St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-08-23

six entertainments this winter. Arrange
ments have been made with E. w. Rev
of the Central Lyceum Bureau OF New
York and about 20 men have guaranteed
the course their support and to pay their
share OF the deficit il there is any. The
profit, if any, will go to purchase new
books for the library.
Bradford is soon to have bakery.
Bennington Battle Day" was observed
as holiday in Bennington, that being
so far as learned the only place in the
state.
The extreme drouth has so reduced the
waters of the Winooski that last week
there was not sufficient power to fur
ish electricity for the railway, and in con.
sequence the cars, with the exception OF
one run from the storage battery, were
ordered off at two, Saturday afternoon
and not started until seven O'Clock in the
evening.
The Vermont Antiquarian society is
arranging for an exhibit of antique furni-
ture, ETC., at the Champlain Valley fair
in September.
The law firm of Smith & Sloan of Wells
River has recently been dissolved and E.
W. Smith and his son, Raymond u.
Smith, have formed a partnership under
the firm name of Smith & Smith. MIR.
RAYMOND Smith is one OF Vermont's
promising young lawyers and is very
likely to be Orange county's next states
attorney.
There is a water famine in Rutland
and Montpelier and large uses OF water
have been shut off, Hundreds of work
ingmen have been affected by the order.
l. is said that for fifty years there has
never been such dry time as the pres
ent in the section about Randolph. The
water commissioners say that the water
in the village reservoir is going down at
the rate Of four inches day and they
have forbidden the use OF garden hose or
street sprinkling for the present.
Will Crombie, a compositor in the
Brattleboro Phoenix job office won, the
first prize for the best displayed anver.
tisement offered by the Typothete and
Platemaker of st. Louis. one OF the
leading journals devoted to printing etc
The poet Will J. Carleton, of New York
City, a grandson OF DR.. John Stevens and
a descendant of Gen, Jacob Bailey, OF
Newbury, has remembered the public lib
rary with donation of twenty volumes
of his books.
1t is said that every company of the
Vermont regiment of last year is repre-
sented in Company D of the new 26tf
regiment of volunteers now at Plattsburf
save Company H of Montpelier. Tit
company is largely made up of the mer
who were at Chichamauga which shows
that it takes something more than harsf
treatment to knock the patriotism ou
of a Vermont volunteer.
The mphremagog Custom distric
made very good showing in business
the past year. Total number of entries
16, 921 total value of merchandise en-
tered, $1,119, 100000. Total dutie
collected and assessed, $466, All, 1872.
Owing to the rush in the granite bust
ness there is a scarcity of stone cutters
in Montpelier. The local stone shed
were afraid to close while their waite
supply was shut off last week, becaus
the cutters would leave and 60 to othe
sheds where they were assured work
, Over 1000 feet of granite was shipped t.
Barre last week to be polished owing t
T. the restriction in the use of the water.
! Ex.-Gov. w. P. Dillingham; has bee
! engaged to deliver addresses at the Eas
; Corinth fair September 6, and at til
3 Middlebury fair September Z.
= The trustees of the Gill Odd Fellow
v Home at Ludlow have recently admitte
= three new members. One came frol
v Brattleboro. one from Bennington an
q the other from Lyndonvile. An applies
+ ton from Windsor is under considers
q ton. There are now six members at tt
v Home, two having died there last yea