St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-01-13
LyndOnville
Mr.. Vail Offers to Remodel Town
Hall For School Gymnasium
Personal Items.

Hall For school gymnasium
Personal Items.
MRS. E. ]. Blodgett, Correspondent
Mr.. Vail has made the selectmen
a most generous offer regarding the
Town Hall, which will certainly pc
accepted. He wishes to remodel the
building so it can be used by the
two schools for gymnasium ana as
sembly room. The school mas long
outgrown the capacity OF the pres
ent chapel and such place is great
Iy needed He will add baths ana
heating plant to the basement, re-
model the balcony, put in a stage,
and otherwise fit it up in hne shape
This will be a splendid thing for the
place. 49,,
News has been received OF the
death of Ralph, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Berry, formerly of this place
He was born in Barton in 1884 but
attended school here and lew
years ago went to California for MS
health, but died there last month
at Palm Springs.
Mrs. w. S. LETTERS fell on the ice
last week Sunday while stepping out
of her own kitchen door and
wrenched her knee very badly,
spraining the hgaments. She was
taken the next day to Brlghtlook
Hospital from where she had but re-
Gently returned, improved in health
after five weeks treatment.
The community supper and enter
tainment given in the new Music
Hall last week Tuesday evening by
the Village Improvement Society,
was one of the pleasantest and most
successful social affairs of the WIN
ter. The supper was prepared and
served from two corners of the hall,
Mrs. J. M. Campbell and Mrs.
Charles M. Darling being in charge
of the respective places. One hum
dred and ninety-four people were
seated at the first table and 1t was
found necessary to clear the tables
and set them to serve nearly another
hundred. AS soon as the dishes and
tables could be cleared away, an
interesting and enjoyable program
was given on the stage. E. A. OAR
ling kindly consented to bring MS
Victrola, and the first number on
the program included NUMBER OF
beautiful selections on that machine,
ranging from grave to gay, or from
Caruso to Harry Lauder, and includ-
ing many instrumental pieces also.
Second on the program was shep-
herdess drill by IL little girls daint-
lily clad in white with red coats and
caps, sandals and shepherd s
crook. The drill was managed by
Mrs. Anna Spencer Frost and Mrs.
Harry Colby played the piano &C
compartment. Those taking. part
were Misses Eleanor Beattie, Hor-
tense Bemis, May and Irene Brea-
son, Beatrice Darling, Dorothy Dex-
ter, June Gilman, Beth Lyon, Alma
and Ruth Meighan, Ruth Smith and
Doris Rogers. Mrs. Anna Spencer
Frost gave two readings in pleas
ing manner. Enjoyable vocal selec-
tions were rendered by Mrs. Sam
uel Holbrook in her charming con-
tralto and by Lorenzo Eaton, both
of whom received hearty encoures.
| Two songs were given by a double
male quartet, which included l.. Q.
Eaton, F. X. Blodgett, DR.. c. G. Wal
| Ter, H. E. Wright, P. R. Griswold,
H. F.. Brown and c. w. Clark. These
also were enjoyed. A special fea-
ture of the program was the little
farce entitled, Mrs. Oakley's Tele-
phone" a clever little play, in which
the parts were we'll taken by Miss
Alice Campbell as Mrs. Oakley, Mrs.
Charles Hale as her friend Con-
stance; Mrs. Homer Watson as En-
ma, the German maid, and Mrs.
Grover Foster as Mary, the Irish
cook. Mr.. Ingalls, of Burlington,
who is in charge of the Boys and
Girls Clubs of the state, was pre-
sent, and gave a short talk on the
valuable work done through these
clubs. Last on the program was an
exhibition of modern dancing by pu-
pills of Miss Madeline Randall's class,
! from ten to twelve couples taking
part. At the close of the exhibition,
those who wished were allowed to
stay and dance, and Mr.. Darling very
kindly played for them on his Vic
trola.
Saturday afternoon brought out a
big crowd to watch the races and
some new horses as well. Scores
were as follows:
Glass A.
The Senator, D. R. Brown 1 l l
Merrimac, J. J. Neagle 2 2
Time-3215, SO 351k.
Glass b.
Oliver Direct, F. c. H. Davis 1 2 1
Skibo, Ruggles Bros. 2 L 2
Time, 81 ", 32A, "a.
Glass C.
Caruso, F. c. H. Davis 2
Jack Wilkes, c. H. Lee 1 L
| Time 81 IL, "a.
Glass ID
Gen. Garth, Davis 1 L
White Sox, r. McGill 2 2
Time-34, 33A.
| Glass E.
Boraldo, c. w. Thompson 2
Chehalis c., John Drew /
No time.
Class +.
Betsey Hanks 1
Iona, F. A. Paine 2 2
Time-36, BAY, 35.
Glass G.
Tom Lawson, Chas. Lee 1 1
Tommy 2 2 2
Time-41, u, 411z.
Glass III.
Lady Chapman, R. H. Smith 2 2
Barbara Isle, Rob McGill L L 1
Time-S91k, AN, 3S15.
Glass /.
Billy Foss, w. Mclaughlin 1
II