St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-02-12

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ing and expressed much pleasure at the
work of the chorus.
Post office department orders ol
February announce that the office at
West Waterford will be discontinued
February 28 After that mail will be
sent to St. Johnsbury and most of it will
go by R. F. D., No. l..
The New England Telephone Com
pany have put long distance instruments
into the residences of 0. H. Henderson,
John A. Beck, J. E. Walker, S. J. Somer-
vile and Geo. E. Hazen. A new card is
in press and will be issued this week.
-Rickaby & Co. have sold the farm
located in Lyndon, belonging to Mrs.
Morrill, P. Jenness, to Arthur D. Jay of
Passumpsic Mrs. Jenness takes in ex-
change Mr.. Jays house at Passumpsic.
Both parties are to take possession soon.
The burning out of chimney caused
a slight blaze at the Fairbanks boarding
house Friday evening. An alarm was
rung from box %, and Hose Co.'s 1 and
4 and the Hook and Ladder Co. re-
sponded, but the fire was extinguished
with a chemical extinguisher.
-Bradstreet's reports thatin st, Johns
bury manufacturing interests are well en-
poyed, retail trade little quiet. which
is to be expected at this time of year, col
lections fair" Business conditions are
referred to as normal" throughout the
state in general.
The report of the 18th annual con-
vention of the Grand Lodge of Vermont,
Knights of Pythias, which was held in
Bennington, October 9 10, has been is
sued from the office of Grand Keeper of
Records and Seal c. F. 0. Tinker. The
report makes an attractive volume and
is a credit to the order in the state.
The work of card cataloguing the
library which was interrupted last
month by Miss Merritt's call to posi-
tion in Bryn Mawr College, has been re-
sumed by Miss Bertha F. Hathaway of
Stoughton, Mass. Miss Hathaway is a
graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, class
of 1898, and took her library course at
the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
The Guards basket ball team will
play their first game of the year with
the Dartmouth Medics at the armory
next Monday evening. The Guards
team is made up about as last year.
They have put iu some vigorous practice
work during the past few weeks, and as
the medics have one of the best teams in
this vicinity irst-class game is assured.
The Choral Union held very effect
i've rehearsal on Monday evening and
over two hours of solid work was put
into further drill on the choruses in Yer
dis Requiem. It's a splendid and inspir-
ing thing, and nobody who enjoys real
music should miss its presentation by
the four soloists and large chorus next
week Friday evening.
There are II patients at Brightlook
Hospital at present. Sarah Park, the
little girl who was injured in the smashup
at Bowker's crossing, is rapidly improv-
ing; Mrs. William A. Miller, Herbert A.
Lanpher and Carl P. Weeks are improv-
ing; and James Maillett, whose eyes were
burned with hot metal at Fitzdae few
weeks ago, is able to be out. His right
eye is almost as we'll as ever and the
other is improving.
That Lyman 81. Howe's moving pic
ture exhibitions are popular in st. Johns
bury is shown by the fact that an audi
ence completely filing Music Hall was
present at Thursday evenings show. 1t
was the largest sale of seats for Music
Hall in years and many were turned
away or bought standing room. The
exhibition was entirely new and fully up
to the standard of former visits. The
Y. M. c. A. realized about 5000 from the
show.
The members of Co. D received an
invitation from Co. F, I'd N. H. N. G.,
of Littleton, to participate in ball held
at the Grand Opera House at that place
last evening. Littleton's military com.
pany was organized last fall, and is the
latest addition to the national guard of
New Hampshire. The company is called
the "Kilburne Guards" in honor of B.
w. Kiburne of that place and is Co. DIS
nearest neighbor in national guard or
CARNATIONS.
announcement is made Of the follow.
ing civil service examinations to be held
before the local board at the postoffice
March 4, 5, 6, electrical engineer and
craftsman in the supervising architect S
Office, treasury department; March 25,
computer bureau OF forestry. department
of agriculture interpreter (Arabic, Turk
ish, and Armenian March 25, 26
assistant piece computers, naval
observatory and nautical almanac.
Il. Wellington Phelps returned from a