St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-04-26

give a clam chowder supper in Grand
Army Hall next Friday evening for the
benefit of Brightlook Hospital. A 25
cent supper will be served from to 8
o'clock and ice cream and cake will be
sold during the evening.
William Mclaughlin is arranging for
a ball game between the fat men and
lean men about the first of June. Horace
w. Bailey Of Newbury will be the umpire
and the proceeds of the game will go to
Sunset Home. 1t will be a game that
no one can afford to miss.
Clothes line thieves have started out
again and last week the clothes lines of
the Misses Burton and Mrs. Lampher
and E. N. Randall were visited and all
the clothes stolen. Why not have
night policeman to protect property
from such outrageous acts?
The posters for the music festival are
out and the committees report that
everything is going along in a very sat
isfactory way. Besides the Boston and
New York soloists the committee have
secured the services of Mrs. Perley F.
Hazen and Harry H. May. The festival
opens on May Is.
Letters advertised at the post Office
for week ending April %: Bugbee,
Myrtle E.; McMann, Mrs. Junnie; Viii
son, Mrs. John W.; Adams, Fred; Faron
Enoch; Grout, Ira D.; Johnson, Martin; !;
Patey, Aristide; Shear, |. j.; Williams,
Lawrence; Wilson, w. H.; Woodbury.,
Harry E. or Harvey E.
Miss Anna Noyes, one OF the nurses
who have lived at the Howard Relief
building at Burlington is in town, ar
ranging for the preparation of the bed
ding material for Brightlook Hospital
and it is hoped this institution will be
open to patrons about the middle of
May. Miss Noyes has been engaged as
matron of this institution.
H. l.. Lizotte met with a painful ac-
cident at the scale foundry on Monday
afternoon. AS he was carrying ladle
of molten iron to his moulds he slipped
and fell and some of the iron ran upon
his arms, back and breast. He has
suffered severely from his burns, but his
injuries are not considered serious.
Harry Lloyd Of Boston has beer
engaged by the Federal Labor Union No
713O, to speak on labor topics at Howe's
Opera House Saturday evening, May 6
Admission free. Mr.. Lloyd is an elo-
quent talker and thoroughly posted on
his subject and the public are cordially
invited to come and hear him.
Another of the interesting recitals
given by the pupils of Mrs. Anna Spencer
Frost, at the Academy. was presented tc
an appreciative audience Monday even
ing. Each number showed good work
on the part of both teacher and pupils
and the programme concluded with ar
amusing farce, "a Midsummer Madness
in which all the parts were nicely taken
AT their meeting on Saturday
the teachers witnessed class exer
else in primary number conducted by
Miss Martha Farmer. The class hat
done full years work by the "Speel
plan," and showed familiarity will
numbers and their application to prob
lens far superior to that obtained by th'
older methods. The primary teachers
who are using the "Speer plan" arr
unanimous in it's praise.
The large oil tank run by Griswolt
and Mackinnon, that has met with sc
many disasters on the icy winter roads
has begun it's spring freaks. On turning
the faucet one morning the oil refused tt
run, but the tank contained about 400
gallons of oil. Upon investigation {
good sized bluebird was found to b.
lodged inside and so close to the fauce
as to prevent the escape Of the oil.
President Kennedy of the St. Johns
bury electric railroad wrote St. Johns
bury friends that he could not be at tn
viaduct hearing and then added, 81 con
fdently expect to secure aid sufficient t.
construct the road, but l may say tina
1 find capitalists very loath to invest a