St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-05-18
VOL. LXVI---NO. 34S7

On business.
Mrs. T. r. Stiles and daughter Char
lotte are visiting relatives in Sherbrooke.
/ Mrs. Peter Provincel is visiting her
sons in Hartford, Conn.
T. M. Howard, George R. Crosby and
| w. 81. Silsby went to Windsor yesterday
where they were drawn as Jurors in the
| United States circuit court.
Miss Laura A. Watson of Brooklyn, N.
Y, has come here to spend the summer.
She is pleasantly remembered as a former
teacher at the Academy.
Fred Jackson, a former employe of the
CALIFORNIAN, but now resident of Ber-
lin, N. H., is in town greeting old friends.
Fred has waxed fat and prosperous.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rust, who have
resided here for the past six months, left
Monday for Cuba.
The latest addition to the granite
business here is a portable stone sur
facing machine, which has been set up by
81. M. Laird at his works in Granite
Square. This machine will do the work
of 10 men in smoothing granite. When
this machine, which is run by compressed
air, is in operation, it makes the granite
chips fly and smoothes down a stone
rapidly.
One of the trucks on the north bound
freight which leaves st. Johnsbury at
O'Clock was derailed last night and the
ties all torn up between the Summerville
crossing and the Paddock village cross
ing before the train could be stopped.
A collection of 1913 views of Australia,
including New Zealand and Tasmania,
will be on exhibition at the art gallery
at the Athenaum for the next ten days.
quiet wedding was solemnized on
Saturday at the brides home when Miss
Ruth, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Wilder,
was married to Carroll P. Barney. The
ceremony was performed by her pastor,
Rev. E. M. Chapman. Mr. and Mrs.
Barney will make their future home in
Woodsville and their friends will wish
them long and happy married life.
Rev. G. w. Hunt, of Enosburg Falls,
formerly of this place, is to preach the
baccualaureate sermon TO the graduating
class of the high school at Enosburg
Falls, June 4.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Sargent and
a ten days trip to Washington.
Clarence II. Lingham of Boston spent
a day here last week visiting his family.
S. N. Brown of Boston, William Storrs
Wells and J. Adriance Bush of New York
were here Wednesday attending the an
nua1 meeting of E. & T. Fairbanks &.
Company.
In Police Court Monday A. B. Carrick
pleaded guilty to intoxication and was
fined $21.1O with the alternative SEN
tence of 90 days in the house of correction
at Rutland. This is his third offense
under the new law and those who have
been convicted of the third o6ense are
deemed by the law habitual drunkards.
He paid the fine.
Three terms in the river at
tracted considerable attention Mon
day morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Root spent part of
the past week in Boston.
Mrs. John Beck is recovering from her
recent severe illness.
Z. M. Taft, DIR. Edward Fl. Ross, Fred
N Keeler and T. w. Chase of Passumpsic
weut to Lake Mansfield Monday, on a
fishing trip and returned last evening
w. A. Taplin went to Boston Monday
on a business trip.
DR.. S. II. Sparhawk is attending the
Homeopathic Medical Society at Mont
pelier. He will read a paper on "Psy-
Geological Medicine" before the society
today.
Mrs. Charles L. Morrill, of North DAN
vile, who has been visiting Mrs. Eliza
beth M. Chapman, left last week for
Kewanee, Ill.,, to visit her son.
w. Fl. Gale of Barre was in town on
business last week.
Fayette Richardson is finishing off a
tenement in the upper part of his house.
I. 6. Rolfe was in Evansville last week
on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. r. Young will spend
two weeks vacation in Boston, leaving
Saturday.
Young's Orchestra play at Derby
Academy for commencement this week
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, in
connection with the Schubert Male
Ouartette of Boston.
Col. T. c. Fletcheris at his farm in Shell
burne for short time.
Repairs are being made in the Court
House in preparation for the June term
of court.
The Green Trading Stamp company
have moved into the vacant store in the
Avenue house block.
Mrs. Edward Dodge of Wells River
visited at Edward Peterson's last week.
w. ]. Walsh of Montreal visited friends
in town over Sunday.