St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04

er of vocal music. is located ut the Ath-
enaum House. See advertisement else
where.
Our local nimrods who tried the
brooks and ponds of Waterford on Mon
day found plenty Of fish in those waters
and with hardly an exception brought
back good strings.
Sutton & Bowen, bankers and brok.
ers at SO State street, Boston, have dis.
tributed by mail fine map of Cuba and
the West Indies, Our thanks are due this
firm Tor sending us copy.
The Leo Literary Society, composed
Of the ladies of st. Aloysius church, are
arranging for an entertainment under
their auspices. They will present Lilies
Pageant" the date of which will be
announced later.
The personal property of the late B
A. Parks, together with number of
shares of Merchants Bank and Fair
Ground stock, are to be sold at auction
from his late residence next Thursday. See
advertisement elsewhere.
II the Burlington musical festival did
not come the same week as the one here
some St. Tohnsbury people would like to
attend. The musical people of the Queen
city have engaged some good soloists and
are preparing for a fine festival.
Among those who have been selling
tickets to the Marriage Dramas, Mar
garet Clark sold 20 for Mrs. Bach and
seven for the Union school. Alice Kicker
sold II for Mrs. Balch and Laura
Ranney sold 16 for Mrs. George Ranney.
We are informed by Manager Bing-
ham that beginning last Sunday the New
England Telephone & Telegraph Co. have
established night rate, of one.half the
day rate. All Communications between
6 .. m. and 6 a. m. will be at the reduced
rate.
The Choral Union rehearsal next
Tuesday evening will be conducted by B.
Frank Harris, as Mr.. Blaisdell will be en-
gagged elsewhere. A full attendance is
desired, as the festival date is near at
hand, and good deal of hard work is
yet needed to ~ done on the oratorio.
Nine of Mlss Gorham's pupils gave q
piano recital at the home of Charles A.
Stanley last Saturday afternoon and en-.
tertained their friends very pleasantly
showing much ability at the keyboard,
developed under the direction of their
teacher. Mrs. Hubert Brooks assisted
with song.
The White River Musical Association
hold their festival at White River Juno.
tion this week. Prof. H. G. Blaisdell is
conductor aud DR.. George R. Clark OF
Boston, former st. Johnsbury boy, is
the bass soloist. The North church la
dies quartette sing in the matinees and
at the closing concert on Friday evening
Haydn's oratorio Of Creation" will be
given.
The Victors met the Summerville nine
again last Saturday, on the campus and
defeated them by score Of IA to 7.
Both mines PLAYED better game than on
the former occasion when scores were
numerous enough to be little tiresome.
The Summervilles were reinforced last
Saturday by pitcher from Danville, but
their opponents were too much for them,
allowing them to make good many less
scores than in the former game.
The Academy base ball nine will play
the Dartmouth Reserves on the campus
here, on Saturday afternoon next. This
will be the Academy nine's first game of
the season and will be interesting as
an indication of the sort of material on
the team for this years work. The line
up OF the team will probably be as
follows: Jeuness, pitcher; Newell, catcher;
Skinner, 1st base; Howe, I'd base
Abbott (captain), short.stop; Tinker, Sd
base; Carpenter. left field; Sulloway,
center; Randall, right; Fairbanks and
Richardson, substitutes. Arthur Sprague
is manager OF the team.