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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16

On last Wednesday at high noon an
unusually attractive wedding occurred at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs Seth Ford at
Mc1ndoes, when their granddaughter,
Mabel Amanda Ford, was united in mar.
rriage to George L. Hunt, formerly
deputy county clerk, located in St. Johns
bury. The immediate relatives and init
mate friends only were present, and the
groom's father, Rev. George W. Hunt of
Enosburg Falls, performed the ceremony.
The friends of the bride very tastefully
decorated the house, the color scheme in
the parlor being green and white, and
the bridal party stood under an arch OF
evergreen and hydrangeas, from the
center OF which was suspended large
bell OF evergreen. The bride was gowned
in white muslin, cut en- train, and
trimmed with lace, and carried large
bouquet of white roses and smilax.
After the ceremony refreshments were
served at small tables in the dining room,
which was decorated with sweet peas
and asparagus. The bride was the
recipient of large number of gifts,
including cut glass, silver, china and
money, also several imported articles.
She has made her home with her grand
parents in McIndoes for the past ten
years and is one of the most pop
ular young ladies of that town.
The groom is now practicing law in
Enosburg Falls, where they will be at
home after October /. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hunt left on wedding trip which they
are spending in Mashapaug, Conn,
guests of the groom's grandparents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
At SummervilIe.

Mrs. ]. S. and Mrs. L. P. Leach visited
friends in Wells River part of the past
week.
Lawson Powers, who has been visiting
his brother for three weeks, returned FRI
day to his home in Providence, R. l.
Miss Lula Taft has returned from her
home at Mt. Gilead, N. c., where she
spent her vacation.
Mrs. Clarissa MetcaIf of Coventry,
who has been visiting her son, G. P. Met
calf, left Friday for Barnet to visit her
sister, Mrs. Philip Mason.
H. B. Somers of West Barnet visited
relatives here last week.
Frank Potts has returned to his work
at Chicago.
Miss Gladys Richardson is teaching
school in the Pumpkin Hill district, Dam
vile,
MIS-. H. Tibbetts attended Barton Fair
last week.
Mrs. ]. L. Stiles is keeping house for
her brother, Dennis Burbank.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Carr were called
to Marbleton, Quebec, by the death oil
Mrs. Carr's nephew.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Moyles are visit.
ing relatives in Canada.
Mrs. Della Whipple of Sutton is visiting
her niece, Miss LA Stearns.
Mrs. ]. c. Taylor spent few days last
week with her daughter, Mrs. Fales, il
Fairbanks Village.
| William Brickett, who had an opera
ton tor appendicitis, was able to bt
moved home Friday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Noyes and children
left Saturday for visit to relatives il
Canada.
| Miss Nellie Carr is playing at the fail
for ]. Nj. Cass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
Civil Service Examinations,

The United States civil service com.
mission announce the following exami.
nations: Sept. 16, veterinarian, Philip.
pine service; Sept. %, "a, craftsman,
geological survey; Sept. 20, SO, craftsman,
qualified as typewriter, U. S. Military
Academy, West Point; Oct. 81, Philippine
Service, estimate clerk and computer,
jacket writer, proof reader and reviser,
compositor, linotype operator, book.
binder, pressman electrotyper, photo-en-
graver, electrician, engineer, machinist;
Oct. 81, %, law clerk. During the month
of October the United States civil service
commission will hold stenography and
typewriting examination here. Particu.
lars Of the salaries of these positions and
application forms may be obtained OF
Frank x. Lanctot, clerk of the local
board, at the st. Johnsbury postofice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16

quickly put up their tents and cleaned
up for they were completely covered
with dust from their long ride. Monday
evening regular inspection was held
| and guard mount just as would be done
in active service. At night an armed
sentinel guards the camp. Their drill
yesterday was full of interest and was
greatly enjoyed by all. The regular
drills were first shown and then a mimic
warfare was given in which the squad
rons charged at full speed, yelling and
shouting down the field and the people
had an opportunity to witness what a
real charge would be.
A description of the Floral hall exhibit
and the premiums will be given next
week.
The stage attractions are unusually
good this year the Neitas, Etharno, the
Bending Bondas, Reed and Shaw, New
ton Brothers and J. w. Gorman's Canine
wonders contributing their share of the
amusemeuts.
Prof. c. c. Bonette made one of his
usual sensational ascensions by leaving
the ground suspended by his teeth. The
parachute drop was successful for b.
nette landed safely in the open field on
the Fairbanks meadow, near the campus.
In the poultry and pet stock building
all kinds of noises were permissible
from the shrill cry of guinea hen to the
Kissing of the geese. Turkeys and ban.
tams added to the melody while the
doves cooed and rabbits wondered at
their enforced confinement in babble.
The races today begin at 100 and in
clude the 2 IS class OF 16 entries. the 2 %
class of 16 entries and the 16 class with
IA entries. The purses in each race are
$4,000.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
Twenty Years After.

