St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-06-03
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Charles Foster has moved rom Pills.
| bury's steam mill into the Caleb Aldrich
house on the Forbes farm and is going
to work for E. /. Forbes this summer.
The drouth still continues here, and
there has been no rain at all since snow
went off. Grass in pastures and fields is
going backward. Cows have to be fed
hay and feed about the same as in the
winter and it is said that seed planted or
sowed is not coming in many places and
farmers have stopped putting seed into
| the ground for the present, in many cases.
1t is cold, with frost almost every morn
ing in low places, and the prospect is not
| hopeful as to crop this season. Fifteen
dollars ton is asked for hay in barns
and there is none for sale at that price.
Fred Parker seems to be improving
since his return from the hospital at
Hanover and hopes to be able to resume
labor again before many weeks.
G.. W. Switser has put up very pretty
monument at the cemetery, Fred Spen-
Ger Of Lyndon doing the job. Charles
Switser has bought one just like it tor
his family lot in the cemetery and H. A.
Blake has bought a stonef for Mrs. Joanna
Coe, Of Mr.. Spencer.
Miss Rose Brown, who was obliged to
suspend her school for a week at the
Bundv district on account of having been
exposed to cankerrash, returned and
resumed her school the past week.
Mrs. D. 3. Ruggles, who has been
poorly with heart trouble, has so far
fo ka
Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Ruggles went to
Lyndon Center Thursday to attend the
funeral of Ephraim H. Ruggles, an uncle,
who was the last one OF his fathers
family, William Ruggles, late of Lyndon.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. R. Hall from Barton
Landing, who have been visiting friends
in town the past week, have returned to
their home. Mr.. Hall is in poor health.
unable to do work of any kind, and has
been so the past two and one half years.
o. M. BODICE OF Lyndonvile, former
resident, has been visiting friends in
town the past week. He is very feeble
and is nearly blind. He buried his wife
but few months since, who was SIS
ter of 0. 7. and F. G.. Curtis, on the
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Rev. Mr.. Blake held services at the
Whipple schoolhouse Sunday afternoon
and is to hold service at the North Ridge
next Sunday afternoon.
Rev. J. D. Waldron from West Charles.
ton visited at H. A. Blakes, Friday, going
from there to West Burke, where he de-
livered an address Saturday afternoon
before the 6. A. r. Post. Mr.. Waldron
gave very able address, said by some
to be one of the best they had ever heard.
He is to preach before Alpine Lodge No.
20, 1. o. o. F., and Mystic Lodge No. S,
D. of R., at West Burke next Sunday at
100 o'clock.
The Grange sociable was largely at
tended last week Tuesday evening and
all enjoyed very pleasant time, after
which a conundrum supper was served.
The next sociable is to be Auesday eve
ming, June 9 at Grange Hall.
CIV. Thompson and F. A. Holmes
with their wives, spent several days at
Willoughby Lake remaining over SUM-
day, May "a, on fishing trip.
Mrs. John Greenia of Swanton, who
visited her stepfather, Freeman Hyde,
the past week, has returned to her home.
There is to be quilt and apron sale at
Mrs. G. W. Chesley s in the Union House
neighborhood this evening by the Ladies
Aid society. Proceeds will go towards
the Indebtedness pledged by them at the
time OF dedication of the house.