St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-11-16
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

-lhe Museum Will be closed for re-
pairs on Friday and Saturday, Novem-
Der 1S and 10.
"All a Mistake" has cancelled it's
date for Thursday night at the Howe
Opera House, but will appear later.
"A special sale of trimmed hats is ad-
vertised at J. M. Miller's millinery par
lors every Saturday beginning Novem-
ber 49,
-"Gayest Manhattan" has been
booked for the Howe Opera House again
and will be sure to draw large
audience.
Rev. Thomas lyric is taking short
vacation and visiting friends in Lawrence
and Boston. He expects to be absent
one more Sunday.
The Old Farmers Almanac has made
its annual appearance and may be found
at the book stores. This is the 10th
annual appearance Of this useful publ
cation.
Union Thanksgiving services will be
held in the North church on Thursday
morning. Nov. "a. The sermon will be
preached by Rev. A. {. Hussey of the
Railroad street Baptist church.
The New England Order of Protec-
tion will hold a sociable on Saturday
evening, November 10, and no one but
members will be admitted. Frank D.
French will furnish entertainment.
Promenade and social at the at 6. A.
R. Hall Thursday evening, Nov. 18th,
with refreshments. The regular meeting
of the Corps will be in the afternoon at
o'clock followed by tea Ladies will
each provide something towards this.
Speaking about timely advertising,
w. T. King easily takes the palm. In
his store window is figure, apparently
sound asleep dressed in fashionable at
tire. Underneath are the words, Not
dead, but sleeping, So 95 wakes him up"
Another mesmerist comes to town
Thursday evening so it will not be your
fault il you are not hypuotized. Prof.
A. E. Carpenter appears at the Stanley
Opera House on the evening Of November
II and will give an entertaining show.
The Daughters of Rebekah will hold
their annual sale at Odd Fellows Hall,
Friday afternoon and evening of this
week. A chicken PIE supper will be served
from to O'Clock. All articles for the
sale should be left at the hall Thursday
afternoon.
-Would.be purchasers of rugs will be
especially interested in the large adver-
tisement of the "Old Beehive" store at
Burlington. All orders sent from this
section will be personally attended to by
Lyman P. Wood, who is so pleasantly
remembered by St. Johnsbury people.
The Southern Plantation Company
which appeared at the Armory Monday
evening, gave real down South negro
show, which consisted OF songs, dances
and dialogues. Tue singing and dancing
were received with shouts Of laughter,
but the dialogues were not up-to-date.
The first basket ball game of the
season comes at $40 this evening in the
Armory. The contestants are the, Sen
ior class of the Y. M. c. A. and the
Student class. AS this is the first of
series of five games there will be lots of
fun watching the game. Admission is
cents.
The equipment of the st. Johnsbury
Republican office has been greatly inn
proved by the addition of two-revolu-
tion Cottrell press. The size of the press
enables the enlargement of the paper and
it will soon appear as an ejght-paged
paper with seven instead of six columns
to the page.
In our recent write-up of St. Aloysius
church we forgot to mention that the
church was built by Michael Caldbeck
who has again proved an excellent
builder of churches. Mr.. Caldbeck built
the North church and has worked on
many other smaller buildings during his
long residence in st. Johnsbury.
The first lecture in the Y. M. c. A.
course comes on Friday, Nov. 25, and it
will be by that eminent Boston divine,
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale. This is
his first appearance in St. Johnsbury and
he ought to be greeted with crowded
house. The subject of his lecture is "The
Twentieth Century" and it will be full OF
patriotic utterances.
Two former conductors of the Bos-
ton 81 Maine railroad, who were dis.
charged about year ago, started to
attack spotter at the depot Monday
whom they believed to be responsible for
their discharge. The man drew a re-
volver and crowd quickly gathered,
but before any trouble ensued the police
man stopped proceedings.
"A special poultry train will be run on
the st. ]. & L. c. railroad, Friday, Nov.
IS, leaving Swanton at $50 a. m. and
arriving here at 11.40 a. m. Poultry
| east of ST. Tohnsburv will he taken hv n