St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-03-20

of the Mystic Shrine made a pill
grimage TO Barre Friday. The local
members who attended the meeting were
E. E. Gage, H. ]. Beck, ]. A, Beck, H. v.
Conley, N. R. Switser, R. B. Gammell.
-Chamberlin w. R. c. will serve one
of their famous fish chowder suppers at
G. A. R. hall Thursday, March 21, from
to s O'Clock. From s to sheet and
pillow case party; at $50 sugar on snow.
The Hurricane Orchestra will furnish
music.
"A branch of the New England Art
Exchange, a concern that has its head
quarters at Littleton, has been opened in
the Helen F. Carpenter store in the
Presbyterian building. The firm carry
stock OF pictures OF various kinds and do
crayon and other work.
w. w. Sprague, general agent of the
National Life Insurance Co., paid $1,000
March 18th to Mrs. Sarah J. Sargent of
St. Johnsbury Center, for an endowment
policy held by her daughter, the late
Miss Cora B. Sargent, upon which four
annual premiums had been paid.
Crawford Ranney is moving his in
surance office from the second floor of the
Pythian building to the ground floor OF
the same building, where he is to occupy
portion of the store formerly occupied
by S. A. Moore & Co. Raymond ].
Trainor will occupy the office vacated by
Mr.. Ranuey.
The Academy Student issued this week
is '1adies number" This issue is ad'
vertised in the windows of Clark book
store by an artistic poster, the work oi
Will Gorham. 1t represents the academy
building in the background and young
lady in golf cape and tam oshanter in
the foreground.
John H. Hafford, local agent of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co., paid last
Wednesday to DR.. R. T. Johnson of West
Concord matured Is year endowment
policy of $4,000. The dividend paid
with the amount of the policy was ST.
372 60. This amount is quite little
above the estimates furnished at the time
the policy was written.
st. Patrick's day falling on Sunday
this year the annual observance of the
festival was held. at st. Aloysius church
on Friday evening. There was supper
served under the direction of the contra
ternity of the church which was well
attended. Following this there was a
brief musical program and the remainder
of the evening spent in playing whist.
Another of the series of the tourna
ment games between the Lyndon and
Mystic clubs took place at the Mystic
club rooms Wednesday evening. Mystic
club won 40 points at billiards. and one
trick at whist which makes the score uI
to date 67 points ahead on billiards and
13 tricks behind on whist. The tourna
ment will close March 81, at tLyndonville.
The auxiliary of the Home Mission.
ary Society of Grace Methodist church
will serve variety supper in their din.
ing rooms Thursday from to 100
Following the supper Mrs. H. N. Turner
will give a reading in the chapel on her
trip to California. Admission to supper
and reading, 20 cents; to reading alone
10 cents.
"A hearing was held before Justice
Worcester Thursday in the case of the
State VS.. Walter E. Jewett, charged with
running a bucket shop. States Attorney
Porter represented the state and the de-
fendant was represented by R. w.
Simonds of the firm OF May G. Simonds.
The justice decided there was evidence
enough to warrant trial and the case
will be tried at the June term.
The Hartford Theological Seminary
has just completed the DR.. Lamson me-
mortal fund of $4,000, which is to be
kept as permanent fund, the income
only to be used for the support of the
new course of missions, which the semi
nary is this year inaugurating. Half oil
this endowment was given by personal
friend of DR.. Lamson, who is an earnest
supporter of the mission work of the
American Board.
The states attorney has mol pressed
the case of embezzlement against Frank
P. Corcoran as the Metropolitan Stock
Exchange of Boston had no evidence to
present against him. Mr. Corcoran was
released from Jail and has gone TO Boston
to resume work for the Metropolitan
company. The case against him where
he is charged with running a bucket shop
is entirely distinct from the embezzement
case and will be tried at the June term of
court.
e. & I. Fairbanks & Co. have de-
cided to make no exhibit of scales at the
Pan-American exposition. Manager
Turner applied for space early in the
winter, but the management found they
had promised more space than they had,
and when they finally tried to find q