St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-08-07

-Barnum& Baiey's fourth advertising
car was here Tuesday with lot more
advertising matter.
"A regular meeting of the Mystic Star
Chapter, o, E. S., will be held next Mon
day evening, July 10.o
Passenger traffic on the Boston &
Maine is now so heavy that many of the
outbound trains from Boston require
two locomotives to haul them.
The republican town committee have
called a caucus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at
3 p. m, to nominate town representa-
tive and the justice ticket.
"A meeting of the state board of high
way commissioners will be held in connec-
ton with the county board OF road COM
missioners at St. Johnsbury on Monday,
Aug. "a.
If you have spare half dollar, save
it. Barnum and Bailey will carry it out
OF town for you next Tuesday with the
greatest OF pleasure. They take silver or
gold and are not particular about the
ratio.
w. T. King, of the firm of Wilson &
King, was in Nashua, N H.. the first of
the week and bought the big stock of
goods of Wilson & Morgan, clothiers,
who have been obliged to retire from
business on account of the hard times.
The selectmen have posted the check
list in several conspicuous places, and
every voter should see il his name is on
the list. A meeting to add new names
or make any corrections to the list will
be held in the town clerks Office on
Saturday, Aug. 20, at 10 O'Clock.
st. Johnsbury people did not lack for
amusement last Friday evening. The
rally at Summerville attracted the larg-
est crowd. The circus probably came
next with the band concert close behind
it. Newton Beers at the Stanley opera
house was also patronized to some
extent.
The nominations for the state ticket
have all been filed with the secretary of
state and there are four complete tickets
in the field. Caledonia county has two
candidates on the peoples ticket and the
candidate for secretary of state on the
prohibition ticket is Asahel N. Wood
ruff of Hardwick. The prohibition state
nominations were filed July 81, As that
party did not cast one per cent OF the
total vote at the last state election the
nominations were necessarily made by
petition. Papers were circulated all over
the state and about 700 signatures, 100
more than the required amount, were OBJ
tanned.
An opportunity to visit Old Orchard
Beach and Portland, going by way oi
Crawford Notch with its grand scenery,
is advertised for next Sunday, Aug. g.
Those wishing to avail themselves of this
opportunity can leave here on the regu
lar morning train and connect with the
excursion train which leaves Lunenburg
at 6 AS a. m, arriving at Portland at
1O.45 and Old Orchard at Ills. Fares
to Portland and return, $1.50; to Old
Orchard and ssreturn, $1.75. Shore din
ner will be served hourly at Old Orchard,
Several from here went to Newport
last Saturday afternoon and heard
George Fred Williams make an inter
esting speech and present some strong
ARGUMENTS in favor of free silver
Major Grout, our next governor, was
in the audience and paid close at
tention to the speech, after which he
snent considerable time shaking the
hands of his numerous admirers who
are thick in that section. The Major
is confident of big republican majority
in September.
Seven carloads Of people patronized
+be excursion on the Lake road to ProVi
de,ce Island in Lake Champlan on wed
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