St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-06-02
LyndOnviIIe
improvements To Be Made On The
Copeland Water System-Base
Ball At The Institute.


The trustees and water commits
sioners are planning extensive i'm
provements on the former Copeland
water system, which will suffice to
ensure supply of water to the high
est parts of the village during
drought. They plan to build a new
dam which will enlarge the present
reservoir to a capacity of $50, 900
gallons. This will overflow consid-
cradle territory to the north of the
present ice house. They will also
put in a so horse power pump to be
operated by electricity from the vii
lage plant, to be used in time of scar
city. This will be located near the
camp grove on upper Main street.
About 300 feet of six-inch main will
have to be laid. The cost of all these
| improvements will probably be about
$4,000.
A very exciting ball game took
place on the Institute campus Friday
afternoon between l.. /. and St.
Johnsbury Academy. The game was
originally scheduled for the Wednes-
day previous, but postponed on ac-
count of the rain. The visiting team
came in automobiles, accompanied by
their sisters and their cousins and
their aunts, all anticipating an easy
victory. But their expectations were
sadly at fault, for after the ST. ]. A.
boys made two spectacular runs in
the first inning the Institute boys
woke up to the situation and did not
allow the visitors to score again. At
the same time they made a gain of
so the final result was to in favor
of the Institute. There was a big
crowd in attendance and the cheer
i
ing the night the victorious team rung
both the church and the school bells
to celebrate their highly appreciated
victory.
Lyndon Institute base ball nine
won more laurels on Saturday when
they defeated Woodsville by a score
of to 2. Much of their success is
justly due to the remarkable playing
of Harold Ahern, who is certainly a
star player, steady and sure. Our
boys celebrated their victory by ring
ing all the available bells, by a
laughable street parade and by vari-
Gus other demonstrations often in
dulged in by the male specie.
Dean Simpson is at work in the
Edmund's drug store.
Fred M. Campbell is making extern
sive repairs and improvements on the
house he recently purchased of w.
F. Stoddard.
The Standard Oil Company has
bought a piece of land on the corner
of Grove and Church streets and will
build two large tanks there for the
storage of oil and gasolene.
Mrs. George H. Frost and daugh-
ter Agnes, who is in quite poor
health, have rented cottage at Joes
Pond in Danville and gone there to
stay until September. Mr.. Frost
plans to spend a large part of the
summer with them. :,
George Sanborn of Springfield,
Mass, has been spending a few days
in town with his sister, Mrs. Calvin
Bigelow and other relatives.
The Christmas Club enjoyed a
pleasant meeting last Wednesday af-
ternoon with Mrs. F. H. Davis, and
were entertained at Hotel Lyndon for
supper.
An excellent supper was served |
Thursday afternoon by the ladies of
the Universalist church to the usual |
hungry crowd.
Walter Cleary, who has recently |
graduated from the law school of |
Boston University, is at home for a |
short vacation. We understand he |
plans to locate in Newport, in Mr.. |
Prouty's office.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dexter and |
daughter Dorothy took advantage of |
the Monday holiday to make three |
days motor trip to Mrs. Dexter's |
former home in Springfield, for the |
weekend.
Memorial day exercises were held |
by the different grades of the village
school on Friday afternoon. Speak
;Y7r - 1n oh
prised the programs and E. L. Wells
addressed several of the grades. Miss
Cunningham's school, the first grade,
held their exercises at 1 o'clock with
a brief program. Miss StOckwell
and Miss Batchelder combined the
second and third grades. Miss Shor-
ey and Miss McGovern the fourth and
fifth, while the sixth, seventh, eighth
and ninth held their meeting in Miss
Dunbar's room. A piano solo by
Bertha Blodgett, recitations by sew
eral of the children and vocal Choir
uses comprised the students part of
the program, while Principal jamie
son gave an excellent talk on peace"
and called the attention of his youth
full audience to their great oppor-
tunities as Americans to work for
the coming of Peace.
|
es in the teachers of the graded
school for the coming year. Miss
Ethel Dunbar has resigned and it
has been decided to engage teacher
for each of the sixth and seventh
grades, which will be very large next
year. This necessitates two new
teachers and Miss Cameron of Or
leans has been engaged, also Miss
Edith Gray of this village. The COM
mittee are considering the matter of
engaging a music and drawing teach
er the coming year.
Mrs. George Frost was in Concord
last week and visited Shadow Lake.
Mrs. L. F. Dudley and her daugh-
ter Madlyn have gone to housekeep- ]
ing in a suit of rooms in the new I
Ide block.
Miss Stella Allen of Centervale is
stopping with her cousins, Mrs. ;
George Whipple and H. D. Allen. I