St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-10-01

Club will be held at Pythian Hall, Mon
day afternoon, with Mrs. Martha F.
Smonds, chairman of the education COM
mittee, in charge. Executive board meet
ing at O'Clock.
The friends of the Y M. c. A. are
anxious to have it understood that the
coming food fair is nor their enterprise
at all, much as they would be glad to
have the Association benefited by it as
was the case last year.
The post Office department order re-
quiring all patrons of rural free delivery
routes to provide boxes for their mail
goes into effect today and the carriers
have instructions to return all mail to
the post office in case the boxes are not
in place.
The ladies of the Universaist Church
are to have rummage sale about the
middle of October. Particulars and date
will appear later. Gifts will be thankfully
received from any one wishing to contri-
butte. Those wishing to do so can leave
articles with Mrs. S. Y. Powers, 5 Cherry
street.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission announce examinations Nov. ! 1
Tor the position of canceling machine ex-
pert and electrician, and Nov. 11-13 for
the position of mechanical craftsman.
Full particulars may be obtained of
Frank x. Lanctot, secretary of the local
board, at the post office.
The members OF Young's Orchestra
have reassembled after the summer vaca-
ton and the organization is now in
readiness for the winters campaign.
The personnel Of the orchestra this sea-
son includes Homer c. Wilson of Lyn-
donville, as prompter, who ranks among
the best in this line of work.
The annual excursion to New York,
via the Rutland railroad and Citizens
line steamers, is advertised for Tuesday,
October 7. Tickets will be sold from all
stations on the Rutland railroad to New
York at greatly reduced rates. Tickets
will be good for return passage to and
including Friday, October II, allo wing
ten days in the city.
The benefit races, which have been
arranged by the horsemen of Eastern
Vermont as compliment to the veteran
trainer and driver, Homer E. Brewster,
at Roaring Brook Park, Barton, were
postponed from last Saturday, until Oct.
18. The date was changed because
many of the horses have not returned
from their fall campaign.
-Myron W. Smith has leased his
Photographic studio at At Main street
to w. H. jerks, of Newport, for one year,
and with Mrs. Smith leaves this morning
for Altoona, Pa, where he has position
in the Pennsylvania railroad scale manu-
factury. Mr.. jerks is an experienced
photographer having carried on that
business at Newport for some time.
The New York day express makes its
last trip for the season next Saturday
and the Quebec-New York night train
will notrun after Sunday night. On Mon
day the noon train will begin for the
winter schedule, leaving st. Johnsbury
at 1910 p. m. The regular winter
schedule on the Passumpsic division on
the Boston & Maine goes into effect Oct.
49,
The Young Mems Club of the North
church held supper in the chapel Friday
evening served by Caterer Atwood.
Nearly 100 were present and the enter
tainment consisted of music by boys
quartette, composed of Joseph Cheney,
Clinton Reed, Claude Goodrich, and An
drew Moore, a solo by Master Cheney,
and talks on their western tour by P. F.
Hazen and Arthur F. Stone.
In all probability there is very little
of this years maple sugar crop being
held by the makers of Vermont and the
large dealers in this section have already
sold the greater part of their stock.
George c. Cary of this place, whose ex-
tensive dealings in the product have
earned him the title of the "Maple Sugar
King" has sold up-to-date about 900,-'
900 pounds in the western and southern
markets.
"A fair sized audience greeted the pre-
sentation of James O'Neil's Monte Cristo
with Edmund Breese in the role of Ed
mond Dantes, at Howe Opera House,
Friday evening. The special scenery was
good and the electric effects excellent. Mr..
Breese in the leading role was strong
throughout the piece and made a great
hit with the audience. His support as a
whole was hardly what it should have
been, indeed in some instances it was la
mentally weak, not only of the acting
was this true, but several members of the
company enunciated so badly that it was
impossible to understand them. But it
takes more than these trihes to detract
greatly from the interest of Monte Cristo
and it is safe to say the production gave
general caticfoot;o,,