St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-05-29
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

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the races at Haverhill, Mass, tomorrow.
The republican county convention
will be held at the town hall on Satur-
day, June 27, at II o'clock in the fore
noon.
About dozen st. Johnsbury Shriners
went to White River Junction last Fri
day night to attend gathering of the
Mystic Shrine.
The Girls Friendly Society will serve
ice cream and cake at their room in
Union block during the day, Saturday,
Memorial day; 10 cents plate
The date of the coming of Richard
Golden in "Old Jed Prouty" has been
changed to Monday evening, June 8.
The play will be given in the Howe Opera
House.
The st. Johnsbury boys play their
first game OF ball tomorrow afternoon,
having arranged game at 4 O'Clock with
the invncible team from the Academy.
There ought to be a large attendance.
&C. E. Dean OF West Burke, recently of
st. Johnsbury, has received $4,000 from
Green Mountain Commandery, Order of
the Golden Cross, being the amount of
insurance held by his late wife in that
organization.
The Boston Sunday Journal con-
tanned the letter from the king Of Samoa
to Chief Justice Ide, which was published
in these columns a few weeks ago. 1t
will be recalled that the king praised
Judge Ide's work very highly.
Prof. S. H. Bracket, who has achieved
great success in his experiments with the
X rays, has reduced the time of exposure
from one hour to FIVE minutes. The lat
ter time is now made with new tube
which he has just received from London.
The fire alarm rung about II O'Clock
Wednesday morning and the companies
quickly responded. The Miss Wheeler
house in Willow Place caught fire on the
roof around the chimney, but was almost
instantly put out with very little dam
age. Had the fire started in the night
the result might have been serious.
1t is reported that the Mcfarland
brothers, who have been running gar
den truck farm for the past three years
on the Butler place between here and St.
Iohnsbury Center, have left the farm and
moved to the Center village. They have
their crops in at the farm and will proba-
bly, carry on the truck business this year
as usual.
"A special village meeting has been
called in the town hall next Tuesday
evening to hear the report of the COM
mittee on appropriations appointed at
the annual meeting. The voters will
also be asked to vote upon the question
of whether the Lyndonville company or
the st. Johnsbury Electric company will
light our streets the coming year.
Excellent food and drink can be OBJ
tanned for the asking at Ranney & Potts
store for the next two days. The Cereal
company are exhibiting their famous
wheat biscuits and cereal coffee. The
Cottolene folks are showing how food
can be cooked with this excellent substi-
tute for lard, and cake, doughnuts, po-
tato chips, ETC., are cooked every day.
If YOU are interested in good cooking
don't fail to call at this store.
"A strawberry short cake supper and
social will be given by the Rector's Aid
society of the Episcopal church at Grand
Army hall Tuesday evening from $50 to
8 o'clock, June 2. The delicious Burton
strawberry short cake" also ice cream
and cake will be served in addition to the
usual substantial supper. All for 20
cents.
Important improvements have lately
been made on the Observatory Knob
road. Mr.. Turner has set double line
of small maple trees, 122 in number, 3o
feet apart on each side of the road from