful articles, the work of
the ladies of Sunset" and their friends.
About 150 persons took in the fair
at Barton Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sam Moore, Frank French and William
Brown played base ball with the Dan
vile Clippers at the fair Wednesday,
while Ned Stiles played with the lras-
burg club. The latter team was vlctor-
Gus. Score "a to 12.e vrr.4
There will be a grand wrestling
match in the Howe Opera House on the
evening of Oct. 1 1, between Mcdonald o!
Montpelier and O'Neil Of Cranky. Two
thousand dollars and the box receipts is
the amount offered and as both the con
testants are well known wrestlers the
affair will attract large crowd.
The two drinking fountains given to
the town by the Womans Club have
been placed in position and are in work
ming order. They are attractive looking
and will prove a great comfort and ben
eft to the thirsty. The watering
trouehs are not yet erected but the Club
has the money secured for them, and
their advent is certainty.
Our new fire alarm system is now
ready for use and the numbers OF the
new boxes have already been printed i'll