The CALIFORNIAN Office recently issued
a very attractive pamphlet with the
above title, for the Class of 1888, of st.
Johnsbury Academy, including the his
tory Of the members of that class for the
past 90 years. OF the 40 members, A
are now living and the addresses of all
but one of them is known and given in
the history. The report of the twentieth
anniversary, which was celebrated with
Mrs. George M. Gray on June 10, shows
that the class members, who are now
widely scattered over the United States,
still continue their interest in each other
and the Academy.
Mrs. Gray reported $517.62 to the
credit of the 'S3 Class Fund, the income
since May, 1899, having been $77.44
and $63.75 having been expended.
Mr.. Comstock reported $3.50 on hand
to the credit of the LEND Hand Fund, !"
Class of 'S3. Interesting letters from
former instructors and principals were
received for the history, including c. E.
Putney. now at Burlington; S. H.
Bracket, now at Redlands, CAL; Miss
Jennie Colby of Hanover; and a word
from Rev. DR.. Edward T. Fairbanks.
"In Memoriam" contains tributes to
Arthur F. Walker, John c. Ross and
Henry W. Dennison. Miss Helen F.
Shaw, class historian, spent much time
and labor in compiling this book, and
since its publication has received many
pleasant expressions OF appreciation from
classmates.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
ITO Be Contlnued.)
LamoilIe Valley Fair.

The Lamoille Valley Fair will oper
its 3Oth year September %, %, "a al
Morrisville. This fair has become ar
established pleasure time" in Northern
Vermont, and Morrisville's neighbors
wait only for the announcement to make
their annual visit.
The theatrical features this year are
the best that can be procured. The
"Three Milletts," the Millions" "The
Great Grotesques" "The Ronaldos,'
Harris & Rowe, the horizontal bar per.
formers and others will keep you laughing
and interested.
The exhibition will include everything
from rafting good cattle show down
to a choice art display. Over $1,000 will
be distributed in premiums.
The races will be fast, and as over
$4,000 in purses are waiting, there is
bound to be something doing. Don't
miss this treat. 1t means three days Of
good fun.
Round trip tickets at very low rates
good going and returning only on above
dates, will be on sale at St. Johnsbury
station and other stations on the ST.
Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
California OIL as an Investment.
CONTINUED from Sept. 2,

= t(OntluueQ IIOm sept. q,
History repeats itself in regard to the
Cal. Oil Industry and no doubt the Cali.
fornia Fortune Co., will be no exception
to it's almost invariable rule.
We refer to the skepticism manifested
toward many of the most successful bus
mess enterprises in their early beginnings.
The Reece Button Hole Machine Co.,
Stock for instance, in 1877 was offered
at 81 so to So per share (par $1O), but
hardly any one would buy it, or even in
vestigate its merits; but when it adj
vanced to SIT to $25 per share, those
same people were as the saying goes,
Just tumbling over each other" to buy
1t at those prices, and, even then made a
good solid investment, which has paid
them back their money several times.
The same conditions were true OF the
Peerless Oil Co., which was offered and
sold at SOC per share two years ago to
people who know a good thing when
they see it" but by Others was rejected
until it advanced to SIG per share and
was withdrawn from market.
Their only consolation now is, in kick
ing themselves for their past stupidity;
while their neighbours, 1.-The wise virgins
who took oil with their lamps" are en-
joying their nice little annual dividend of
326 per cent on their investment.
Such people seldom learn anything;
and if you wait and watch, you will see
the same things transpire in connection
with the California Fortune Oil Com
pany.
ITO Be Continued
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
The September Vermonter.

