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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
Farewell Reception.

George Ranney was given a farewell
reception in Pythian Hall last evening
by Apollo Lodge, Knights OF Pythias.
On behalf of the lodge DIR. Ned c. Stiles
presented him with an emblematic
charm. Mr. Ranney responded thanking
them for their kindness. This was fol-
lowed by most interesting smoke talk
on Scotland given by Alex. Dunnett, and
piano solo by Ray SpauldiDg and music
by the Imperial Quartette.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
Musicale.

Invitations have beef sent out for a
musicale, to be given by Miss Florence
FL. Sturtevant, soprano, assisted by her
sister, Miss Alice X. Sturtevant, contral-
to, Ned R.Young, violinist, and Miss Alice
B. Warden and B. Frank Harris, accom-
panists. The concert will be held in the
chapel of the North church Friday even
ing, Jan. %. at 8 O'Clock. If any who
are interested have been omitted, they
are hereby cordially invited to attend.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
Doctors Heet.

A Aquarterly meeting of the Caledonia
County Medical Society was held in the
Avenue House. Tuesday evening, Jan. 12.
About 1S doctors from different parts of
the county were present. A paper on
pneumonia was read by DIR. J. w. Gibson
of McIndoes and one by DIR. c. A. Cram
ton on diphtheria. A discussion of the
two diseases followed the readings of the
papers. After the discussions banquet
was served. Plans were also discussed
relative to the next meeting and banquet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
LOCAL. GATHERINGS.


AT meeting of Company D Wednes-
day evening Private Herbert A. Wilcox
was elected second lieutenant, to fill the
position caused by the advancement OF
Second Lieutenant J. w. Tinker to cap
tain.
Interior improvements are being
made in Asselin Brothers store.
Moore & Jewett are making interior
improvements in their store.
The play "Vildac" will be given in
French at the Howe Opera House on
Wednesday evening, Jan. ~, by local
talent. It is drama in three acts and
will be followed by the comedy "L' heri-
tage de + oncle."
Hoods Farm Almanac for 1904 has
just been issued and can be obtained OF
w. B. Eastman, the druggist. 1t con-
tains much information of value to far
mers and breeders.
The Seventy Club enjoyed visit
with Mrs. Sarah P. Lucas, Wednesday
afternoon, the occasion of her SOth BIRTH
day. Selections were read on the New
Year from Spurgeon, and on other sub
jects from other writer's. This being the
first meeting held this year, tender mem
ories were revived of the deceased mem
bers, and those who are sick were loving
ly remembered.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
TI<,:o 81 Or
with Mrs. Elizabeth Chapman, IL Belvi-
dere street.
The ladies of the South church will
hold a food sale at the vestry, Wednes-
day afternoon, January 27, from 2 to
O'Clock.
The ladies of the Free Baptist church
will give social and supper Thursday
evening. January 21, at the residence OF
Mr. and Mrs. Milo Spalding. All are
cordially invited.
"A few members of the Woman's Club
Monday afternoon, when the club chorus
was organized and a pleasant afternoon
spent. 1t was decided that meetings
would be held once in two weeks, and it
is hoped much interest will be taken in
this work, as selections by this chorus
will be very pleasing feature of the club
meetings.
Great credit is due the village trus-
tees in causing light to be placed over
the sidewalk across the Portland street
bridge.
The attention of the CALIFORNIAN has
been called to the fact that horses are
hitched on our public streets and left
standing for some length of time without
blanketing. merciful man is mercitul
to his beast and no horse should be lett
unprotected in this extreme winter
weather.
An overturned kerosene oil stove
caused considerable excitement In the
Berry-Ball store Saturday evening. The
stove which is in the repairing room on
the third floor. was accidentally tipped
over and exploded, setting fire to pile
of excelsior and curled hair. but with the
prompt use of extipguishers and a line
of hose kept in readiness the FIRE was
soon put out. Very small damage was
done. The FIRE department was called
but the fire was extinguished before they
responded.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
A Mems Supper.

The men of the First Baptist Church
are to serve an oyster supper in the YES
try of their church Thursday evening
from 6 to O'Clock. The men will do
the soliciting for this supper, the cooking
and the serving. Oysters will appear ON
the half shell, in stew, scalloped and
other styles. and the price will be only
20 cents
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
NEW ADS. THIS WEEK.

