St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-04-19
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

There will be social promenade at
the 6. A. r. hall next Saturday evening.
chamberlain w. R. c. will have a
promenade and sociable at 6. A. X. Hall,
Thursday evening, April 20. Gentlemen,
15 cents; ladies free.
The officers OF the Passumpsic Congre
gational Club met here Friday and de-
cided to have the next meeting of the
club with the church at Barton Landing
on Friday, May &c.
Six shares OF E. & T. Fairbanks &
Co. stock sold at auction in Boston on
Saturday at 255h, which is a handsome
rise on sales of the stock in the earlier
months of this year.
Charles Rogers, receiver of the part.
nership property OF Richardson & Boyn.
ton, sold the property at auction last
Saturday! The carriage manufacturing
plant was purchased by Charles F. Boyn-
ton for $4,000.
-Washburn's Minstrels appeared be-
fore well filled house at Howe Opera
House Saturday evening. They were
good both in their minstrelsy and spec
ialties and kept their audience in a good
humor from start to finish.
The teachers of the public schools
meet on Saturday next at $50. The
general topic for discussion is "How to
reduce cost and increase product in
school work" All interested in the
schools are invited as usual.
Advertised letters at the post office
for week ending April is: Brown, Mrs.
D. Wilbur, Beach, ]. T., Gaborio, j.,
Hickey, c., Holmes, E. E., House, c. E.,
Kelley, Charles, Spalding, Melvin, Strong,
Arthur F., Vachon, Arthur.
The ladies of Notre Dame parish are
busy preparing sugar party to be held
in st. Agnes Hail. Cherry street, on Tues
day and Wednesday evenings, the 25th
and 26th, the proceeds to aid the con-
vent. All are invited to attend.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will be held next Tuesday afternoon at 8
O'Clock, in the Y. M. c. A. parlors. All
members are cordially invited, as it is the
last meeting before convention. Delegates
are to be elected and other matters are
to be brought before the meeting.
&C. H. Bagley has just returned from
three weeks business and pleasure trip
during which time he has secured severa
members for the Merchants Association
in Rutland and Boston. The Boston
members report successful collections
and speak in high praise of the associa
ton. New embers are constantly being
received here.
The numerous St. Johnsbury stock
holders of the Reece Button Hole Com
pany received on Saturday their quarter
ly dividend of per cent. According to
the company's annual report they have
1893 machines leased and their present
surplus is $24, ,76O. At the annual meet
ing of the International Button.H Hole
Company Crawford Ranney and Emer
son Hall of this place were reelected di
rectors.
There is scarcely an unrented tenement
in St. Johnsbury; Fairbanks scale works
are employing more men than ever be-
fore; Ely's hoe and tork factory is run
ming day and night and unable to keer
up with its orders; and other lines o.
business are almost equally fourishing
St. Johnsbnry does not seem to need ar
electric railroad to make her prosperous
the boom is on already and will bring
the electrics.
Arthur Pryor, Sousa's trombone so.
loist, is phenomenon. 1t is scarcely
necessary to mention his playing for
Sousa's audiences in every city in the
United States and Canada have ap.
plauded him to the echo. Pryor will be
one of the regular assisting soloists on
the present tour. He numbers in his
repertoire several new compositions and
will be heard here when Sousa appears
at Music Hall on Wednesday evening
May "a.