Vermont's Old Home Week is very fully
covered by Col. Forbes in the current
Vermonter and st. Johnsbury comes in
for its due share OF attention. The Ar
thur memorial exercises at Fairfield, the
dedication OF the Soldiers Memorial
hall at Stowe and the trip to Vermont OF
the Boston association are the principal
subjects considered and the illustrations
form a notable feature of the number.
W. Il. Sargent's picture of the Boston
party, taken at the scale office, is an
excellent group picture, while there are
many pictures OF the prominent build.
ings and scenery at st. Tohnsbury and
Newport. The report Of the Vermont
Bar association and a sketch of Vice
Governor Henry c. Ide, with an excel
lent portrait, closes specially interest.
ing number.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
Church Notes.

Church Notes.
Rev. G. c. Waterman of Laconia
preached at the Free Baptist church, Sun.
day. Mr.. Waterman will be remem.
bered as a former pastor here.
At the Church ofthe Messiah next Sun.
day Rev. A. Francis Walch will preach
the first OF three sermons in commemora.
ton OF the one hundredth anniversary OF
the Universalist profession of faith.
Special topic: THE Universalist Idea in
History and Lite"
The first monthly social and literary
meeting of the Epworth League will be
held in the Methodist church chapel
Monday evening.
Next Sunday evening, at the North
church, Rev. E. M. Chapman will give
the last of the series OF addresses upon
the Orient. Topic, "Constantinople and
Athens: Some Suggestions which they
Otter to Freemen and Christians
On Wednesday evening the North
church will unite with the South; the
union meeting to be addressed BY Mrs.
Burnell.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Odd
Fellows block. Sunday morning service
at 1915. Subject, Reality Wednes-
day evening meeting at 7.30. Children's
Sunday school at 1915. The reading
room is open every day in the week
except Monday, from 2 to 5.
The Woiiinissats's Association of the North
church hold an all day meeting at the
chapel Friday, from 10 o'clock until four,
for sewing. A basket lunch will be served
at noon.
At recent meeting of the Rectors Aid
Society of st. Andrews church Mrs. Ella
F. Richardson and Mrs. W. H. Sargent
were elected delegates and Mrs. c. D.
Waters and Mrs. F. G. Bundy, alternates
to the annual meeting of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Board Of Missions of the
| Episcopal church, which is to be held at
Brattleboro, September 20 and "a.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
NORTH WALDEN.

The troop from Fort Ethan Allen
which passed through part of the
town and encatnped at Noyesville over
Sunday en- route to st. Johnsbury fair
was an interesting sight and attracted
many visitors that day.
School was to have commenced two
weeks ago but is not yet in session as
the teacher is quite ill and has been
Obliged to give it up. 1t is hoped that
another can be procured soon.
Mrs. Omer orion from Boston, who
has been spending part of the summer
in this vicinity, has returned to her home.
A force of men are at work on the high.
way near c. ]. Bells doing permanent
work. All are in favor Of, and anxious
for extension.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
SHEFFIELD.

Misses Avery and Bryant will be here
another week. Extra meetings are being
held and all are invited to attend and
help support them.
]. G. Hodgdon is here preparing to
move to Barre, where he will put in a
cobler's shop.
F. H. ingalls, and family are in town
tor few weeks but will return to Lex
ington for the winter.
Representative Drew of Maidstone
was in town over Sunday visiting his
granddaughter, Mrs. Harry Davis.
Gitfin & Simpson have been repairing
the water system and have put faucet
in the store where it was much needed.
Willie Chase and family OF Bratt1eboro
are here for few days.
A fine lot of prizes were awarded by
the Barton Fair to W. ]. Smith and R.
0. Barber.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
Cattle and Hogs at Auction.

George c. Cary, proprietor of Lookout
Farm, advertises an auction sale of reg
istered Shorthorn cattle and Poland
China hogs, also one pair yearling Short
horn steers, at the cattle sheds at the
Fair Ground, Thursday, at 1890 a. m.
sharp. This is an exceptional opportu.
nifty to buy cattle and hogs at your own
price. See adv. and big posters.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
New Fall Styles.