Gold Fish-We1come B. Eastman.
Employment Bureau-F. G. King.
Special Notice.. M. Harris
Miss Florence Hortense Sturtevant.
State Mutual Fire Assurance Coo. S
Hastings.
Ten Days More-L. P. Leach.
Cash Sa1es-Berry- Ball Dry Goods Co.
Stores Close Saturday Evening.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
New Years Greeting 55th Year,

AS we commence our fifty fifth year, we
Return Thanks" to Friends; we
Point with Pride" to our Record; we
View with Alarm" the state of the Unin-
sured and Unannuitied and offer our service
with confidence in its fitness and fairness.
Doing business in 81 States. Natl Life Ins.
Co. Of Vt. (Mutua1) ORGANIZED 1880.
W. W. SPRA AGUE,
GEN. Agent for Northeastern Vermont,
st. J0hnsbuxy,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
Hose Company rleetIngs.


At meeting of the members of Island
Hose, No. 3, jan. IL, these officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
Foreman, Charles II. West.
Assistant Foreman. John McCutcheon.
Clerk, Joseph St. John.
Steward, Preston e. May.
The annual meeting of Fletcher Hose
Company, No. 4, was held in their rooms
on the evening of Jan. IL, and the follow
ing officers elected:
Foreman, S. A. Moore.
Asst. Foreman, Henry W. Ellis.
Clerk, John Tinker.
Steward. Carroll Andrews.
A banquet was served after the election
which was greatly enjoyed. Col. T. G..
Fletcher, for whom the company is NAM
ed, was invited co be the guest Of the
evening, bat sent his regrets accompanied
with box Of cigars.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20

The regular meeting of Chamberlain w. r.
c. will be held Thursday evening. Jan. FL.
All officers and all members who can are
asked to be at the hall at three in the after
noon to practice the ritual work. Bring
lunch with you please.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
Local Events.

Jan. 21. Free Baptist Supper and Social.
%. Basket Ball, Company d VS.. Boston
UniveI sity.
27. Food SAFE South Church.
27. Vildac at Howe Opera House.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
knight of Pxthias .

Regular Convention Of Apollo Lodge, No
2, Tuesday evening, Jan. 26.
G. II. CLARK, G. c.
II. w. Ellis. K RS
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20

Regular meetings are held the second and
fourth Wednesdays of each month in Citizens
Bank building, second floor.
b. H. HEALEY, Grand knight.
CHAs. T. LYNCH, Rec Sec
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
ne Comn,andery. No, 5, X. r

Palestine Comnaandery. No. 3. K. r.
Stated Conclave Tuesday evening, Jan. 20.
WILLIAM WETHERBEE, Commander.
DELos M. BACON, Recorder.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
FRATERNITY MEETINGS.

Passumpsic Lodge. No. II. r. and A. M.
Regular Communication, Thursday even
ing, Ian. %.
Called Communication Thursday evening,
Jan. 21. The M. M. degree will be conferred
PALMER e. PAINE, w. Nj.
DELos NJ. BACON Secretary
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20

Stated Convocation. Friday evening, Feb. s.
Special Convocation Friday evening, Jan.
22. The P. M. and M. 3. M. degrees will be
conferred.
LEIGHTON P. SLACK, II. p.
DELOS NJ. BACON Secretary,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20

At present there seems to be five teams
which are contesting for the basket ball
championship OF the state: Brattleboro
Y. M. c. A., University of Vermont, Nor
wich University of Mortified, Edmunds
High School of Burlington and Com
pany d.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-20
The Greatest
of all Sales
For Cash!
Our Semi-YearIy
Inventory Sale.

During the time merchandising among there has been
many notable bargain events but will say this you and
say honestly that such bargain opportunity has been
a @ to s o ou as
SALE" It isn't the advertising Of few specials here and
there Such is the far reaching Importance of this
that every stock in the store contributes it's best to make the
money saving the whole years business We have made
such price reductions will crowd the store to the DOORS
each and every the nine days the SALE Now ask
you carefully note these reductions II you read you'll
investigator you investigate you'll buy not alone for your
present needs but for long time to We take this
opportunity thank the public for their generous patronage
, 1904-01-06

Animals must have intelligence, for
sometimes cats and dogs when they
get together act almost like human be-
ings.
, 1904-01-06
Ordinance No. 90.

