St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-05-22
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

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"A new coat of paint adds greatly tc
the appearance Of Cottage Hotel.
"A. M. Kicker has purchased for tn,
consideration of $500 the house or
Summer street owned by Rev. M. A.
Gates.
Hiram Weeks has purchased the
mouse on Autumn street OF Lyman P.
Wood. Mr.. Weeks son, Gordon Weeks,
is moving in.
The repairs are rapidly progressing
on the Howe Opera House, and Richard
Golden in "Old Jed Prouty" is booked
tor Saturday, June 6.
The Athenaum will be closed for re-
pairs Friday and Saturday OF next week
and the following Monday. 1t will be
reopened Tuesday morning June 2nd.
Hose Company No. has Joined the
State Fireman's Association, and will be
ready to contest the honors with the
other companies when the tournament is
held.
The executive committee and superin-
tendents of departments of the w. c. T.
U. are requested to meet at Mrs Brack
ett's house on Monday, May 25, at 4
o'clock.
Miss Haley advertises elsewhere a
closing out sale, and offers her goods at
very attractive prices. Miss HALEY ex-
poets to leave town within the next two
months. and will move to Burlington,
where her sister resides.
J. 0. Drouin is painting and lettering
his dressing mill in Paddock village, and
is moving into his Office. The dressing
mill will be connected with the telephone
exchange, and he has vacated his office
in the Drouin block on Railroad street.
which is now for rent.
The granite watering troughs were
placed in position Wednesday and are
now doing service Whether water tastes
any better out of them is not known, but
they are certainly great Improvement
over the old ones. The Woman's Club
deserves great credit for this work.
Richard Donaghy was arrested for
drunkenness the past week and fined SIS
and costs by Justice Worcester. AS soon
as he had paid hisine he got drunk again
and was promptly arrested by the officers.
He was brought before Justice Rickaby
and the case continued until next Monday.
The listers have completed their
inventory and only doubled one citizens
list. This is quite different from the
record in Montpelier, where B. F.
Fiheld's list was doubled to $4,000,
James Langdon's estate to $4,000
and Edward Dewey to $50, 900.
The village is full of celebrated mu.
sicians this week. Travelling harpists,
etc, have been discoursinp
sweet music in the streets during the
week and gathering in many stray cop
oers. Everything is here but the hand
organ man, and he must be on the way
:
Prank Ford of Iowa arrived in town
asst Thursday night with another car. t
DAD of % horses, which are in Carr's |
VERY stable and selling fast, Is of them 3
llready gone. The last carload sold at t
IN average price of about 500. Some {
'eople say the horse market is dull but
'ord doesn't seem to find anything the t
natter with it. -
The boys Of the Harmony band gave b
sociabe in st. Agnes hall Wednesday a
vening, Ice cream and cake were served, a
ttendance was large and all had a good v
ime. The band rendered selections dur
lg the evening and proved that their n
wo rehearsals week are putting them il
good playing condition. The sociable n
,as for the benefit of the band and a n
ood sum was realized. p
Manager Bingham reports steady re
lcrease in the use of the long distance o'
.lephone. Boston is most frequently u
allied up, but last week five minute talks
ere held with parties in New Haven M
nd in Portland. A travelling man T
gently told Mr.. Bingham how he la
liked with Chicago from Windsor at a be
,st of SO. AS this was cheaper rate TIL
ian from Boston to Chicago the man he
as quite surprised. ti'
Landlord Chase met with severe la
'ss on Tuesday night, losing the right dc
Die horse of his beautiful dapple gray M
am. The horse was htched at the at