Mrs. Abbie Mcneil has just received
the latest styles in ladies' tailor made
suits and rain coats, to be made to meas
ure only. Samples Of all the newest and
most desirable fabrics are displayed.
Garments will be basted and forwarded
for fitting when so ordered. She also
sells cloth by the yard and has received
a large line of samples for ladies, under.
skirts. She will fill orders for furs.
sixty-one Eastern avenue, or drop a card
for her to call.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
School Notes.

The total enrolment at the public
schools is 844 which is about the same
as last year. There are 4O6 in the Sum.
mer street schools and 1877 in the Sum.
merville building. Two OF the rural
schools show large attendance-Goss
Hollow and Clay Hill having % schol-
ars each. At both these schools the old
buildings were not large enough to ac-
commodate the scholars and the town
authorized the construction of new
schoolhouses.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
Mi-o-na is not mere digestive tina

Mi-o-na is not mere digestive that
simply gives temporary relief.
While it helps the food to digest, it
also has positive Strengthening action
upon the digestive organs and puts the
whole system in proper physical condi-
ton. 1t restores power to the nerves of
the stomach and in this way gives that
important organ the power to digest
food. In this way natural flesh is re-
gained and health restored.
Remember that you risk nothing in
buying Mi-o.na. The bond protects you,
so that if it fails to give the desired effect,
W. B. Eastman will return your money
without question and without argu-
ment.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
Local Market Prices.

These reports are for the benefit of
those wishing to know the retail prices
of native products from week to week
and are corrected to Tuesday of the
current week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
SIGNS BOND AND TAKES ALL RISK
w. III. Eastman has Such Faith i'm Nil
ona, the Flesh Forming Food, He

Sells it Under Guarantee.
Not one time in 500 does Mi o-na fail
to cure dyspepsia. 1t is because OF its
remarkable power to cure this disease
that w. B. Eastman is able to sell it In
the following unusual way.
With every SOC box he gives a signed
guarantee bond to refund the price if the
purchaser can honestly tell him that it
has not given freedom from stomach
troubles, increased fesh and restored
health. The risk is all W. B. Eastman,s
as the following bond which he signs
fully shows:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16

Time: 2.o2s4. 2o2%, 1.541a, 2.o2sl. Time
OF third heat by quarters 30, ST, 1904,
1.541a.
= The cavalry arrived here from Fort
Ethan Allen Monday morning and
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
GUARANTEE BOND

l hereby agree to refund the price
paid for Milo ma, if the purchaser tells
me that it has not increased flesh and
given freedom from stomach troubles.
w. B. EASTMAN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-09-16
NEWPORT.

Summary-Three base hit, Smith. Two
base hits, Chapman, Richmond. Bases on
balls, by Howard g. by Richmond l. Struck
out by Richm ond II, by Howard 9. Passed
ball Sutton. Wild pitch Howard. Stolen
bases Lanctot, Dodge 2, Chapman, p
Thompson Searles 2. Time of game hours
Umpires, Smythe and Hawley Scorers.
French and Sulloway.
In the hitch up contest there was
plenty of fun, the harnesses being put on
wrong i'll haste and straps being left
untouched. Fred Hartman finally won
the race with the horse Doctor, Emma
6. was second and Automobile third.
Time, 317A.
Little excitement was shown in the
Farmers race for Stella Jones was an
easy winner, with Barnet Boy and Bessie
|, trailing in the order named.
Stella Jones, Nap. Clutter, / i 1
Barnet Boy, j. {. Byron, 2 2
Bessie, II. T.. Moore, 8
Time, 2,421a; 2.4o; 2.45M.
The doctors automobile races were full
of excitement and pleased the crowd
greatly. Every mile was made under
2.03 and the fastest quarter was made in
26 seconds. Edmund Follensby, chauffeur
for DR.. Sites established a track record
in the third heat that will be hard to
beat making mile in 1912. DR.. Allen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-21

