St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-10-06
Doctors Hospital Benefit
a Success.
Large Attendance at the Shore Din
ner and Clam Bake Last Week.

Fine Feed and After Dinner Speaking by
Three Prominent Verm0nterS-Lieut
Gov. Mead, F. G. Fleetwood, ChaS. W.
Gates and Others.
1t was a bright day for Brightlook
hospital Friday and one of pleasure to
over 500 people whose appetite for
clans had been unappeased for months.
The occasion was a clam bake and shore
dinner given by the physicians of this
vicinity for the benefit of Brightlook
hospital. The especially encouraging
feature to the hospital wasthe announce
ment by F. H. Brooks, one Of the
trustees, that gentleman had offered to
contribute 1000 to pay the indebted
ness of the hospital if the people of St.
Johnsbury would raise the remaining
$500 of the debt.
Excellent music was furnished by the
st. Johnsbury band.
So successful was the meeting that the
Fish and Game league will have to intuse
new blood into its meeting or take
second place in the midsummer events OF
Vermont. At Fridays meeting all the
candidates for governor were present
and made or lost as many votes as they
would on Lake Champlain the feed was
Just as good and there were more people
to feed than there were at Hotel Cham
plain on Sept. II.
The bake was served on the fair
grounds and was prepared by Rev. J. A.
Dixon. At the first call for dinner the
dining hall was quickly filled and about
200 more people were waiting outside
for a second dinner.
At the guests table were: DR.. W. B
Fitch, State Highway Commissioner c
w. Gates, F. H. Brooks, F. G. Fleetwood
A. F. Stone, Alexander Dunnett, J. A
Mead, Sen. ]. T. Gleason, c. T. Walter
w. J. Bigelow, Rev. J.. M. Frost anc
wife, Rev. c. H. Merrill, DR.. T. R. Stiles
DR.. ]. N. Mccormack, DR.. W. J. Aldrich
Gilbert Woods, George c. Cary, and DR.
R. H. Burke.
The menu follows
Stiles Pond Cocktail. cooled with Hygeni
Ice or Pure Spring Water Ice. Take you
choice.
II CLAM cHowDER
Universalist Brand, all parts of the clan
saved. Prepared by Mrs. Poole, the exper
of St. Johnsbury.
BAKED CLANS
Furnished gratis by the Lord Bros. CO., Q
Portland, Me. Don't accept "somethingJus
as good" demand Lord Bros. Sea Product
and get the best.
BAKED FISH
We wish we could announce that someon
| he fSb b1t NJ did We hon oh
it and are sorry we had to.
ROASTED SWEET CORN
Furnished by Harland B. Howe, and grow
| on his famous Green Gold and Silver farm q
NJ aidstone, VT. Why go to New York 70
Green Goods?" Get them of Howe, he ha
other varieties. Ask for them.
SWEET POTATOES
Furnished by H E. Wilson, Proprietor {
St. Johnsbury Grocery Co.
CRACKERS
The kind that made St. Johnsbury Famou.
No Scales on these crackers Furnished b
the Geo. H. Cross Co., st. Johnsbury, VT
WATERMELON
N. B.. also had to buy this.
COFFEE
There's reason. T." you need 1t for your
gestion today. Furnished by French & Bear
St. Johnsbury, VT.
CIGARS
| Smoke your own or get one from some or
of the candidates at the head table.
AMERICAN LIVER TABLETS
Good for bad livers not bad for good liz
ers. At all Millinery Stores and Barbe
| Shops.
: AFTERWARDS
A. F. Stone, Interlocutor; End Men
Lieut.. Gov. J. A. Mead, The State of Ver
mont; Hon. Frederick G. Fleetwood
Why Pm in the Race; Frank H. Brooks
Brightlook Hospital; Hon. c. W. Gates
Good Roads; W. J. Bigelow, The Pres
and the Physician.
Don't throw clam shells at the speak
ers, they will do the best they can.
you don't like them we won't ever hav
them again.
Pick the winner, odds will be poste,
after the speaking
The person holding ticket No. % is III
winner of the free operation which will
be performed at 500 a. M, Saturda,
morning at Brightlook Hospital.
The management assume no RESPONSE
bility for the sentiments or opinions ad
vanced by the speakers. We know bet
ter than to do that
When in doubt where you live there
no place like home. Also if you are no
satisfied let us see you get your none
back.
We intended this to be almost asfunn
as the first carriage in a funeral proces
sion and think we have succeeded.
Come to our next annual Sept 5 1916
While the ply sicans feel very gratetr
to those who donated materials for th
dinner, the public feel under great oblige
tions to Drs. ]. M. Allen and H. H. Milt
more for their effective work in maxim
the affair success.
: Obituary.
We wish to thank all who contribute
edibles, labor, time and other tangibl
evidence of help and cooperation i
making our clam bake success. Ais
f to the appetites behind the people with
out which we never could have made tn
bake look like Kansas wheat field afte
a season of drouths and grasshoppers
We invite all who were there and all tn
. rest of the world to our next annual t
be held on Labor Day, 1910.
THE PHYSICIANS OF THIS VICINITY.
, The following young ladies, wearin
= white sashes with the words "Brightloo
Hospital" printed on them in red, assis
ed in serving the clambake; Mrs. j. /
McGovern, Miss Eddy, Miss Aftermath,
Miss Gilbert, Miss Gibson, Miss Shelter