The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-03

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The weather bureau predicts fair
and warmer weather tomorrow.
The giant army airplane which will
fly over ST. Johnsbury reached Wind
sor last night as its first stopping
place 1t proceeds to Lancaster, N.
H., from which place it will come to
this town to take part in the big cele>
bration.
One of the greatest surprises of the
celebration will be the street carni-
val in charge of the Crescent Club
which starts at $50 o'clock tomorrow
night. The program of this event is
secret. But those who know the
Crescent Club and know the way
that this live organization does things
predict it will be the most startling
public event that st. Johnsbury has
ever witnessed. Over 500 electric
lights were hung over Railroad street
to day to make the street as brilliant
as day to morrow night.
Those who attend the carnival will
see Prof. Bonett slide from a daz-
zling height on rope clinging to a
pulley by his teeth. There will be
other stunts that will cause thrills.
It's a tip to the wise ones who at
tend the celebration not to miss the
big street carnival.
Then comes the fireworks.
This is but brief part of the
program which is outlined in detail
in the advertisement on page 3.
Every train today was crowded
with people coming into town for the
celebration. Automobile parties ar
rived by the scores.
The decorating of buildings was
completed late today. The work
done on the Athenaeum and the Ar
mory have aroused special comment.
No finer display has ever been seen in
this town.
Every building on Main, Eastern
Avenue and Railroad streets have
been decorated. The list on Rail
road was given yesterday. On Main
street are: Colonial Theater, Ar
mory, Brown block, st. Johnsbury
mory, Brown block, st. Johnsbury
House, Berry-Ball Dry Goods Com
pany, Randall's block, Court House,
Stiles Drug store, Roach building.
On Eastern Avenue are: Y. M. G.
A. building, Fire station, Pythian
building, Roy building, Woods build
ing, Cowles block, Masonic Temple
and Palmer Bros. block.
On Central street, C. H. Goss Co.
Over ton of bunting, flags and
kindred decorating material has been
placed upon business buildings of
st. Johnsbury by the Fraser Decorat-
ing Co., of Manchester, N. H. The
Company is also, at the same time,
decorating Barre and two towns in
New Hamshire.
The manager of the Company stat
that he has turned down five other
towns which have applied for the
services of the Company. Owing to
the foresight of the local decorating
committee, st. Johnsbury was enabl-
ed to get the exceptionally high quail
ity of service which the Fraser de-
corating company is able to render.
Mr.. Fraser says that the work
done in St. Johnsbury is on a larger
scale and of better artistic quality
than the average work done by the
company. A striking feature cf the
decoration is the Implication of Uncle
Sam, which appears over the entrance
of the Athenaeum. The resemblance
to our national figure is produced by
the use of the capstone above the
window and the old original colonial
flag beneath.
With the prospect of fair weather
there is every indication of the big
gest crowd that st. Johnsbury has
ever seen to welcome our soldiers and
sailors. The committee have been
working like beavers the past two
weeks and the details of the celebra-
ton have been carefully planned.
Our advertising columns give the
various attractions of the day and al
program will be distributed through
! the crowd Friday morning giving the
days proceedings and the place of