St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1919-01-29

vious supreme efforts. This is I'M
Questionably one of the best screen
plays ever shown here. At the Please
~ theatre today.
John T. White of this place has
bought the business of Fred W. Tay-
lor and takes possession Monday
morning. Mr.. White is well known in
Rutland, Bellows Falls and St. AL
bans.
Ii those folks who are always
kicking about the lack of local news
in the home paper would only take
the trouble to tip the Office off when
they have birth, wedding, party,
a visitation or death in the family,
maybe some sort Of Il satisfactory
paper would result.
Charles A. Shields, OF the firm of
Dunnett, Conant e. Shields, has been
confined to the house the past few
days with hard cold, trying hard to
have the "flu." The "fu" was agile
and made its escape and Mr.. Shields
is back at his law practice not caring
now whether Spring comes in hurry
or not.
One of the pathetic things about
running an employment bureau at the
present time is having plenty of Gus
toners and 10 jobs to sell them. Any
Caledonia county man who wants help
of any kind should keep in touch with
the two local employment bureaus
and give deserving applicants all the
possible TO work.
Judge "Dave" Porter, one of the
most popular lawyers in town, has
been indisposed the past two or three
days with that rather humorous all
ment sometimes known as stiff neck
humorous at least to everyone but
the man who has it. It has not de-
tanned him seriously, however, from
his law practice beyond the inventing
Of excuses as to how he came by it.
Mrs. Emma S. P. Cheney clips the
following comment. from the Woman's
Citizen comparing the rights OF wom-
en- in Germany with those CT
America. Cline was when German
women turned their eyes to America
with envy oil the American wonans
superior political status. Not all Am
erican women were cnfranchlsed, but
some of them We're, a few million II
The West. That was back in rre-war
days. Sunday betwcen twenty and
twenty-ono million German women
cast their first ballots as fully enfran
chiscd citizens. II ell the fully en-
franchised women in America had
voted Sunday about seven rlillioH
,uiffra.rc3 would have been cast. Va
there are il {hc United Statrs o.
America some twcnty-scven million
women ove, vot ing sac, H,.tWerli ire
tN n,ty miii!rn and the sttTgaao
s.ands q tulw;ll; Of rcactional yio'.
which makes a German junllor look
like the dawn of progress. German
iUrkerdom il down and out, but the
United States Senate minority is still
with us.--The Woman Citizen. 1t
passes understanding how a Vermont
senator O.: a U. S. Senator
can wish to put the women of YER
mont or our great democratic nation
to the ignominy of being behind the
German wcmen in their right to the
ballot.
Mrs. d. w. Lowell has been confined
to the house by illness.
J. G. Amey has been absent from
his store this week on account of i'll |
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Wells and
young daughter are confined to the
house by illness.
Mrs. Z. r. Woods of Lyndonville
has been spending few days with
Mrs. j. M. Foye.
Mrs. John Tierney leaves Monday
for Rock Island where she will visit
Mrs. Jennie Gilmore.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Gage who have
been in Boston for q few days, arc
expected home Monday.
Lieut.. F. S. Sykes who has just re-
turned from France is visiting his
aunt, Mrs. J. r. Rouse.
Mrs. Lawrence Boyer left this
for Washington, D. c.,
where she will spend some time.
Brock Ingalls, OF Mt. Pleasant street
is confined to the house, suffering
from painful injury to his foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Albee and Mrs.
John Galbraith and daughter, Marion,
were guests of Mrs. Henry Wilson on
Thursday.
Miss Mia Palmer and Miss Winn
of Wells River are spending the day
in town rs guests of MI. and Mrs.
Cecil Palmer.
r. G. Robinson, secretary of tie
Granite Mutual, was in town today
adjusting the loss on the barns of |.
Fred 5. Lawrence of Waterford.
Mrs. Mamie Houston, Misses Flo
ance Clark, Hazel Walker, Mary
Dinsmore and Mrs. Harry Miller are
in the Berry-Ball store dur
ing the sale
Lieut.. Ralph L. Howes, who landed
rom France, Jan. Is, at Hoboken,
N. d., was sent the following Friday
With his organization to Camp Lewis,
near Seattle, for rehabilitation.
Corp. Otis Shastany has returned
20 Springfield, Mass, after spending
few days with relatives in town. He
has been honorably discharged from
he army, and will return to his for
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