St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-12-31

week getting ready for the change.
Landlord Benoit is undecided as to his
future.
The Home Minstrel entertainment
last week Tuesday night for the benefit
of Mrs. Kate G Brock was TAI ly well
ATTENDED and creditable performance
Frank O. French was the star attraction
and, as usual, took splendidly with the
crowd.
The Christmas number OF the YER
monter contains the first of two articles
on the religious history of the state.
Among the illustrations are the North
Church of this place and portraits OF
Rev. DR.. c. H. Merrill and Presiding El-
der Sherburne.
Charles A. Chapman starts about
the middle of next month for tour Of
Pennsylvania and Maryland with the
P"Kilties," the 4Sth Highlander band
which has appeared several times in St.
Johnsburv. Mr.. Chapman will bring
the band here sometime in March.
These letters are advertised at the
post Office for the week ending Dec. 81:
Grant, Miss F. F.; Ainsworth, Wallace;
Boucher, Joseph; Gonye, Ora; Mckee, E.
A.; Mckee, F. H.; Robinson, S. A; St.
Charles. Thomas; Trahan, Joseph; Wal
colt, H. w; Workman, w. S.
Special meetings will be conducted by
Ensign Poole Wednesday and Thursday
evenings. Wednesday will be a special
salvation meeting, after which will be
watch night service. Thursday night he
will give very interesting lantern SER
vice entitled Ben Hur." All are welcome
Postmaster Hazen reports the
heaviest Christmas this year in the his
tory of the office, the mail received and
sent out being at least ten per cent
ahead of last year. On Christmas day
there were four teams delivering mail
and bundles and each carrier had sleigh
full OF gifts.
AT the meeting of the Round Table Of
the South church on Monday evening
Rev.S. G. Barnes spoke most interesting
ly and instructively upon life in the
South, with especial relation to the
negro problem. DR.. Barnes was at one
time connected with Fisk University at
Nashville, Tenn.
Officers ard members Of Chamberlin
w. X. c. VIII .neet at c. A. R. hall Wed.
nesday afternoon at 8 o'clock 70 rehearse
for installation. The joint installation Of
these officers and those of the G. A. X
will occur the evening OF Jan. 1. The de-
partment l. & l. officer, Mrs. M. Josephine
Jenkins of Bradford, will install.
"A patent has been granted to F. W
Taylor and W. H. Sargent for scale tc
be built into travelling crane, such as /!
used in large shops for lifting heavy
loads. Instead Of bling obliged to trans
port the load to some distant point anC
lowering it down onto scale it can now
be weighed while suspended from th'
crane.
The Miss New York, Jr., Co., will
give an entertainment at Howe Oper;
House, Friday evening, entitled 80 Min
utes at Sea-" in which pretty chorus
striking costumes, good comedy, inter
spersed with catchy music will be intro
duced. The entertainment will clos
with burlesque, Fun on the Goth Ger
tury Limited"
t The January meeting of the Woman
t Club will be held Monday afternoon a
| Pythian Hall, at o'clock, under tn
r direction of the history and travel con
mittee. Miss Eta M. Newell of Hat
! over, N. H., will address the meeting o
"Rouen and Joan of Arc" and Rev. A. I
{ WaIch will also address the club. Exec
: tive board meeting at o'clock.
The many st, Johnsbury stockhol
ers of the Button Hole companies will |
interested to know that both corpor
tions have had good business the pa
year. The directors of the Reece Cor
pany have declared quarterly dividet
of per cent and the directors of the |
ternational Company a semi annual dir
y dend Of per cent. Both are payat
II Jan. IS, 1908.
The coal situation has been helped
; little by the arrival in town of some Sc
coal and a carload OF coke. None of t
dealers have any anthracite coal, and
10 one knows when hard coal can be {
III tanned. One OF our manufacturers w
'e is obliged to use anthracite coal i'll
l' furnace offered $25 ton for hard coal
~ another manufacturer, but the lat
could not spare any from the limit
be quantity on hand. Fortunately
H. other party found a few tons in Lynd
lr- Vile, so he did not have to shut do
ty his business.
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The Academy Opens Next Week.
re A special notice has been sent to ev
ch student of the Academy, stating that