St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-04-20

graph rooms at At Main street and see
the best that can be produced in photog-
raphy.
"A rehearsal for the ladies of the Cho-
raj Union is appointed for Tuesday after
noon, April 26. 1t is expected that some
new music will be used.
The heavyweight" in Arthur F.
Walkers drug store is one more triumph
of advertising by the most Original win
dow advertiser in St. Johnsbury.
Attention is called to S. D. Atwood's
advertisement elsewhere, in which he
offers his bakery and restaurant for sale.
This affords an excellent opportunity for
some one to get good business.
Miss Anna Perham of Brookfeld
has come to st. Johnsbury to take pos
sition in tie millinery department Of
the Brooks-Tyler Dry Goods Co. She
will make her home with her brother,
J. M. Perham.
The Charles E. Winter property on
Caledonia street, including three houses,
three pastures and field, has been sold,
through Rickaby & Co., to L. P. Slack,
George H. Stearns, w. A. Taplin, George
L. Giffin and John Rickaby.
The Victors and the Summerville nine
had a game Of ball on the common last
Saturday, and the former walked away
with the latter to the tune of SO to 21.
In spite OF the long list of runs, the game
included several interesting features, and
some good playing was done.
The outside of the new Catholic
church is practically completed and work
will be pushed on the interior until the
building is completed early in the fall.
The church will be lit by acetylene gas
and the church is now being piped by the
New England Acteylene Light Company.
Manager Doyle has booked for the
Opera House on Saturday, April 80,
Graham's Southern Cake Walk and Spe-
cialty Company. This is the first time
that our people have seen cake walk
and the entertainment promises to be a
good one.
The Grand Lodge of the New Eng
land Order of Protection will hold its
annual session at Burlington April &c.
Special rate tickets, going the 25th or
26th and returning the 9th, will be sold
for So 80 from St. Johnsbury and So 95
from Danville to Burlington and return.
Manager Silsby has received petit
tion from the patrons of the telegraph
companies on Railroad street and vicin-
ity to move the office from Union block
to Railroad street. The signers of the
petition urge the removal on the ground
that they furnish the most business to
the Office.
LEND me your wife" at the Opera
House last Friday night did not draw a
large house and the benefit to the EN-.
ployes was largely good will, but the
play was good one from the first rising
of the curtain to it's fall in the last act.
E. E. Rose is a very natural actor and
there was lots of fun in the play to keep
the audience good natured.
The committee having in charge the
reception to be given by the Board of
Trade to the railroad employees on the
evening of May 21 have decided to hold
the affair in the Museum, and have en-
gagged the Orchestral club for music. 1t
is expected that some of the leading Off
GERS in the orders will be present and re-
spond to the address of welcome.
Last Wednesday noon, as Ralph
Owen, pupil in the Union school, was
getting into a carriage in front of the
building on Summer street, a team driven
past by some reckless person struck him
and threw him to the ground. One leg
was broken and he was quite badly
bruised. Such recklessness and fast
driving should not be INDUCED in.
-"What is Viavi ?" This is a ques-
ton that will be answered in lecture to
the ladies at Pythian Hallthis afternoon
at 8 and this evening at 8, by Emma
Platt Guyton of Chicago. Mrs. Guyton
is one of the editors of The Nachusa,
magazine published at Chicago; and the
Tribune of that city calls her lone of our
finest lady orators" Another paper
says: "Mrs. Guyton has something to
say and knows how to say it."
The trustees have posted all around
the village on the electric light poles
notices calling attention to bicycle riding
on the sidewalks and the CALIFORNIAN is
informed that the police propose to see
that this law is enforced. Several boys
have already been summoned to the
police station and good many more are
on the waiting list. AS the number of
riders has increased this year pedestrians
will have hard time unless the law is
observed.
Dupont Hammer rleeting.
At the annual meeting of the Dupont
Manufacturing Company on Friday