St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-02-21

The W. A. P. A. will celebrate Wash
ington's birthday Saturday evening at
the G. A. X. hall. Rev. A. H. Heath will
give them short address. The public
are invited and good music will be in
attendance. small admission fee will
be charged.
Rev. FIR. Beaubien of Montreal
preached at the Catholic church last
Sunday, giving the same address in Eng
lish that he gave in French when the
corner stone of the hospital was laid
The reverend fathers theme was charity,
and it was strong sermon.
Elaborate preparations have been
made for the Firemen's ball at the Stan
ley Opera house tonight. The American
orchestra OF Lowell give a concert from
8 to O'Clock and a fine programme has
been pr' pared. The floor and the gal
lery will doubtless be well filled as this
ball is the social event Of the year.
The new hotel project on Main street
has warm advocate in correspondent
who writes about it in another part OF
this paper. The writer is not only anx-
ious to have the project succeed. but
stands ready to subscribe to stock in the
enterprise. The CALIFORNIAN hopes to see
a summer hotel here before the end of
1896.
Olive Branch lodge, d. of R., willgive
clothespin box social at the l. o. o. F.
hall, Thursday evening, Feb. 27. All are
cordially invited. The ladies will bring
box of lunch enough for two and
decorated clothespin in it that will cor
respond with one they will keep with
them. There will be short literary
programme and promenade.
The village trustees are TRYING several
snow plows which are built like the COM
mon swivel plow of the farm with only
one wing. The plows lake all the snow
and throw it out into the street, leaving
wider path than has ever been made
before, The village has three of these
plows on trial, one of which is built by
Beauman Butter. t
~~=Prof. S. H. Brackett has an interest
ing photograph in Bingham's window.
giving the result of his experiments with
the *" rays in photography. A purse
is shown with the coin in it, the rays
having penetrated the leather of the
purse and reproduced the coin therein
Prof Bracket has also taken picture
of the bones Of his hand.
Lovers of ballads will be particular
ly interested in the lecture to be given in
Atheneum hall tonight by F. w. Ban
croft of Montpelier. The lecture is given
for the benefit of Sunset Home, and the
hall ought to be we'll filled. Mr.. Ban
croft is a delightful speaker, and this last
lecture is said to be his best. Tickets for
the lecture are on sale at Bingham s
drug store.
Martin H. Manning's house on Gale
donia street caught fire on Tuesday
morning and the inside of the house was
we'll gutted by fire and water before the
fire was under control. The fire caught
around the chimney in the attic. Mr..
Manning was insured with Moore g. Co.
for $500 in the Northern Insurance Co.,
$500 on house and $500 on furniture
The loss will be fully half the amount of
the insurance.
The editor of the Denver Times, for
mer St. Johnsbury boy, writes very ap-
preciatively about the CALEDoNIAN's ac-
count of the Avenue House fire: 81 wish
to congratulate you upon the excellence
of your account OF the Avenue House fire,
which has reached me with the last CAL
EDoNIAN. / showed it to several newspa-
per folks here in the office and they
thought it a remarkable exhibition of
enterprise on the part of country
weekly"
Amos w. Scott is one OF our enter
prising merchants who thoroughly be.
lieves in the future of St. Johnsbury. He
has leased the store above his present loca-
ton in the Opera House block and willcut
an archway between the two rooms and
occupy both stores. The upper store
will be used for boots and shoes and the
lower store for gents furnishings and a
general line of clothing. Mr.. Scott is
now in Boston buying a complete line oi
clothing and will have his goods all in by
the first of March.
AT the monthly meeting at the North
church Wednesday evening the schools
and colleges on missionary grounds were
the subject of discussion. A. l.. Hardy
had charge of the meeting and these sub.
jects were presented by Academy stu
dents: "Neesima and the Doshisha," Mr.
Ladd; Robert College," Mr.. Barnum
"Tuskogee Institute" Mr.. Cameron
1.-THE Academy in Wyoming, Mr.. Hatch
Mr.. Kimball read an interesting letter
from home missionary.
"A very pretty wedding took place al
the Catholic church last Tuesday morn