St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18

on a special freight about 10 o'clock
The papers will be on sale at the
news stands at noon and at the st. Johns
bury House through the day.
The Get There Club" of Whiteheld
are arranging for the annual ball of the
Maine Central railroad to be held in
Whitefeld on New Years night The st.
.Johnsbury Orchestra will furnish the
music and grand time is anticipated.
j. c. Mooney of West Concord, agent
Of the Phoenix, Mutual Lille Insurance Co.
of Hartford, is distributing some hand.
some iour-page calendars with pictures
OF the naval battles OF the war OF 1912
and the generals who fought in the bat
ties.
The Caledonia Lodge OF OdG Fellows
has sent the first inmate to the Odd Eel
lows home at Ludlow, and the member
is Peter Stewart, who left here last week
Thursday. Mr.. Stewart is troubled with
rheumatism and not able to take care of
himself.
MIR. Cowles of IIartwick, brother OF
Jefferson Cowles OF Pearl street. while
making the turn from Portland street to
st. Mary street Monday was thrown
out and had leg badly broken in two
places. The accident was caused by the
sleigh slewing.
The first annual railroad ball under
the auspices of the Moose River and
Blodgett lodges comes on the evening of
December 31st. Beedle's orchestra of
Keene, N. H., has been engaged for the
occasion and the managers intend to
give "the ball of the season."
-Cavanaugh Brothers sold a carload
Of Iowa horses at auction at Bailey &
Annis' stable Tuesday. The auction at
tracted a number of people and the sim
gle horses sold for about $50 and the
pairs at $125. The horses were much
larger than the Vermont Morgans and
were mostly bought by the farmers.
The centennial edition of the Orleans
County Monitor is most creditable
piece of newspaper work. 1t is sketch
OF thriving town for 100 years, from
1896 to 1896, by ]. H, Walbridge, who
has written up its past and present in a
most thorough manner. The edition
contains 10 pages with large number
of illustrations.
-"Wellesley Lyrics" is the title of q
pretty little volume OF poems written by
students and graduates of Wellesley col
lege, with introduction by Alice Freeman
Palmer. The poems are selected and
published by Cordeia c. Nevers. Miss
Nevers is a graduate of the Academy in
the class of 80 and two of the poems Sc
lected are written by Miss Mabel Car
penter of this place, graduate OF the
Academy and former Wellesley student
The book will be on sale at +. 0. Clark's
Our readers get bulky paper this
week, but we are sure they will find lots
of interesting reading. Besides the two
page supplement there is given to all
Vermont subscribers resume of the
laws passed at the last session. A new
feature OF the paper will he a Washington
letter written by O. P. Austin and hav.
ing special reference to New England IN.
terests. The CALIFORNIAN never had Sc
many friends as it has today and we are
constantly increasing our list OF new
subscribers.
Rev. Thomas lyric gave an interest
ing talk to the students of Barbour's
Business College last Friday morning on
business Habits" Excellent work is
being done in this college and the 40 OF
more students are receiving practical
business training that will soon be ot
great use to them. This is the second
year of the school. Last year was sue
cess but the increase this year is more
than gratifying to Prof Barbour. The
college has been enlarged, new typewrit
ers purchased and other improvements
made Pictures were recently taken o
the rooms with the students IN theil
places, which will probably appear in {
future prospectus.