An ordinance of the Borough of Anglesea, in
the County of Cape May, granting consent
and permission to the Eastern Telephone
and Telegraph Company to erect poles
and string wires, lines and cables and
construct underground conduits for the
purpose of operating "A Telephone and
Tele graph Exchange.
Section l. Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Council of the Borough of Anglesea, in the
County of Cape May, that consent and per-
mission of the Borough of Anglesea, in the
County of Cape May, be and the same is
hereby given and granted to the Eastern
Telephone and Telegraph Company to erect
its poles and string its wires, lines and cables
to connect with its Telephone system, through
and along the streets, roads, highways and
public places in the Borough of Anglesea, in
the County of Cape May, and to lay beneath
the surface of such streets, roads, highways
and public places, conduitS to lay such wires,
lines and cables; provided, however, such
poles shall be erected and such wires strung
and such conduits laid, under the direction
of the Borough Council If said Borough, or
such official as they may Designate, so as not
to interfere with the use of the said streets,
roads, highways and public places.
Section 2. Be it ordained that the poles
erected under this ordinance shall be straight,
slightly, of uniform height and $ re, placed on
the sidewalk inside of the curbing adjoining
the same where streets are laid out, and that
a pay station shall always be maintained
within the Borough Provided, furth' I, that
upon twenty-four hours notice given to the
Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company
by the Borough Clerk, the said com pany
shall remove its wires to permit the passage
or removal of a house, or other structure, on
any of the streets, roads and highways of the
borough, and in event of failure on the part
of the said Company, the Borough shall cause
the same to be done at the expense of the
Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Section 3. And be ii ordained that this or
d nance shall take effect Immediately, and
that the franchise granted by virtue of the
terms of this ordinance, shall not be an ex-
elusive franchise, and that the cost and eX-
pense of preparing, printing and publication
of this ordinance shall be paid by the said
Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Passed December %, 1908.
Approved December %, 1903.
AUGUSTUS HILTON,
Attest-E. NJ. SHIvERS, Mayor.
Clerk.
, 1904-01-06
RANCH GIRL.
aBossie" MuIhaII, Champion Steer
Roper of the southwest.


If an eastern college girl should spend
a wear on a western cattle or horse
ranch and avail herself of the opportu-
mites she would have for acquiring
knowledge she would learn quite as
much as in the best year of university
life. The learning OF the college might
be classical; that of the ranch would
be distinctly practical. and the twelve
months spent Illus would probably be
the most healthful year of her life
free, noble and independent. In truth,
not a few of the gifted and noted
young women of today-artists, actress
es, singers and others-took their rise
and spent their early girlhood in the
broad region where ones nearest neigh
Dor is sometimes miles away and where
it is wicked not to be well.
Athletic development now being fash
ionable among women, we need not be
astonished at any exhibition of muscu-
lar strength and skill on the part of he
feminine sex. We need not be surprised
, 1904-01-06

the school a young woman who would
make of household work what the
trained nurse has made of attendance
on the sick.
Mrs. Russell Sage, whose head is
packed full of good. hard common
sense, Is an advocate of rs well as II
worker for Il school of domestic labor
like that suggested. She is president
of n board of women who purpose TO
start soon in New York city Il training
school for household workers. The
ladies expect to connect with the insti-
tuition an employment agency for their
graduates and others. Mrs. Sage has
made a study of domestic science and
domestic help. She is freer from snob-
berry than most women with millions
at their command would be, and she
realizes perfectly that a kitchen girl is
a human being with feelings, impulses
and even prejudices much like those of
the lady who employs her. Take do
nestle service out of the domain of
rough labor and elevate 1t TO the dig
nity of Il trade. is the conclusion wise
Mrs. Russell Sage has reached. To
this end, under her lead, intelligent
ladies. like herself, of the kind that do
things, are working.
An association of ladies some years
ago established a school of housework
in Philadelphia which has done noble
service in improving the domestic help
of that city.
There is such a thing as aesthetic
Homework. The gentle Quaker women
the quiet Shaker sisters, with their eX-
ouisite housekeeping have shown that.
From even the artistic viewpoint there
is something beautiful in a house shln-
ing clean and in order from top TO bot
tom. The girl graduate of the house
keeping school will understand house
hold sanitation and hygienic cookery.
She will attain such dignity that she
will be able to enjoy regular hours of
labor and have some time for herself.
DORA BELLE DENISON.
, 1904-01-06
DOMESTIC WORRY
Make 1t a Trade
HERE is one way to solve, at
least partly, the vexed ques-
ton of domestic help, and that