1t is evident that no member of his ad- ministration, brilliant as 1t was, eauld have written any part of his messages. The beauty and simplicity of their style, sublime patriotism that pervade nearly all his official utterances, prove that they emanated from the head and heart that conceived the immortal Gettysburg speech. Chase and Seward and Stanton, the mighty trumvirate of his cabinet, wrote well and forcibly, but no one Of them could have produced Lincoln's two inaugural addresses. General Grant de- clared in reply to an attacks when MT. Greeley was running against him for the presidency, that he wrote all his mes- sages without assistance from any one. Senator Hoar in the interesting work just issued by his publishers, says that President Grant wrote a message to con- gress in his presence, the cogency and solidity of which on the subject it treated were remarkable. Grant had no reputa- ton as writer until his memoirs were published after the close of his great ca- reer. There is really no reason why a President should not turn over the task of message writing to his secretary. The essential thing about these papers is that they should give accurate information respecting the state of the Union and ern- body in plain language whatever recom- mendations he may have to make. The messages are not contributions to litera- ture, but merely reports on governmental events of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-21
IRRELIGION IN FLATS
 IS A PAINFUL REALITY

pumping along in five vanloads conveyed by band of brigands who are wrench ing off it's legs. Family ties cannot hold out against it.
 The apartment peril says another clergyman lis the deadliest we have to face" Nothing gives them any com fort. The home may be doomed, but why should they not have noticed it until the last two months? Tom Moore noticed it in 1910. Charles Dickens found us nation of boarders, so he said, with no more home-life than would go in a hat box And fifty years ago a distinguished foreign visitor who turned up on May day in an American city found every house gutted and all it's domestic vitals in the streets. The home-life has al- ways been doomed, and doomed worse the further back you go. In 1850, coffin nails were the only kind that would hold down the family; yet here we are, many of us feeling just as virtuous as if we kept a COW. No moss ever gathers on the old dumb-waiter or ivy on the erum- bling janitor, and no man when he leaves 1t ever feels fat-sck for the sight of 1t again; but it is not because he is stingy that he has no home. If the clergy would endow him instead of re- buking him, he would sin no more. Mean while, If he must stay on in the flat, why not tell him that he can be good there?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-21

carnal things is a debt taking precedence over every other debt. l would that you could hear that. You would see that you did not subject the equities for spiritual service to those ol earnal realm. Your first duty as man is to serve and be served in your spiritual nature in your relations to God, before you provide a palace for yourself or a stable for your steeds Your first duty is to pay your spiritual debts for efficient spiritual ser vice Last week l stubled upon two things that seem to me both false and foolish.
 Men refused to come to the help of their church on the ground that 1t might injure their credit in business, and hence they considered 1t their duty to withhold lending their credit to the church to further it for spiritual service in order to be the better equipped for carnal debts, giving carnal precedence over spr- ituaL "lf others possess this right over you do not we yet more."
 Again I was told that if bank saw mans name on the note of his church 1t became suspicious of his credit. So even the banks consider a man who would do his duty in a financial way to his church as impairing his business standing.
 It would seem that a man who feels his pecunary obligation for spiritual ser Nict WOulu pc sDu the DlO1e llhelA lD De true in his business debts. You had better be skeptcal of the man who does not be true to his church dues
 If these rights which are "yet more' binding on him are with impunity thrust aside those of lesser sacredness will be the more likely neglected
 An Appeal.
 I make therefore this appeal for the putting of the business incident to spir- itual service as transcendent among our debts and taking precedence over the secular obligations of life. You never can pay quid pro quo for them. You always get more than value received for the money you pay for spiritual service. The service possesses yet more right over you than any business trade or wage.
 The community that supports well it's churches is other things being equal, most likely to be equitable in it's busi- ness engagements. Now brethren, if it be true our first duty is to put the bus- ness matters of our church on such a plain of equity that it will be an exam pie for square dealing in the community and example in the gospel of equity, 1t is more important to attend your ex ecutive board meeting than that of the directorate of your bank or business con- cern. have talked plainly on this mat ter because I believe 1t an evil In every church. but one specially aggravated in those of this city.
 I hope to live to see such a condition that church debts shall take first rank among gilt-edge claims It is even now time that churches are the only corpora tions who always pay all they owe. l never heard of church that did not ultimately pay it's honest debts, but alas! they are some times greatly delayed in that good work and the remedy for this defect lies in better business methods in their pecuniary affairs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-21

To restore wig or to the sys- tenn, promote sound sleep and assist digestion you should take a dose of the Bitters before each meal. + will cure Sick Headache, Nervousness,
 indigestion. Constipation, Dyspepsia and Kidney
 Troubles.
 Be sure to try it