The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-09
CITY OF NEWPORT

The people of Newport will be glad
to know that arrangements have
been made to have DR.. Baker of OF
tawa give a lecture in Newport in
the First Congregational church
Tuesday evening, Dec. IT. DIR.
Baker is poet as we'll as an orator,
he is also hunorist. The pro-
ceeds of the lecture will go to the
junior choir. Members of the choir
viii canvass the city for the sale of
tickets. The price will be only 25
cents.
"'The Little Christian Workers" en-
tertained "The Boy Allies" at social
last Friday evening in the Congrega-
tiOnal church parlors. Ice cream and
cake were served The children all
had a good time.
In every sleeping room of the ho-
tells of the city there has been hung
a neat card bearing an invitation to
the occupant of the room to attend
the services of the First Congrega-
tiOnal church.
The freshman class of the N. H. S.
gave q social to the high school at
the School Hall last Friday evening.
The evening was very pleasantly
spent in marching. Ice cream and
waters were served.
Tuesday evening at the regular
meeting Of the /. O. o. S. will be first
nomination of officers 1t is hoped
q good number will be present.
Last Friday evening the Rebekaf
degree was conferred on L. T. Young
by Morning Star Lodge of Rebekahs
No. 2. The work was done in a man.
ner that was credit to the lodge
After the initiation, ice cream anc
cake were served in the dining room
after which several stayed and playeC
cards, enjoying very pleasant eve
ming.
The boys basket ball team of tht
~ II. S. were defeated by the Rich
ford boys at Richford last Friday
night. 1t was fast and clean gam,
from start to finish and return game
viii be played here sometime in Jan
uary, when the N. H. S. boys vii
try and make good, as they have tn,
right stuff in them.
Last Friday night Irwin Bowen
aged 10 years, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Horace Bowen, who live on Clyd
street, East Side, broke his le,
while sliding. Irwin with other chill
dren was sliding down the hill from
the East Side, band stand down Hill
street, when the sledI struck tele
phone pole, breaking the large BON
between his ankle and knee. Drs
Badger and Longe were called and re
duced the fracture and the little fel
= low i5z1feing as we'll as could ex
pectcd
Last Saturday morning about j ii
people were awakened from thei
sluHTbers by fire call from tn
Frost Veneer mill whistle, calling th
firefnefr TO Box %, located at Rail
road Square. When they arrived the,
failed to find any fire but learned tha
q fire had got started in a pile o
straw on the floor in the old liver
stable connected with the city hotel
lt,was said that this occurred an hou
before the alarm was sounded, an,
was extinguished by help from tn
railroad yards carrying water from
the hotel. Who called the telephon
operator, asking her OF call the mi
and use the mill whistle for the alarr
instead of using the fire alarm bo
has not yet been learned The fir
alarm at Box 23 was tested out supo
arrival of the firemen and found i
working order.
Cadet Harry Stevens of the Avia
ton Corps, who went back to Prince
ton after being home on furloug
the first of September, where he ha
been attending the ground schoo
was sent to the deck training schoc
at Texas for a five weeks trainins
He was then sent to Chanute train
ing fields at Rantoul, Ill Since til
singning of the aImistice many of tn
boys in this branch have been gel
ting their discharges and Harry ~
ceived his and has arrived home lool
ing fine. Newport is glad to see OF
boys coming back.
Helen Buck of Barton spent II
week end at the home of her uncl
r. F. Humphrey.