TT HERE is one way to solve, at
least partly, the veXed ques-
ton of domestic help, and that
is to make he social position
of the kitchen girl a better one, so that
intelligent American women can do
housework without loss of self respect.
There is one sure way also TO do that,
and Ii Is to let the kitchen girl be grad
uated from a school of domestic sci
ence, as other girls are now graduated
from schools of biography, stenog-
raphy and bookkeeping or from insti-
tutions where professional nurses are
trained. Until the day of the nurses
training ehool her profession was not
a profession at all. but a haphazard
business given over to Sairy Camps
and Betsy Prigs, who stood very low
indeed in the social scale. Now the
smart, refined, trained nurse in her
pretty, Immediately clean uniform is
the social equal of any other profess
sional person.
The like thing would undoubtedly
happen in case of the girl who does
domestic work If she took a course in
a school of perfect housekeeping and at
the end received n diploma certifying
that she Is a refined, intelligent wo-
man who knows her business and will
mind it. The disrepute into which
domestic service has fallen is partly
owing to the ignorance of those who do
it. The raw, green girl who comes to
us from the peasant class of other
lands may have all the virtues of a
perfect American ~housekeeper, but they
are undeveloped. Many of these girls
come from homes which have mud
floors and know almost nothing, even
of personal cleanliness.
These girls can ecu work at good
wages the moment they touch our
shores, though quite ignorant of the
tidy requirements of American house
work. The abundance of employers
makes them extremely Independent
and tends to develop alike impudence
and sl%atternliness.
Suppose, now, American clubwomen
should establish in each of the large
cities of the Union II school for train
ing I'm domestic work, combining its
scope strictly TO that. There would be
courses in cookery, laundry work,
chamber work and house cleaning.
With modern improved domestic uten-
sils, machines and implements house
hold labor may be now made much
easier than formerly it was. The first
course in the model training school
should be the incubation of cleanliness
as the foundation of all the rest. This
probably would be the hardest course
In which to train the Homework stu
dent. At the end of the prescribed
term of instruction, lasting, say, one 30
two years. there would go out from
, 1904-01-06

A cold winter is a healthy one-for
the coal dealer.
, 1904-01-06

The British house of lords has finally
barred women lawyers from the prac-
tice of their profession in the United
Kingdom. Because of their sex women
are forbidden to enter the legal profess
sion, says this house of musty old OBJ
structionists. The house of lords is the
chief obstacle to the progress of both
the new man and the new woman i'll
England today. And yet silly, irration-
al young American women are fairly
tumbling oven one another to marry
these arrogant, narrow minded, old
fogy peers. It's a strange world.
, 1904-01-06

Wildwood has churches, places of
amusement and an atmosphere of order
and comfort that is pleasing to the
thousands of visitors to this rapidly
growing resort. Baker Bros.
, 1904-01-06

nv bDA
II months, not even to his mother.
Al His mother ~reproached him bit
terly for his neglect; so did his SIS
tiers. They lived in the country ON a
farm, and his letters were an event III
their lives. You ought to be ashamed
of yourself TO treat your relatives like
that said a lady to him. "Well, | know
L ought; ut least | suppose | ought; but,
you see, it's like this: I've been here IN
town three years. | work as hard as L
can and watch every opportunity to
better myself honestly, and | really
think I'm getting on. | need something
cheerful and tightening TO my life out
of work hours. But, if you will believe
me, in all the three years I've been
here I've never once had a letter from
home which did not contain bad news
or doleful and depressing thoughts thai
made me blue for days. It's got so l
dread to open Il letter with the home
postmark upon it. Every item of dis.
ease that afllicts any of the family,
even to Il toothache, is poured into mt.
Every letter is full of moaning o
poverty or the failure of crops, the
quarrelsomeness of this or that neigh
Dor, the dread of a mortgage on the
farm, the creeping of age and helpless
ness on my mother and father, the
threatened blindness of old Great-un-
Gle Jehoshaphat, the fear that Brother
Ned is taking to drink or that Sister
Mary is going to marry that no account
Tom Bradley. If there's nothing else
there's a gathering up of all the scandal
garbage in the county, and it's unload
ed on me. | can't stand it any longer.
Mothers letters are SO doleful and mis-
cradle and full of anxious, graveyard
forebodings that they almost make me
laugh sometimes in spite of myself.
That's the kind of stuff ones family in
flicts on its members who are away
from home. Never once anything cheer
full or hopeful or encouraging from any
of them. That's why | stopped writing
home"
, 1904-01-06
he NEW WOMAkI
She WOrthily Wears the
Name i

