St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-01-11
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

The ]. o. U. A. M. give a social dance
in their hall over the post Office Friday
evening. All are invited.
"A patent has been granted to Henry
Fairbanks, assignor to E. & T. Fair
banks & Co., for weight register.
The public installation and reception
to the officers of the Golden Cross was
held in Pythian Hall last Friday evening.
"A rain storm one day last week
almost spoiled the sleighing, but nearly
a foot of snow came Friday and there is
now excellent sleighiug.
AT the solicitation of many custo-
mers, Mrs, F. o. Clark will continue the
sale of bread and doughnuts through the
week, with brown bread and beans every
Saturday, and will fill orders for rolls at
one days notice.
In the report Of gifts to Sunset Home
in November that OF tickets to the Y. M.
c. A. lecture course was inadvertently
omitted. They were sent by {. W.
Ruiter, who, with the committee for
which he acted, are cordially thanked
Green Mountain Lodge No. 40, n E.
o. p, installed their new officers on Sat-
urday night, Jan. Z. The trustees re-
port showed the lodge to be in very
fourishing condition fnan ncially and the
membership Jan. 1, was 438, which is
nearly one half the entire state member
ship.
Yesterday morning was the coolest
of the winter, the mercury dropping to
SO below zero in one part Of the town,
while in this village it ranged from 25 to
80 below. The mercury kept below zero
all day and riding was far from pleasant
at any time.
The petitions for the two contestants
for postmaster were handed in to Con-
gresham Grout last Saturday night.
Gen. Grout has notified the parties inter-
ested that the letters of instruction limit.
ed signatures to republicans and tax
paying women.
/ Harry Perrigo, who was placed in
| jail last week for using mileages that
belonged to D. c. Stiles and not paying
for them. was released Saturday on pro-
baton. The young man now has a
chance to start right and all hope that
he will as he is naturall7 rForight fellow.
C. H. Cess has just completed the
steam heating at the Union House. He
also has two other jobs on hand one, to
heat with hot water the cashiers house
at Whiteield, N. H., the other to plumb
the house of Manasah Perkins, superin-
tendent of the Waumbek Hotel, Jefferson,
N. II.
-Lougee Brothers g. Smythe take a
liberal space to tell the readers of the
CALEDoNIAN all about their animal linen
sale. The sale commences Friday, Jan.
13, and continues two weeks. In their
long list OF articles will be found many
bargains that will appeal to every house
keeper.
-"The Maine Central" the illustrated
monthly devoted to the interests of that
railroad, will have an illustrated write
up Of St. Johnsbury in its next issue. w.
A. Kimball OF Portland, the manager OF
the advertising department, has been
here several times lately and the next
number of the magazine will be awaited
with interest.
Last Friday evening an unknown
lady, while talking with friend in front
of the Avenue House. fell into the hole
between the Hotel office and D. c. Stiles
store, but escaped without serious iniu-
ries. There are several other holes
around the Avenue House to permit light
to get into the basement. These are
quite dangerous to pedestrians and
should be rallied in.
Our local doctors, who became inter
ested in hypnotism through the efforts oI
Prof. H. L. Flint, have been studying
into the subject and several have become
quite proficient. Private seances are held
almost every week and many interest.
ing experiments are being tried, such as
putting the subjects to sleep, and making
them go through all sorts of antics.
They have succeeded so well that public
exhibition may be given in the near
| future.