St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-02-26
PEACHAM.
An Interesting Meeting of the Farmers
GInh.
PEACHAM.


The annual meeting of the Farmers
Club held Saturday was in every way
success. The day was perfect, the dinner
of the best, and there was crowd OF
people, some coming from ADJ Dining
towns. There was music by Elsie Hook
err; Mrs. R. L. Wilson had paper on
"The doWn.trodden farmers wife, and
she proved beyond question that the title
of her paper was nlsnomer so far as
the life of the average farmers wife IN
these days is concerned, Tor with our
modern improvements, creamer1es, ETC.,
her work is no harder, and her comforts
no less than those of other women who
must work for their support. There was
a paper by c. F. Thrasher, who said IN
part that to succeed in any occupation
one must have special training tor the
work, and the farmer no less than others
needed a good education to get the best
results from farming; he advised them to
give up useless habits and pay up the
farm mortgages. A song by E K. Mac
KAY received an encore. Miss Mary
Bickford read a paper on Success IN
farming;" this cannot be accomplished,
she said by getting the most money pos
sible from the work, though money is
necessary for it's accomplishment; the
highest standard should be the aim Of
the farmer in everything that the best
results may be attained, that health and
happiness as we'll as financial success
may crown his efforts. Leonard WEIGH
gave a chapter from his own experience
to prove that farming may be made to
pay; next was a piano duet by two
farmers daughters, Elsie Choate and
Elsie Hooker. In a paper by Miss
Dimond on Farm life in the South, " she
gave an interesting sketch OF farm life IN
West Virginia; her description was SO
vivid that to hear about was almost to
see the life as she pictured it. There was
singing by quartette. The following
officers were elected for the coming year;
President, Frank Shaw; vice president,
Clarence Esden; secretary and treasurer,
Charles Kenerson executive committee,
Mrs. Nina M. Hooker, Walter Harvey,
Mrs. Ichabod Rowe. The exercises
closed with the singing of America.
Wednesday we had no stage and no
mail which proved a serious inconveni-
ence ia two or three known cases.
The clam chowder supper was held
Thursday afternoon, and the result was
about 81 so for the Rescue Home at
Burlington.
Abe L. Blanchard has gone to Boston
and will visit his sister jamie at Nantas-
ket, Mass, and his sister, Mrs. Alice
Jackson, at Baltimore, Nd.
Miss Flora NJ. Bickford went to Bos-
ton Wednesday.
Mrs. Herbert Blair has gone to the
Massachusetts General Hospital for
treatment.
Mrs. Plynn Bolton is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Mae Bolton Story, at
West6eld. Mass.
Mrs. Robert Esden, who has been con-
fined to the house for month and quite
i'll part OF the time. is slowly gaining.
Mrs. Alice Johnson, daughter of Rev.
J. K. Williams, is now rapidly recover
ing her health.
The South Peacham creamery paid it's
patrons 271a cents per pound for butter
during last month.
The annual rhetorical exercises will be
held Friday, Feb. %, at 2 p. m., in
Academy Hall.
The preparatory lecture will be Satur-
day, March 1, at 2 p. M, instead of Fri
day, the usual time.