St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-11-28
LOCAL GATHERINGS.


A. N. Drew has secured the contract
to build a tenement house for Charles
Graves at Barton.
Mrs. F. O. Clark solicits daily order:
for bread and pastry, and for brown
bread and baked beans on Saturday.
Friends of Sunset Home will not fai
to remember this worthy institution
during the Thanksgiving season. All
gifts will be gratefully received.
W. Fl. Preston is soon to open rooms
for the transaction of private or auction
sales of all kinds of personal property
and will also have charge of real estate
sales.
Luther P Brown has filed his petition
in insolvency. He has liabilities of $780,
80 of which $472.O5 is unsecured and
assets of $146.5O, of which $40 is
exempt.
The Northern Lumber Company is
arranging to establish Boston office in
the near future. Z. 0. Lake will be in
charge Of the new Office, and expects to
move to Boston early in the winter.
Joseph st. Germain has received from
his brother, who is an importer OF Japan
ese goods in New York, a small idol
carved in ivory. 1t is valuable as a curio
chiefly because it is nearly 500 years old.
The W. R. c. sewing society will
meet at 6. A. R. hall Saturday afternoon,
December 1, at one o'clock. Ladies are
requested to bring back all work taken
home whether finished or unfinished as it
is the meeting before the sale.
-Chamberlin Relief Corps will hold
their annual sale of useful and fancy arti-
cles, at G. A. r. hall Tuesday evening,
December 4. Comtorters, aprons, sofa
pillows, cooked food, pickles, jelies, etc.
will be on sale. A fish chowder supper
will be served from 6 till 730.
Col. Dennis E. May is at work on
the complication of the directory of st.
Johnsbury and will have the same ready
for his customers early in January. Dur
ing his canvass he is also taking the Gen.
sus of all scholars of school age as pro-
vided by the Vermont Statutes.
During the severe wind and storm
last Wednesday afternoon a large tree
was blown across the railroad track be-
tween this place and st. Johnsbury
Centre, near the residence of S. J. Lynn.
The tree fell but a short time before the
air line north was due and by hurried
work that train was notified before
leaving this station.
The annual Christmas sale at the
North church comes on the evening of
Dec. and the afternoon and evening Of
Dec. 7. The affair will be called "Kal-
endar Kermesse" and consist of many
novel features. Besides the usual articles
sold there will be attractive booths, an
entertainment on Thursday night and a
chatting dish supper on Friday night.
On Saturday afternoon from to S
O'Clock in Grace church chapel farewell
reception will be given Miss Emily Har
vey who will sail December for India,
to re-engage in missionary work under
the auspices of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary society of the Methodist
Episcopal church. All who have known
Miss Harvey and desire to wish her
Godspeed are cordially invited.
David E. Porter resigns the office of
referee in bankruptcy this week as on
Saturday he will take the oath of office
as states attorney, During the two
and one half years he has held this Office
he has had large number of cases to
adjust and he has fulfilled his trust to
the satisfaction of all who have had deal
ings with his court. We predict for this
rising young attorney similar success as
states attorney.
The Sisters of st. Johnsbury Hospital
cordially invite their friends and patrons
to assist at an entertainment and lecture
in St. Agnes Hall, Cherry street, Thanks
giving evening. The doors open p. M,
the entertainment to begin at O'Clock.
Any Thanksgiving offering that the
charitably disposed may be inclined to
give will be gratefully received by the
Sisters either at the hall in the evening or
at the hospital during the course of the
day.
The Barton Monitor has the follow
ing about Cobden's most promising son
which will interest our readers: Horse
men everywhere who think the Morgan
the peer of all horses are happy to learr
that Golden, Jr., has reduced his recorc
to 2:06, and made an exhibition mile il
1856. This makes him the king O
the Morgans, the pride of Vermont
This beautiful horse was bred and raised
in Orleans county, and owned severa
years in East Charleston"
The chrysanthemum sale given b,
the Ladies Social Circle of the Church O
the Messiah, Thursday and Friday Q