YOUNG man employed in a city
had not written home in four
months, not even to his mother.
His mother reproached him bit
, 1904-01-06

a gift horse is old enough to vote with
out looking him in the mouth.
, 1904-01-06
DECORATED WALLS
give a coziness and finish to an apart
ment which is obtained in 40 other way,
especially if you buy your
WALL PAPER

here. All of our Patterns are exclusive
and are not to be found elsewhere. You
will make a mistake if you decide on a
covering for any room without seeing
u display. It's an art collection.
, 1904-01-06

~. "A. Cohen, NJ. d.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,

Office and Residence-COHEN BROS.
Drug Store, WILDWOOD, N. ].
OFFICE HOURS-8 to $50 a. m;
| to 2 and 7 to $50 p. m.
Local and Long Distance Telephone.
Night calls at residence on Oak ave
nue., third house below Pacific avenue
north side!of street.
, 1904-01-06
Humor mo Philosophy
By DUNCAN M. SMITH
PERT

Copyright. 1908. by sampson-Hodge Co.
, 1904-01-06

Remember this always: The inferior
position to which woman is relegated
in both civil and ecclesiastical realms is
Il survival Of the customs of the orient,
whence Christianity took its rise. The
teachings of the Christ were the exact
opposite of indicating any inferiority in
woman. but the oriental parasite
tackled itself ON 10 the rites and usages
formulated for the Christian church
centuries after the death of the Founder
of Christianity.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-28

ture proprietor's promised call. Occa-
sionally this came promptly, the would
be editor accepting the invitation to
lunch at the Hyde Park hotel or else
where, armed with lists and particu-
lars. There would be a big and ex-
cellent lunch, hearty good comradeship
and slapping on the back, and eager
anxiety to get the whole business for
ward and settled But nothing came
OF it all. After having been stirred up
In this way, those editors who are al
ways on the lookout for something new
are settling down again. waiting for
the next millionaire who may come
along.
All the American colony in London,
and her many English friends, are
sympathiZing deeply with Lady Blaine,
whose husband, Sir Seymour Blaine,
Bart, has just been made bankrupt
Lady Blaine was until last year tho
widow Of Mr.. Henry Blake. Of Boston.
Her friends in Europe were delighted
when she established home for her
self in London several years ago by
taking charming house In Hans
place, which. however, she gave UP on
her marriage to Sir Seymour. They
have been travelling about the CONT
nent almost the whole time since. The
proceedings against Sir Seymour were
brought about by small creditor. The
baronet has brought himself to this
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-28
BRUSSELS HAS A HOME OF THE PEOPLE


BRUSSELS, Feb. 27.-Steinlein. the
famous French artist, has just offered
to paint the walls of that remarkable
socialist stronghold here, the "Maison
du People" Cor, the Home of the Peo-
pleD with frescoes representing the
apotheosis of labor, thus adding inter-
est to a building that is already one
of the most interesting in Europe
from a sociological view point, at least.
This new Home of the People" has
succeeded to very small one which
housed what was originally an ordinary
workman's club. Cooperative trading
soon began to form a feature of the
scheme, however. Bread making has
been from the commencement one of
the principal industries, and the insti-
tuition now keeps two bakeries busy In
dlfterent parts of the city; 100000
loaves being the daily output of one.
and $4,000 Of the other. These loaves
are sold at less than half a cent each.
yet the profit on this branch of indus
try alone amounts to 9,26066 francs
a year. The parent building contains
stores Tor all the other necessities of
life, with many branches in all parts
OF the town and even in the provinces
Inc Maison du People stands at the
hngle OF the Rue Joseph Stevens. on an
irregular piece Of ground and on a