St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-06-29

held a basket picnic at Lake St. Joseph,
Saturday, about 1 90 being present. The
party left here about IL O'Clock on a
special and after dinner a ball game was
had between the Sample Cases and the
Trunks, the Trunks winning by the
score of IL to 10. The game was close,
the score being tie until the ninth inning.
After the game boating and dancing was
INDUCED in until 10 o'clock. A part of
the St. Johnsbury baad furnished the
music.
The closing dance of Miss Brooks
Barton dancing class will be given Fri
day night. Mrs. Brooks orchestra will
furnish music.
The social dance to be given to Miss
Brooks dancing class and their friends
at K. P. Hall, Thursday has been post
poned until later in the season.
The ladies of the Free Baptist church
will serve supper in the vestry, Thurs
day from O'Clock until all are served.
All are invited.
F. o. Clark, wishing to close out his
entire stock of Fourth of July goods, will
| make very low prices on them.
Beginning July 8 the New York Sun
| day Herald, World and Journal will
arrive on the Quebec express at 6.1O
| M, and be on sale at Allison & Davies
and F. o. Clark's. The Boston Journal
and Post will arrive on the 'air line" at
/ A I, II
| stores.
| The World Today has been reduced
to 10 cents a copy. For sale at F. o.
| Clark's.
| United States Post Office Inspector
Rapp made an official visit to St. Johns
bury Tuesday.
Don c. Stiles, the local representa-
| tive of Hearst's Boston American, has
arranged that the price of the Sunday
| edition shall be fixed at FIVE cents.
The first heavy shower of the season
struck this village Saturday afternoon
| and was accompanied by severe thun-
| der storm. During the storm lightning
struck at 81. R. Whites place above Pad
| dock Village and the corner of the steeple
| of the Church of the Messiah. AT the
latter place the shingles and some of the
| clapboards were splintered, but no serious
damage was done.
The village trustees have begun to
macadar1ize Winter street.
The Standard Bottling Works of St..
| Johnsbury have the agency for the Bromo-
| Hygeia table water of Coldwater, Mich,
and will deliver it to residents of the
| village, on request. This is prepared
especially for family use and combines
purity with invigoratiug properties.
BY the will of Mrs. N. P. Bowman
the First Baptist church, of which she
was member. receives a bequest OF
$4OO and Sunset Home bequest OF
5000.
The Offices of E. T. & H. K. Ide and
Moore & Co. are to be closed every day
except Saturdays at 6 O'Clock.
Charles T. Ran1et has bought the old
livery stable on Eastern avenue, now
occupied by Weeks & Hovey, and expects
to move his printing plant there in the
early fall. He will use the basement OF
the building for an automobile store
house.
| BY the change Of time on the rail
roads, which went into effect Monday,
St. Johnsbury gets a new mail. This
summer the Quebec-New York train car
ries closed pouch to the larger points
below Wells River to New York and
brings up in the early morning mail
from the same places. By this arrange
ment the New York evening papers and
letters from the metropolis arrive as
] soon as mail matter from Boston.