St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-12-20
GLOVER.
Work of the Farmers EXchangc-The
Village Lecture Course.

| village Lecture NOufScs
| (Mrs. j. w. Matnie, Correspondent }
= Ray E. Duel, county adviser. was
| in town recently taking fertilizer or
| ders among the farmers. l.. A. Haz-
! en-, manager of the Farmers EX-
\ change, was in Greensboro for the
same purpose at the same time. The
| Exchange is making a good showing
| During the last year they bought and
| sold 1925 tons of grain, 443 tons o.
! chemicals, 800 tons of lime, $4,000
! worth of seeds. They did business to
| the amount of $4,000. The average
saving per member for the year was
/ $40. The organization is incorpOr-
lted with a capital stock of $4,000.
! SHARES to be sold at IS each, ana
each stock holder thereby becomes 8
| life member. These bonds bear in
terest and are redeemable at par
value to the organization.
The little town of Glover, divided
into two villages with their surround
ing farms, and numbering all told
only about 1000 inhabitants and a
trihc over 800 voters. has for eight
years past supported a lecture course
and has had some of the same talent
as have had the larger anr Weather
towns around them. We are inclined
to pat ourselves on the back for this
since no one seems inclined to do ii
for US, and we feel that it reflects
credit on the taste of our people and
on their energy in financing these
courses, for this has been done by
the people attending, and not through
contributions from wealthy people
for our town has no people of wealth
to help out such undertakings. I'm
til last year. course tickets have been
sold for $1.25 for five entertainments
Last year they were sold for $1.OO
and our course this year costs the
same, but is made up partly of home
talent. The first entertainment o.
the course was given Friday evening
by the Excelsiors, all ladies of the
town. Although the night was
stormy the house was well filled, and
the entertainment pleasing. We have
a fine ladies' quartet which gave us
1.-The Little Brown Church in the
Vale" also a coon song. The Sisters
McDuffy, one grave and one gay,
gave readings. The musical comedy.
Mrs Ketchems School of Fascina-
tion,'' was the funniest thing ever.
The Wilder Dove, Little Mandy, anc
the teacher, who told them never to
lnNllG IHGiT SGHIlGLlGIl 1IlSnuS 4hIC
the parlOr and feed them on fudge,
but into the kitchen and cook a meal
before their eyes if they wished to get
a husband, the list of available single
men given to the class with some de-
scriptive matter attached, and at last
the swell gentlemen who paired off
with the blushing faScinatorS (by the
way, these gentlemen were all ladies
in real life) made up a very funny
whole. There was also q scarf drill
by nine young ladies. The girls were
dressed in white with red scarves and
flooded with q rosy glow from cOlOred
lights and formed many and beautiful
figures and postures. They were
trained for this drill by Mrs. G. L.
Wells and did much credit to her
teaching. The next number of the
course is the Wickersham lecture to
be given in January. Later the mems
class will endeavor to beat the Ia
dies entertainment. We are also to
have a musical number, Miss Marion
Bickford from Montpelier Seminary,
with a reader The fifth number has
not yet been announced.
Friends from Montreal visited at
J. G. Moquin's recently.
The Ladies' Mite society held their
Friday and took dinner with her, en-
joying pleasant time in spite of the
stormy day.
The saw mill which has been closed
for some weeks, will start again
Feb. Is.
Mrs. Villa Rich. who has been car
ing for Mrs. Addie Williams at Or
leans for the past five weeks and
who accompanied her to st. Johns
bury last week, is at home. The hos
pitaI doctors decided that it would
not be wise TO operate on Mrs. Will
liams until she was in a more fit con-
dition to endure it. After a period
of treatment it is expected the bone
which was splintcred and is not heal
ing as il should. will he banded and
it is hoped will then heal rapidly.
Tile Sunday school is preparing a
cantata To be given in the church on
Monday evening, entitled Santa
Claus Christmas Mail" Much work
is being put into the preparation of
this entertainment